Young Alumni Arts Grant
Applications are sought for the new Young Alumni Arts Grant!
About
To support a burgeoning arts career by a recent Stanford graduate, this award will provide up to $5,000 toward a public production, exhibit, publication, or other original work in any arts discipline to occur during the upcoming year. The award will also support a visit to Stanford’s campus and an accompanying public talk, masterclass, or workshop for selected grant recipients.
This grant is administered by the Office of the Associate Dean for the Advancement of the Arts.
Grant Details
Eligibility
Grants are open to Stanford University alumni from any major or program who graduated between 2011-2015.
Applications are accepted from alumni with no more than ten professional productions, films, exhibitions, publications, etc. at the time of application.
Recipient should not be a fulltime student at Stanford University or another institution; part-time students are eligible.
This award is not intended to support salaries or living expenses for the recipient, although it can be used to support technical specialist expenses as needed.
The public performance, exhibit, or publication should take place during calendar year 2016. Exact dates do not have to be determined at the time of application, but a plan for exhibition should be clarified as soon as possible.
Projects involving recorded media (such as an album or a film) must also incorporate a live component (such as a concert or film screening) as part of the project plan.
The Young Alumni Arts Grant is made possible by generous gifts from individuals and the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Fund.
Applications for the 2017 grant cycle will be available in September 2016.
Please contact Sabrina Wilensky with any questions.
How to Apply
Required Application materials include:
1. Stanford Graduation Details
2. Artist’s Statement (200-300 words)
3. CV/Resume (No more than two pages)
4. Project Title and Genre/Media
5. Abstract of Project Proposal (100 words)
6. Project Proposal (No more than 1000 words)
7. Project Budget (Please use provided Budget Form. If additional budget documentation is available, please upload that documentation with the Budget Form as a single file)
8. The names of two references who can speak to your current project’s development, your past accomplishments, and/or your artistic abilities. References do not have to be Stanford-affiliated.
9. Up to three pieces of media that demonstrate your skill and accomplishments in your genre or media. Please submit samples that were completed within the past five years (post-Stanford graduation).
Funding and Expectations
Proposals should make clear how the grant funds (up to $5,000) will add value or opportunity that would not otherwise be possible.
The grant recipient would be responsible for providing Stanford Arts with appropriate documentation of the completed project and would make up to four tickets to the premiere event available to Stanford-related attendees as requested. The grant recipient would also provide financial documentation at the conclusion of the grant.
Selected grant recipients will be invited to come to the Stanford campus to present their work and will receive additional funding (up to $1,000) to fund travel to and from campus and other expenses related to the presentation.
Xandra Clark (BA with Honors Theater & Performance Studies, MA Journalism), On the Verge: A Crown Heights Anthology
Kimi Lee (BA Film and Media Studies, Minor Creative Writing), SUGAR
Dan Rorke (BA Music, BS Biomedical Engineering), The Dynamic Album Project
Nicholas Salazar (BA Political Science), Palm + Oil
Samantha Toh (BA International Relations, MA East Asian Studies), Guerilla Fiction
Eric Tran (BA Music), Debut Recording and Launch Concert of New Chamber and Solo Music
Gideon Weiler (BS Symbolic Systems), Valley of Silicon: An immersive, multi-genre journey to reclaim identity
Young Alumni Arts Grant Recipients
Katharine Hawthorne (BS Physics, Minor Dance), Mainframe
Mainframe is a dance asking how computers have changed the way we see our bodies. Mainframe is scheduled to be performed at ODC in San Francisco, Dec. 3-6, 2015.
Katharine Hawthorne is a San Francisco-based dancer and choreographer who likes to watch thinking bodies in motion. Her body of work is grounded in her passion for the sciences and her interest in integrating technology into performance. She holds a BS in physics and dance from Stanford University.
Helen Hood Scheer (MFA Doc Film), Painted Desert
Painted Desert (working title) is a documentary short about an African American physician in Navajo Nation who collaborates with the local indigenous community and renowned artists to create arresting public artworks that are installed across the reservation.
Helen Hood Scheer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in cinema vérité portraits following eccentric people who subvert expectations and better their communities in unusual ways. Her films have screened at over 150 venues including Hot Docs, True/False, Los Angeles Film Festival and the National Gallery of Art. She earned a BA with highest honors in American studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA in documentary film and video from Stanford University.
Development Grant Recipients
Adam Katseff (MFA Art Practice), Rivers and Falls
This body of work and accompanying exhibition are based on night landscapes, representing the abstract forms of rivers and waterfalls. Rivers and Falls will open at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York, Apr. 8, 2015.
Adam Katseff is a photographer based in Palo Alto, Calif. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and an MFA from Stanford University. His work has been shown across the country and internationally. He is represented by Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York City.
Emma Webster (BA Studio Art), How Much Searching Is Not Enough Finding
The series of 5-by-6-foot paintings freely combine abstracted landscapes, historic portraiture and youthful, explorative mark-making. This exhibition will open Aug. 7, 2015, at Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, Calif.
Emma Webster is an Oakland painter who graduated from Stanford University in 2011 with a BA in art practice. Internationally renowned artists and art critics alike have recognized her painting. Recently, she was awarded residencies at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Mich., and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt.
Yoo Hsiu Yeh (BS/MS Electrical Engineering), with Cecilia Wu and Romain Michon, Navigating the Cycles
Inspired by the traditional Tibetan prayer wheel and Tibetan singing bowl, Navigating the Cycles presents the Tibetan Singing Prayer Wheel, a combination of a novel physical motion-sensing controller and digital audio signal processing software that processes the real-time voice of the operator based on his or her body motion, as part of an interactive art installation.
Yeh was introduced to the world of sound art through the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford in 2012, and since then has built several interactive sound art pieces, striving to cultivate calmness, delight and curiosity in those who encounter them. These pieces have been shown at various art exhibitions within Stanford and at the Bay Area Maker Faire.
