Dartmouth College Arts Integration Grants Catalyze Faculty-Student Collaboration

Aug 13, 2025

Dartmouth College’s Arts Integration Grants are part of its Arts Integration Initiative, which supports arts-centric research, incubates interdisciplinary projects and advancea faculty-student mentorship . The program has been renewed this year after the success of an initial pilot phase which launched 33 interdisciplinary projects since 2021.

This year, $100,000 awarded by the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research will fund 10 student- and faculty-led projects spanning more than a dozen departments and centers, with the aim of supporting interdisciplinary projects with arts at the core while fostering faculty-student research.

“Renewing this grant program reaffirms our commitment to championing the arts as a catalyst for collaboration and change,” says Mary Lou Aleskie, Howard Gilman ’44 Executive Director of the Hop. “These projects reflect the creative potential that emerges when disciplines intersect, and we’re excited to see how they’ll impact our community and beyond.”

This year’s grant recipients include:

• Art, Business, and Soft Power: Chad Elias, associate professor, Department of Art History and Sunglim Kim, associate professor, Department of Art History and the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages.
• Bronzed: A History of Makeup, Hair and Race in Hollywood: Desiree Garcia, associate professor and chair, Department of Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies.
• Medical Misogynoir: Graphic Medicine as a Tool to Raise Awareness of Medical Misogynoir Across Three Centuries in the U.S.: Shontay Delalue, senior vice president and senior diversity officer, and Vinald Francis, biomedical illustrator and graphic medicine artist, Geisel School of Medicine.
• Quilting for Resilience: Stitching Together Stories of Mutual Aid from Vermont’s Floods: Sarah Kelly, research scientist in the Energy Justice Clinic at the Irving Institute for Energy and Society and a lecturer in the Department of Geography; Aletha Spang, GIS specialist, Department of Geography, and Charis Boke, lecturer, Department of Anthropology.
• Vicarious: Luke Cargill ’24, Guarini ’26, master of science in computer science with concentration in digital arts.
• Living Interpretations: A Digital Exploration of Ambiguity in Art: Clara Sava-Segal Guarini ’24, PhD in cognitive neuroscience, Emily Finn, assistant professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Georgia Nieh ’27, and Neely McNulty, curator of education, Hood Museum of Art
• Under the Moving Skin: E-textile Wearables for the Performing Arts: Ivy Fu Guarini ’25.
• Cyber Folksongs for Digital Nomads: A Sound Ethnography: Hermia Miaoxuan Huang ’26.
• Visualizing Vermont Flooding: Mapping the White River with Drone Media: Hayden Miller ’25.
• DROP: Malik Terrab ’25 and Peyton Bond ’24, intern, Department of Studio Art.

In the video below, grantee Hayden Miller ’25 explains how he studied flooding and mapped the White River in Vermont using drone media.“I found that video and visual media is the best way to communicate some of the science that I’ve been carrying out,” says Miller, a biology and environmental studies major who graduated in June.

Learn more about each of the grant projects by clicking here.