2020 Grant Awards
In 2020, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation awarded its highest number of grants in its three years running. Through the annual adjudicated grants process, we supported 34 diverse and ambitious projects and awarded upwards of $270,000 in funding.
Additionally, through a partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, we supported 9 First-Year Seminars, which took place during the fall 2019 and spring 2020 semesters. And, through our Ben Art Bucks program, we awarded quick-turnaround grants to over 40 students and student groups, supporting a range of activities related to creating and/or experiencing the arts.
We are grateful to be able to support all of this wonderful arts activity on campus, and to be a resource to our community in this way. With this said, it brings great joy to share with you our 2020 Grant Awards.
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Echando Ganas
- Aaron Levy
- School of Arts & Sciences
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30 Americans
- Aaron Levy
- College of Arts & Sciences
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Using Novel Materials for Adaptable Acoustics
- Abhinav Ramkumar and William Deo
- College of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Penn Engineering), Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER)
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Performing Environmental Feminisms
- Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women; Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Department of Music
- Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women, Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Initiative, School of Arts & Sciences
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Annenberg Center Remounts Toni Morrison’s Dreaming Emmett with Artist-in-Residence DNAWORKS
- Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
- Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, School of Arts & Sciences
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The Asian American Experience and the Craft of Writing with Jenny Zhang
- Asian American Studies
- School of Arts & Sciences
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First-Gen Stories: A Web Series
- Bethany Monea
- Graduate School of Education
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Arts and Well-being
- Carol Muller
- College of Arts & Sciences
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langa dan ruop
- David Chavannes
- School of Arts & Sciences
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Politics of Reproduction
- Dawn Teele
- College of Arts & Sciences
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Philadelphia Student Composers Project
- Department of Music
- School of Arts & Sciences
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Audible Metropolis
- Elizabeth Bynum
- School of Arts & Sciences
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Stages of Learning
- Emilio Martínez Poppe and Emmanuela Soria Ruiz
- Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Gendered Exile: A Narrative of Chinese (Trans)national Adoption
- Erin O’Malley
- College of Arts & Sciences
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Groundwater
- Flannery Cunningham
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Robotics Art Residency
- General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Laboratory and Fine Arts and Design
- GRASP at PERCH, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Penn Engineering), Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Annual MFA Satellite Show
- Graduate Fine Arts
- Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Cool Kid Rules (working title)
- Harold Milton-Gorvie, Shalom Obiago, and Evan Thomas
- College of Arts & Sciences, Wharton
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Incubation Series 2020-2021
- Incubation Series
- School of Arts & Sciences, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Back and Forth: The Distance In Between (working title)
- Ivanco Talevski
- Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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ComicsLab
- Jean-Christophe Cloutier
- School of Arts & Sciences
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Why College?
- Jonathan Zimmerman
- College of Arts & Sciences
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The ” Rights of Nature” in Times of Conflict and Transition
- Kristina Lyons
- College of Arts & Sciences
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dreaming of a beyond: Philadelphia
- Levester Williams
- Penn Arts and Sciences Online Learning, School of Arts & Sciences
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Living Room
- Living Room
- School of Social Policy and Practice, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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#VoteThatJawn
- Lorene Cary
- Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, School of Arts & Sciences
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Race, Class & Punishment
- Marie Gottschalk
- College of Arts & Sciences
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Futures II
- Mike Crane
- Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Taste of the Sanctioned
- Ministry of Culture in Exile
- School of Arts & Sciences, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Building Ghosts
- Molly Lester
- PennPraxis, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Music in Urban Spaces
- Molly McGlone
- College of Arts & Sciences
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On remembering, ceasing to be
- Nathan Courtright
- School of Arts & Sciences
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Currents (working title)
- Office of the Curator
- Arthur Ross Gallery, Office of the Curator
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Of Horses, Bows, & Fermented Milk: The Turkish Empires In 15 Objects
- Oscar Aguirre Mandujano
- College of Arts & Sciences
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A Contemporary Queen in the Penn Museum
- Penn Museum
- Penn Museum
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2020 Ben Art Bucks Grants
- Penn Undergraduate and Graduate Students
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Q-INE
- Q-INE
- College of Arts & Sciences
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Machine Readable
- Roopa Vasudevan
- Annenberg School for Communication
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Iliad and Its Afterlife
- Sheila Murnaghan
- College of Arts & Sciences
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GENET (working title)
- Sosena Solomon
- Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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A Space to Appear, A Space to Tarry
- Tamir Williams
- School of Arts & Sciences
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European Pantomime and the Films of Charlie Chaplin
- Toni Bowers
- School of Arts & Sciences
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Bet / Salt Room
- Viola Bordon
- Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Wolf Humanities Center Year of Choice Presents PHILADANCO Participatory Workshop
- Wolf Humanities Center
- Wolf Humanities Center