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SAI Programs & Initiatives for Grad Students

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Making & Creative Praxis

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Grad Certificate

A new graduate certificate program in Making and Creative Praxis supports students committed to integrating abstract and embodied forms of knowledge, expertise, and artistry. 

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Data Artists

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Grad Student Group

If you work with data and you’re interested in how it can become art, or you’re interested in bringing data into your artistic practice, Stanford Data Artists is the place for you.

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Creative Writing

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Grad Student Group

If you're a creative writer looking for community among fellow grad students, join us for casual writing sessions and meetups.

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Grad Student Mentors

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for Inter-Arts Projects

Grad Mentors provide feedback and guidance for undergrads working on interdisciplinary arts projects.

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Maasai Junior Warrior

Taken on a Sophomore College trip to Tanzania, a Maasai junior warrior dons the traditional post-circumcision black robes and white face paint.

2017

Photograph

By Donovan Tokuyama '20
Odonata

Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.

2024

Sculpture

By Cooper Shea '24
Best Value

This is a “still life” of the fish market at my local Chinese grocery store. It is a wet, slimy, strange, intimidating, and magnificent place.

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2023

Acrylic on Canvas

By Sharon Zhang '27
Queer Intimacy

These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.

2022

Wood sculpture

By Bryan Defjan '24
Quarantine Paintings

These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.

2020

gouache (two images combined digitally)

By Katie Han '23
Green Library

As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.

2017

Photo

By Lining Sun '18
Back Out

This work is about rupture and disruption, whether environmental, familial, or linguistic. I wanted to think visually about over-saturation.

2020

India Ink on Paper

By Regina Kong '22
Vanishing Act II

A digital re-imagining of my piece about humanity’s changing relationship with the natural world.

2015

Mixed Media

By Noah DeWald '20
Ozymandias

Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.

2015

Mixed Media

By Noah DeWald '20
More Than A Living Goddess

Kumari, the living Goddess of Nepal, is not allowed to speak to those who worship her, yet her glowing eyes depict that she has so much to tell us.

2022

Graphite

By Nisha Acharya '26
Self Portrait

A self portrait done in the style of the Old Masters.

2014

Oil Paint on Canvas

By Francesca Colombo Colombo '19
Which passes through; Life like weeds, no. 3; Standing nude; Up, Simba; Violet light and a hum, no. 2

These collages were created from material gathered from a variety of found sources—primarily Life, National Geographic, and Time magazines.

2020

Collage & ink pen

By Kyle Cromer '20
Buried

In “Buried,” I used collage and layering to express the haunting suspicion of a seemingly ordinary event. The nostalgia oblivious bliss.

2023

Mixed Media: paper collage with ink and watercolor

By Darren Shiao '27
Figures in Ochre

These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.

2018

Oil on canvas

By Cathy Yang '20
How Small Are We?

Commenting on our smallness in comparison to all we have to face – be it a pandemic, the vastness of the ocean, or history. Our smallness is humbling

2020

acrylic on cardboard

By Helena Zhang '22
The Cabbage Lady

This means “my cabbage” in Russian, and the word also means “money”. This was inspired by a photo from r/peopleofwalmart.

2020

Digital Art

By Majorca "Jorie" Bateman-Coe '20
Tale of Two Cities

I created this piece in order to show a city full of life in contrast to one that is merely an outline.

2016

Acrylic on Paper

By Amelia Talkington '22
ˋ-sunlit-ˎ

Warm summer portrait of girl reading.

Link to Website

2018

Photoshop

By Angela He '21
tide

An observational abstract of seaweed washing onto a beach, brought in by the tide. 24″ x 30″.

2018

Oil paint on canvas

By Cairo Mo '20
This Too Shall Pass

With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.

2023

Oil on wood panel

By Jackie Liu '25

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