CREATIVE EVOLUTIONS

Each Speaker in the Series will speak to the shared prompt AND respond to the Speakers who have already spoken.  This will create an ongoing dialogue throughout the summer, and culminate in a joint panel at the
Virtual Culmination in September.

MOMENTUM 2026 Speaker Prompt:

Throughout history, artists and cultural experiences have been our lighthouses—cutting through deep darkness, revealing truth, illuminating futures we couldn't yet name.

That light has never belonged to one person. A lighthouse is an ecosystem.
It takes builders and visionaries to design it. Fuel to keep it alive.
People willing to tend it in the harshest conditions.
Smaller lights—lanterns, flashlights—to reach what the largest beams can't.
And a culture of navigators who know how to recognize light, trust it, and move by it.

So what happens when we look at our cultural landscape this way?
Who are the builders, the keepers, the fuel, the travelers? What are we actually sustaining, and what are we letting go dark? And what would it take for each of us to think differently about our roles, act differently within them, and together
illuminate a future that is alive, responsive, and always becoming?