Stanford Arts

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We are a constellation of institutions, departments, programs, and people that aims to unleash the full potential of the arts on campus and in our communities.

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Designing Taste: Stanford’s Chef-in-Residence Program Explores Food as Art

What happens when the path from farm to table runs through the lab? In this profile, Vayu Hill-Maini and visiting artist-chef Ramon Perisé explore food as a creative and cultural medium shaped by experimentation, aesthetics, and human experience.

Digest the video

A home for artists who make change in the world

The Institute for Diversity in the Arts is celebrating 25 years of cultivating the next generation of artists and cultural leaders. Take a visit to Harmony House — a vibrant hub where art making, learning, and community come together — to see how IDA empowers students and artists through interdisciplinary collaboration and mentorship.

Watch the video

Art installation inspires curiosity and creativity in education

At the newly remodeled Graduate School of Education, artist Jacob Hashimoto’s playful centerpiece represents the possibilities that come from teaching and learning.

Experience the artwork

A Visionary Approach to Legal Questions

55 years ago, Stanford Law School offered the country’s first-ever art law course. Now a new edition of the seminal textbook Law, Ethics, and the Visual Artsreflects the field’s interdisciplinary nature while responding to shifts in the legal and cultural landscape, such as the rise of artificial intelligence.

Pursue the case

Sensing the Unseen

Glass, data, and motion collide in Fathom, a stunning new public artwork by Camille Utterback that animates the five-story stairwell of Stanford’s CoDa building. With etched panels and interactive projections that shift from day to night, the piece turns passing movement into a living stream of information.

Discover the Story

Music Meets Medicine

How can music inspire healing and community? Join acclaimed cellist and curator Joshua Roman as he shares his profound journey through long COVID, transforming personal challenge into artistic expression with "Immunity"—a performance intertwining art, resilience, and collective healing. During his immersive week at Stanford, experience Joshua Roman’s dynamic collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Orchestra as they rehearse for the show at Bing Concert Hall. Through reflective dialogues, discover how artistic expression transcends boundaries—melding music, medicine, and human connection to reimagine healing.

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From Sea to Studio

Doerr School of Sustainability Visiting Artist collaborates with Oceans researchers at Hopkins Marine Station

In a stunning blend of art and oceans research, Stanford's interactive exhibit promises to ignite a wave of optimism for ocean conservation. The installation immersed viewers in a dynamic, sensory experience that highlighted the beauty and fragility of our marine ecosystems.

Dive Deeper

Encounters: Where Creative and Scientific Inquiry Meet

A new limited series podcast from Denning Visiting Artist Janani Balasubramanian

What happens when art meets science? Stanford alumni and host Janani Balasubramanian returns to campus to explore the dynamic intersection of these two disciplines throughout their residency in the Denning Visiting Artist Fund. Discover how interdisciplinarity drives breakthrough, from the physics of the interstellar medium to the myths of ancient times, featuring leading researchers and innovators.

Listen Now

Upcoming Events

All Other Exhibition Film/Screening Performance Seminar Social Talk Tour Workshop

[Exhibition

### Archive Room: Ester Hernandez |Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries

Next: Sunday, March 22](https://events.stanford.edu/event/archive-room-ester-hernandez-selections-from-special-collections-at-stanford-libraries) - [Exhibition

### Archive Room: Ruth Asawa | Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries

Next: Sunday, March 22](https://events.stanford.edu/event/archive-room-ruth-asawa-selections-from-special-collections-at-stanford-libraries) - [Exhibition

### Paris, City of Innovation: 19th-century Universal Expositions as seen through the Roxane Debuisson Collection of Paris History

Next: Sunday, March 22](https://events.stanford.edu/event/paris-city-of-innovation-19th-century-universal-expositions-as-seen-through-the-roxane-debuisson-collection-of-paris-history) - [Exhibition

### Finely Printed Books: Albert Bender and the Birth of Stanford Special Collections

Next: Sunday, March 22 @ 9:00 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/finely-printed-books-albert-bender-and-the-birth-of-stanford-special-collections) - [Tour

### Public Tour | Papua New Guinea Sculpture Walk

Next: Sunday, March 22 @ 11:30 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/public_tour_papua_new_guinea_sculpture_walk_1489) - [Tour

### Highlights Tour | Anderson Collection

Next: Sunday, March 22 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/highlight-tour) - [Tour

