2026 Grant Awards

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation awarded 37 grants across six categories in the 2025–2026 academic year.

1 Artist Residency Grant
4 Community Partnerships Grants
2 Curricular Support Grants
7 Independent Creative Production Grants
6 Project Support Grants
17 Student Grants

We are incredibly proud of the 2026 Sachs Program Grant Awards. They represent the wide range of diverse creative practices and practitioners at the University of Pennsylvania, and we look forward to seeing the projects they represent realized.

Saman Enn Og Aftur (Together Once Again)
- Aliyah Dominique Jefferies
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design
Stories of the Avenue: Resilience and Recovery In and Around Kensington
- Allison Li
- College of Arts & Sciences, Undergraduate Neuroscience Department
Otherwhere
- Ana Carolina Estarita-Guerrero
- Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design, Weitzman School of Design
Listen! Something Still Hanging from the Tree
- Armaghan Fakhraeirad
- Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
BioArt Lab: Art of Science Symposium
- BioArt Lab at Penn (Jenny Li)
- College of Arts & Sciences, Computer and Information Science, Department of Biology, Department of Chemistry, Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design
Envelope
- Cacie Rosario Jackson
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design
RAPtivism and the Future of the Present
- Center for East Asian Studies, the Office of Social Equity & Community, and the Asian American Studies Program
- Asian American Studies Program (ASAM), Center for East Asian Studies, Office of Social Equity & Community
In Their Own Dreams: Architectural Process through The National Museum of the American Indian
- Dagny Elise Carlsson
- Graduate Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Weitzman School of Design
Llueve: Stage Directions for Collective Processing
- Emmanuela N Soria Ruiz
- Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design, Weitzman School of Design
GRAIN Film Festival: Gathering Rising Asian-American Imagination Narratives
- Enne Kim and Trisha Bheemanathini
- College of Arts & Sciences, Department of English, Department of Sociology, International Relations Program
Gift Horse
- Eshani Surya
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Penn Engineering)
The Real Cost of Development: Communities and the Environment at Risk
- Gevorg Ghazaryan
- College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Political Science, Economics Department, Penn Philosophy
Pomo Baskets, Woven Futures
- History of Art Department with Marina George and Jessica L. Horton
- History of Art Department, School of Arts & Sciences
Bugsounds
- Isaac Shalit and Sam Tate
- Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
The Boy Who Couldn’t Hold What He Broke
- Jai Ausir Vinson-Scott
- College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of History and Sociology of Science
Unbroken Lineages: Traditional & Contemporary Practice of the Islamic Book Arts
- Jamal J. Elias and Twelve Gates Arts
- Department of Religious Studies, Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies, School of Arts & Sciences
The Great North: Life at the Edge of the World
- Julia Alekseyeva
- Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of English, School of Arts & Sciences
Criss Cross
- Juliana Li
- College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Comparative Literature, Economics Department
Gamboa: An Ethnographic Novel of a Coveted Paradise
- Keisha-Khan Perry
- Department of Africana Studies, School of Arts & Sciences
Stilted Ground
- Latoya Briscoe
- Department of Anthropology, School of Arts & Sciences
CLAY: Past and Present
- Marie-Claude Boileau
- Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Material (CAAM), Department of Classical Studies, School of Arts & Sciences
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- Maya Yu Zhang
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design
What the Body Owes
- Minnie Kim
- Weitzman School of Design
Another System, Another Sound
- Musica Practica/Elettronica Viva and One Art Community Center
- Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Wavy Movy Festival
- Natacha Diels, Andrew Burke, and The Perch Music & Arts Workshop
- Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
A Summer in West
- Netter Center for Community Partnerships and The City Root Media Group
- Netter Center for Community Partnerships
After Market
- Noa Mori Machover
- Graduate Department of Architecture, Graduate Fine Arts Department, Landscape Architecture, Weitzman School of Design
Suzan Shown Harjo: An Oral History
- Penn Cultural Heritage Center
- Penn Cultural Heritage Center
Fighting for Freedom in an Era of Race and Colonialism
- Penn Museum and Tukufu Zuberi
- Penn Museum
Southwest Asian, North African (SWANA) Arts at Penn
- Ranim Albarkawi and the Greenfield Intercultural Center
- Albert M. Greenfield Intercultural Center, Penn University Life
MOM PUTT PUTT
- Simone White
- Department of English, Kelly Writers House, School of Arts & Sciences
Human Condition
- Sol Kim
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design
Amanda Horowitz Residency in Theatre Arts
- Theatre Arts Program
- College of Arts & Sciences, Theatre Arts Program
Poets Who Translate: A Community Reading Series
- Timmy Straw and Julieta Vittore Dutto
- Department of Classical Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Arts & Sciences
A Ceremony Without Walls: The Reparative Politics of Arts Innovation after Capitalist Transformation
- Vivian Bi
- Department of Anthropology, School of Arts & Sciences
WriteMinds: Because Aging Is Living
- WriteMinds (Michelle Lu, Grace Haeun Lee, Emily Ng, Jillian Troth)
- College of Arts & Sciences, Department of English, Department of Family and Community Health, Undergraduate Neuroscience Department
Designing Play
- Yadan Luo
- Landscape Architecture, Weitzman School of Design

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