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Stanford Live presents Films.Dance: a new short film every week for free through December

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New acquisition on view at the Anderson Collection, reopening Sept. 22. Untitled (Portrait of Tome Jefferson, 1957, by David Park

The 1999 sculpture entitled "The Sieve of Eratosthenes" by Mark di Suvero is "In honor of John Henry Merryman, Sweitzer Professor of Law Emeritus and Affiliated Professor of Art History, Stanford University, in appreciation of his extraordinary contributions to art and cultural property law." It was a gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, 2008.19

Stanford's search for the next vice president for the arts

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Anderson Collection paintings on summer holiday next door at the Cantor

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The written world of Wallace Stegner was one of calloused hands and expansive beauty

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Need an art break? Try Open Studios, a long-runnin

Need an art break? Try Open Studios, a long-running afternoon event that invites the @stanford University community to explore the classrooms and studios of the McMurtry Building, where works by undergraduate students are displayed.

Open Studios offers a rare opportunity to see student work in the space it was created, and features drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and more. Join us at 3pm!

Please note that this year Open Studios is open to Stanford affiliates only; Stanford ID required.

[Image description: four Stanford students standing together in a classroom filled with sculptures, paintings, and used art supplies during an Open Studio visit]

Printmaking has long held a significant position i

Printmaking has long held a significant position in @Stanford’s art practice thanks to internationally known professors such as Nathan Oliveira and Enrique Chagoya. ‘Full of Autumnal Scent: 10 years of graduate printmaking from Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan’ is presented by the Department of Art & Art History and the Bowes Art & Architecture Library at the Stanford Art Gallery, on view for one more week, through December 3rd.

[Ayako Hasegawa. Full of Autumnal Scent (detail), 2008-9. Lithography and woodcut with water-based ink]

Co-director of the Asian American Art Initiative (

Co-director of the Asian American Art Initiative (#AAAI) and Assistant Curator of American Art at @cantorarts, @aleesapalexander is grateful for a gift of linocuts depicting scenes of/about Japanese incarceration by Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) ↑ “Throughout these prints you see the small details of quotidian life pierced by the violence of internment—barracks, watchtowers, and barbed wire close in on children walking, mothers holding babies, men playing Go. Sugimoto was educated in the Bay Area and spent time in Paris before he was incarcerated in Jerome, Arkansas. I still need to do more research into when he made these—it was sometime after his release (likely the 1970s)”— @aleesapalexander

To learn more about the AAAI, head to our stories!

[Henry Sugimoto linocuts and self-portrait, Gift of Patrick and Sandra Hayashi in support of the Asian American Art Initiative, Cantor Arts Center]

Join us tomorrow at 5:30pm at the Anderson Collect

Join us tomorrow at 5:30pm at the Anderson Collection as we welcome artist and alum Kiyan Williams in conversation with A-lan Holt, director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford, to speak about Kiyan’s life and work as well as the role of artists as makers, thinkers, and scholars.

Kiyan’s ‘Reaching Towards Warmer Suns’ is a public work on view on the grounds of the Anderson Collection, among a grove of oak trees. The piece emerged from the artist’s time along the slave docks of Virginia within the context of the pandemic and protests against on-going anti-Black police violence. Head to our stories to RSVP.

***RSVP is required and does not guarantee you a seat. Please arrive early as this event will be limited to 50 people. Doors open at 5:00pm. Please note this event is open to Stanford affiliates only; Stanford ID required.***

The inaugural Arts + Justice Grants from @stanford

The inaugural Arts + Justice Grants from @stanford Arts Institute supported fourteen undergraduate and graduate students addressing social justice issues through a variety of artistic media.

Throughout the year, the cohort met regularly with coordinator and TAPS grad student Danee Conley to discuss their projects. The ten resulting projects include painting, graphic design, multimedia installation, poetry, film, fashion, 'zines, and oral history. Learn more about the artists and their work in our stories!

Applications for the 2021-2022 cohort of grant recipients are under review now.

[GLORIA PAIDAMOYO CHIKAONDA | The Flames of Zimbabwe; DANTE KIRKMAN | Gentrification 94303 and 94025; SARAH ONDAK | Queering the Heartland; CALLUM TRESNAN | Hand Me Down; DORY RODRIGUEZ | Color Me Queer: Gender Euphoria Series; ALEXANDER FELICIANO MEJIA | “La Vieja Escuela/Field Notes”; KELLY DUNN & SADIE BLANCAFLOR | Future Threads; STANFORD PRISON RENAISSANCE | Prison Renaissance Zine at Stanford; SOFIA SCHLOZMAN | Open Conversations: Narratives of Mental Health and Wellness Among Healthcare Provider; not pictured in original post XIMENA SANCHEZ MARTINEZ | Primera Generación]

[UPDATE] this event is —sold out— The very re

[UPDATE] this event is —sold out—

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”―Zadie Smith

Did you know in 2020 the New York Public Library voted Zadie Smith's 'White Teeth' one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years? Join this prolific author for a reading as part of the Creative Writing Program's Lane Lecture Series in the Bechtel Conference Center on Monday Nov 8 at 8pm.

Registration, your Stanford ID, and masks will be required.

Photo by Dominique Nabakov

Richard Serra, the sculptor who created one of the

Richard Serra, the sculptor who created one of the largest public works on @Stanford's campus, Sequence (2006), was born #onthisday in 1938 in San Francisco. Serra’s massive steel sculpture is one of the artist’s most monumental achievements, comprising twelve steel plates and weighing a staggering 235 tons. Sequence returned to the Cantor’s North Lawn from @SFMOMA in February 2019 where it now invites visitors to come explore it's infamous figure-eight. Take a look at the incredible 2019 reinstallation of Sequence☝️

#RichardSerra #Sequence #Stanford #PublicArt

It's Carla's world, we're all just living in it. @

It's Carla's world, we're all just living in it. @thecarlarossi is heading to the Bing Studio this Sat 11/6 with too many wigs and her interactive “Rossivision." This new theatrical experience celebrates (and lampoons) Chicago, Celine Dion, Russian Doll, Birds of Prey, Netflix’s The Circle, and more.

Head to our stories to purchase tickets!

[Image: portrait of performer Carla Rossi leaning forward in a blonde wig, full makeup, pink and black dress, and a pearl necklace]

What @IssaRae ’07 would look like attending Reun

What @IssaRae ’07 would look like attending Reunion 👆

The cast of @insecurehbo filmed on campus for the show's final season. Rae's character comes back to speak on an alumni panel, and we'll have to watch to find out what happens. The final season of "Insecure" airs tomorrow October 24.

📷: Raymond Liu/HBO

Paper Chase: Ten Years of Collecting Prints, Drawi

Paper Chase: Ten Years of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at @cantorarts is now open!

Art on paper can take on myriad forms, each revealing a glimpse into the struggles and beauty of different worlds. The exhibition features more than 100 objects—many that have never before been exhibited at the Cantor, including multiple works by major artists from different cultures, backgrounds, and countries, such as José Clemente Orozco, Carrie Mae Weems, and Malick Sidibé.

[Ambreen Butt, Untitled, 2008. Hard ground and soft ground etching, aquatint, spitbite aquatint, drypoint, and chine collé, with hand-coloring. Palmer Gross Ducommun Fund]

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