Grants
The Sachs Program supports innovative arts activities throughout the University of Pennsylvania community, with grant opportunities for faculty, staff, students, departments, programs, and centers.
Each year, The Sachs Program will fund a wide variety of activities aligned with the funder’s vision to support teaching art, making art, and presenting art, as well as their aim to provide Penn students with increased access to the arts. Browse our Grant Awards by year, category and affiliation, to learn more about what The Sachs Program has supported in its seven years of funding.
Featured Grant Award
Planetary Return (Blacktronika Philadelphia)Planetary Return (Blacktronika Philadelphia) will present a a series of programs featuring colleagues and collaborators King Britt, Tyshawn Sorey, and Jasmine Henry in a bid to re-center Philadelphia as a basecamp for the exploration of the innovative genres of electronic music rooted in, and created from Black culture.
Grant Awards News
- July 17, 2023 Simon Richter on animating climate change
- January 9, 2024 Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions
- May 1, 2023 By the Numbers: Six years of The Sachs Program Student Grants