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Jia Lin, Remembering: The Fuzhounese Legacy (2024)

SAI Programs & Initiatives for Grad Students

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Micro-Community Grants

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for grad students & postdocs

The deadline for submissions is rolling through October 31, 2026.
Apply by October 9, 2026 for preferential consideration.

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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.

Inter-Departmental Mail Code

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Office

(650) 497-9905

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(650) 723-8231

Email

artsinstitute@stanford.edu

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Littlefield Center
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365 Lasuen Street
Stanford, CA 94305

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Do electric sheep dream of pet birds?

Androids may dream of electric sheep, and electric sheep …

2022

doodle

By Mingqi Shuai '26
Lightbulb of the Lightning Bugs

I catch lightning bugs, flitting moments often overlooked, and bring attention to them, so that they might spark a lightbulb in the minds of others.

2021

MultiMedia(Charcoal and Colored Pencil)

By Janice Li '24
Girl, Boy, Beautiful

This piece explores gender. On the left are stereotypically feminine things, on the right masculine, and in the middle a “beautiful” mix of the two.

2019

Photograph/Scanned Image

By Jacqueline Garcia Peraza '21
đàn-ông.exe

Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.

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2024

Video Art

By Han Dao '26
Real Men
Water City

A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.

2020

Digital painting

By Catherine Mullings '22
Dosed and Exposed

This self portrait addresses my invisible disability and the words around me are a mix of medical statements and emotional entries from my journal.

2018

Graphite on Paper

By Francesca Colombo '19
Sunset at Sutro Baths

A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.

2022

Oil paint on canvas

By Christina Kent '22
A Still from At Bay: Chapter One – How to Start a Startup

At Bay is a student-created web series about the launch of a Stanford startup that goes horribly, horribly wrong.

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2016

Still from a web series

By Katie Adams '17
Rainbow Hoover

A vivid rainbow above the hoover tower

2017

Photograph of nature

By Itamar Orr '19
Elevation

Serenity from within results from letting go.

2014

Watercolor

By Sophia Lu '19
Static

I was inspired by the stillness of this moment, the warm light, and the beautiful shadows created by the trees. This was based on SF Japantown.

2020

gouache on paper

By Katie Han '23
Visions of Separation

The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.

Link to Website

2021

Photography

By Bryan Defjan '24
from now on

This painting speaks to how beauty lies in impermanence, contrasting eternal mountains and passing mist.

2023

ink on rice paper; poetry

By Katie Han '23
The Ritual

My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.

2020

Acrylic Paint on Canvas

By Hannah Cha '25
Mujer

My piece comments on the movement of youth in Mexico towards narco culture and the dire implications it has for more traditional aspects the culture.

2018

Acrylic Paint on Canvas

By Lorena Diosdado '21
i’ll never cry again

Girl restrains her tears for, hopefully, the last time.

2018

Photoshop

By Angela He '21
Oh, Dear

This piece captures the fleeting, but golden moment of connection between the deer and the viewer. A reminder that beautiful things are fleeting.

2015

Oil on canvas

By Shin Mei Chan '18
Digital Youth

A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.

Link to Website

2021

Photography

By Bryan Defjan '24
closeted

In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.

Link to Website

2021

Projection Installation

By Jianna So '22
Swimming

A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi around her as they mesh together following the fish’s flow.

2021

Oil Paint on Canvas

By Christina Ba '26

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