The Committee On Black Performing Arts (CBPA)
In 1969, a group of Stanford students and East Palo Alto residents came together to form the Committee on Black Performing Arts (CBPA), a cultural resource for Stanford and surrounding communities to collaborate using performance.
CBPA hosts artist talks, creates classes and workshops, stages productions, and for many years published the Black Arts Quarterly, a literary arts journal.
Today, CBPA also supports graduate students and incubates new performance works led by IDA artist-in-residence and CBPA Artistic Director amara tabor-smith.
Committee on Black Performing Arts (CBPA) Artists’ Circle for Graduate Students at Stanford
Summer Graduate Artist Residency in Bahia, Brazil
During this five-week program, Stanford graduate student-artists will travel as a cohort to the state of Bahia, Brazil to be in residence at Sacatar Institute. Fellows will be joined in residency by a Brazilian artist during this time.
In addition to engaging with their individual creative projects and research, all fellows will take part in weekly discussions, lectures and site visits to learn about African-Bahian culture, and experience how local artists, academics, and activists are addressing issues of race, gender and environmental justice in their art and social practices.