Office of the Vice President for the Arts
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Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
Halperin Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art & Co-Director, AAAI, Cantor Arts Center
Current Role at StanfordRobert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Co-director, Asian American Art Initiative
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Janani Balasubramanian
Lecturer
BioJanani Balasubramanian is an artist and researcher creating accessible, inviting, and beautiful portals to natural and computational worlds. They collaborate with scientists and students to create immersive and multimedia artworks that animate and expand emerging scientific thought. They also conduct collaborative research at the intersections of art, physics, equity, pedagogy, and storytelling.
Janani has received support for their work as an artist and researcher from the MacArthur Foundation, Tow Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Sundance Institute, Pew Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Community Trust, Jerome Foundation, Center for Art Science and Technology at MIT, and MAP Fund, among others. Their work has been presented at over 160 venues internationally, including the New York High Line, San Francisco Exploratorium, Red Bull Arts, Academy of Natural Sciences, Andy Warhol Museum, Ace Hotel, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
They have been in residence at The Public Theater, Creativity and Innovation at Colorado College, Heller Center for Arts and Humanities at the University of Colorado, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics at NYU, Pioneer Works, Mount Tremper Arts, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, UCross Foundation, and more. Janani is a member of the Guild of Future Architects, and has joyfully been the artist-in-residence in the brown dwarf astrophysics group at the American Museum of Natural History since 2017.
Since 2020, they have been a mentor for the Stanford STEM to SHTEM program, and worked in affiliation with Institute for the Diversity in the Arts and the Stanford Compression Forum. -
Deborah Cullinan
Vice President, Office of the Vice President for the Arts
BioDeborah Cullinan is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the pivotal role artists and arts organizations can play in shaping our social and political landscape, and has spent years mobilizing communities through arts and culture. She joined Stanford University in early 2022 as the first full-time vice president for the arts. Previously, she was CEO of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), where she launched several bold new programs, engagement strategies, and civic coalitions. Prior to joining YBCA in 2013, she was the executive director of San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts. She is a co-founder of CultureBank, board member of the Community Arts Stabilization Trust, and recently served as co-chair of the San Francisco Arts Alliance, and vice chair of the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy. She was the inaugural National Field Leader in Residence at Arizona State University’s National Accelerator for Cultural Innovation and a former innovator-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation. She served on Mayor London Breed’s San Francisco Economic Recovery Task Force and also on Governor Gavin Newsom’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery. Her passion for using art and creativity to shift culture and advance equity and justice has made her a sought-after speaker at events and conferences around the world.
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Leonardo Daniels
Undergraduate, Human Biology
Front Of House Student Staff, Stanford LiveBioLeonardo is currently working in the Oncology/Hematology Department as an Undergraduate Researcher and working in Education where he is making a better tomorrow.
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Wendy E Feuer
U.S. Cultural Policy Fellow
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOral History Project Recordings and Transcripts: Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Programs 1981 and 1987 at the New York Public Library Special Collections.