### Public Tour | Cantor Highlights: 1 PM

Next: Sunday, March 22 @ 1:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-public-tour-cantor-highlights-1-pm-4356) - [Tour

### Highlights Tour | Anderson Collection

Next: Sunday, March 22 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/anderson-highlight-tour) - [Exhibition

### Woven Narratives: Textiles as Living Archives

Next: Monday, March 23 @ 9:00 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/woven-narratives) - [Lecture / Talk

### Curator Talk | Spotlights with Trisha Lagaso Goldberg

Monday, March 23 @ 1:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/March-curator-talk-spotlights-with-Trisha-Lagaso-Goldberg-) - [Class / Seminar

### Interdisciplinary Humanities Africanist Writing Group (IHAWG)

Wednesday, March 25 @ 9:00 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/interdisciplinary-humanities-africanist-writing-group-ihawg) - [Tour

### Spotlight Tours Thursdays | Anderson Collection

Next: Thursday, March 26 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/spotlight-tours-thursdays) - [Lecture / Talk

### Lunchtime Curator Talk | Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto

Thursday, March 26 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/lunchtime-curator-talk) - [Tour

### Spotlight Tours Thursdays | Anderson Collection

Next: Thursday, March 26 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/spotlight-tours-thursday) - [Tour

### Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Next: Thursday, March 26 @ 4:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-tour-denning-house-home-to-knight-hennessy-scholars-3543) - [Lecture / Talk

### Unruly Futures: a conversation between artists Miljohn Ruperto and Stephanie Syjuco

Thursday, March 26 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/unruly-futures-a-conversation-between-artists-miljohn-ruperto-and-stephanie-syjuco) - [Tour

### Public Tour | Auguste Rodin

Next: Friday, March 27 @ 11:30 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-public-tour-auguste-rodin) - [Other

### Drop-In Drawing @ The Anderson

Friday, March 27 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/anderson-friday-drop-in-drawing) - [Tour

### Public Tour | Cantor Highlights: 3 PM

Next: Sunday, March 29 @ 3:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-public-tour-cantor-highlights-1-pm-1879) - [Lecture / Talk

### “Foreign Aid and the Performance of Bureaucrats” – Maria Nagawa

Wednesday, April 01 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/foreign-aid-and-the-performance-of-bureaucrats-maria-nagawa) - [Lecture / Talk

### Honors in the Arts – Proposal Workshop

Wednesday, April 01 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/honors-in-the-arts-proposal-workshop) - [Exhibition

### 1,000 Ways to Hold: A New Work By Erika Chong Shuch

Next: Thursday, April 02 @ 11:00 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/1000-ways-to-hold-a-new-work-by-erika-chong-shuch) - [Lecture / Talk

### Studio Lecture Series: Niloufar Emamifar

Thursday, April 02 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/studio-lecture-series-niloufar-emamifar) - [Lecture / Talk

### SOLD OUT_Jeremy Frey: Woven

Thursday, April 02 @ 6:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/jeremy-frey-woven) - [Workshop

### FIRST FRIDAY | Hot Mess: Deliberate Failure as Practice (Workshop)

Friday, April 03 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/APR-First-Friday-2026) - [Lecture / Talk

### Ian Jones Piano Masterclass

Friday, April 03 @ 4:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/Ian-jones-piano-masterclass) - [Social Event / Reception

### First Fridays at IDA (Social)

Friday, April 03 @ 5:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/first-fridays-at-ida-social) - [Performance

### Voice Students of Ashraf Sewailam

Friday, April 03 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ashraf-studio-spring26) - [Performance

### Freshman Recital: Rachel Wei, piano

Saturday, April 04 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/rachel-wei-piano-recital) - [Tour

### Public Tour: Outdoor Sculpture Walk, Campus

Next: Sunday, April 05 @ 2:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-public-tour-outdoor-sculpture-walk-campus) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Katie Liu, piano

Sunday, April 05 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/katie-liu-senior-recital) - [Lecture / Talk

### THE AESTHETICS OF SUSTAINABILITY: From Lab to Table and Back a conversation with Chef Ramón Perisé Mugaritz and Assistant Professor Vayu Hill-Maini

Monday, April 06 @ 4:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-aesthetics-of-sustainability-from-lab-to-table-and-back-a-conversation-with-chef-ramon-perise-mugaritz-doerr-visiting-artist-and-vayu-hill-maini-assistant-professor-of-bioengineering) - [Performance

