The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
2024 Grantee Celebration, Sachs Board Member Professor Sharon Hayes & Student Grantee Gayoung Lee, MFA’24.
Sachs 2018 Visiting Artist Grant, Penn Live Arts “Vessels”
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The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation’s mission is to support and inspire creative practice and practitioners across the University of Pennsylvania—in all twelve schools, in the university’s artistic and cultural centers, and through the many partnerships and collaborations that connect Penn to the world at large.
Sachs Program Highlights
About The Sachs Program
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation supports creative practice through grantmaking, public programming, and special exhibitions, with a focus on Penn and the communities of West Philadelphia.
Sachs Program Grantmaking
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation’s grantmaking supports a range of innovative and experimental practices across disciplines, departments, centers, creative groups, and peoples.
Chrysalis: Pragya Gupta
Pragya Gupta’s work is about transformation; her practice is grounded in a sustained inquiry into what it means to become intimate with one’s own life. Her paintings explore the tension between the selves we construct and the more intimate parts of ourselves that can be harder to hear.
Chrysalis is centered on a new series of tetraptychs (four-paneled artworks) alongside earlier works that trace the evolution of this inquiry. Across the new works, the four-panel structure, scale, and relationship between commercial canvas and stitched fabric remain constant, while the visual language changes markedly from one work to another. The shared structure becomes a kind of container for change, allowing the same inquiry to unfold differently in each work.
