Stanford Arts
We are a constellation of institutions, departments, programs, and people that aims to unleash the full potential of the arts on campus and in our communities.
Designing Taste: Stanford’s Chef-in-Residence Program Explores Food as Art
What happens when the path from farm to table runs through the lab? In this profile, Vayu Hill-Maini and visiting artist-chef Ramon Perisé explore food as a creative and cultural medium shaped by experimentation, aesthetics, and human experience.
A home for artists who make change in the world
The Institute for Diversity in the Arts is celebrating 25 years of cultivating the next generation of artists and cultural leaders. Take a visit to Harmony House — a vibrant hub where art making, learning, and community come together — to see how IDA empowers students and artists through interdisciplinary collaboration and mentorship.
Art installation inspires curiosity and creativity in education
At the newly remodeled Graduate School of Education, artist Jacob Hashimoto’s playful centerpiece represents the possibilities that come from teaching and learning.
A Visionary Approach to Legal Questions
55 years ago, Stanford Law School offered the country’s first-ever art law course. Now a new edition of the seminal textbook Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts reflects the field’s interdisciplinary nature while responding to shifts in the legal and cultural landscape, such as the rise of artificial intelligence.
Sensing the Unseen
Glass, data, and motion collide in Fathom, a stunning new public artwork by Camille Utterback that animates the five-story stairwell of Stanford’s CoDa building. With etched panels and interactive projections that shift from day to night, the piece turns passing movement into a living stream of information.
Music Meets Medicine
How can music inspire healing and community? Join acclaimed cellist and curator Joshua Roman as he shares his profound journey through long COVID, transforming personal challenge into artistic expression with "Immunity"—a performance intertwining art, resilience, and collective healing. During his immersive week at Stanford, experience Joshua Roman’s dynamic collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Orchestra as they rehearse for the show at Bing Concert Hall. Through reflective dialogues, discover how artistic expression transcends boundaries—melding music, medicine, and human connection to reimagine healing.
From Sea to Studio
Doerr School of Sustainability Visiting Artist collaborates with Oceans researchers at Hopkins Marine Station
In a stunning blend of art and oceans research, Stanford's interactive exhibit promises to ignite a wave of optimism for ocean conservation. The installation immersed viewers in a dynamic, sensory experience that highlighted the beauty and fragility of our marine ecosystems.
Encounters: Where Creative and Scientific Inquiry Meet
A new limited series podcast from Denning Visiting Artist Janani Balasubramanian
What happens when art meets science? Stanford alumni and host Janani Balasubramanian returns to campus to explore the dynamic intersection of these two disciplines throughout their residency in the Denning Visiting Artist Fund. Discover how interdisciplinarity drives breakthrough, from the physics of the interstellar medium to the myths of ancient times, featuring leading researchers and innovators.
Upcoming Events
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ExhibitionNext: Friday, April 03Archive Room: Ester Hernandez |Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries
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ExhibitionNext: Friday, April 03Archive Room: Ruth Asawa | Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries
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ExhibitionNext: Friday, April 03Paris, City of Innovation: 19th-century Universal Expositions as seen through the Roxane Debuisson Collection of Paris History
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ExhibitionNext: Friday, April 03 @ 9:00 AMWoven Narratives: Textiles as Living Archives
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ExhibitionNext: Friday, April 03 @ 9:00 AMFinely Printed Books: Albert Bender and the Birth of Stanford Special Collections
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ExhibitionNext: Friday, April 03 @ 11:00 AM1,000 Ways to Hold: A New Work By Erika Chong Shuch
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TourNext: Friday, April 03 @ 11:30 AMPublic Tour | Auguste Rodin
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WorkshopFriday, April 03 @ 12:30 PMFIRST FRIDAY | Hot Mess: Deliberate Failure as Practice (Workshop)
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TourNext: Friday, April 03 @ 1:00 PMPublic Tour | Cantor Highlights: 1 PM
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WorkshopFriday, April 03 @ 3:00 PMPatches & Patches (Stanford-affiliates only)
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Lecture / TalkFriday, April 03 @ 4:30 PMIan Jones Piano Masterclass
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Social Event / ReceptionFriday, April 03 @ 5:00 PMFirst Fridays at IDA (Social)
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PerformanceFriday, April 03 @ 7:30 PMVoice Students of Ashraf Sewailam
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TourNext: Saturday, April 04 @ 12:30 PMHighlights Tour | Anderson Collection
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TourNext: Saturday, April 04 @ 2:30 PMHighlights Tour | Anderson Collection
