CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | JULY 20, 2021
FEATURED EVENT
INSTALLATION BY CSRE ALUM KIYAN WILLIAMS ('13)
Anderson Lawn | July 23-December 5, 2021
Kiyan Williams (Stanford CSRE '13) is a visual artist and writer from Newark, NJ who works fluidly across performance, sculpture, video, and 2D realms. Rooted in a process-driven practice, they are attracted to quotidian, unconventional materials and methods that evoke the historical, political, and ecological forces that shape individual and collective bodies.

Kiyan Williams’ Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, 2020 is a public work that will be on view on the grounds of the Anderson Collection, among a grove of oak trees, from July 23 to December 5, 2021. The piece was originally installed along the banks of the Powhatan River (James River) in Richmond, Virginia where some of the first enslaved Black people touched land in the new/ruined world. The work is made of soil from the river and emerged from Williams’ time along the slave docks of Virginia within the context of the pandemic and protests against on-going anti-Black police violence. Williams explains how the sculpture arose from a need to mark the sacred paths of slavery and “memorialize on-going struggles of self-determination for Black people.”

You can watch Notes on Digging, a video of the artist speaking about Reaching Towards Warmer Suns here.
CENTER NEWS & EVENTS
CCSRE Faculty Affiliate Rose Salseda (Art & Art History) Co-leads new 5-year Latinx Artist Fellowship
BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA | July 20, 2021

CCSRE Faculty Affiliate Rose Salseda (Art & Art History) will co-manage the Latinx Artist Fellowship, a groundbreaking five-year initiative that will be administered collaboratively through the U.S. Latinx Art Forum, for which Salseda is Associate Director, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Fifteen compelling U.S.-based visual artists of Latin American or Caribbean descent will each receive an unrestricted $50,000 over the grant period.

Designed to reflect the diversity of the Latinx community, Salseda explains, "this first-of-a-kind fellowship is a long-overdue opportunity to lift up contemporary Latinx visual artists—to provide them with necessary financial support, encourage the growth of patronage, and expand and secure their place within art history."

The inaugural cohort represents a range of career stages including well-known artists, such as Coco Fusco and Yolanda Lopez, and burgeoning artists, including rafa esparza and Carlos Martiel.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Ford Foundation have committed a combined $5 million to the initiative.

Learn more about the new initiative HERE and read a story in the New York Times HERE.
DESIGNING ANTI-RACIST TECHNOLOGIES FOR A JUST FUTURE
Experts critiqued smart cities, agtech, blockchain, and policing during Stanford's first Technology and Racial Equity Conference.
BY SAICHIN WAIKER
June 28, 2021

Digital technologies can be a force for good, but too often they emerge from sources reflecting inequality and may amplify existing racial bias and discrimination.

“Each of us has a part to play in building the world we want and envisioning ways forward,” said Ruha Benjamin, a Princeton University professor and the keynote speaker for Stanford’s first Technology and Racial Equity Conference, held May 20-21, 2021, and sponsored by Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE), Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and the Stanford Program in African & African American Studies.

“We can’t leave technology development and monitoring merely to those who have the technical know-how,” Benjamin continued. “The experiences and insights of the marginalized matter.”

Scholars, policymakers, technologists, and civil rights activists including leaders from USAID, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, and the Harvard Kennedy School spoke on topics ranging from blockchain, policing technology, and digital agrifood—all through the lens of racial equity. Here are their most compelling takeaways.

Read the full blog HERE and watch the complete two-day conference HERE. 
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STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY
25 Years of Education, Research, and Community

CCSRE launched its 25-year anniversary with a virtual celebration on June 4, 2021 honoring the center's foundations and expansion as a pillar of race-focused scholarship and community-engaged learning at Stanford University and beyond.

Watch the virtual celebration HERE. While you're there, kindly subscribe to our channel.

2021 Tech & Racial Equity Conference
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Anti-Racist Technologies
For a Just Future | Day 1 Sessions

"Day 1 Sessions "A People-centric Smart City for Racial Justice," featuring Race & Tech Fellows Renata Avila and Elizabeth Adams, and "Decentralized Ledgers and Equity," featuring Nina Dewi Toft Djanegara, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and CCSRE Tech and Racial Equity Program Fellow, and CCSRE/DCSL Practitioner Fellows Elizabeth Renieris and Kortney Ziegler, are now available on CCSRE's YouTube channel.

Watch all conference sessions HERE. While you're there, kindly subscribe to our channel.
NEWS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
Grant Opportunity for Public Art Projects
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation invites Letters of Inquiry for our Open Spaces Program from July 12 to August 20, 2021. This program supports temporary, place-based public art projects that are responsive to issues relevant to communities in San Francisco and Oakland. To acknowledge the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on artists’ and organizations’ ability to produce work, the foundation has made temporary changes to this grant cycle. Continue reading about these updates.

Arts Program staff will be hosting two pre-application webinars:
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