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Stanford Alumni Arts Grant

About

This grant supported the burgeoning arts career by a recent Stanford graduates with up to $5,000 toward a public production, exhibit, or other original work in any creative arts discipline. This grant was offered from 2015-2019 and was administered by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts.

The Stanford Alumni Arts Grant was made possible by generous gifts from individuals and the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Fund.

The Alumni Arts Grant program is no longer active. 

Visit our Arts Career Toolkit page for resources to support your artistic career.

Grant Recipients (2015-2019)

2019 Grantees

Photo: Frank Chen
Photo: Frank Chen

Joel Chapman, Weston Gaylord, Matt Herrero, Jessia Hoffman, and Ken Savage
Staged Concert Reading of Gravity - A New(tonian) Musical

Photo: Leanna Keyes
Photo: Leanna Keyes

Leanna Keyes
Two Ladies of Vermont

Photo: Raquel Beauchamp
Photo: Raquel Beauchamp

M the Myth
Him to Them

Photo: Desmond Love
Photo: Desmond Love

natasha tsukiko
i only know Plenty/F U R U S A T O

Photo: Marcelo Culligan Photography
Photo: Marcelo Culligan Photography

Rosewater Vigilante
The Lavender Files

2018 Grantees

Photo: Beverli Alford Photography
Photo: Beverli Alford Photography

Jace Alexander Casey (BA Film & Media Studies)

Dead Mall

Photo: Sam Ellison
Photo: Sam Ellison

Sam Ellison (MFA Documentary Film)

Cheche Lavi (Looking for Life)

Photo: Kola Shoba
Photo: Kola Shoba

Jessica Lá Rel (BAH African & African American Studies)

28 Hours

Photo: Garrett Schlesinger
Photo: Garrett Schlesinger

Carly Lave (BA American Studies, Minor in Dance, Honors in the Arts)

Artificial Intelligence and the Dancing Body

Photo: Ouree Lee
Photo: Ouree Lee

Ouree Lee (BA Film & Media Studies, Honors in the Arts)

state of being

Photo: Thandie Gula-Ndebele
Photo: Thandie Gula-Ndebele

Elijah Ndoumbé (BA African & African American Studies, BA Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Reimagining the Archive – an Assertion

Photo: Summer Thompson
Photo: Summer Thompson

Laura Petree (BA Comparative Literature, Honors in the Arts)

In Search of America's White Whale

2017 Grantees

Photo: IDEO.org
Photo: IDEO.org

Katie Brigham (BA International Relations, MA Journalism)

Information Station

Photo: Talon Clayton
Photo: Talon Clayton

Talon Clayton (BA Human Biology)

Reflections / Reflections in BlaQ

Photo: Erin Diebboll
Photo: Erin Diebboll

Einat Imber (MFA Art Practice)

Sea to Sea

Photo: Rahim Ullah
Photo: Rahim Ullah

Gio Jacuzzi (BA Music, Minor in Computer Science)

Spaces in Between

Photo: Luke Lorentzen
Photo: Luke Lorentzen

Luke Lorentzen (BA Film and Media Studies, Honors in the Arts)

Midnight Family

Photo: Lananh Lê
Photo: Lananh Lê

Maia Paroginog (BAH Art Practice)

Sudden Glare of the Sun

2016 Grantees

Xandra Clark
Photo: Brian Vecci

Xandra Clark (BAH Theater & Performance Studies, MA Journalism)

Anthology: Crown Heights

Photo: Celeste Sloman
Photo: Celeste Sloman

Kimi Lee (BA Film and Media Studies, Minor Creative Writing)

SUGAR

Dan Rorke

Dan Rorke (BA Music, BS Biomedical Engineering)

The Dynamic Album Project

Photo: Michael Rooney
Photo: Michael Rooney

Samantha Toh (BA International Relations, MA East Asian Studies)

Guerilla Fiction

Photo: Valentina Sadiul
Photo: Valentina Sadiul

Eric Tran (BA Music)

Debut Recording and Launch Concert of New Chamber and Solo Music

Photo: Zack Bonzell
Photo: Zack Bonzell

Gideon Weiler (BS Symbolic Systems) and Jake Winkelman (BA Urban Studies)

These Are The Days

2015 Grantees

Photo: Al Ponce
Photo: Al Ponce

Katherine Hawthorne (BS Physics, Minor in Dance)

Mainframe

Helen Hood Scheer

Helen Hood Scheer (MFA Documentary Film)

Painted Desert

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Adam Katseff (MFA Art Practice)

Rivers and Falls

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Emma Webster (BA Studio Art)

How Much Searching Is Not Enough Finding

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Yoo Hsiu Yeh (BS/MS Electrical Engineering), with Cecilia Wu and Romain Michon

Navigating the Cycles

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