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Stanford’s 2025 Commencement Wacky Walk

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From Loss to Light: Bhu Kongtaveelert (’25) on Memory, Climate, and New Futures

I first met with Bhu Kongtaveelert last December on a rainy Friday right before campus closed for break. He was holed up in the basement studio space beneath the Stanford Art Gallery, pulling out fragments of salvaged objects, fabric materials, and assorted works in different states of completion. The work was still coming together for his…

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Art &: A New Podcast from Stanford Arts

The unexpected ways art drives innovative and collaborative research throughout the Stanford ecosystem Art & explores arts-driven collaborations across Stanford University’s dynamic research ecosystem with host Ellen Oh, Director of Interdisciplinary Arts Programs at Stanford Arts.  Sculpture & Oceanography. Design & Synthetic Biology. Theater & Immersive Technology. Music & Sociology. Through lively conversations at the intersection…

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Doerr photo contest illustrates life’s complexity

Winning images from this year’s Doerr School of Sustainability photo contest convey what’s at stake in our struggle toward sustainability – along with human efforts to enact change.

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‘Second Nature’ photo exhibit examines a world reshaped by human influence

In a photography exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center, 44 artists from six continents document the profound environmental, social, and political upheaval of our transformative age.

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Alexander Nemerov at the McMurtry Building
Leadership

Art and Soul

Selection of art from fall 2024 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
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Stanford Art Gallery showcases student work

Now in its second year, the student group known as The Design Kids has more than 30 members and offers its services to other student organizations and academic departments on campus. | Andrew Brodhead
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‘Design Kids’ leverage their craft to build community on campus

Jennifer Levine
Art + Justice, Student Voices

Levine | The case for political art, now more than ever

Core Sample Screenshot
Art + Sustainability

Doerr Visiting Artist Program: Core Sample

Digital core sample of the research and correspondence between Mark Baugh-Sasaki and Mehr Kumar throughout the Doerr Visiting Artist program.

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Empathy by Keith Negley
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The transformative power of film

“Amulets” by Alia Farid on Meyer Green. | Andrew Brodhead
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Meyer Green welcomes ‘Amulets’

Bernice Bing in her North Beach Studio, c. 1958–1961 | Photo: C.R. Snyder. Image courtesy of Special Collections at Stanford University. © The Beat Museum
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‘Archive Rooms’ at the Cantor is a window into artists’ work

Saif Azzuz’s “Rooted in the Land” (2024). | Chris Grunder
Art + Health

Installation honors the medicinal traditions of the Muwekma Ohlone

Exhibition “An Expanded Lens” features works on loan in groupings with works in museum’s permanent collection. | Andrew Brodhead
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The Anderson Collection celebrates 10 years

“Spirit House” curator Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander and curatorial assistant Kathryn Cua view Tidawhitney Lek’s painting “Refuge” (2023) on loan from the Grouf Family Collection. | Andrew Brodhead
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‘Spirit House’ illuminates the spiritual and spectral boundaries between life and death