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…

Applications are now due September 22nd at 5pm The Committee on Black Performing Arts (CBPA) was started in 1969 as Stanford’s first program dedicated to the arts and racial justice. CBPA preceded and birthed the Institute for Diversity in the Arts. IDA honors this 50-year legacy and is excited to announce a new fellowship led…

Artist Statement Rachel Lam (any pronouns) is an artist who works with visuals, sounds, words, and movement. The following is Rachel’s standard introduction for themselves in Cherokee: “Letsili dagwado’a. Tsigiduwagi nole tsitsaniyi-aniugama nole tsiyunega. Seattle digwatvsv’i. Nigalsdanv’i sidanelvi. My name is Rachel. I’m Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, white, and a first-generation Malaysian-American. I grew up…

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….

To our IDA community During this time of change, we want to send you our love and solidarity. Today, as always, we take our cues from the most vulnerable of our communities. We send our support to BIPOC students, FLI students, Queer students, all those who might feel uprooted during this time. We send our…

Angel is a multimedia artist and an IDA fellow. She seeks to create Art that honors her ancestors (the past) as well as what kind of ancestor she would like to be (the future). And while all these are important in her practice, her Art is also deeply rooted in the Now, for her own…

A-lan Holt’s job is to help young people understand the immense power of art. In her new role as the Director of Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA), she helps train …

On Tuesday, October 22nd, Kimberly Drew, writer, social activist, and curator of “black art and experiences” graced us with her presence to reflect on her experiences working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and her decision to leave that space to focus on writing her first book. Ever so accessible and attentive, she shared a…

Adam Banks, Faculty Director and A-lan Holt, Director are making the arts a core part of the learning experience.