2019 Sachs Program Grants
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation has awarded 26 grants through its adjudicated grants process, for a total of $220,000 in funding.
Extended Artist Engagement Grant
Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics/Anjan Chatterjee: Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics Artist-in-Residence: Lucas Kelly
Visiting Artists Grants
Center for Hispanic Excellence: La Casa Latina, VPUL: 20 Years of La Casa Latina
Institute of Contemporary Art: Christina Long: Punk Festival and Zine Fair
Eugene Lew, SAS: MUSICA PRACTICA/ELETTRONICA VIVA
Penn Museum: Breanna Moore: A Commission for the New Africa Galleries
Arts Course Development Grants
Mauro Calcagno, SAS: Re-envisioning Penn’s Opera Curriculum
Sophie Hochhäusl, Weitzman School of Design: From Kitchen to Counter-Space: A Feminist Approach to Architecture and the Built Environment
Heather Love and Brooke O’Harra, SAS: Queer Archives, Aesthetics and Performance
William Udell, Weitzman School of Design: Fabrication Workshop Series: Hands-on Making Through the Lens of Sculpture
Arts Integration Grants
Jasmine Blanks Jones, Master of Public Health Program, SAS, and GSE: Health Messaging in Africa: Public Performance and Community Health Education
Independent Creative Production Grants
M. Asli Dukan, Weitzman School of Design: The Healing Box
Gabriel Martinez, Weitzman School of Design: Queer Eclipse
Student Arts Innovation Grants
Graduate/PhD Students
CAMRA (Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts), Annenberg School, GSE, SAS, and SP2: 2020 Screening Scholarship Media Festival
Joshua Franklin, PSOM and SAS: Photovoice Project: Working with Young Trans Women to Create New Strategies for HIV Prevention
Nora Gross, GSE and SAS: Our America (working title)
Joshua Hey, SAS: derendered
Glenn (Sonnie) Wooden, Jr., Weitzman School of Design: Between you and I (working title)
Undergraduate Students
Anab Aidid and Christina Piasecki, SAS: Plain Sight (working title)
David Hong, SAS: Poetic Memory Program
Student Engagement Grants
Center for Experimental Ethnography, SAS: Grounds that Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking)
Common Press, Penn Libraries, Weitzman School of Design, Kelly Writers House: Activist Prints
SAS and Weitzman School of Design: Incubation Series 2019-2020
Provosts Interdisciplinary Grants
Weitzman School of Design and SAS: Performance Intensive
Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women, SAS: Alice Paul Center Visiting Artist: Arielle Brown
The Quechua Language Program and Kelly Writers House, SAS and Office of the Provost: Indigenous Languages Week (working title)
Michelle Lopez, Weitzman School of Design: The Joplin Project