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  • Project 562: Natural Wanderment Opening Reception, Native American Cultural Center (photo: Erina Alejo)
  • O-Show: A Capella Showcase 2019 (photo: Michael Byun)
  • WiSh 2020: All the Difference, Ram's Head Theatrical Society (photo: Paulo Makalinao)
  • Breaking Ground 2019, Common Origins (photo: Michael Spencer)
  • Stanford Diwali 2019, Stanford India Association
  • EnCounter Culture 2020: Dv8th Grade, sponsored by Dv8 (photo: Michael Spencer)
  • Flight: Life Between, Bechtel International Center. Art by Jessica Chow
  • Nutcracker 2019, Cardinal Ballet (photo: Lan Zhang)

Student Arts Grants: A Year in Photos 2019-20

This year’s VPA Student Arts Grants supported a wide range of student-initiated collaborative projects across the Stanford campus. Projects ranged from photography, documentary and narrative film, zines, musical theater, dance, contemporary plays, and inviting renowned artists for exhibitions and artist talks serving the student community. 

Students and their project teams represented a wide range of registered student organizations  and campus community centers such as the Bechtel International Center, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Native American Community Center, El Centro, Hillel@Stanford, Asian American Activities Center, and Women’s Community Center. 

While the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the global arts landscape, including Student Arts Grants spring awardee projects, the crisis has allowed VPA to rethink the accessibility of its grant programs for the Stanford community. The restructuring also holds to heart the current uprisings reflecting the historical need to combat inequality, systemic injustice, and racial violence that plague our nation. Read the full VPA statement here.

AY20 Awarded Projects:

  • Alpha Epsilon Pi, Fantasies of Judeo-America
  • Asian American Activities Center, When I Was Your Age…:Stories of Revolution
  • Asian American Student Association, Listen to the Silence 2020
  • Bechtel International Center, Flight: Life Between
  • Black Family Gathering Committee, Blackfest
  • Cardinal Ballet Company, Coppélia and Original Works 2020
  • Cardinal Ballet Company, The Nutcracker 2019
  • Common Origins, Breaking Ground 2019
  • Developmental Collective of Alternative Filmmaking (DECAF), Broke Girl Diaries
  • Dv8, EnCounter Culture 2020: Dv8th Grade
  • El Centro Chicano y Latino, Mapping Family History Through Embroidery and Poetry
  • Everyday People, Everyday People Fall Show 2019
  • Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Healing Hayti: An Artistic Intervention of Haitian and Dominican Reconciliation
  • Institute for Diversity in the Arts, NAZAR
  • Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Liberthi’s Vision: A Collaborative Exhibition
  • Kayumanggi, Pilipinx Culture Night 2020
  • Native American Cultural Center, Project 562: Natural Wanderment
  • Ram’s Head Theatrical Society, Pippin
  • Ram’s Head Theatrical Society, Wish 2020: All the Difference
  • Stanford African Student Association, SASA Culture Show
  • Stanford Concert Network, Frost Music Festival
  • Stanford DragTroupe, Drag+
  • Stanford Film Society, yay-rose
  • Stanford India Association, Stanford Diwali 2019
  • Stanford Light Opera Company, Into the Woods
  • Stanford Storyboard Club, Storyboard Club Color Zine
  • Stanford Student Biodesign & Biopharma, PROBE Magazine
  • Stanford Students in Entertainment, Female Trailblazers in Entertainment
  • Stanford Vietnamese Student Association, Culture Night 2020
  • Talisman, O-Show: A Capella Showcase 2019
  • Urban Styles, Spring Show 2020
  • Women’s Community Center, Feminist Narratives Zine Volume 3

Headdress girl

I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.

2014

Pencil and paper

By '20

An Indian’s Journey to Stanford

This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.

2022

Water Color on Paper

By '27

The Claw

Location: The Claw fountain, White Plaza
Part of the virtual 2020 Stanford Gaieties musical scenery.

2020

Digital Illustration

By '23

Lake Nakuru

My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.

2017

Acrylic Paint on Canvas

By '23

Pavilion

Rendering of a modern jazz pavilion, referencing the visual skeleton chord structure of jazz compositions.

2018

Digital Rendering

By '19

Tree Study I

A study of a tree for Drawing I in charcoal, exploring silhouettes and shading.

2018

Charcoal on Paper

By '20

Some kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail

I drew some random kid I found on a Youtube thumbnail. I think it was an Omeleto video.

2019

Colored Pencil on Paper, Digital

By '22

Riven

An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. Here I assemble impressions gathered during my time in Chavín de Huántar.

2017

Digital Visual Art

By '19

hide my emotions

Hide my anger behind flowers // my anxiety behind moths // my sadness behind ▓▓▓

2018

Photoshop

By '21

night

An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.

2017

Oil paint and paper on paper

By '20

Explosive Bloom

A sculpture paying homage to the queer community and culture. Delicate like a flower, yet distinct like an explosion. Trans bodies at the center.

2021

Wood Sculpture

By '25

untitled (screen painting)

A medium exploration of painting on windows screens.

2018

window screens, oil paint

By '19

Breaking Point

This piece was made the week before quarantine when everything was uncertain and the weight of not knowing what was to come next hung over our heads.

Link to Website

2020

Boulder & Rope

By '22

Memorial Church

Light fluctuations through stained glass is always beautiful and ethereal at different times of day.

2025

Photograph of the Stanford Memorial Church

By '28

Lost Between Worlds

Taken in Alberta, Canada. My hope is not to showcase landscapes but to acknowledge that Earth’s beauty surrounds us.

2017

Photograph

By '20

The Spire of Notre Dame

Thousands of stippled dots layer on each other to create each gargoyle and rooftop, coming together to reveal the magnificent, historical spire.

2020

Pen and Ink

By '26

Sleepyhead

Through the intimacy and vulnerability of sleep, I convey my boyfriend’s personality, embodied presence, and imprint – literally and metaphorically.

2022

Oil on canvas

By '25

Sunset at Sutro Baths

A woman in dark clothing sits on the graffitied ruins of Sutro Baths, staring into the soft, ethereal waves illuminated by warm sunlight.

2022

Oil paint on canvas

By '22

Yanofsky’s Legacy

Vials of yeast samples are the remaining evidence of Dr. Charles Yanofsky, a noted faculty and geneticist who passed away in 2018.

2018

Photograph

By '23

Tokyo 1

This is a picture a created from 40 raw pictures I took of the same fruit cup. Compiling all 40 images into one allowed me to show everything in focus

2018

Digital Photograph

By '21
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