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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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“Vast, grafted monoculture”

This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”

2020

Vector drawing and photography

By Vrinda Suresh '21
Nighttime

Mice own your belongings at night.

2016

Charcoal Pencil on Paper

By German Enik '22
A Matter of Time

A wristwatch lies across a keyboard, the numbers juxtaposing the letters and a soft, glowing gleam reflecting across its surface.

2019

Acrylic Paint on Canvas

By Sarah Dong '26
Figure 57

A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.

2014

Watercolor on Paper

By Noah DeWald '20
Storytime

I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.

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2020

song / soundscape

By Elias Feierabend-Peters '20
Headdress girl

I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.

2014

Pencil and paper

By Elizabeth Hyde '20
Sandy Treasures

This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.

2022

Acrylic Paint on Canvas

By Sarah Dong '26
It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight

I captured this while camping in Colorado. Upside down the sunrise reflected in the mist covered water reminded me of Earth’s curvature from space.

2015

Digital Photograph

By Cora Cliburn '19
Andhra Summers

This poem is dedicated to street children in Andhra Pradesh, India, who continue to face extraordinary barriers in education, health, and security.
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2019

Creative Writing (Poetry)

By Harika Kottakota '20
Find the Light

This piece highlights the importance of community and hope in the midst of a pandemic, despite physical separation from others.

2020

Acrylic on Canvas

By Hannah Cha '25
Odonata

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

2024

Sculpture

By Cooper Shea '24
California Dreaming: Echoes of Change through Analog Film

Photo series capturing California’s landscapes and the impacts of human intervention through 35mm film.

Link to Website

2020

Analog Film

By May Levin '24
Nicollette (Venice, Italy)

Stillness, the relationship between Venice’s constant landscape and its moving parts, environments of order that have witnessed extravagant change

2018

acrylic on canvas

By Vedika Kanchan '23
Looking Up

Taken while walking in my hometown of Washington, D.C.

2020

Photograph

By Laura Anderson '21
Feminism!

This was a fun illustration that I polished up for International Day of the Girl this year (October 11)!

2016

Digital art

By Katherine Liu '18
Streebal: Stories of Women and Power (Pre-show photoshoot)

In a pre-show photoshoot for my roommate’s student classical Indian dance ensemble, Noopur, she “breaks character” during a pose.

2016

Photograph

By Robin Willscheidt '19
Lagunita

I am lucky enough to witness Lagunita being a real lake.

2017

Photo

By Lining Sun '18
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
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
untitled (screen painting)

A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.

2018

window screens, oil paint

By Vivienne Le '19

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