InterPlay (Interdisciplinary Playground) is a new quarterly salon series co-organized by VPA Interdisciplinary Arts Programs and the Cantor Arts Center. Designed for faculty, graduate students, and campus collaborators, the series creates a lively space to share work, spark ideas, and build community across disciplines. Each salon features fast-paced presentations alongside playful, interactive experiences that encourage creativity and connection. With time for mingling, networking, and dialogue over light refreshments, InterPlay is a gathering place to discover the diverse and innovative projects happening across campus—and a forum to imagine new ones together.

This salon will feature Vice President for the Arts Deborah Cullinan with two Stanford US Cultural Policy Fellows, Marcus Young and Amanda Lovelee, as well as Environmental Justice lecturer, Dena Montague. Presentations will include slides, talks, movement, and an opportunity for hands-on making.

Bios:

Deborah Cullinan is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the pivotal role artists and arts organizations can play in shaping our social and political landscape, and has spent years mobilizing communities through arts and culture. She joined Stanford University in early 2022 as the first full-time vice president for the arts. Her passion for using art and creativity to shift culture and advance equity and justice has made her a sought-after speaker at events and conferences around the world.

Marcus Young 楊墨 is a multidisciplinary artist making change in the world through inventing everyday behavioral and awareness practices. He makes work within mindfulness and learning communities, as well as for the stage, museums, government agencies, and the public realm. He is the founding artist for Don’t You Feel It Too?—a 17-year participatory public dance and liberation project.

Dena Montague is an Environmental Justice Lecturer at Stanford University and Executive Director of ÉnergieRich, an award winning emerging social justice engineering firm advancing energy justice by establishing local manufacturing of clean energy technology in West Africa. Her research focuses on energy justice through decentralized production; impacts of Global North clean energy transition on climate/environmental justice in the Global South. 

Amanda Lovelee is a civic and environmentally-focused artist who works within government and cross-sector collaborations. She creates bright, joyful, engaging, and complex large-scale public art projects, partnering with arborists, planners, biologists, water resource managers, and scientists.

All public programs at the Cantor Arts Center are always free! Space for this program is limited; advance registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priority for admission, but walk-ins are very welcome if space allows! RSVP here.

Accessibility Information or Requests

Cantor Arts Center and the VPA Interdisciplinary Arts Programs at Stanford University are committed to ensuring our programs are accessible to everyone. To request access information and/or accommodations for this event, please complete this form at least one week prior to the event: museum.stanford.edu/access.For questions, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu or Christina Linden, calinden@stanford.edu, 650-497-0340.

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