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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

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