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| The Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford was launched in 2001 as a University diversity initiative. The aim of IDA is to explore the ways in which the arts are a means to engage students and faculty and artists in a process toward achieving greater cultural awareness and value on issues of race and diversity at Stanford and in surrounding communities. The goal of IDA is also to expand the range of artistic practices that are taught at Stanford to include non-western artistic traditions. IDA has hosted sixteen professional artists to teach workshops in a wide range of art forms in traditional ethnic and contemporary practice. The main components of our annual program include four simultaneous and collaborative artistic workshops, a 10-week lecture series, and public presentations of resident artists’ and students’ work. We strive for this creative exploration to be as rigorous and thought provoking as any other academic endeavor at Stanford. Therefore, we select each of the IDA Resident Artists using the following criteria: 1) national or international arts recognition, 2) experience and interest in teaching at a university level, and 3) demonstrated commitment to practicing art within a specific community context.
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| The Winter quarter IDA Lecture Series consists of weekly public presentations by the IDA Resident Artists, Stanford Faculty, and guest artists that address the theme of IDA as determined each year. |
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| Each winter the students enrolled in resident artist led Drama 110 workshops culminate their coursework in a final public presentation. The final production is an opportunity to share the process of exploration around common themes in a multi-disciplinary collaborative performances/presentations. |
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| The resident Artist Fellows, students and local community engage in workshops, discussions, and public performances. This program in the winter quarter approaches matters of community, diversity and social relations through artistic exploration. In previous year’s IDA artists and students have collaborated with Stanford Upward Bound, The Community Services Department of East Palo Alto, East Palo Alto High School, East Palo Alto Library, among others. IDA will continue to work with these and other community partners in the future. |
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