Co-Curricular Artist Grants
The Kaplan Humanities Institute's Co-Curricular Artist Grants support curricular engagement with artists and their work, aiming for a stronger integration of the arts into undergraduate and graduate teaching at Northwestern. Co-curricular grants may help facilitate an artist's lecture or workshop in class; cover site visits to an artist's studio or event; or support other creative integrations of the arts in and beyond the classroom.
The Co-Curricular Grants are part of Kaplan's Artist Engagement Initiative which seeks to expand interdisciplinary engagement among artists, faculty, and students across all programs and departments at Northwestern.
Awarded Grants
Inaugural Co-Curricular Artist Grants
New Black Music in Chicago: Artists’ Reflections on Music, Race, and Entrepreneurship
Panel series, expert classes, and performance - Winter 2024
For Winter 2024 course, New Black Music in Chicago: Artists’ Reflections on Music, Race, and Entrepreneurship (Black Studies 327).
- Instructor and Project Coordinator: Professor Nitasha Tamar Sharma (Black Studies and Asian American Studies)
- Click HERE for a list of free public workshops and performances connected to the class and to read more about the course
Eklektik BerlinIstan: Moving Multitudes Through Music in Contemporary Berlin
Artist Residency - Winter 2024
For Winter Quarter 2024 artist residency of İpek İpekçioğlu, Turkish-German DJ, producer, and curator.
Presented by Middle East and North African Studies and co-hosted by Anthropology, Colloquium for Global Iran Studies, German, Keyman Modern Turkish Studies, and Kaplan Humanities Institute.
- Faculty Coordinator: Assistant Professor Emrah Yildiz (Anthropology and Middle East and North African Studies)
- Click HERE for a list of public talks and a free public performance and dance party with DJ İpek
2023-2024 Co-Curricular Artist Grants
Winter 2024 Courses
Documentary History and Criticism - Art of the Real (Radio/Television/Film 313)- Taught by Michael Metzger (Pick-Laudati Academic Curator for Cinema and Media Arts, Block Museum of Art)
- For film screening and discussion with Winnipeg-based filmmaker Rhayne Vermette (Métis)
Spanish Inquisitions: Crypto-Jews and other New Christians (Spanish 397)
- Taught by Shai Zamir (Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellow, Spanish and Portuguese and the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies)
- For guest lecture and discussion with poet and historian Rachel Kaufman
We’re Here, We’re Queer: Queer Narratives in Israeli Literature and Culture (Jewish Studies 279 / Middle East and North African Studies 290 / Gender Studies 231 )
- Taught by Guy Ehrlich (Postdoctoral Fellow in Israel Studies, Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies)
- For guest lecture by Israeli filmmaker and producer Nevo Shinaar
Spring 2024 Courses
Artivism in Times of Political Change (Spanish 204)
- Taught by Elisa Baena (Professor of Instruction, Spanish and Portuguese)
- For class visit and discussion with author, illustrator, graphic novelist, and commentator Quan Zhou
Histories of Medicine Across Asia (History 300)
- Taught by Shireen Hamza (Postdoctoral Fellow, Science in Human Culture and History)
- For presentation and student project advice by artist Nancy Valladares