News

• March 25, 2021

  Supporting AAPI Artists and Practitioners within the Penn Community

  As we mourn the lives lost in Atlanta last week and persistent, continued, and escalating racial violence directed at Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the United States, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation unequivocally condemns racism, white supremacy, and all acts of violence and hate. In response to the urgency of this moment, we are launching a new funding opportunity for AAPI artists and communities. The deadline for submission is May 5th. Applicants will be notified by May 31st.

• March 22, 2021

  Alumna Jessica Vaughn Examines Workplace Space and Culture in ICA Solo Exhibition

  Artist Jessica Vaughn examines the spaces, architecture, and cultures of the American workplace in her first major solo exhibition, now at Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art. The installation, “Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus Is To Be Successful,” is on view through May 9. “I wanted to explore not only my own personal experiences within these spaces, but also the structures that make this culture exist or gives it life,” she says.

• March 22, 2021

  The 34th Annual Women of Color Award Ceremony Honors Individual Achievements

  The annual Women of Color award ceremony celebrated its 34th year in an online event led by the Women of Color at Penn (WOCAP) Planning Committee and the African American Resource Center (AARC). The awards recognize individuals who have worked to increase respect for women of color at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Pennsylvania Hospital, and the Delaware Valley community. There is also a community member award, as well as the Joann Mitchell Legacy Award, named for the senior vice President for institutional affairs and chief diversity officer at Penn.

• March 20, 2021

  Diversity in the Stacks: Bollywood and Hindi-language Cinema

  The Penn Libraries collects film and media from South Asia broadly, giving researchers across campus access to a wide-ranging and world-class collection of films from the Indian Subcontinent. Such films are relevant to the work of faculty and students in Cinema & Media Studies, as well as those interested in ideas of representation, globalization, visual anthropology, popular Indian culture, nationhood, and decolonization.

• March 15, 2021

  An Interview with Liza Vick, President of the Music Library Association

  This month, Liza Vick took the reins as president of the Music Library Association, the primary professional organization for music librarians in the United States. Vick, who is the head of the Penn Libraries’ Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Eugene Ormandy Music Library and Media Center, has contributed significantly to the profession of music librarianship throughout her career, having served previously in a number of organizational leadership positions and as book review editor of publications like Notes, the Music Library Association’s quarterly journal. We recently sat down with her to talk about her career, the challenges and opportunities she is looking forward to tackling in this new position, and her hopes for music librarianship as a whole.