INTRODUCING THE 2020 IDA AND CBPA FELLOWS
This year, IDA will be offering two fellowships for students interested in exploring the arts at the intersection of race and social justice: our ongoing IDA Fellowship Program and a newly added fellowship with the Committee on Black Performing Arts, the CBPA Fellowship Program. And it’s with great joy and excitement that we introduce our…
Read MoreProf. Adam Banks, Faculty Director of IDA, appointed Bass University Fellow
The Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty members for their extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education. New and reappointed Bass Fellows Adam Banks, a professor in the Graduate School of Education and faculty director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, was appointed The Hazy Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Read the…
Read MoreApplication Deadline Extended – IDA + CBPA 2021 Undergraduate Fellowships
Applications are now due September 22nd at 5pm The Committee on Black Performing Arts (CBPA) was started in 1969 as Stanford’s first program dedicated to the arts and racial justice. CBPA preceded and birthed the Institute for Diversity in the Arts. IDA honors this 50-year legacy and is excited to announce a new fellowship led…
Read MoreMorgan M’elyn Grant, Class of ’20
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Read MoreJanani Balasubramanian
We are really excited to be welcoming the extraordinary artist and scholar Janani Balasubramanian as our 2020 Visiting artist. Janani Balasubramanian is a writer, new media artist, and immersive theater maker based in New York City. Balasubramanian’s practice involves deep collaborations with astrophysicists, as well as engagement with both old storytelling forms and contemporary technologies…
Read MoreRachel Lam, Class of ’20
Artist Statement Rachel Lam (any pronouns) is an artist who works with visuals, sounds, words, and movement. The following is Rachel’s standard introduction for themselves in Cherokee: “Letsili dagwado’a. Tsigiduwagi nole tsitsaniyi-aniugama nole tsiyunega. Seattle digwatvsv’i. Nigalsdanv’i sidanelvi. My name is Rachel. I’m Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, white, and a first-generation Malaysian-American. I grew up…
Read MoreJoy Harjo – On Creating Balance
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Read MoreAnnouncing The 2020 Lyric McHenry Community Arts Fellows
It was with great pride that we announced the Lyric McHenry Community Arts Fellowship, at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts this past January, a new fund that gives Stanford Undergraduates the opportunity to spend a summer working full time in the arts with a focus on racial/social justice. This program is named and…
Read MoreA Message from IDA’s Director on Racial Violence and Social Justice
Dear IDA family I wanted to write to you more personally today, not just as director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, but also as a Black woman, a mother, an artist, and as someone deeply committed to justice for the long haul. This quarter has been a rough one for our community.…
Read MoreIDA Fellow Natalie Johnson awarded a VPA Senior Grant
We are so excited and proud of our IDA fellow Natalie Johnson on her VPA Senior Grant. She was awarded funding from a highly competitive pool of close to 30 selected applications to execute an art project in the year after graduation. Natalie will spend the summer writing a speculative fiction novella, extending her creative…
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