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