ArtsWest

ArtsWest is an innovative program that aims to spotlight Western arts through speakers, symposia, film screenings and exhibitions.   Through our work with scholars of history, anthropology and the arts, we strive to study the unique culture of the West and highlight the contributions Western artists have made to literary, visual and performing arts.

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Communication Professor Fred Turner has been studying the role of art and countercultural movements – including the communal, participatory lifestyle celebrated at the annual Burning Man festival – that have had far-reaching influence in the…
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The Swiss-born artist will work on a new photographic archive of California in the 21st century and contribute to the Center’s ArtsWest Initiative.

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An ArtsWest symposium on May 18 focused on how art and music are shaping social, cultural and political identity in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

By Robin Wander

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A collaboration between Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West and the Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, the ArtsWest public symposium in February celebrated the rise of women artists and art scholars in the…