Congratulations to the 2023-2024 AEPG Best of... Awardees! In this second year, we
recognized two Artistic Excellence Programming Grant projects that represent community
engagement and interdisciplinarity. We also had so many incredible projects that we
expanded this year into people's choice, innovation, and visionary awards!
Check out behind-the-scenes stories about all of the wonderful activities, events,
and programming that engages our students, community members, and faculty with important
topics and experiences
Public Art Tour Returns with Support from City of San Jose for Spring 2024
The Public Art as Resistance Walking Tour received another grant, funded by the City
of San Jose, to offer more walking tours free to the public during Spring 2024.
Join us in congratulating Reiko Kataoka and J. Michael Martinez for receiving the
Best of Community Engagement and Best of Interdisciplinary Engagement for AEPG Projects
in 2022-2023
The Public Art as Resistance Walking Tour received another grant, funded by the City
of San Jose, to offer more walking tours free to the public during Spring 2023.
Public Art Walking Tour Gets Noticed as Exemplary Project
Excited to have the Public Art as Resistance project featured in this new Humanities
for All report "Approaches to Training in the Public Humanities"
Public Art & "Speed of Trust"
Join us on Sunday, January 8, 2023, for a roundtable discussion, "Public Art as Resistance:
A Model for Working at the 'Speed of Trust,'" at the Annual Modern Language Association
Convention in San Francisco
H&A in Action Receives Grant Award from Cal Humanities
H&A in Action-Geography of the Arts received a generous $5,000 grant from Cal Humanities
to support a public art walking tour, Instagram hashtag competition, exhibit, and
panel on public art as resistance (Feb 2022)
H&A in Action received a generous $30,000 grant from the Abierto Placemaking Program,
City of San Jose to support art pop-ups, nature walks, and culinary delights (Oct
2021)
Join us in congratulating five faculty for their award-winning, robust, and engaging
assignments, submitted for the Fall 2021 Sustainable Futures Curricular Community
initiative (Jan 2022)
