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.
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Rx/Museum: Art & Reflection in Medicine
- Lyndsay M. Hoy, M.D.
- Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Slought
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LGBTQuarantine
- Alexandra Lenihan
- School of Social Policy and Practice
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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
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Philadelphia Media Arts Collective
- Amrita Stützl and Arely Peña
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Through the Doors – An Opera for Chamber Ensemble, Multimedia, and Electronics
- Ania Vu
- Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
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The Fossils We Live Amongst
- Claire Conklin Sabel
- Department of History and Sociology of Science, School of Arts & Sciences
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Designing Critical Futures
- Clayton Colmon
- The College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS)
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Archiving Lived Experiences Through Film
- Debra Harner
- Center for Carceral Communities, School of Social Policy and Practice
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Non-Conceptual Concepts
- Emmet Foley
- Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Community Based City Planning
- Enrique Morales
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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New Mixed Chamber Piece with Dance and Film
- Erin Busch
- Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
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With My Own Hands
- Farrah Rahaman
- Annenberg School for Communication
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Jamal Batts: Curator-in-Residence
- Graduate Fine Arts
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Seeing Is Believing: the American Musical Bio-pic and Documentary
- Guthrie Ramsey
- College of Arts & Sciences
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The Masks We Wear
- Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and Memory Studio
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Slought
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Towards a Black Trans*lational Praxis: Archiving Black Queer Atlantic Performance Art
- Joshua K Reason
- Department of Africana Studies, School of Arts & Sciences
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Unfolding Indigenous Archives of the Colombian Amazon
- Juan Castrillon
- Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
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Duality
- Julian Hunter
- Wharton School
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Millennial Black Muslim Writers
- Kelly Writers House
- Kelly Writers House
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Behind the Iron Curtain: Art & Culture in Eastern Europe
- Ksenia Nouril
- College of Arts & Sciences
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throwntogetherness
- Lino Kino
- Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Houses of Domestic Memory
- Lisa Marie Patzer
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program
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The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast
- Marc Anthony Richardson
- Department of English, School of Arts & Sciences
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Music in Urban Spaces
- Molly McGlone
- College of Arts & Sciences
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Shuttle Service
- Music Practica/Elettronica Viva
- Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
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“from”
- Nikki Brake-Sillá
- Perelman School of Medicine
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Grown For Her
- Nikki Thomas
- Graduate School of Education
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Designing Motherhood
- Orkan Telhan
- Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Dumplings, Bows, & Fermented Milk: The Silk Roads in 10 Objects
- Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
- College of Arts & Sciences
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Fighting the Night: My Father in World War II
- Paul Hendrickson
- Department of English, School of Arts & Sciences
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A Digital Series of Theatrical Performances Created from Conversations with Frontline Workers
- Penn Nursing
- Penn Nursing
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2021 Ben Art Bucks Grants
- Penn Undergraduate and Graduate Students
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Ethiopia’s Last Jews
- Peter Decherney
- Cinema and Media Studies Program, School of Arts & Sciences
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Death of the Sirens
- Rongxuan (Roxanne) Zhou
- Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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t-art Magazine
- T’art
- College of Arts & Sciences, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Indigenous Arts in Focus
- The History of Art department’s Living Land Acknowledgment Group
- History of Art Department, School of Arts & Sciences
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Expanded Impact: Diversifying Modes of Engagement with Trans Youth Poets
- Transcribez
- Kelly Writers House
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Scrimmage
- Will Owen
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Translating Bhed (The Secret) by Muhammad Asim Butt
- Zain Mian
- Program for Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, School of Arts & Sciences
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Calling Home
- Zoe Penina Baker
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)