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Doerr photo contest illustrates life’s complexity
Campus Stories

Doerr photo contest illustrates life’s complexity

Stanford Report | April 25, 2025

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
Campus Stories

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

Stanford Report | April 1, 2025

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

Tracie White | January 10, 2025
Selection of art from fall 2024 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Campus Stories

Stanford Art Gallery showcases student work

Andrew Brodhead | December 3, 2024
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
Campus Stories

‘Design Kids’ leverage their craft to build community on campus

Natalie Feulner | December 2, 2024
Jennifer Levine
Art + Justice, Student Voices

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

Jennifer Levine | November 13, 2024
Core Sample Screenshot
Art + Sustainability

Doerr Visiting Artist Program: Core Sample

Mark Baugh-Sasaki and Mehr Kumar | October 29, 2024

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
Campus Stories

The transformative power of film

Melissa De Witte | October 21, 2024
“Amulets” by Alia Farid on Meyer Green. | Andrew Brodhead
Campus Stories

Meyer Green welcomes ‘Amulets’

Robin Wander | October 17, 2024
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
Campus Stories

‘Archive Rooms’ at the Cantor is a window into artists’ work

Stanford Libraries | October 16, 2024
Saif Azzuz’s “Rooted in the Land” (2024). | Chris Grunder
Art + Health

Installation honors the medicinal traditions of the Muwekma Ohlone

Department of Medicine | October 8, 2024
Exhibition “An Expanded Lens” features works on loan in groupings with works in museum’s permanent collection. | Andrew Brodhead
Campus Stories

The Anderson Collection celebrates 10 years

Robin Wander | September 26, 2024
“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
Campus Stories

‘Spirit House’ illuminates the spiritual and spectral boundaries between life and death

Robin Wander | September 3, 2024
Tamara Dunn, MD
Art + Health

How mixing music and medicine keeps this doctor grounded

Rachel Tompa | August 21, 2024
Poet Aracelis Girmay credit Yekaterina Gyadu
Meet Artists

For poet Aracelis Girmay, poetry is a way of thinking through complexity

Cameron Scott | August 5, 2024
The Middle East as depicted in graphic novels
Campus Stories

Studying Middle Eastern history through graphic novels

Melissa De Witte | July 26, 2024