Stockton University School of Arts & Humanities

Congratulations to the Alliance Heritage Center for receiving the 2024 Innovative Archives Award! 👏

A digital museum and archive centering on the lived experiences of the first successful Jewish farming village in the United States housed at Stockton has been recognized for its preservation and accessibility efforts by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC).

The Alliance Heritage Center, established in 2019, preserves and disseminates the history and culture of the Alliance Colony and similar Jewish farming communities in southern New Jersey.

📰 Read more at: https://stockton.edu/news/2024/alliance-heritage-center-wins-archive-award.html

The Stockton University Dance Program performed at the Orange Loop yesterday as part of New Jersey's North2Shore Festival in Atlantic City! This is the Dance Company's second performance during the Festival, with the first being at the Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University on Thursday evening.

Great work, dancers! 👏

Check out sand sculptures created by Matt and Liam Deibert, a father and son duo in the Stockton Visual Arts program. Great work! 👏

TONIGHT 🩰

See perform “Uncharted” tonight from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the of .

The performance brings a mixed bill of dance works from the most promising choreographers in the Stockton dance community. This contemporary dance performance will highlight unpredictable and thought-provoking works from faculty, students, and alumni during Atlantic City’s North to Shore Festival.

This is a free, live performance. Subsidized parking in the WAVE Garage will be available for $4 cash.

This event is part of Atlantic City’s festival, presented by Financial.

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This past semester, Dr. Donnetrice Allison, Professor of Communication Studies and Africana Studies, led a trip to Ghana where students explored the country and visited various cultural sites.

See ➡️ glimpses of their trip here. Get a closer look at their experiences 📽️ by visiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpdpSerMFfk

Visit stockton.edu/africana-studies to learn more about our Africana Studies program.

We love to hear our student success stories! Bonne chance, Dylan and Marley! 🇫🇷

Learn more about our Languages and Culture Studies program: https://stockton.edu/arts-humanities/languages-culture.html

✨ ARHU Highlight ✨

Professor Toby Rosenthal has done it all! From her journalism work in newsrooms, to becoming a casting producer, to teaching and developing the Stories of AC project. Learn more about Communication Studies Teaching Specialist and Internship Coordinator, Professor Rosenthal, in our latest ARHU Spotlight Story!

https://stockton.edu/arts-humanities/toby-rosenthal-spotlight-story.html

📷️: Susan Allen and Stacey Clapp (University Relations and Marketing)

We are still accepting applications for fall 2024!

Stockton welcomes students whose education plans were disrupted by the announcement of the sudden closure of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, effective June 7, 2024.

Learn more about the arts at Stockton, including a variety of B.A. and B.F.A degrees in the visual and performing arts, such as dance, theater, music, photography, painting, sculpture, graphic design, illustration, arts education, creative writing and more.

For more information, visit https://stockton.edu/admissions/.

Swipe ➡️ to see photos featuring the arts at Stockton University:
- Plein air painting around Lake Fred with Prof. Jacob Feige
- Stockton music students and the Stockton Dance Company performing at the Regional Arts & Culture Summit this April
- A collaborative giant puppet project inspired by Theatre between Prof. Jed Morfit's Visual Arts students and the Stockton Dance Company from the fall semester
- mingling at the Reverse Career Fair after the BFA exhibition opening

Distinguished Professor of Art .white's current exhibition Manifest: Thirteen Colonies at university’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African American material culture found in libraries, museums, and archives of the original thirteen English colonies and Washington D.C.

📅 This exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, April 13, 2025.

📖 A corresponding monograph is co-published with and .books and will ship this summer.

https://www.radiusbooks.org/all-books/p/wendel-a-white-manifest-thirteen-colonies

📰 Read Mark Feeny's article for the about the exhibition: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/30/arts/wendel-a-white-manifest-thirteen-colonies-harvard-peabody-museum/

Ospreys spotted 👀 in Komotini 🇬🇷 ! As featured in recent Komotini press, Stockton students visited the Roma Basketry Museum. Stockton was the second US university to visit, and the first to have a seminar with Democritus University on minority issues in the region. Way to go, Ospreys!

Attend this free lecture by Assistant Director of the South Jersey Culture & History Center, Paul W. Schopp! 🛥️

📅Wednesday, May 22
🕖️7:00 p.m.
📍Red Dragon Canoe Club, Edgewater Park, NJ

More on the presentation:
The Upper Delaware River, extending from Market Street, Philadelphia, to the head of navigation at Trenton, once hosted a lively steamboat trade beginning with John Fitch’s experimental boats. Paul Schopp’s presentation will briefly cover the history of steamboats on this section of the river and then take viewers on an imaginary excursion up the Delaware from Philadelphia using rare postcard images and artwork, advertising, and period photographs. Viewers will learn about some of the ferry services offered to the traveling public as well as examine steam traffic on tributaries like the Pennsauken and Rancocas creeks. Riverfront amusement parks will be included in the presentation as well as some of the freight wharves and piers. Viewers will meet some of the masters who skippered the steamers. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the end of steamboat service and what happened to the last few boats.

Past and Present with Wendel A. White's Manifest: Thirteen Colonies - State Of The Arts - NJ Pictured: Baby Dolls, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC "I am increasingly interested in the residual power of the past to inhabit these material remains. The ability of objects to transcend lives, centuries, and millennia su...

Congratulations to all 2024 graduates! 🎓️

See a behind-the-scenes look at the final talk show for Professor Ludovich's Television Production class! 👀

📽️ Interested in Stockton's Communication Studies major or minor? Learn more about the program at the link: https://stockton.edu/arts-humanities/communication-studies.html

The History Department had their end of year celebration last week at the Stockton Art Gallery to honor their graduating seniors. 🎓️

Swipe ➡️ to check out photos from the event.

