In collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange announces its 2026-27 Arts Creation Grants awardees. 

Arts Creation Grants advance the mission and goals of the Global Arts + Humanities by engaging artists and designers across the university in the creation of new, impactful, arts-led research and creative work in alignment with GAH's annual theme. The theme for 2026-27 is Cultures in Motion. 

Arts Creation grants are available to all arts practitioners across the university working in all mediums, including (but not limited to) conceptual, installation, music, video, performance, dance, theater, drawing, painting, prints, text, sculpture, glass, mixed media, new media, data science, advanced and emerging technologies (robotics, AI, augmented reality, high-performance computing) and photography.

Awardees

• In Borrowed Tongues: On Extraction, Architecture and Ornament: A Major Exhibition by Sammy Baloji
  Wexner Center for the Arts
• Pachanga e Poder: Latin American and Latinx Social Dance Practices as Embodied Archives
  Assistant Professor Irvin Manual Gonzalez (Dance) and Professor Alfonso Cervera (Dance)
• A Ruffled World
  Assistant Professor Hao Zhou (Theatre, Film and Media Arts), Associate Professor Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design), Associate Professor Erica Levin (History of Art), Consulting Editor Xi Feng
• The Terezín Project
  Chair and Professor E.J. Westlake (Theatre, Film and Media Arts), Associate Professor Mandy Fox (Theatre, Film and Media Arts), Associate Professor Karen A. Mozingo (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)