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2021 Grant Awards

In its fourth annual round of grantmaking, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation is providing $177,000 to support 25 ambitious and creative projects in the arts and humanities at Penn. Since its launch in 2017, the Sachs Program has funded over 200 projects and distributed approximately $1.1 Million in artistic and creative support. The Sachs Program’s grantmaking is part of its larger efforts to support and advance the arts across the University and the 2021 grants support a broad range of projects in the visual arts, opera, theater, film, writing, music, translation, and cultural planning. These 25 grants are in addition to 10 Student Grants and 4 First-Year Seminar Grants awarded in the fall, as well as the grants awarded through our Ben Art Bucks program.


  • LGBTQuarantine
    • Alexandra Lenihan
    • School of Social Policy and Practice
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Jallalla! – Healing and Reclaiming Indigeneity Through the Arts
    • Américo Mendoza-Mori and Catherine Bartch
    • Latin American and Latinx Studies Program (LALS), School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Philadelphia Media Arts Collective
    • Amrita Stützl and Arely Peña
    • Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Through the Doors – An Opera for Chamber Ensemble, Multimedia, and Electronics
    • Ania Vu
    • Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
      • Student Creative Production
  • Odos Non Grata
    • Asima Samanta
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • The Fossils We Live Amongst
    • Claire Conklin Sabel
    • Department of History and Sociology of Science, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Designing Critical Futures
    • Clayton Colmon
    • The College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS)
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Curricular Support
  • Archiving Lived Experiences Through Film
    • Debra Harner
    • Center for Carceral Communities, School of Social Policy and Practice
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Ga(u)ze
    • Dixon Li
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Non-Conceptual Concepts
    • Emmet Foley
    • Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Community Based City Planning
    • Enrique Morales
    • Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • New Mixed Chamber Piece with Dance and Film
    • Erin Busch
    • Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • With My Own Hands
    • Farrah Rahaman
    • Annenberg School for Communication
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Public Library Mural
    • Gracelynn Wan
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Jamal Batts: Curator-in-Residence
    • Graduate Fine Arts
    • Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Making Art Grant
      • Artist Residency
  • Seeing Is Believing: the American Musical Bio-pic and Documentary
    • Guthrie Ramsey
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • The Masks We Wear
    • Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and Memory Studio
    • Institute of Contemporary Art, Slought
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Children’s Book of Indigenous Philippine Tales 
    • Jo Tiongson-Perez
    • Penn Museum
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Towards a Black Trans*lational Praxis: Archiving Black Queer Atlantic Performance Art
    • Joshua K Reason
    • Department of Africana Studies, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Unfolding Indigenous Archives of the Colombian Amazon
    • Juan Castrillon
    • Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Duality
    • Julian Hunter
    • Wharton School
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Moonflower 
    • Karen Kim
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Asian Experiences Reconstructed (2021) 
    • Kathy Tang
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Hell Mural 
    • Kay Seohyung Lee
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Millennial Black Muslim Writers
    • Kelly Writers House
    • Kelly Writers House
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Behind the Iron Curtain: Art & Culture in Eastern Europe
    • Ksenia Nouril
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Thread & Needle 
    • Kyuri Jeon
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • throwntogetherness
    • Lino Kino
    • Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Houses of Domestic Memory
    • Lisa Marie Patzer
    • Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Rx/Museum: Art & Reflection in Medicine
    • Lyndsay M. Hoy, M.D. 
    • Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Slought
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast
    • Marc Anthony Richardson
    • Department of English, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Music in Urban Spaces
    • Molly McGlone
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Shuttle Service
    • Music Practica/Elettronica Viva
    • Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • “from”
    • Nikki Brake-Sillá
    • Perelman School of Medicine
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Grown For Her
    • Nikki Thomas
    • Graduate School of Education
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Designing Motherhood
    • Orkan Telhan
    • Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Curricular Support
  • Dumplings, Bows, & Fermented Milk: The Silk Roads in 10 Objects
    • Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Fighting the Night: My Father in World War II
    • Paul Hendrickson
    • Department of English, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • A Digital Series of Theatrical Performances Created from Conversations with Frontline Workers
    • Penn Nursing
    • Penn Nursing
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • 2021 Ben Art Bucks Grants
    • Penn Undergraduate and Graduate Students
      • Student Grant
      • Ben Art Bucks
  • Caged Swans
    • Penn Vietnamese Student Association (VSA)
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Ethiopia’s Last Jews
    • Peter Decherney
    • Cinema and Media Studies Program, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • The Chen Lok Lee Legacy Project
    • Romana Lee-Akiyama and Cliff Akiyama
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Death of the Sirens
    • Rongxuan (Roxanne) Zhou
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Faith and Resilience of Asian/American Small Business Owners 
    • Rupa Pillai
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Li Delun in Philadelphia Planning
    • Shelley Zhang
    • Penn Libraries, School of Arts & Sciences
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • t-art Magazine
    • T’art
    • College of Arts & Sciences, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Indigenous Arts in Focus
    • The History of Art department’s Living Land Acknowledgment Group
    • History of Art Department, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Expanded Impact: Diversifying Modes of Engagement with Trans Youth Poets
    • Transcribez
    • Kelly Writers House
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Scrimmage
    • Will Owen
    • Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Untitled Sculpture 
    • Xiaoxiang (Nathan) Li
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
      • Responsive Opportunity
  • Translating Bhed (The Secret) by Muhammad Asim Butt
    • Zain Mian
    • Program for Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Calling Home
    • Zoe Penina Baker
    • Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production

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The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

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)
Administrative Assistant
215-898-0608
suber@upenn.edu

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation is located on the Upper Mezzanine of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

3680 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA

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