### Lunchtime Recitals & Communi-Tea

Wednesday, April 08 @ 12:15 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/lunchtime-recitals-communi-tea) - [Lecture / Talk

### An Evening of Poetry with Hanif Abdurraqib and Aracelis Girmay

Wednesday, April 08 @ 6:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/an-evening-of-poetry-with-hanif-abdurraqib-and-aracelis-girmay) - [Lecture / Talk

### Voicing Aspiration: Bollywood Songs and Dreamwork in Contemporary India

Thursday, April 09 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/voicing-aspiration-bollywood-songs-and-dreamwork-in-contemporary-india) - [Lecture / Talk

### Lunchtime Curator Talk | Jeremy Frey: Woven

Thursday, April 09 @ 1:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/jeremy-frey_april-9) - [Lecture / Talk

### Chronomaps: Agents of socio-ecological transition

Thursday, April 09 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/chronomapping-transitional-landscapes-time-space-and-human-experience-along-the-sunset-dune-and-the-former-great-highway-in-san-francisco) - [Tour

### Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Next: Thursday, April 09 @ 4:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-tour-denning-house-home-to-knight-hennessy-scholars-2565) - [Lecture / Talk

### Poetry & Science as Arts of Attention

Thursday, April 09 @ 4:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/poetry-science-as-arts-of-attention) - [Lecture / Talk

### Silicon Valley Talks: Carlin Wing, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play”

Thursday, April 09 @ 4:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/silicon-valley-talks-carlin-wing-bounce-balls-walls-and-bodies-in-games-and-play) - [Lecture / Talk

### When Look becomes Touch: Intermediality and Aesthetics in Anti-caste Films | Talk by Manju Edachira

Thursday, April 09 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/when-look-becomes-touch-intermediality-and-aesthetics-in-anti-caste-films-talk-by-manju-edachira) - [Lecture / Talk

### Maia Nuku | Ruth K. Franklin Lecture

Thursday, April 09 @ 6:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/maia-nuku) - [Film / Screening

### AFTERLIVES: Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Kevin B. Lee

Thursday, April 09 @ 6:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/afterlives-film-screening-and-conversation-with-filmmaker-kevin-b-lee) - [Lecture / Talk

### A Conversation with Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Nation

Thursday, April 09 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/wcc-presents-a-conversation-with-joy-harjo) - [Film / Screening

### But Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Film Festival

Friday, April 10 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/but-some-of-us-are-brave-a-black-womens-film-festival) - [Performance

### The Medium – Gian Carlo Menotti

Friday, April 10 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-medium-1) - [Performance

### Student Recital: Anika Gandhi, flute

Friday, April 10 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/anika-gandhi-flute-recital) - [Performance

### The Medium – Gian Carlo Menotti

Saturday, April 11 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-medium-2) - [Tour

### Public Tour | Cantor Highlights in Chinese

Next: Sunday, April 12 @ 2:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/public-tour-cantor-highlights-chinese-language) - [Performance

### What We Sang Then: A Historic Recital of Favorites from the Stanford Songbook

Sunday, April 12 @ 2:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-songbook-and-carillon-recital-a-musical-tribute-to-tradition) - [Performance

### Graduate Recital: Kristie Park, flute

Sunday, April 12 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/kristie-park-flute-recital) - [Performance

### Lou Henry Hoover Carillon Performance

Sunday, April 12 @ 3:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/lou_henry_hoover_carillon_performance_5127) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Andrew Chen, percussion – Current Pulse

Sunday, April 12 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/andrew-chen-senior-recital) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Aaron Omon, clarinet

Sunday, April 12 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/aaron-omon-senior-recital) - [Lecture / Talk

### Curator Talk | Spotlights with Jason Linetzky

Monday, April 13 @ 1:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/April-curator-talk-spotlights-with-jason-linetzky) - [Exhibition

### 2026 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition

Next: Tuesday, April 14 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/2026-undergraduate-honors-thesis-exhibition) - [Exhibition

### The Botanical Afterlife of Indenture: Indian Women’s Labour and Imaginative Phyto-Archives (2-day Exhibition)

Next: Wednesday, April 15 @ 9:00 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-botanical-afterlife-of-indenture-indian-womens-labour-and-imaginative-phyto-archives-exhibition) - [Lecture / Talk

