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Do Not Fear the Past: Stanford Live presents a multidisciplinary collaboration led by Grant Parker and Marie-Louise Catsalis

"LJ Roberts: Carry You With Me" opens at the Cantor

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Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star creatively engages with the Stanford community

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"A Cool Million: Petra Cortright" on view over the Cantor entrance

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Veronica Roberts to direct the Cantor Arts Center

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New course exposes students to the beauty of Japanese functional objects

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Recent @Stanfordaah MFA graduate @gregoryrick2017

Recent @Stanfordaah MFA graduate @gregoryrick2017 has a new exhibition “Collision” open at @qualiacontemporaryart in downtown Palo Alto. On view until September 2!

Rick employs techniques from printmaking, papermaking, painting, and drawing to construct his own genre of “History Painting.” The study of history has been vital to Rick’s development as an artist, and his well-being as a veteran of the War in Iraq, providing ample sources for his illustrated narratives that weave personal history in among the many threads of political, social, and global history. The artist writes: “My life has been full of tribulations; I look at them as initiations. For every hardship I endured, my art has grown with me.”

Rick is also a winner of this year’s SF Bay Area @Artadia Award and @SFMOMA SECA Award, and his work will be exhibited at SFMOMA this November.

Credits: 1) Gregory Rick, Peace Treaty on Union and Myrtle, 2019, ink, watercolor, gouache on paper, 50 x 38.25 in, photo by Qualia Contemporary Art. 2) Gregory Rick, Marilyn, 2019, ink, watercolor, graphite, gouache on paper, 50 x 38.25 in, photo by Qualia Contemporary Art.

This Thursday night, the documentary film program

This Thursday night, the documentary film program Camera as Witness closes out its summer series ‘Moving Forward with Music’ with a screening of Sing Your Song, an up-close look at singer, songwriter, activist, and actor Harry Belafonte – a champion for worldwide human rights and a leading cultural and political figure of the past sixty years. From Harlem to Mississippi to Africa and South Central Los Angeles, Sing Your Song takes viewers on a journey through Belafonte’s life, work and most of all, his conscience, as it inspires us all to action.

The program takes place at Coupa Café at Stanford Golf Course. Reception at 5:30, screening at 6pm. Afterwards, Clayborne Carson, a professor of history at Stanford and the Founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, will be in conversation with Jasmina Bojic, Camera as Witness Program Director. Free and open to the public!

This past academic year, students at @stanfordeduc

This past academic year, students at @stanfordeducation and @stanfordeng worked with @cantorarts staff and the Blind Posse — a Bay Area grassroots group aimed at improving access to art for residents who are blind or have low vision — to develop innovations for vision-impaired Cantor visitors. Their ideas? Smartphone apps with audio narration about the art, haptic experiences, and a 3D replica of Rodin’s The Thinker that visitors are welcome to touch. Learn more at the link in bio.

Join us in welcoming IDA's Summer Lyric McHenry Co

Join us in welcoming IDA's Summer Lyric McHenry Community Arts Fellows! ✨ Photography by @vjoyphoto 💙

@lyricmchenryartsfellows work at the intersection of art and social justice for the summer with support from @IDAstanford and the Lyric McHenry Community Arts Fund. This is our third cohort of fellows! We are proud of their continued contributions.

Tyler Newman is a product design major using the fellowship to work with media company @staymacro and arts and justice org @bldpwr

Victoria Sampors Chiek is working with KUDU Studios creating projects that increase visibility for Cambodian history, culture, news, environment, wildlife, politics, and more through film.

Tristyn McClure Thomas will be working in NYC with Lucien Smith, founder of Serve the People, which prioritizes fostering a diverse community of student artists to share and discuss their art.

Sequoiah Blaire Hippolyte is completing their fellowship in Los Angeles working with cinema company Sunhaus

Kiara T. Dunbar will be working in NYC with Annalise Lockhart, award-winning filmmaker and Stanford Alum.

Fellows have worked with artists, arts orgs and more across the years! Congrats to this year’s stellar group.

Looking for some summer reading recommendations? T

Looking for some summer reading recommendations? The new novel Counterfeit, by Stanford alum Kirstin Chen, follows two former Stanford roommates who reconnect after 20 years to run a counterfeit luxury handbag operation. It’s a pick for @reesesbookclub and The New York Times raves, “Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read — but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority.”

Announcing our 2022 artist grantees! VPA Senior Gr

Announcing our 2022 artist grantees! VPA Senior Grants support the burgeoning arts-related careers of recent Stanford graduates pursuing independent projects during the first six months after graduation.

Cameron Mirhossaini @cameronmirh writes THE WAY TO THE BREAD, a novella exploring the present-day, psychological consequences of forced nomadic sedentarization one hundred years ago in Iran. Isaiah “Zay” Smith’s @notzaysmith CHURCH WALLS recontextualizes Black American pew figurines into an AR and new media diorama centering Black identity and its relationship to the “Black Church”. Danika Lyle @danika.lyle is developing WORK-LIFE MALICE, a comedic screenplay and radio drama satirizing the corporate experience in the world of a super villain’s HQ. Omar Howaida El-Sabrout @el_sabrout investigates transplantation, ugliness, and queerness through site-specific sculptures in DOVECOTES DOMICILES.

Click on the link in our bio to learn more about their projects!

Come visit our newest public sculpture! Standing a

Come visit our newest public sculpture! Standing among the stately California oaks and walking paths at the outer edge of Stanford’s vast arboretum stands The Stanford Columns, by Beverly Pepper (1922-2020).

In honor of Pride, revisit Gay Liberation, the ico

In honor of Pride, revisit Gay Liberation, the iconic sculpture on Stanford’s campus (with a twin edition in Christopher Park in New York City across from the Stonewall Inn, site of a watershed moment for LGBT rights). Video by @alexandra_stergiou and @connorleeok (MFA DocFilm ’22)

🤪 Still catching our breath and catching up on

🤪 Still catching our breath and catching up on highlights after the whirlwind of spring quarter! Our first Denning Visiting Artist Fund awardees *finally* made it to campus this spring after their residencies were postponed from 2020! Turkish oud player and composer Necati Çelik, co-hosted by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Department of Music, taught a course for students in the Ottoman Music Ensemble, culminating in a year-end performance at Dinkelspiel Auditorium.

Indian photographer Gauri Gill (MFA ’02), co-hosted by the Department of Art and Art History and the Center for South Asia, conducted critiques with MFA students and hosted an open studio, sharing her process as she worked on three book projects.

The Stanford Visiting Artist Fund, established in 2019 in honor of Roberta Bowman Denning, brings renowned artists to the university to deeply engage with faculty and students in departments and programs across the campus. The endowed program will continue to fund one artist each year. 🤞 for no more COVID delays!

Congratulations to @alexandra__stergiou and @conno

Congratulations to @alexandra__stergiou and @connorleeok (both MFA DocFilm ’22), whose short films are featured in The New Yorker Documentary series this month! Stergiou’s “The Act of Coming Out” blends real life and performances by queer and trans actors to achieve an uncanny emotional resonance as the film asks, “What is the role of performance in the stories we tell about ourselves in our lives?” O’Keefe’s “Imagine A Body” is an evocative take on the varied experiences of transmasculine people taking testosterone in order to medically transition. Watch the films now at @newyorkermag !
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary

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