Posts by Grace Toleque

It is with great excitement that we introduce the 2021 Lyric McHenry Community Arts Fellowship recipients, at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA). The Lyric McHenry Community Arts Fellowship is a fund that gives Stanford Undergraduates the opportunity to spend a summer working full time in the arts with a focus on racial/social justice. This…

Stanford’s Office of Community Engagement (OCE) has granted IDA one of its competitive awards to deepen community engagement with youth and arts in  partnership with the EPACENTER for the arts. One of eight 2021 OCE funding awards IDA was recognize for its work with the center to expand opportunities for East Palo Alto youth through art…

We are truly exciting to offer our IDA annual spring class looking at the arts and social justice. Entitled AAAS /CSRE 170A: Unlearning Racism, Redefining Identity – Culture Workers and the Frontlines of Change, this class will examine how the fabric of racism is inextricably woven and constructed into the founding principles of the United…

Recipients of the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and The Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching The Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching Professor Allyson Hobbs, an associate professor of history in the School of Humanities and Sciences, was awarded the Walter J. Gores Award which recognizes undergraduate and graduate…

Amara Tabor-Smith was recently awarded an unrestricted $100,000 grant as well as supplemental support tailored to address specific artistic needs and goals. Administered by United States Artists, the Kenneth Rainin Fellowship recognizes artists working across Dance, Film, Public Space, and Theater who push the boundaries of creative expression, advance their field and are seen as cultural “anchors” for…

This year, IDA will be offering two fellowships for students interested in exploring the arts at the intersection of race and social justice: our ongoing IDA Fellowship Program and a newly added fellowship with the Committee on Black Performing Arts, the CBPA Fellowship Program. And it’s with great joy and excitement that we introduce our…

The Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty members for their extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education. New and reappointed Bass Fellows Adam Banks, a professor in the Graduate School of Education and faculty director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, was appointed The Hazy Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Read the…

Dear IDA family I wanted to write to you more personally today, not just as director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, but also as a Black woman, a mother, an artist, and as someone deeply committed to justice for the long haul. This quarter has been a rough one for our community….