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TourNext: Saturday, April 04 @ 3:00 PMPublic Tour | Cantor Highlights: 3 PM
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PerformanceSaturday, April 04 @ 5:30 PMLou Henry Hoover Carillon Performance
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Film / ScreeningSaturday, April 04 @ 6:00 PMSublime Frequencies
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PerformanceSaturday, April 04 @ 7:30 PMFreshman Recital: Rachel Wei, piano
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TourNext: Sunday, April 05 @ 2:00 PMPublic Tour: Outdoor Sculpture Walk, Campus
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PerformanceSunday, April 05 @ 2:30 PMCapstone Recital: Katie Liu, piano – MOMENTS
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Lecture / TalkMonday, April 06 @ 12:15 PMSLE Salon: Peter Mann on World Pacific: a darkly comic novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention
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Lecture / TalkMonday, April 06 @ 4:30 PMTHE AESTHETICS OF SUSTAINABILITY: From Lab to Table and Back a conversation with Chef Ramón Perisé Mugaritz and Assistant Professor Vayu Hill-Maini
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Class / SeminarWednesday, April 08 @ 12:00 PML.A.S.E.R. talk: Paul Valery and Poetry
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PerformanceWednesday, April 08 @ 12:15 PMLunchtime Recitals & Communi-Tea
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, April 08 @ 4:00 PMDavid Blumenthal on Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, April 08 @ 6:30 PMAn Evening of Poetry with Hanif Abdurraqib and Aracelis Girmay
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Class / SeminarWednesday, April 08 @ 7:00 PMThree L.A.S.E.R. talks: Robotic Skin, Motion Sculpture, Symmetry-driven Math
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TourNext: Thursday, April 09 @ 12:00 PMSpotlight Tours Thursdays | Anderson Collection
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 09 @ 12:00 PMVoicing Aspiration: Bollywood Songs and Dreamwork in Contemporary India
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TourNext: Thursday, April 09 @ 12:30 PMSpotlight Tours Thursdays | Anderson Collection
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 09 @ 1:00 PMSOLD OUT – Lunchtime Curator Talk | Jeremy Frey: Woven
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 09 @ 2:30 PMChronomaps: Agents of socio-ecological transition
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TourNext: Thursday, April 09 @ 4:00 PMTour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 09 @ 4:00 PMPoetry & Science as Arts of Attention
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 09 @ 4:00 PMSilicon Valley Talks: Carlin Wing, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play”
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 09 @ 5:30 PMWhen Look becomes Touch: Intermediality and Aesthetics in Anti-caste Films | Talk by Manju Edachira
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 09 @ 6:00 PMMaia Nuku | Ruth K. Franklin Lecture
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Film / ScreeningThursday, April 09 @ 6:30 PMAFTERLIVES: Screening + Q&A with filmmaker Kevin B. Lee & artist Morehshin Allahyari
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 09 @ 7:00 PMA Conversation with Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Nation
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PerformanceFriday, April 10 @ 10:00 AMCCRMA Presents: MediaFlock 2026 – Multimedia Art Festival
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OtherFriday, April 10 @ 12:00 PMDrop-In Drawing @ The Anderson
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Film / ScreeningFriday, April 10 @ 7:00 PMBut Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Film Festival
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PerformanceFriday, April 10 @ 7:30 PMThe Medium – Gian Carlo Menotti
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PerformanceFriday, April 10 @ 7:30 PMStudent Recital: Anika Gandhi, flute
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PerformanceSaturday, April 11 @ 7:30 PMThe Medium – Gian Carlo Menotti
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TourNext: Sunday, April 12 @ 2:00 PMPublic Tour | Cantor Highlights in Chinese
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PerformanceSunday, April 12 @ 2:00 PMWhat We Sang Then: A Historic Recital of Favorites from the Stanford Songbook
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PerformanceSunday, April 12 @ 7:00 PMSenior Recital: Andrew Chen, percussion – Current Pulse
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PerformanceSunday, April 12 @ 7:30 PMSenior Recital: Aaron Omon, clarinet
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Lecture / TalkMonday, April 13 @ 1:00 PMCurator Talk | Spotlights with Jason Linetzky
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ExhibitionNext: Tuesday, April 14 @ 12:00 PMMindful of You: The Sodden Earth | 2026 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition
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ExhibitionNext: Wednesday, April 15 @ 9:00 AMThe Botanical Afterlife of Indenture: Indian Women’s Labour and Imaginative Phyto-Archives (2-day Exhibition)
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, April 15 @ 4:30 PMBook Talk: The California Camera Club Collective Visions in the Making of the American West
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, April 15 @ 5:30 PMNachorious: The Nach Gyal as Post Indenture Caribbean Feminist Jouvay Mas
