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2022 Grant Awards

In its fifth year, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation awarded 49 grants over the course of the year, for a total of $288,000 in funding.

New to our grantmaking categories this year were our Community Partnership Grants and Alumni Art Awards. We additionally offered grants in the following categories: Artist Residency Grants, Curricular Grants, First-Year Seminar Grants (awarded in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences), Independent Creative Production Grants, Project Grants, and Student Grants.

Not reflective in these numbers are our Ben Art Bucks program – quick, accessible grants of up to $250 for students and student groups to support creating or experiencing the arts – and our Rolling Grants – grants of up to $3,000 offered on a rolling basis to faculty, staff, departments, programs, and centers, to support arts activities that fall outside of our annual grant cycle.

Across all grants and categories, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation supported a wide range of practices within the arts and humanities: reflecting and advancing our mission and supporting the communities we serve in myriad and significant ways.


  • Generation Pandemic
    • Alan Jinich and Max Strickberger
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • The Hospital ≠ Prison Project
    • Alissa Jordan with Carmelle Moise (MamaBaby Haiti) and Jean-Denis Aureleus (ADDEF)
    • Center for Expermental Ethnography, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Your Brain on Food
    • Amber Alhadeff
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Third Take (working title)
    • Anat Dan
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Angbeen Saleem
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Alumni Art Award
  • The Hindi afterlife of European modernism in the U.S.: Translating Exile and Exile by K.B. Vaid
    • Anirudh Karnick
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Telling Our Stories: A Philadelphia Community Media Oral History Project (working title)
    • Antoine Haywood
    • Annenberg School for Communication
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • The Third Space: Unfurling Diasporic Arts of South Asia
    • Asian American Studies, Fariha Khan
    • Asian American Studies Program (ASAM), School of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Artist Residency
  • Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved Africans in the U.S.: History & Practice
    • Breanna Moore
    • School of Arts & Sciences, The Netter Center
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Curricular Support
  • The Hall of Funk: Strictly Funk’s 25th Anniversary Pop-Up
    • Brian Nguyen
    • College of Arts & Sciences, Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Partage: an Exhibition on Scars and Sutures of the Colonial Museum
    • Critical Museum Studies Group
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Cosmic Writers
    • Devorah Bass, Manoj Simha, Rebekah Donnell, and Rowana Miller
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Margin|Margin
    • Heather Raquel Phillips
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Hilary Whitham Sánchez
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Alumni Art Award
  • Tactical Preservation for Climate Emergency
    • Hillary Morales Robles
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Return, Repatriate, Repair
    • Jake Nussbaum with Abdul-Aliy Muhammad
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Philadelphia Jazz Oral History Project
    • Jay I. Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts with Philadelphia Jazz Project, Ars Nova Workshop, PhillyCAM, Philadelphia Jazz Musicians
    • Penn Libraries
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Community Partnerships
  • Self: Aspiration
    • Jennifer Morton
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Jessica Lin
    • Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Making Art Grant
      • Alumni Art Award
  • Joanna Glum
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Alumni Art Award
  • Why College?
    • Jonathan Zimmerman
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Contemporary Italian Culture
    • Julia Heim
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • MATTERS: Connecting Art + Design to Materials, Materials to Labor + Land
    • Kaitlin Pomerantz
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • Curricular Support
  • The Degrowth of Social Media: The Structure and Function of a Convivial Social Media Ecosystem
    • KC Legacion
    • Penn Arts and Sciences Online Learning, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Free Blue Stoop writing classes for West Philadelphia writers
    • Kelly Writers House with Blue Stoop
    • Kelly Writers House
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Community Partnerships
  • Bio Quotidian
    • Laia Mogas-Soldevila
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Born/Raw
    • Laura Li李婧宜
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • We Make The Banal Feel Spectacular
    • Mae Eskenazi
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Reconnecting With Hope
    • Matt Hewitt
    • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Community Programming for The Dido Problem
    • Middle East Center with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and Past Present Projects
    • Middle East Center, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Community Partnerships
  • MUSICA PRACTICA / ELETTRONICA VIVA: Exploring Deconstructed Techno Soul, Dynamical Systems and Stochastic Processes
    • MUSICA PRACTICA / ELETTRONICA VIVA
    • Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Long-term Ensemble in Residence Program
    • Natacha Diels
    • Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Artist Residency
  • Seeds of the Diaspora: Using creative writing to explore critical food literacies with Black youth
    • OreOluwa Badaki
    • Graduate School of Education
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Penn Animation 2021-2022 Animated Film Production
    • Penn Animation
    • College of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Penn Engineering)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Beginning & End of Life Caregiving: A Photovoice Project
    • Rain Gideon
    • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Memory Center, School of Social Policy and Practice, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Inescapable Classics
    • Ralph Rosen
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Watermelon Book
    • Rami George and Kayla Romberger
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Making Art Grant
      • Independent Creative Production
  • Proving Things: Algebra
    • Renee Bell
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Teaching Art Grant
      • First-Year Seminar
  • Sarah Aziza
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Alumni Art Award
  • School for Temporary Liveness, Vol. 3
    • School for Temporary Liveness
    • School of Arts & Sciences, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
  • Monolith
    • Sebleh Alfa and Aseal Saed
    • College of Arts & Sciences, Makuu: The Black Cultural Center
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Shameka Sawyer
    • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Making Art Grant
      • Alumni Art Award
  • Li Delun in Philadelphia: Ethnography, Archives, and Music across the Pacific
    • Shelley Zhang
    • Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Echo in the Clearing (working title)
    • Susannah Yugler
    • Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Youth Docent Training Program at the Paul Robeson House & Museum
    • The Barbara & Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships with The Paul Robeson House & Museum
    • The Netter Center
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Community Partnerships
  • Trans and Nonbinary Vocal Workshops
    • The Rotunda and LGBT Center with Trust Your Moves Chorus (Emily Bate) and Inner Rhythms Music Therapy (Julie Lipson)
    • The LGBT Center, The Rotunda
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Community Partnerships
  • ONE TAKE/ TAKE ONE
    • Vy Trinh
    • Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Unpacking and Reimagining the American Dream
    • Yasmine McBride
    • 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)
Executive Coordinator of Grants and Community and Equity Strategies
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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