Interested in Stockton's History program? Learn more at the link in bio about the program.

TODAY 📅

The Africana Studies Rite of Passage Celebration will be held at 12:00 p.m. in the Campus Center Event Room!

Celebrate graduating Music majors, Melissa Taps and Keldy Penaranda, this week at their Senior Recitals.

🎵Tuesday, May 2 at 7:00 p.m.: Melissa Taps (featuring Stockata)
🎶Friday, May 3 at 5:00 p.m.: Keldy Penaranda

📍Stockton University Campus Center Theatre

ARHU was well represented at Stockton University's 3rd annual Community Day and Party in the Park!

🌸 ARHU staff Deanna Tumas, Brian Lyons, and Assistant Dean Rosa Perez-Maldonado shared information about our academic programs and centers.
🌸 Students from reported on the day's happenings with live streams, reporters, and photographers.
🌸 The organized public art installations, painting and cyanotype activities.

The program hosted its first Reverse Networking Fair this Monday afternoon in the .

This event connected soon-to-be grads with employers for networking. Community partners and employers had the opportunity to engage directly with students about their work and available opportunities in a format that reverses the traditional setup.

Thank you to Stockton’s Career Education and Development () for making this event possible!

🖼️ Interested in seeing the BFA exhibition before it closes? See it now through Sunday, April 28.

https://stocktoncreativesunite.com/bfaexhibit/

Today was 's Hip-Hop Block Party at Stockton's Multicultural Center!

Swipe ➡️ to see photos of the festivities!

Don't miss the Reverse Networking Fair & Stockton Senior Art Exhibition!

📅 Monday, April 22
🕒️ 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
📍 Stockton University Art Gallery

This event aims to connect soon-to-be grads with employers for networking. Community partners and employers will have the opportunity to engage directly with students about their work and available opportunities in a format that reverses the traditional setup!

Join us in this Open house event and find the perfect opportunities for you!

Check out more of Stockton University's Career Education & Development resources: https://www.stockton.edu/career-center/index.html

We’re so excited to celebrate the graduating seniors this Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. for the BFA Senior Exhibition at the Stockton University Art Gallery.

Learn more at https://stockton.edu/art-gallery/index.html.

Celebrate the graduating seniors this Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. for the BFA Senior Exhibition at the Stockton University Art Gallery. 🎨

Thirteen students' artwork will be on display. Learn more about each student and their work at https://stocktoncreativesunite.com/bfaexhibit/.

🏫 Learn more at https://stockton.edu/art-gallery/index.html.

Stockton's Emerging Choreographers Showcase starts TOMORROW❗️⁠
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📅 April 18 - 20⁠
🕢️ 7:30 pm⁠
📍 Stockton Experimental Theater⁠
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Emerging Choreographers Showcase is filled with moments of striking physicality, unusual grace, and the unexpected. This juried showcase for dance makers at the start of their composing careers is a laboratory for choreographic experimentation and innovation. The Experimental Theatre’s intimacy allows audiences a personal experience with this forward-looking choreography and provides these developing dance makers a chance to cultivate their artistic voices. Witness the variety and vibrancy of the Stockton community’s finest emerging choreographers.⁠
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🎟️ To purchase tickets, visit https://stockton.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1606

📸 Check out photos from the first-ever Art Summit on Monday, April 12 at Stockton University Atlantic City.

This summit was designed around the theme of President Joe Bertolino's inauguration: "building a community of opportunity".

The event featured performances by Stockton student musicians and dancers, a pop-up art exhibition by Stockton visual arts students, as well as panel discussions and breakout sessions covering topical issues in the arts and humanities.

📰 Read the full article by Stockton News: https://stockton.edu/news/2024/arts-and-cultural-summit.html

Check out photos 📸 of our students who attended the 96th annual Eta Sigma Phi convention last weekend hosted by the Delta Theta Chapter at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.

Congratulations to the students who won awards in the translation and declamation contests, as well as Stockton's Theta Tau Chapter for winning the Service Award for their annual Latin Day. 🏆️

Swipe ➡️ to see photos from the convention:

Picture 1: At the banquet (dressed as Apollo and the Nine Muses)
Picture 2: In the Stockton van
Picture 3: Michal Baxter reading the Greek Declamation Passage (he won 1st place) Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War in which the Athenian statesman praises the Athenians and Athens in his famous Funeral Oration
Picture 4: Allison Reed, Ken Kornbluth, Kaz Murray at the banquet
Picture 5: Paul Hiltke, Joe Moore, Allison Reed, Ken Kornbluth, Matthew Resnick, Satya Allen accept Service Award
Picture 6: Quiz Bowl/Certamen: Team Linear A: Michal Baxter, Ken Kornbluth, Madison Grohman, Joe Moore
Picture 7: Quiz Bowl/Certamen: Team Linear B: Paul Hiltke, Joe Gibson, Satya Allen, Allison Reed

The 40th Anniversary of Africana Studies Gala

📅 Tuesday, April 16th
🕰️ 6:00 p.m.
📍 Campus Center Event Room

Join the Africana Studies Program in celebration of 40 years at Stockton University! All are welcome to attend. We will also be honoring Dr. Shawn Donaldson who will soon be retiring.

The Gala is free (no ticket required), but RSVP or email [email protected] for anyone interested in being listed in the program as a “gift giver” for Dr. Donaldson’s retirement gift.