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Wednesday, April 15 @ 6:30 PMStegner Fellow Reading with Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani, Kanak Kapur, and Bhion Achimba
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Social Event / ReceptionThursday, April 16 @ 11:30 AMStaff Fiber Arts Social
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ExhibitionNext: Thursday, April 16 @ 4:00 PMNew Orleans as Method: An End-of-Course Exhibition and Celebration
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 16 @ 5:00 PMLiu Lecture: Beeple
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 16 @ 5:30 PM“The Work of Risk: Guerrilla Art for Surviving the Carceral Present” with Faye Gleisser
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PerformanceFriday, April 17 @ 7:30 PMCCRMA Presents: The Binging
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PerformanceFriday, April 17 @ 7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Ishani Mukherjee – Central Station
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Lecture / TalkSaturday, April 18 @ 1:00 PMA Company of Authors
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PerformanceSaturday, April 18 @ 2:30 PMBelonging: A Junior Voice Recital by Katrina Franco, soprano, and Dennis Xu, bass-baritone
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PerformanceSaturday, April 18 @ 7:30 PMCCRMA Presents: The Binging
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PerformanceSaturday, April 18 @ 7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Rachelle Weiss, mezzo-soprano
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WorkshopSunday, April 19 @ 10:00 AMArt for All Family Day, Spring 2026
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TourNext: Sunday, April 19 @ 2:00 PMPublic Tour | Cantor Highlights in Spanish
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TourNext: Sunday, April 19 @ 2:00 PMPublic Tour | Outdoor Sculpture Walk, Museum
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PerformanceSunday, April 19 @ 3:00 PMGraduate Recital: Kristie Park, flute
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PerformanceSunday, April 19 @ 7:00 PMSenior Recital: Sarah Lewis, soprano – A Vision, or a Waking Dream
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Social Event / ReceptionMonday, April 20 @ 11:15 AMMuseum Minis: Storytime with Maria Raimundo
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Film / ScreeningMonday, April 20 @ 5:00 PMShowgirls of Pakistan: Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Saad Khan
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Lecture / TalkTuesday, April 21 @ 12:00 PMAfrican Archives at the Stanford Series – Researching Africa in the Digital Archive
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ExhibitionNext: Tuesday, April 21 @ 2:00 PMNew & Notable Maps at Branner Library
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Lecture / TalkTuesday, April 21 @ 4:30 PMIdeas Mosaic: Currents of Change
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Conference / SymposiumWednesday, April 22 @ 9:00 AMStanford Doerr School of Sustainability Research Review 2026
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, April 22 @ 4:00 PMThe Arts of Africa: A Living Archive – Natasha Becker
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, April 22 @ 5:30 PMBehind the Book: Historian Jessica Riskin on “The Power of Life ”
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, April 22 @ 6:30 PMTahira Qurrat al-‘Ayn’s Sisters of the Pen: Some Early Babi Women Poets
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 23 @ 12:30 PMP FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 23 @ 12:30 PMScott Ordway – The Making of EVENING LAND
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TourNext: Thursday, April 23 @ 4:00 PMTour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 23 @ 6:00 PMNancy Marie Mithlo | Red Skin Dreams: Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale. In Conversation with Jennifer DeVere Brody
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PerformanceThursday, April 23 @ 7:30 PMCCRMA Presents: Bucket List – Achievement
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PerformanceFriday, April 24 @ 3:00 PM2026 Department of Music Awards Concert
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PerformanceSaturday, April 25 @ 7:30 PMEVENING LAND: Eight Songs from California for Voices and Piano – A World-Premiere Concert
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TourNext: Sunday, April 26 @ 11:30 AMPublic Tour | Papua New Guinea Sculpture Walk
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WorkshopSunday, April 26 @ 2:30 PMGarbage as Medium: Recycled Papermaking
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PerformanceSunday, April 26 @ 7:00 PM
Senior Recital: Mark Zhu, piano
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TourNext: Monday, April 27 @ 1:00 PMCurator Led Talk | 1,000 Ways to Hold
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PerformanceTuesday, April 28 @ 6:30 PMWomen’s Monologues Based on the Alphabet: A Play Reading
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PerformanceWednesday, April 29 @ 12:30 PMNoon Concert: Flute Students of Melody Holmes
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Wednesday, April 29 @ 8:00 PMReading with D. A. Powell, the Mohr Visiting Poet
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Conference / SymposiumThursday, April 30 @ 9:30 AMVisions of Taiwan’s Future: Navigating Paths through Democracy, Technology, and Culture