### Nachorious: The Nach Gyal as Post Indenture Caribbean Feminist Jouvay Mas

Wednesday, April 15 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-botanical-afterlife-of-indenture-indian-womens-labour-and-imaginative-phyto-archives) - [### Stegner Fellow Reading with Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani, Kanak Kapur, and Bhion Achimba

Wednesday, April 15 @ 6:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/stegner-fellow-reading-with-ladan-khoddam-khorasani-and-kanak-kapur) - [Performance

### CCRMA Presents: The Binging

Friday, April 17 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ccrma-the-binging1) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Ishani Mukherjee – Central Station

Friday, April 17 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ishani-mukherjee-senior-recital) - [Lecture / Talk

### A Company of Authors

Saturday, April 18 @ 1:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/a-company-of-authors-2026) - [Performance

### Belonging: A Junior Voice Recital by Katrina Franco, soprano, and Dennis Xu, bass-baritone

Saturday, April 18 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/franco-xu-joint-voice-recital) - [Performance

### CCRMA Presents: The Binging

Saturday, April 18 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ccrma-the-binging2) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Rachelle Weiss, mezzo-soprano

Saturday, April 18 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/rachelle-weiss-senior-recital) - [Workshop

### Art for All Family Day, Spring 2026

Sunday, April 19 @ 10:00 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/art-for-all-family-day-spring-2026) - [Tour

### Public Tour | Cantor Highlights in Spanish

Next: Sunday, April 19 @ 2:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-public-tour-cantor-highlights-spanish-language) - [Tour

### Public Tour | Outdoor Sculpture Walk, Museum

Next: Sunday, April 19 @ 2:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/public_tour_outdoor_sculpture_walk_museum) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Sarah Lewis, soprano – A Vision, or a Waking Dream

Sunday, April 19 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/sarah-lewis-senior-recital) - [Social Event / Reception

### Museum Minis: Storytime with Maria Raimundo

Monday, April 20 @ 11:15 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/museum-minis-storytime-with-maria-raimundo) - [Film / Screening

### Showgirls of Pakistan: Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Saad Khan

Monday, April 20 @ 5:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/showgirls-of-pakistan-film-screening-and-conversation-with-filmmaker-saad-khan) - [Lecture / Talk

### Researching Africa in the Digital Archive: A Guide to AM’s Collections at Stanford – Joe Young-Perez

Tuesday, April 21 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/researching-africa-in-the-digital-archive-a-guide-to-ams-collections-at-stanford-joe-young-perez) - [Lecture / Talk

### Ideas Mosaic: Currents of Change

Tuesday, April 21 @ 4:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ideas-mosaic-currents-of-change) - [Lecture / Talk

### The Arts of Africa: A Living Archive – Natasha Becker

Wednesday, April 22 @ 4:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-arts-of-africa-a-living-archive-natasha-becker) - [Lecture / Talk

### Behind the Book: Historian Jessica Riskin on “The Power of Life ”

Wednesday, April 22 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/behind-the-book-historian-jessica-riskin-on-the-power-of-life) - [Lecture / Talk

### P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Thursday, April 23 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/p-fkn-r-how-bad-bunny-became-the-global-voice-of-puerto-rican-resistance) - [Tour

### Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Next: Thursday, April 23 @ 4:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-tour-denning-house-home-to-knight-hennessy-scholars-5766) - [Lecture / Talk

### Nancy Marie Mithlo | Red Skin Dreams: Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale. In Conversation with Jennifer DeVere Brody

Thursday, April 23 @ 6:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/nancy-marie-mithlo) - [Performance

### 2026 Department of Music Awards Concert

Friday, April 24 @ 3:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/department-awards-2026) - [Workshop

### Garbage as Medium: Recycled Papermaking

Sunday, April 26 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/garbage-as-medium-recycled-papermaking) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Mark Zhu, piano

Sunday, April 26 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/mark-zhu-senior-recital) - [Tour

### Curator Led Talk | 1,000 Ways to Hold

Next: Monday, April 27 @ 1:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/curator-led-talk-1000-ways-to-hold-april) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Flute Students of Melody Holmes

Wednesday, April 29 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-melody-holmes-spring1) - [### Reading with D. A. Powell, the Mohr Visiting Poet

Wednesday, April 29 @ 8:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/reading-with-d-a-powell-the-mohr-visiting-poet) - [Conference / Symposium

