John Lane is an artist whose creative work and collaborations extend through percussion to poetry, spoken word, and theater, often bridging music performance with socio-political advocacy. As a performer, he has appeared on stages throughout the Americas, Australia, and Japan. John along with percussionist Allen Otte created and an ongoing social justice advocacy project, The Innocents, which has toured throughout the US including performances and workshops at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, the Innocence Network Conference, numerous university and public school campuses, and is now the subject of a feature length documentary by Wojciech Lorenc. His debut percussion solo album, The Landscape Scrolls (Starkland Records), was called "masterful" by Percussive Notes. Currently, John is the Director of Percussion Studies and Professor of Percussion at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He taught previously at the University of Wyoming and held graduate fellowships at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of North Texas.