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 30 @ 5:30 PMWeintz Art Lecture Series: Esra Akcan
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Lecture / TalkThursday, April 30 @ 6:00 PMEvening Curator Talk | Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto
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PerformanceThursday, April 30 @ 7:30 PMPegasus Physician Writers & Brentano String Quartet
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PerformanceFriday, May 01 @ 7:30 PMJoint Recital: Aswini Krishnan, mezzo-soprano, & Naomi Solomon
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PerformanceSaturday, May 02 @ 2:30 PM
Senior Recital: Sanjana Khurana, soprano
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PerformanceSaturday, May 02 @ 7:30 PMStanford Taiko – Surge
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PerformanceSunday, May 03 @ 2:30 PM
Student Recital: Maya Benyas, cello
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PerformanceSunday, May 03 @ 7:00 PM
Junior Recital: Richard Wang, cello
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Lecture / TalkMonday, May 04 @ 6:00 PM1,000 Ways to Hold | Artist Talk
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OtherMonday, May 04 @ 6:00 PMAUDITIONS | “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder
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PerformanceWednesday, May 06 @ 12:30 PMNoon Concert: Cello Students of Stephen Harrison
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Film / ScreeningThursday, May 07 @ 5:30 PMHow We Are Seen… | Three Short Documentaries by Jan Krawitz with Discussion to Follow
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Lecture / TalkThursday, May 07 @ 6:00 PMMijohn Ruperto & Candice Lin: Putrefaction
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PerformanceThursday, May 07 @ 8:00 PMDEVELOPMENTAL STAGE | Moonchild
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PerformanceFriday, May 08 @ 12:30 PMNoon Concert: Piano Students of Laura Dahl
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Lecture / TalkFriday, May 08 @ 1:30 PMA Poetics of the Collective: Latin American Performance and its Constellative Dramaturgies
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PerformanceFriday, May 08 @ 7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Sophia Artandi, voice
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PerformanceFriday, May 08 @ 7:30 PMStanford Symphony Orchestra
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PerformanceSaturday, May 09 @ 2:30 PMGraduate Recital: Crystal Chen, flute
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PerformanceSaturday, May 09 @ 3:00 PMDouble Take: A Spotlight on Student Writing at the Anderson Collection
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PerformanceSaturday, May 09 @ 7:30 PM
Senior Recital: Spencer Cha, piano
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PerformanceSaturday, May 09 @ 7:30 PMStanford Symphony Orchestra
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PerformanceSunday, May 10 @ 2:30 PMSenior Recital: Emma Leibowitz, soprano – What I Did For Love
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PerformanceSunday, May 10 @ 6:00 PMSenior Recital: Isabella McCormick, harp
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TourNext: Monday, May 11 @ 1:00 PMCurator Led Talk | 1,000 Ways to Hold
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ExhibitionNext: Tuesday, May 12 @ 12:00 PM2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition
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PerformanceTuesday, May 12 @ 7:30 PM
Stanford Saxophone Quartet Senior Recital
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, May 13 @ 12:00 PMAfrican Archives at the Stanford Series
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PerformanceWednesday, May 13 @ 12:30 PMNoon Concert: Piano Students of Sandra Shen
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Social Event / ReceptionWednesday, May 13 @ 5:30 PMRooted Words XXV: “Finis”
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OtherWednesday, May 13 @ 6:00 PMAUDITIONS | “404 Not Found” by Lucas Baisch
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Lecture / TalkWednesday, May 13 @ 7:30 PMReading with Amaud Jamaul Johnson, part of the Lane Lecture Series
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TourNext: Thursday, May 14 @ 4:00 PMTour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars
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Film / ScreeningThursday, May 14 @ 7:00 PMPoetry Into Film Festival
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PerformanceFriday, May 15 @ 12:30 PMNoon Concert: Flute Students of Melody Holmes
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ExhibitionNext: Friday, May 15 @ 4:00 PMArt of Science 2026
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PerformanceFriday, May 15 @ 7:30 PMStanford Philharmonia
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PerformanceFriday, May 15 @ 7:30 PMSenior Recital: Eric Wang, guitar
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PerformanceSaturday, May 16 @ 2:30 PM
Senior Recital: Flora Yuan, soprano
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PerformanceSaturday, May 16 @ 7:00 PMBTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ IN STANFORD
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PerformanceSaturday, May 16 @ 7:30 PMSpring Sing! – Voice Studio of Nova Jiménez
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PerformanceSunday, May 17 @ 1:30 PMStanford Symphonic Chorus – Schubert!
