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2019 Grant Awards

In 2019 we awarded 26 grants through our adjudicated grants process, for a total of $220,000 in funding. The projects selected represent a broad diversity of practices, practitioners, presenters, and scholars at the University of Pennsylvania—including faculty, students and staff from six of Penn’s twelve schools and from many of Penn’s cultural centers.

Additionally, through a partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, we supported nine Freshman Seminars in the fall 2018 and spring 2019 semesters. And, through our Ben Art Bucks program, we awarded over $10,000 in quick-turnaround grants to over 40 students and student groups, supporting a range of activities related to creating and/or experiencing the arts.

We believe the arts are essential to advancing Penn’s values of inclusion, innovation, and impact, and we can’t think of more powerful examples than these stellar projects.


  • Alice Paul Center Visiting Artist: Arielle Brown
    • Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women
    • Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • Provosts Interdisciplinary
  • Plain Sight (working title)
    • Anab Aidid and Christina Piasecki
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Arts Innovation
  • Impressionism: Looking, Painting, Modernity
    • André Dombrowski
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Introduction to Acting
    • Brooke O'Harra
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • 2020 Screening Scholarship Media Festival
    • CAMRA  (Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts)
    • Annenberg School for Communication, Graduate School of Education, School of Arts & Sciences, School of Social Policy and Practice
      • Student Grant
      • Student Arts Innovation
  • Grounds that Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking)
    • Center for Experimental Ethnography
    • Center for Expermental Ethnography, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • Student Engagement
  • 20 Years of La Casa Latina
    • Center for Hispanic Excellence: La Casa Latina
    • Vice Provost for University Life
      • Making Art Grant
      • Visiting Artists
  • Activist Prints
    • Common Press
    • Kelly Writers House, Penn Libraries, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • Student Engagement
  • Poetic Memory Program
    • David Hong
    • College of Arts & Sciences, Kelly Writers House, Penn Memory Center
      • Student Grant
      • Student Arts Innovation
  • MUSICA PRACTICA / ELETTRONICA VIVA
    • Eugene Lew
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Visiting Artists
  • Italian Drama and the Performance of a Nation
    • Frank Pellicone
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Queer Eclipse
    • Gabriel Martinez
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Between you and I (working title)
    • Glenn (Sonnie) Wooden, Jr.
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Arts Innovation
  • Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance
    • Heather Love and Brooke O’Harra
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Arts Course Development
      • Curricular Support
  • Christina Long: Punk Festival and Zine Fair
    • Institute of Contemporary Art
    • Institute of Contemporary Art, Office of the Provost
      • Making Art Grant
      • Visiting Artists
  • First Person Storytelling
    • Jamie-lee Josselyn
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Health Messaging in Africa: Public Performance and Community Health Education
    • Jasmine Blanks Jones
    • Graduate School of Education, Master of Public Health Program, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Arts Integration
      • Curricular Support
  • Experimental Musics in Global Perspective
    • Jim Sykes
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Why College? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
    • Jonathan Zimmerman
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Photovoice Project: Working with Young Trans Women to Create New Strategies for HIV Prevention
    • Joshua  Franklin
    • Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Arts Innovation
  • derendered
    • Joshua Hey
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Arts Innovation
  • Sound Artifacts: The Materiality of Musical Cultures
    • Lauren Flood
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • The Healing Box
    • M. Asli Dukan
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Re-envisioning Penn’s Opera Curriculum
    • Mauro Calcagno
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Arts Course Development
      • Curricular Support
  • The Joplin Project
    • Michelle Lopez
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • Provosts Interdisciplinary
  • Music in Urban Spaces
    • Molly McGlone
    • College of Arts & Sciences, The Netter Center
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Our Philadelphia
    • Nora Gross
    • Graduate School of Education, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Arts Innovation
  • Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics Artist-in-Residence: Lucas Kelly
    • Penn  Center for  Neuroaesthetics
    • Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, Perelman School of Medicine
      • Making Art Grant
      • Artist Residency
      • Extended Artist Engagement
  • Breanna Moore: A Commission for the New Africa Galleries
    • Penn Museum
    • Office of the Provost, Penn Museum
      • Making Art Grant
      • Visiting Artists
  • 2019 Ben Art Bucks Grants
    • Penn Undergraduate and Graduate Students
      • Student Grant
      • Ben Art Bucks
  • Theatre in Philadelphia
    • Rosemary Malague
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Incubation Series 2019 – 2020
    • School of Arts and Sciences and Weitzman School of Design
    • School of Arts & Sciences, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • Student Engagement
  • From Kitchen to Counter-Space: A Feminist Approach to Architecture and the Built Environment
    • Sophie  Hochhäusl
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Arts Course Development
      • Curricular Support
  • Indigenous Languages Week (working title)
    • The Quechua Language Program and Kelly Writers House
    • Office of the Provost, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • Provosts Interdisciplinary
  • Performance Intensive
    • Weitzman School of Design and School of Arts and Sciences
    • School of Arts & Sciences, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • Provosts Interdisciplinary
  • Fabrication Workshop Series: Hands-on Making Through the Lens of Sculpture
    • William Udell
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Arts Course Development
      • Curricular Support

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John McInerney (he/him)
Executive Director
215-573-0874
mcinernj@upenn.edu

Chloe Reison (she/her)
Associate Director
215-573-2159
reison@upenn.edu

Tamara Suber (she/her)
Executive Coordinator of Grants and Community and Equity Strategies
215-898-0608
suber@upenn.edu

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