Grants & Awards, Fontaine Society 2020 Sachs Program Grants

Congratulations to graduate student recipients of 2020 grants from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation! 

The Sachs Program’s grantmaking supports innovative arts activities throughout the Penn community, providing funding to Penn faculty, staff, students, departments, programs, and centers.

2020 Graduate Student Grants include: 

• 2020 Black Artist Support Grants
  • The Black Cultural Studies Collective, co-organized by Kiana T. Murphy, doctoral candidate in English, and Amber Rose Johnson, doctoral candidate in English and Africana Studies | The Gathering Workshop Series
  • Farrah Rahaman, a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg and Tshay Williams, C’17 | Witness
  • Gillian Maris Jones, doctoral student and in Anthropology and Africana Studies| Recipes for the Revolution: Meals Our Ancestors Made Possible

• 2020 Student Arts Innovation Grants
  • Bethany Monea, doctoral student in Education | First-Gen Stories: A Web Series
  • David Chavannes,  doctoral student in Music and Africana Studies | langa dan ruop
  • Elizabeth Bynum,  doctoral student in Music and Africana Studies | Audible Metropolis
  • Emilio Martínez Poppe and Emmanuela Soria Ruiz | Stages of Learning
  • Flannery Cunningham, doctoral student in Music | Groundwater 
  • Living Room, a collective of transgender, gender-non-conforming, and genderqueer graduate students | Living Room
  • Ministry of Culture in Exile,  a collective established by MFA student Illya Mousavijad, MFA student, and Jenia Ulanova, doctoral student in Comparative Literature | Taste of the Sanctioned
  • Nathan Courtright, doctoral student in Music | On remembering, ceasing to be
  • Roopa Vasudevan, doctoral student in Communication| Machine Readable
  • Tamir Williams, doctoral student in Art History | A Space to Appear, A Space to Tarry
  • Viola Bordon, MFA student | Bet / Salt Room