Volunteers Share Their Talents at 48 Blocks Atlantic City
Noyes Museum Director of Education (in yellow) welcomes visitors to the Arts Garage, which featured banners made by Atlantic City school children. BELOW: Vanessa Spollen works on her mural and children from Buzby Village decorate their playground with ribbons.
Galloway, N.J. _ From making peace flags to painting murals and helping children decorate playgrounds, 91视频 faculty, staff, 91视频 and alumni played an enthusiastic role in the second annual 48 Blocks Atlantic City celebration June 22-24.
While the weather was a bit overcast Saturday, the Noyes Arts Garage offered a colorful welcome, with banners at the entrance created by 91视频 in four Atlantic City Elementary Schools.
Noyes Museum of Art at Stockton Director of Education Saskia Schmidt and volunteers
helped children create peace flags, while Stockton alumnus Vanessa Spollen, 鈥18, of
Northfield, a fine arts major at Stockton, painted a mural of the Atlantic City shoreline
that will be hung in the Arts Garage alley.
Spollen first painted a colorful smaller version of the shoreline, then drew the outline on the larger mural. On Saturday she set up in the Arts Garage and began painting it in. She said she took her inspiration from the city.
Merydawilda Col贸n, executive director of the Center for Community Engagement, led projects at Buzby Village and Stanley Holmes Village to create :Where We Live鈥 ribbons installations. She arrived with boxes of biodegradable paper streamers that children in the Homework Completion Programs used to decorate their fences and playgrounds.
鈥淓veryone had a wonderful time,鈥 Colon said as the children took a snack break then posed for photos.
鈥48 Blocks Atlantic City,鈥 a community celebration of arts and culture featured dozens of projects and events along Atlantic City鈥檚 48 blocks.
Other Stockton involvement included performances by Levi Fox, who impersonated Enoch 鈥淣ucky鈥 Johnson at the opening reception at the Claridge. Tim Kinsella and the South Jersey Culture and History Center offered oral histories at the Public Library and Emari DiGiorgio helped organize Poets on a Jitney.
On Sunday, Peter Murphy did a poetry reading at Dante Hall and musical entertainment was provided by Jed Gaylin and Chris DiSanto from the Bay Atlantic Symphony. Professor of Music Beverly Vaughn led area choirs at Kennedy Plaza.
48 Blocks AC was organized by the Atlantic City Arts Foundation in partnership with 91视频, which will open a new residential campus in Atlantic City in the fall. Lisa Honaker, Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities, coordinated for Stockton.
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