Amy Elkins, The Golden State, 2017. Photo by artist. Exhibition at Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College. Costa Mesa, CA
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In 2021-2022, the Arts + Justice Student Grant funded twenty-one students (two collaborative projects, seventeen individual projects) engaged in creative pursuits around questions of art and justice. This year’s cohort includes both undergraduate and graduate students who work in an array of mediums and forms, including visual arts, creative writing, film, photography, digital media, music, theater, and fashion. Highlights from this year’s cohort include multi-media installations exploring themes of migration and citizenship, sculptures addressing carceral feminism in South Asian form, and a ‘zine to address issues of the unhoused as experienced by urban youth. Many projects collaborated closely with community partners to embed their work beyond the Stanford ecosphere.
Originally recorded May 27, 2021
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. Cosponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Arts Institute, and Theater and Performance Studies.
Originally recorded May 13, 2021
How do we imagine pleasure in the aftermath of racial and sexual violence? Join scholars and artists to discuss the intersections of race, consent, and kink in Jeremy O. Harris’s play Slave Play, the most Tony Award-nominated production in American theater history. We’ll speak with the artists who choreographed intimacy for this production and discuss the strengths and limitations of consent for advancing sexual justice.
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. Cosponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Arts Institute, and Theater and Performance Studies.
Originally recorded on Friday, March 5
Please join us for a cross-cutting poetry reading and panel discussion featuring Layli Long Soldier, author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection WHEREAS, a response to the failures of the 2009 Congressional Resolution of Apology to Native Americans, and Ann Tweedy, award-winning poet and legal scholar specializing in tribal jurisdiction and tribal civil rights law. Presenting recent and forthcoming poetry and scholarship, Long Soldier and Tweedy will shine a light on the violence sanctioned by American legal language and structures against Native American tribes and peoples, even as their work demonstrates a commitment to reclaiming those forms toward alternative ends. Stanford Jones lecturer and poet Monica Sok will moderate this essential conversation at the intersection of poetry, indigeneity, injustice, and the law. A complimentary copy of either Ann Tweedy’s or Layli Long Soldier’s book will be provided to the first 15 to RSVP.
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. Cosponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Arts Institute, and Theater and Performance Studies.
Originally recorded February 19, 2021
Join us as the acclaimed composer Jonathan Berger (Stanford), powerful visual artist Enrico Riley (Dartmouth), and award-winning artistic director Niegel Smith (The Flea) come together for a roundtable discussion on their artistic roles on The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist, a multimedia song cycle and community meditation and ritual on the death of Eric Garner. This piece, and their reflections on the on-going process of creation and collaboration, draws forth themes of atonement, resistance, witnessing, activism, and togetherness, relying on the sonic, the visual, the theatrical and the textual to convey its message. Co-commissioned in 2019 by Stanford Live and the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, this performance is forthcoming when theaters return with live audiences.
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. Cosponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Arts Institute, and Theater and Performance Studies.
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