### Visions of Taiwan’s Future: Navigating Paths through Democracy, Technology, and Culture

Thursday, April 30 @ 9:30 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/visions-of-taiwans-future-navigating-paths-through-democracy-technology-and-culture) - [Lecture / Talk

### Weintz Art Lecture Series: Esra Akcan

Thursday, April 30 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/weintz-art-lecture-series-esra-akcan) - [Lecture / Talk

### Evening Curator Talk | Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto

Thursday, April 30 @ 6:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-lunchtime-curator-talk-miljohn-ruperto-3559) - [Performance

### Pegasus Physician Writers & Brentano String Quartet

Thursday, April 30 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/pegasus-brentano) - [Performance

### Joint Recital: Aswini Krishnan, mezzo-soprano, & Naomi Solomon

Friday, May 01 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/aswini-krishnan-voice-recital) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Sanjana Khurana, soprano

Saturday, May 02 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/sanjana-khurana-senior-recital) - [Performance

### Stanford Taiko – Surge

Saturday, May 02 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-taiko-surge) - [Performance

### Student Recital: Maya Benyas, cello

Sunday, May 03 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/maya-benyas-cello-recital) - [Performance

### Junior Recital: Richard Wang, cello

Sunday, May 03 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/richard-wang-junior-recital) - [Lecture / Talk

### 1,000 Ways to Hold | Artist Talk

Monday, May 04 @ 6:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/1000-ways-to-hold-artist-talk) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Cello Students of Stephen Harrison

Wednesday, May 06 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-harrison-spring) - [Film / Screening

### How We Are Seen… | Three Short Documentaries by Jan Krawitz with Discussion to Follow

Thursday, May 07 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/how-we-are-seen-three-short-documentaries-by-jan-krawitz-director-discussion) - [Lecture / Talk

### Mijohn Ruperto & Candice Lin: Putrefaction

Thursday, May 07 @ 6:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/mijohn-ruperto-candice-lin-putrefaction) - [Performance

### DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE | Moonchild

Thursday, May 07 @ 8:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/moonchild) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Piano Students of Laura Dahl

Friday, May 08 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-dahl-spring) - [Lecture / Talk

### A Poetics of the Collective: Latin American Performance and its Constellative Dramaturgies

Friday, May 08 @ 1:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/a-poetics-of-the-collective-latin-american-performance-and-its-constellative-dramaturgies) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Sophia Artandi, voice

Friday, May 08 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/sophia-artandi-senior-recital) - [Performance

### Stanford Symphony Orchestra

Friday, May 08 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/sso-spring26-1) - [Performance

### Graduate Recital: Crystal Chen, flute

Saturday, May 09 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/crystal-chen-graduate-recital) - [Performance

### Double Take: A Spotlight on Student Writing at the Anderson Collection

Saturday, May 09 @ 3:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/double-take-a-spotlight-on-student-writing-at-the-anderson-collection) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Spencer Cha, piano

Saturday, May 09 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/spencer-cha-senior-recital) - [Performance

### Stanford Symphony Orchestra

Saturday, May 09 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/sso-spring26-2) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Emma Leibowitz, soprano – What I Did For Love

Sunday, May 10 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/emma-leibowitz-senior-recital) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Isabella McCormick, harp

Sunday, May 10 @ 6:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/isabella-mccormick-senior-recital) - [Tour

### Curator Led Talk | 1,000 Ways to Hold

Next: Monday, May 11 @ 1:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/curator-led-talk-1000-ways-to-hold-may) - [Exhibition

### 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Next: Tuesday, May 12 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/2026-mfa-thesis-exhibition) - [Performance

### Stanford Saxophone Quartet Senior Recital

Tuesday, May 12 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-saxophone-quartet) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Piano Students of Sandra Shen

Wednesday, May 13 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-shen-spring) - [Social Event / Reception

### Rooted Words XXV: “Finis”

Wednesday, May 13 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/rooted-words-xxv-finis) - [Lecture / Talk

### Reading with Amaud Jamaul Johnson, part of the Lane Lecture Series

Wednesday, May 13 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/reading-with-amaud-jamaul-johnson-part-of-the-lane-lecture-series) - [Tour

### Tour Denning House, home to Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Next: Thursday, May 14 @ 4:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-tour-denning-house-home-to-knight-hennessy-scholars-5362) - [Film / Screening

### Poetry Into Film Festival

Thursday, May 14 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/poetry-into-film-festival-2026) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Flute Students of Melody Holmes

