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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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Sunset Studying 2

Location: East Asia Library

2021

Digital Illustration

By Helen He '23
Post-Election Blues

Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.

2024

Acrylic on Canvas

By Bryan Defjan '24
Clam Song, Biter

In Guam, an invasive species, the rhinoceros beetle, kills many of the island’s trees. I collage over images of trees to meditate on this loss.

2020

Digital inkjet print

By Harry Cole '20
Figure 57

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

2014

Watercolor on Paper

By Noah DeWald '20
Light Shower

A light spring shower wakes the soul.
Inspired by the Adobe MAX + Inktober 2018 October 15th Prompt: light.

2019

Photoshop

By Tianxing Ma '19
untitled (screen painting)

A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.

2018

window screens, oil paint

By Vivienne Le '19
Tree

This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.

2018

Watercolor and black ink

By Alejandro Poler '19
Self-Portrait Mask

A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.

2020

Graphite on Paper, Photograph

By Phoebe Kimm '20
Reflections

This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.

2021

Acrylic Paint on Canvas

By Dayeeta Pal '27
Doorway to Stanford

India to America. When the kids go to school everyday, they can see our own school, and not feel so far, despite being halfway around the world.

2017

Enamel Paint

By Tyler Su '20
coffee showers

inspired by Mondays, morning showers, and an addiction to caffeine.

2019

Digital illustration

By Elaine Park '21
Bh

2020

Oil on Canvas

By Nibha Akireddy '
Focus

Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.

2019

Photograph

By Yifei He '22
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
bite back

A realistic painting of a dog mouth, rendered uncomfortably close to the viewer. 8″ x 10″.

2018

Oil paint on canvas

By Cairo Mo '20
middle passage

A depiction of the Southeast Alaskan landscape, seen from a kayak near the Inian Islands. 25.5″ x 36″

2017

Oil paint on paper

By Cairo Mo '20
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
Look Behind You

Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.

2017

Digital Visual Art

By Andrew Lesh '19
Still Life of a Support System

Kaley, my plush fish who represents friendship (each of my friends has one) next to a bottle of medication to celebrate starting recovery recently.

2024

Oil on Canvas

By Bryan Defjan '24
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

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