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Through an innovative new course in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, students explore the life cycles of the materials frequently used in art and design—from paints to potting soil.

Now in its sixth year of supporting creative practice at Penn and in the surrounding community, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation announced grants totaling $170,000 at its annual Sachs Grants Awards ceremony.

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation celebrates the 2023 Sachs Program Grant Awards, announcing grantees in six categories. Incoming Provost John Jackson will provide brief remarks. Refreshments will be served and there will be live performances from Alex Smith and Julius Masri.

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation hosts an in-depth look at the work of the late Chen Lok Lee, a multidisciplinary artist, printmaker, painter, and professor based in Philadelphia. His daughter, Romana Lee-Akiyama, will lead a panel discussion, to be followed by a live painting demonstration by Lok Lee apprentice and longtime friend S. Joon Thomas.

This week, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation announced its latest round of spring grants for students, and Penn Today offers a by-the-numbers look at the Program’s investment in students to date.

Share The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation announced 14 projects to be funded as part of its call for proposals in March in support of Asian, Asian-American and Pacific Islander artists at Penn. The projects include students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Six grantees are students, three are staff, two are alumni, one is faculty, and two others are recent alumni. Disciplines funded range from opera to children’s literature, film to mural arts. “We felt that there were all of these issues l...

Annenberg Center rebrands to Penn Live Arts, announces new season While the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts venue will remain, the organization has rebranded as Penn Live Arts. Dorrance Dance performing a tap-dance version of “The Nutcracker.” (Image: Christopher Duggan) Adding to the rich history of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, founded in 1971 as a regional crossroads for both emerging and renowned p...

Share The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, in its latest grant cycle, will fund 25 arts projects with $177,000 in funding. The grants support, among many other themes and explorations, work that asks bold questions about speculative futures, translates the stories of frontline workers during the pandemic into theater, and spotlights marginalized voices that might otherwise go unheard. “With our annual grants, we’re always thinking about how we are supporting marginalized communities, thin...

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation will support 25 new Penn arts projects, totaling $177,000 in funding.

Transcending movement Principal dancers from Philadanco! perform and discuss their discipline with choreographer Dawn Marie Bazemore and Penn’s Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Deborah Thomas, and doctoral candidate Dixon Li. Philadanco! performing Oshun. The March 3 performance was revised for length and number of dancers. (Image: Julianne Harris) Known as a river deity in the Yoruba tradition of West Africa, Oshun is venerated as ...