Friday, May 15 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-melody-holmes-spring2) - [Performance

### Stanford Philharmonia

Friday, May 15 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/philharmonia-spring26) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Eric Wang, guitar

Friday, May 15 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/eric-wang-senior-recital) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Flora Yuan, soprano

Saturday, May 16 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/flora-yuan-senior-recital) - [Performance

### BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ IN STANFORD

Saturday, May 16 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/bts-world-tour-at-the-stanford-stadium) - [Performance

### Spring Sing! – Voice Studio of Nova Jiménez

Saturday, May 16 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/spring-sing-2026) - [Performance

### Stanford Symphonic Chorus – Schubert!

Sunday, May 17 @ 1:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ssc-spring26) - [Performance

### Stanford Cello Choir Spring Concert

Sunday, May 17 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/cello-choir-spring26) - [Performance

### Stanford Guzheng & Chinese Music Ensembles

Sunday, May 17 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-stanford-guzheng-chinese-music-ensembles) - [Performance

### Piano Quintets of Schumann and Brahms

Sunday, May 17 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/piano-quintets-schumann-brahms) - [Lecture / Talk

### Book Talk with Katie Gaddini on Esther’s Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right

Monday, May 18 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/book-talk-with-katie-gaddini-on-esthers-army-the-christian-women-who-power-the-american-right) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Piano Students of Kumaran Arul

Wednesday, May 20 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-arul-spring) - [Lecture / Talk

### Weintz Art Lecture Series: Maggie Cao

Thursday, May 21 @ 5:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/weintz-art-lecture-series-maggie-cao) - [Conference / Symposium

### CCRMA Presents: 2026 Symposium on Music and The Brain – Day 1

Friday, May 22 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ccrma-symposium-music-and-brain-2026-1) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Cello Students of Christopher Costanza

Friday, May 22 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-costanza-spring) - [Performance

### Stanford Jazz Orchestra with Warren Wolf

Friday, May 22 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/sjo-spring26) - [Performance

### Student Recital: Seyi Osundeko, soprano

Friday, May 22 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/seyi-osundeko-voice-recital) - [Conference / Symposium

### CCRMA Presents: 2026 Symposium on Music and The Brain – Day 2

Saturday, May 23 @ 10:00 AM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ccrma-symposium-music-and-brain-2026-2) - [Performance

### Student Recital: Ava Yeh, percussion

Saturday, May 23 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ava-yeh-percussion-recital) - [Performance

### Capstone Concert: Michael Murakami

Saturday, May 23 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/michael-murakami-capstone-concert) - [Performance

### Student Recital: Nikhil Lyles, counter-tenor – Love et al.

Sunday, May 24 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/nikhil-lyles-vocal-recital) - [Performance

### A Concert of Piano Trios

Sunday, May 24 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/concert-of-piano-trios) - [Performance

### Freshman Recital: Ariel Chen, piano

Sunday, May 24 @ 7:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/ariel-chen-freshman-recital) - [Exhibition

### 2026 Senior Exhibition

Next: Tuesday, May 26 @ 12:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/2026-senior-exhibition) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Piano Students of Melinda Lee Masur

Wednesday, May 27 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-masur-spring) - [Performance

### University Singers – The Glory of the French Baroque

Wednesday, May 27 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/university-singers-spring26) - [Lecture / Talk

### Undergraduate Prize Reading

Thursday, May 28 @ 4:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/undergraduate-prize-reading-2026) - [Lecture / Talk

### Evening Curator Talk | Jeremy Frey: Woven

Thursday, May 28 @ 6:00 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-lunchtime-curator-talk-jeremy-frey-woven-317) - [Performance

### Noon Concert: Violin Students of Debra Fong

Friday, May 29 @ 12:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/noon-fong-spring) - [Performance

### Senior Recital: Aliya Alsafa, piano

Saturday, May 30 @ 2:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/alkya-alsafa-senior-recital) - [Performance

### Capstone Concert: Na-Young Son – Eternal Flow

Saturday, May 30 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/capstone-na-young-son) - [Performance

### Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble

Saturday, May 30 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/salje-spring26) - [Performance

### Stanford Wind Symphony

Saturday, May 30 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/wind-symphony-spring26) - [Performance

### The Variety 73 – Performance & Presence

Saturday, May 30 @ 7:30 PM](https://events.stanford.edu/event/variety-73-spring26)

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