Stockton students Shanna Landestoy and Jackson O'Brien perform 'Moth to a Flame' as part of the Second Annual Arts and Culture Summit in Atlantic City in 2025. Photo credt: Stockton University.
(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- Stockton University's annual Arts and Culture Summit will expand to two days this year and will host events on the school's Galloway and Atlantic City locations.
The third annual summit, sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities, begins on Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 2:30pm with the 17th annual Paul Lyons Memorial Lecture in the Stockton Performing Arts Center on the Galloway campus. Jane Golden, the founder and executive director of Mural Arts Philadelphia, will be the keynote speaker at the event, which honors the legacy of a former Stockton professor. A reception will follow the lecture from 4:00pm to 6:00pm in the Art Gallery.
The main part of the summit continues on Friday, April 10th at 9:00am in the Fannie Lou Hamer Room in the John F. Scarpa Academic Center at Stockton’s Atlantic City campus. In addition to another speech by Golden, the summit will feature panel discussions and breakout sessions focusing on cultural infrastructure as community anchors, public art as a civic voice and creative practices and public health.
There will also be a roots and culture workshop exploring the musical lineage of hip hop and its roots in earlier Black music traditions. The summit will end with a student hip hop performance showcase.
Stockton University is ranked among the top public universities in the nation. Their nearly 9,000 students can choose to live and learn on the 1,600-acre wooded main campus in the Pinelands National Reserve in South Jersey and at their coastal residential campus just steps from the beach and Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The university offers more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs.
