Stanford Arts Institute
Stanford Arts Institute to pilot new interdisciplinary honors program
The Stanford Arts Institute will pilot a new interdisciplinary honors program in the arts during the 2013-14 academic year, an initiative intended to appeal to arts and non-arts majors alike. Students admitted to the program will participate in small workshops throughout their senior year while working towards the completion of a capstone project that reflects…
Read MoreThe Golden Gate is returning to Stanford May 30
Stanford celebrates a remarkable collaboration: Vikram Seth's sonnets become sound in Conrad Cummings' opera, which has been called one of the best of the new century. Seth's novel-in-verse was born at Stanford in the 1980s.(Additional but limited seating just added. Line up for admission by 7:30 on Thursday, May 30. People with tickets held at 'will call' in Bing Box Office must pick them up by 7:45, when unfilled seats will be released.)
The homecoming is long overdue: The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth’s 1986 novel-in-verse, was born among Stanford’s sandstone buildings and palm trees. Now the Bay Area will have a chance to hear highlights of composer Conrad Cummings’ opera of the novel. A multimedia presentation at the new Bing Concert Hall Studio at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30, will include readings of…
Read MoreWit and Wordplay Take Center Stage in StanShakes’ Love’s Labour’s Lost
Spring (quarter!) is in the air…The Stanford Shakespeare Company’s twenty-first show is staged where many Stanford undergraduates might find themselves on a good weekend: the front porch of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.
Performing the show at an actual fraternity house aligns with StanShakes’ history of presenting high-quality, free Shakespeare shows in uniquely Stanford locations. Past locations have included the old Terman fountain, the Cantor Arts Center, and the oak tree amphitheater outside Huang Engineering. This week only, through the generous support of ASSU Special Fees and a…
Read MoreStanford visiting artist Ann Carlson creates a performance piece made entirely of gestures
Students, faculty and staff participate in a movement-based orchestral work titled 'The Symphonic Body: Stanford.'Ann Carlson has been animating the Stanford campus, sometimes with silence, sometimes with stillness, for over a year as a visiting artist in dance and performance with the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. Carlson’s work mines the ephemeral and the commonplace toward extraordinary results. Her upcoming project, commissioned by the Stanford Arts Institute, is…
Read MoreCaptivated by Sea Creatures
Daniel Wong's new work Cephalo-Pod reflects his passions for art and biology.When he was in first grade, Daniel Wong was obsessed with cephalopods, a class of marine animals that includes squids and octopuses. He would fill pages of his writing journal with an enormous list of all the animals he knew according to the oceanic zone they occupy. Wong, now a senior majoring in studio art…
Read MoreArt in the Metropolis
Arts Immersion: New York City 2013 gave Stanford students an insider's view into the cultural landscape of New York, from Manhattan to Harlem to Broadway.“Art in the Metropolis” is a sophomore seminar offered in conjunction with the annual “Arts Immersion” trip to New York that takes place over spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute. The trip, now in its fourth year, provides a group of students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the cultural…
Read MoreStanford’s Chocolate Heads dance around the theme ‘synesthesia’
The group of dancers, musicians and spoken word artists learn to put their talents together with jazz master William Parker and each other.The Bing Concert Hall box office ran out of tickets for the upcoming Chocolate Heads performance in just three hours. The Heads, along with their muse and mentor this year, William Parker, clearly have a following. The 842 lucky ticketholders will be among the first to see dance performed in the new hall and experience…
Read MoreStanford Arts Institute funds student works
An exhibit of vinyl prints in the Cummings Art Building lobby, a Toyon performance of a student composition for violin and viola, the Cantor Arts Center’s annual Party on the Edge– all owe their existence to student arts grants given out quarterly through the Stanford Arts Institute. This winter, 76 students submitted applications for grants,…
Read MoreThe Stanford Arts Timeline unearths a vital legacy of tradition and transformation
The Stanford Arts Timeline invites you to explore the vital and dynamic presence of the arts on campus since the University's founding over a century ago.On Friday, January 11, 2013 – nearly 121 years after Stanford convened its first class – Bing Concert Hall opened its doors. A culminating event for years of curricular and extracurricular arts activity on campus, this exciting moment has deep roots in over a century of Stanford arts – from one department focused on applied…
Read MoreTAPS presents Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guest performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña on 11/28 has been cancelled. Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 10 books have contributed to the debates on cultural diversity, border culture and…
Read MoreStanford students join weekend architectural challenge
Local patron Sonia Dhillon-Marty invites teams made up of Stanford students and professional architects to her property, Champ de Portola, for a two-day design charrette and competition.Nine student/architect teams assembled at a private residence in Portola Valley, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 26, for dinner to launch a weekend of intense design and serious competition. The assignment is to design an artist’s cottage to be built on Sonia Dhillon-Marty’s property, Champ de Portola, by 2014. Nine architects from four countries paired with…
Read MoreStanford Arts looking ahead to 2016, the 125th anniversary of the opening of Stanford University
The momentum from Stanford's Arts Initiative continues to move the arts forward with new facilities and distinguished gifts.In a recent issue of Stanford magazine, Stanford President John Hennessy wrote about the many ways that The Stanford Challenge has been transforming the university through increased financial aid, interdisciplinary graduate fellowships, professorships and new facilities. He wrote that the Stanford Challenge, which concluded in December 2011 after raising $6.2 billion, was the most successful campaign in U.S. higher-education…
Read MoreRobert Whitman: Local Report 2012
The Stanford Arts Institute presented the international telecommunications performance installation, Local Report 2012, by pioneering multimedia artist Robert Whitman.Local Report 2012 was an international media and telecommunications work in which Robert Whitman used live video and audio reports from approximately ninety participants around the world. Whitman used these reports to create a live sound and video performance, composing what he calls “a cultural map of the world.” Local Report 2012 was the latest…
Read MoreRobert Henke, 2013 Mohr Visiting Artist
At Stanford: Spring Quarter 2013 Hosted at Stanford by: Department of Music The Stanford University Department of Music is pleased to host Berlin based artist Robert Henke during the spring 2013 term as the second Mohr Visiting Artist. Henke’s residency is part of the Mohr Visiting Artist Program, administered by the Stanford Arts Institute, which brings acclaimed and…
Read MoreInnovative Stanford class project turns urban studies students into filmmakers
A spatial documentarian, an urban historian and a film editor team up to teach students the power of storytelling and how to communicate their understanding of history through filmmaking. The student films premiere at East Palo Alto City Hall.A spatial documentarian, an urban historian and a film editor walk into a bar … Rather, they walk into a Stanford classroom to teach Urban Studies 166, East Palo Alto: Reading Urban Change, an innovative course that blends traditional academics, community service and art. Students in the course learn to combine historical film footage and hip-hop…
Read MoreArtist takes performance to new heights at Stanford biological preserve
Visiting artist Ann Carlson brings her background in dance, choreography, theater, visual art and performance art to an unlikely stage – Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.Visiting artist Ann Carlson is no stranger to unconventional performance sites, including frozen ponds, dairy farms and trains. But her latest project took her to new heights: Stanford’s biological preserve in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. “Picture Jasper Ridge is a way to connect to the history that we stand on. It’s an…
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