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

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