Penn Arts & Sciences Programs and People Receive Sachs Grants for Arts Innovation
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation has announced its 2022 cycle of arts grants, with 49 awards totaling $288,000 in funding. Awards were given in eight categories including, for the first time, Community Partnership Grants and Alumni Art Awards. Other categories this year are Project Grants, Artist Residency Grants, Curricular Grants, Independent Creative Production Grants, Student Grants, and First-Year Seminar Grants (awarded in collaboration with the College of Arts & Sciences).
Among the grantees are Angbeen Saleem, C’12, a multidisciplinary artist who received one of six alumni grants. She intends to use her funds to develop a short film, in a lighthearted tone, about a young Pakistani girl coming to terms with her unibrow. The Asian American Studies Program received funding for “The Third Space: Unfurling Diasporic Arts of South Asia,” a series that will highlight the diasporic arts of South Asia in American contemporary art. In the Curricular Grants category, which supports innovative approaches to teaching in the arts and humanities, Breanna Moore, a College alum and Ph.D. student in history, received funding to teach a research seminar called Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved Africans in the U.S.: History & Practice, in which students will research and document slavery and racial discrimination against African Americans in Philadelphia.
Now in its fifth year, the Sachs program was launched in 2017 with a $15 million gift from Keith Sachs, W’67, and Katherine Sachs, CW’69. Find the full list of 2022 Sachs awardees here.
