About Sica

About the Arts Initiative and SiCa

Stanford University is placing creativity at the heart of a twenty-first-century education. The Stanford Arts Initiative is a university-wide effort to enhance strengths in existing arts programs, create new arts facilities and opportunities for students and faculty, and integrate the arts throughout the life of the university.

The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) is the institutional home for multidisciplinary programming connected to the Arts Initiative. It provides support for faculty and student activities and serves as a hub for campus-wide arts programming.

Annual Reports

View our interactive, multimedia report celebrating the first five years of the Stanford Arts Initiative and SiCa.
An interactive infographics report on 2009-2010, the year of Art + Invention
Download the PDF of the SiCa Annual Report 2008-2009.
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Multidisciplinary artist/designer Shona Kitchen taught a course at Stanford, Designing for Robots, in which students explored the social implications of living with robots through design projects...

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An inside look at the man behind "The Art of Computer Programming" - his inspirations, motivations, and passion for creativity.
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The Senior Reflection is a capstone experience for seniors in biology and other life science programs. Participating students undertake a creative project that joins a compelling scientific...

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Faisal Abdu'Allah, a Visiting Artist during the 2010-2011 academic year, taught a course in printmaking that attracted students from a variety of disciplines.

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Stanford undergraduates gained first-hand experience in arts administration working with prominent arts organizations across the country.
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James Bernstein, Conservator, walked us through the art of preserving artwork as he stretched a painting by Jules Olitski at the Cantor Arts Center.

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