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Open Studios: Winter | 2018
Open Studios is a self-guided art tour of our undergraduate student showcase from the Winter 2018 Art Practice courses: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Digital Art, Sculpture, Film and more..! This is a rare opportunity to see student artwork in the studios in which it was created. VISITOR INFORMATION:The McMurtry Building is located on Stanford’s campus, at 355 Roth Way. The Stanford Art Gallery, is located off Palm Drive at 419 Lasuen Mall. Visitor parking is free all day on the weekend and after…
Find out more »Meet the Makers Winter Student Showcase 2018
Product Realization Lab students transform big ideas into pathbreaking products. See innovations in sports equipment, consumer goods, education and health devices, agricultural tools, and MORE! Come get a glimpse of the future!
Find out more »The Dancing Sowei: Performing Beauty in Sierra Leone
This exhibition focuses on one spectacular work in the Cantor’s collection—a sowei mask, used by the women–only Sande Society that is unique to Sierra Leone. Used in dance by senior women of the society, the sowei mask symbolizes knowledge of feminine grace and is part of a young girl’s initiation into adulthood. Thus, for many women of the region, beauty is literally performed into existence through ndoli jowei (the dancing sowei or the sowei mask in performance). IMAGE: Gola or Mende…
Find out more »Betray the Secret: Humanity in the Age of “Frankenstein”
The Cantor’s contribution to the campus-wide celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s horror novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus reveals ways artists have represented the body, life, and death, as well as the boundary separating humanity from technology. IMAGE: Beth Van Hoesen (U.S.A., 1926–2010), Stanford (Arnautoff Class), 1945. Graphite and ink on paper. Gift of the Estate of Beth Van Hoesen
Find out more »Hidden Beneath Diebenkorn’s “Window”
Two hidden compositions lie below the surface of Window by painter and Stanford graduate Richard Diebenkorn, BA ’49. These hidden compositions were unknown to the art community except as barely visible reworkings, or pentimenti, until brought to light by Stanford student Katherine Van Kirk, ’19, during her fellowship in the Cantor’s Art+Science Lab. This installation shows the multiple layers uncovered through infrared reflectography as evidence—in a single painting—of the transition Diebenkorn was making in his art from figurative to still…
Find out more »47th Annual Stanford Powwow and Art Market
A celebration of Native American cultures including dance and music with more than 100 artist, food and information booth vendors. Booth vendors will begin opening by 5:00pm and Intertribal and competition dancing continues 7:00pm-11:00pm on Friday, Noon-10:00pm on Saturday, and Noon-6:00pm on Sunday. The 22nd Annual Stanford Powwow Fun Run/Walk will take place at 8:00am on Saturday, May 12. These outdoor events will continue “rain or shine!”
Find out more »47th Annual Stanford Powwow and Art Market
A celebration of Native American cultures including dance and music with more than 100 artist, food and information booth vendors. Booth vendors will begin opening mid-morning and Intertribal and competition dancing continues 7:00pm-11:00pm on Friday, Noon-10:00pm on Saturday, and Noon-6:00pm on Sunday. The 22nd Annual Stanford Powwow Fun Run/Walk will take place at 8:00am on Saturday, May 12. These outdoor events will continue “rain or shine!”
Find out more »47th Annual Stanford Powwow and Art Market
A celebration of Native American cultures including dance and music with more than 100 artist, food and information booth vendors. Booth vendors will begin opening by mid-morning and Intertribal and competition dancing continues 7:00pm-10:00pm on Friday, Noon-10:00pm on Saturday, and Noon-6:00pm on Sunday. The 22nd Annual Stanford Powwow Fun Run/Walk will take place at 8:00am on Saturday, May 12. These outdoor events will continue “rain or shine!”
Find out more »Where here: 2018 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition
The Department of Art & Art History presents, Where here, on view May 15 through June 17, 2018 with a reception on Thursday, May 17, 5-7pm. This group exhibition is curated by Gail Wight and features the thesis artwork of five graduating art practice MFA students. Where here brings together the diverse practices of this year’s Stanford MFA Art Practice candidates. W makes here look different, it complicates here and transforms it into the question, Where? We have collectively sought to…
Find out more »Opening Reception | Where here: 2018 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition
The Department of Art & Art History presents, Where here, on view May 15 through June 17, 2018 with a reception on Thursday, May 17, 5-7pm. This group exhibition is curated by Gail Wight and features the thesis artwork of five graduating art practice MFA students. Where here brings together the diverse practices of this year’s Stanford MFA Art Practice candidates. W makes here look different, it complicates here and transforms it into the question, Where? We have collectively sought to…
Find out more »墨境 Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang
Ink Worlds considers ink painting from the 1960s through the present, examining salient visual features and international connections, as well as the ongoing impact of historical techniques, materials, and themes. In so doing, the exhibition addresses not only the capacity of ink painting to evolve but also the contemporary nature of ink painting as a distinct genre whose achievements can already be documented. Caption: Irene Zhou (China, 1924–2011), Untitled, 1995. Ink on paper. Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang
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