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PerformanceSunday, May 17 @ 2:30 PMStanford Cello Choir Spring Concert
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PerformanceSunday, May 17 @ 7:00 PMStanford Guzheng & Chinese Music Ensembles
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PerformanceSunday, May 17 @ 7:00 PM
Piano Quintets of Schumann and Brahms
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Lecture / TalkMonday, May 18 @ 12:00 PMBook Talk with Katie Gaddini on Esther’s Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right
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PerformanceTuesday, May 19 @ 2:30 PMFreshman Recital: Riko Suzuki, piano
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PerformanceWednesday, May 20 @ 12:30 PMNoon Concert: Piano Students of Kumaran Arul
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Lecture / TalkThursday, May 21 @ 5:30 PMWeintz Art Lecture Series: Maggie Cao
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Conference / SymposiumFriday, May 22 @ 12:00 PMCCRMA Presents: 2026 Symposium on Music and The Brain – Day 1
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PerformanceFriday, May 22 @ 12:30 PMNoon Concert: Cello Students of Christopher Costanza
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PerformanceFriday, May 22 @ 7:30 PMStanford Jazz Orchestra with Warren Wolf
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PerformanceFriday, May 22 @ 7:30 PM
Student Recital: Seyi Osundeko, soprano
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Conference / SymposiumSaturday, May 23 @ 10:00 AMCCRMA Presents: 2026 Symposium on Music and The Brain – Day 2
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PerformanceSaturday, May 23 @ 2:30 PM
Student Recital: Ava Yeh, harp
Meet Artists
From Stanford’s Classrooms to Its Stages
Uwade spends her days researching fables, poetry, and philosophy as a PhD candidate of Languages and Literature in Stanford’s Department of Classics. Alongside her academic work, she has also built a career as a professional musician. Discover Uwade’s journey from Stanford’s classrooms to its stages, leading to a performance with Stanford Live on April 4.
Stanford Arts’ 2025-26 Visiting Artists
Each brings a bold perspective on how the arts can illuminate, provoke, and transform our understanding of the world around us.
Maybe something new can emerge in the ruins.
As he graduates, Bhu Kongtaveelert (’25) reflects on memory, climate, and home. Read the full profile on his interdisciplinary art practice below.
Art &: Podcast Series
Art & is a new podcast exploring how artists and researchers are teaming up across Stanford to reimagine what’s possible—from sculpture and oceanography to music and sociology. Hosted by Ellen Oh, the series kicks off with Stanford Arts VP Deborah Cullinan on why art is essential to innovation and institutional transformation.
Scarlett Kim
Step into the virtual world of theater-maker and Royal Shakespeare Company Interdisciplinary Fellow Scarlett Kim, where motion capture meets imaginative performance. From embodying a rat to rethinking what theater can be, Scarlett brings bold, tech-infused creativity to Stanford.
Ali Namayandeh
Stanford’s new Doerr School of Sustainability is integrating theater and environmental justice with the premiere of “Hidden Strawberries,” a play by Ali Namayandeh. The production focuses on the experiences of California farmworkers affected by escalating wildfires.
