Arts + Justice: 2025 Grant Recipients

Now in its fifth year, SAI's Arts + Justice Student Grant funded fifteen solo and group projects investigating social justice issues through creative practice. The 2025-26 cohort includes both undergraduate and graduate students who work in an array of mediums and forms. 

The student cohort also received the support of an expanded workshop program, led by graduate student coordinator Del Holton (Ph.D. candidate in Art and Art History). The aim of these meetings is to build community and create a space where the group could share goals, challenges, progress, and successes. In this space, the students worked across media, providing invaluable feedback and creating kinship and relationships that will extend far beyond the length of these projects. Del invited guest presenters who are artist-scholar activists to speak to the group, allowing the participants to think beyond their individual projects and into the wider networks to which they belong or of which they aspire to be part. 

Made possible with the generous support of the Shenson Fund, the Arts + Justice Student Grants program is sponsored by the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI), in cooperation with Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA).