Arts & Creativity

News articles classified as Arts & Creativity

Stanford Global Studies —

Award-winning scenes from around the globe

This year’s Stanford Global Studies photo contest highlights the work of students who ventured abroad for research, language study, fieldwork, and internships.

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability —

Sculptor to explore ‘layers of place’

As the inaugural Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability visiting artist, Mark Baugh-Sasaki will work with scientists on a project that aims to inform ocean restoration by reconstructing its history.

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability —

Climate work in pictures

The Stanford community submitted more than 400 images to this year’s Doerr School of Sustainability photo contest. Check out the winners.

Stanford Report —

Learning the history of evolution and primatology

An exhibition and undergraduate course at Stanford examines the peculiar scrutiny people have placed on their primate relatives to better understand the human condition.

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David Henry Hwang on a meaningful life

In the Rathbun Lecture on April 12, the Stanford alum and author of M. Butterfly will talk about failure, courage, and “the importance of always listening to new music.”

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Stanford’s 2024 spring and summer quarter guest artists

Rapper and singer Blxst, comedian Zarna Garg, and Tony-winner David Henry Hwang, ’79, who will deliver the Rathbun Lecture on a Meaningful Life, are just a few of the artists who will share their work with the Stanford community in the coming months.

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How day jobs influence art

A new exhibition at the Cantor explores how practicing artists’ work in industries from caregiving to technology spurs their creative growth.

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Documenting San Francisco’s Black churches

A fall quarter collaboration between Stanford historian Joel Cabrita and photographer Sabelo Mlangeni explores religion, identity, and community.

Stanford’s winter quarter guest artists

From Brandon James Gwinn’s piano bar to Sean Penn’s documentary on the Ukraine war, this season’s calendar has more than 50 opportunities to experience the arts.

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Navajo silversmiths share generations of design expertise

Visiting artists Zefren Anderson and Robert Blackhat Jr. spent two and a half days with Stanford Arts Intensive students this summer, demonstrating cutting-edge technology and techniques honed over thousands of years.

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Danielle Raad digs in

The new curator and assistant director of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections says the pieces in her charge have something to offer all disciplines.

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Learning from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Stanford frosh read, attended, and discussed William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as part of their COLLEGE winter course, Citizenship in the 21st Century.

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Art shines light on plastic pollution

A new Anderson Collection art exhibition focuses on humankind’s negative impact on natural bodies of water.

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Sam Francis at the Anderson Collection

A new exhibition at the Anderson Collection offers a close look at the paintings and prints of one of California’s most important postwar artists and his local connections.

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Portraits of change

An exhibition of photographs that document sweeping 20th-century political, social, and artistic movements across Latin America opened this month at the Cantor Arts Center.

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In Their Own Words

In Their Own Words is a series in which Stanford faculty reflect on a question or topic they have been grappling with throughout their careers.

Meet Stanford’s 2022 fall quarter visiting artists

A record number of local, national, and international guest artists are visiting campus this fall to share their talents and perspectives through exhibitions, performances, lectures, discussions, and residencies.

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‘Stanford Columns’ expands campus arts district

The new public artwork installation by award-winning American sculptor and environmental artist Beverly Pepper is an iteration of an installation in Italy created specifically for the Stanford campus.