A 16-year-old girl spars in the boxing ring. A Catholic nun examines patients in a rural health clinic. A woman looks back on her life as a man. People with disabilities create art with found objects.

We see their worlds in student films from Stanford's award-winning graduate program in documentary film and video. With support from the Stanford Arts Initiative, the program is expanding to include an undergraduate major in Film and Media Studies.

It's one way Stanford students are using the arts to see the world through others' eyes and to share that vision with audiences. In addition to strengthening programs in visual art, creative writing, drama, dance, and music, the Arts Initiative is engaging the arts and creativity throughout the curriculum and residential life to expand the culture of innovation that is already part of Stanford's identity.

About the Institute for Creativity and the Arts

The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, established in 2006, acts as the Arts Initiative's nerve center, leading the development of new undergraduate arts programs; hosting artists in residence; administering new multidisciplinary graduate degree programs; awarding grants for multidisciplinary arts research and teaching; incubating collaborative performances and exhibitions with campus partners and other institutions; and providing centralized communication for Stanford arts events and programs.