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STUDENT GUIDE Direct Les Mis. Make a film about your years living on a boat. Play in an orchestra with scientists and engineers in one of the best concert halls in America - on campus. Swing by a Jackson Pollock masterwork on your way back to the dorm. Watch two new art buildings open in the next two years. AREAS OF STUDY STUDENT GROUPS Take a class in cell phone photography - or fight choreography - Architectural Design 2 19-20 Art History 3 FUNDING or video game design - or computer animation - Art Practice 5 22 and let your creative energy take you wherever you want to go. Creative Writing 5 DORM LIFE Computer Science + English 5 Acoustic Jukebox 25 Stanford is a place like no other and the arts at Stanford are exploding. MAKE STANFORD ARTS YOUR OWN. Dance 6 Kimball Hall Arts Jam 25 Design 7 Pianos 25 Film & Media Studies 8 Off the Farm 25 Music 10 ResArts 25 Computer Science + Music 10 Art in Your Dorm 25 Theater & Performance 13 ITALIC in Burbank 25 Kimball Hall | Live in the Arts! 25 OTHER WAYS TO STUDY Arts Immersion 17 CAREER • ALUMNI Arts Intensive 17 26 Honors in the Arts 17 ARTISTS VISITING CAMPUS Creative Expression 17 27 ITALIC 17 CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS 28-30 EXTRADEPARTMENTAL RESOURCES ARTS DISTRICT Stanford Arts Institute 17 31 Institute for Diversity in the Arts 17 COMING SOON Humanities Center 17 32 Art Making Spaces 17 CREATIVE EXPRESSION back cover arts.stanford.edu Sign up for the ArtsUpdate newsletter: a weekly digest of arts events and opportunities for Stanford students Eric Gillet, William Ito; Watanabe, Eric Gillet, Yuto Winnie Lin, Alexis Lucio, TAPS, Stanford 1 (clockwise) - Mia Diawara, Pg. Cover - Ge Wang; Credits: Photo Lorentzen; 9 - Luke 7 - Jonathan Edelman; Pg. 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What is the on everything from philosophy and politics S [ Professor Nancy Troy’s research on Mondrian and impact of art and architecture on to dance and music. T fashion made headlines in summer of 2014. ] individuals and societies across time? U Art history pushes you to examine visual By studying art history, you will not D arts and culture through multiple lenses, only learn how to formally analyze the and develop a critical perspective of aesthetics of a work of art, but will also Y your own. Studying art history enhances learn how to understand and interpret the and shapes your understanding of how art culture and history from which it came. [ Students traveled to Chicago for Arts Immersion in 2013. There, they gained hands-on experience in designing and modeling a high- rise for the Chicago skyline. ] innovative architectural ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN design with cutting-edge School of Engineering DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING engineering technologies Minor (Civil Engineering minor with emphasis in Arch. Design) | BS Are you interested in blending innovative Graduate school on your mind? The structural design with cutting-edge program’s strong math and science engineering technologies? Looking to requirements will equip you with the explore careers spanning architecture, necessary skills for graduate work in fields engineering, construction, and such as business, civil and environmental structures? Then architectural design engineering, and even law. is your major. You can choose from a broad mix of elective courses covering This undergraduate major grants sustainability, energy conservation and a degree of bachelor of science in structural systems, as well as foundational engineering with a specialization in design and fine arts courses. architectural design. 2 3 [ A painting by Maia Paroginog ’16 ] create everything from paintings inspired ART PRACTICE MAIA PAROGINOG ’16 DEPARTMENT OF ART & ART HISTORY by arctic light to an Major: Studio Art Minor | BA | MFA interactive installation Maia Paroginog didn’t waste any time getting Want to explore your creative capacity? interdisciplinary integration of media, and involved in the arts at Stanford, both inside and Our art practice programs offer encourages you to push the boundaries that simulates the outside the classroom. She took piano lessons studio-based curricula for you to do of your art while connecting theory with and submitted her artwork to on-campus just that. Building on the intellectual practice. With the opening of the McMurtry intricacies of the showcases her freshman year. As a sophomore, powerhouse of the university, you will Building for the Department of Art & Art she continued to exhibit her art in student develop a phenomenal foundation History in 2015, now is the time to declare shows, such as All Tomorrow’s Parties held in immune system in the concepts, skills, and cultural this major. Access to the building will the Stanford Art Gallery, and helped design the viewpoints of contemporary art practice. only enhance the already cutting-edge logo for Listen to the Silence, a conference about Asian American issues. The department excels in experimental, resources that are available to you. Paroginog was also part of the 2014 Graphic Novel Project, an application only course and cultivate the power of project where students collaboratively write, CREATIVE WRITING design and illustrate a full-length graphic novel. