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Archive Room: Amalia Mesa-Bains continues the Cantor’s Archive Rooms series highlighting the rich art historical resources available right here at Stanford. These small, single-gallery, single-artist installations feature engaging selections from the robust holdings of artist archives at Special Collections at Stanford Libraries and enhance our understanding of the artistic process.

The Mesa-Bains Archive Room presentation further contextualizes the artist, curator, and educator’s role in shaping Chicano and Latino art history over the past half century.

Through her artistic practice and...

In Focus: Asian American Art from the Collection showcases recent acquisitions made through the Cantor’s Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI), offering a glimpse into one of the fastest-growing areas of the museum’s collection. Many of the works on view are being presented for the first time. Founded in 2018 by Stanford art history professor Marci Kwon and Cantor associate curator of modern and contemporary art Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, the AAAI is one of the nation's leading museum initiatives dedicated to Asian American art. What began with approximately 30 works by Asian American artists...

The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is delighted to announce the most significant reinstallation of the museum’s second floor in more than fifteen years. This project is born of sustained collaboration between Stanford faculty and museum curators, who together have thought seriously about the tremendous value of learning about art objects through firsthand study.

At Stanford, the arts and sciences comingle productively: In classrooms, labs, studios, and offices across campus, pioneering thinkers—in the sciences and technology, as well as in the arts and humanities—are proposing...