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH individual expression “What’s great about the course is that all the Minor | English Concentration students, regardless whether we were an artist Stanford’s Creative Writing Program through those workshops, you can or a writer, had the chance to pitch stories,” said cultivates the power of individual seize the opportunity to receive further Paroginog, who utilized her illustration skills on this year’s novel, A Place Among the Stars. expression within a vibrant community of mentorship through independent writers. Half of our English majors choose a tutorials with Stegner Fellows, Stanford’s Paroginog is keeping an open mind about what creative writing concentration - and it’s one distinguished writers-in-residence. she will do after graduation. “I know it will be arts- of the most popular minors on campus. Additionally, the Creative Writing Program related, whether it be illustration, photography, brings novelists, short-story writers, and arts administration or a combination of the Established and emerging published poets to campus every year for readings, three,” she said. “My interests are constantly authors lead students in a wide array of lectures, and quarter-long classes to shifting and growing.” writing workshops. Once you advance inspire and encourage your work. There are 10 total CS + X degrees available at Stanford as of fall 2014. To learn more, visit undergrad.stanford.edu/academic-planning/ “Take advantage of COMPUTER SCIENCE + ENGLISH majors-minors/joint-majors-csx the cross pollination COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH between the arts BAS Increasingly, groundbreaking work in major, you integrate the skills of the and sciences that literary studies is being done through two disciplines, working with advisers is unique to technology; simultaneously, the world in both departments to craft a project Stanford. And don’t of computer engineering thrives on that shows the possibilities of synthesis the creativity and adaptability taught between literature and computer take yourself too in literature departments. In this joint science. 4 ADVICE seriously.” 5 [ Art Studio 262: The Chair, taught by John Edmark, synthesize enables students to design and DANCE build their own unique and DEPARTMENT OF THEATER & PERFORMANCE STUDIES beautiful chairs. This chair, Minor (Theater & Performance Studies) technology and called TulipS, was designed by Jacobi Grillo ’11. ] The Dance Division, part of the resist social norms and bodily behaviors. aesthetics in Department of Theater & Performance Partake in studio classes such as Studies, shakes things up by offering you ballet, contemporary lyric, social the service a wide range of classes that approach dance, choreography, hip hop, gaga dance as a performing art, cultural and repertory - all taught by working of human need practice, political act, or embodiment of choreographers. Dance studies also ideology and beliefs. Through academic includes dance history classes that and studio work, you are introduced to explore topics ranging from ballet new models of scholarship that explore of the last three centuries to dance’s capacity to chart and at times contemporary global dance. ballet, contemporary lyric, DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF ART & ART HISTORY AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT social dance, Minor | BS Product Design | MFA | MS Product design students learn to and bolstering your understanding of choreography, synthesize technology and aesthetics innovative design thinking. in the service of human need. The hip hop, gaga, program teaches a design process that Stanford offers the option of two graduate encourages creativity, craftsmanship, degrees in design - the MFA and the [ Katharine Hawthorne ’10 performs and repertory personal expression, and emphasizes MS. MFA candidates apply through the during CONSTRUCTION SITE, a lively brainstorming and need finding. You Department of Art & Art History; MS series of dances created in response will spend hours in Stanford’s hands-on candidates apply through the Design to five different campus locations. ] Production Realization Lab (PRL), gaining Division of the Mechanical Engineering exposure to Silicon Valley’s startup culture, Department.