Elizabeth DeLoughrey earns Chancellor’s Arts Initiative grant
Jessica Wolf I UCLA
Fourteen faculty-led arts projects, including a new musical work shaped by Altadena poets reflecting on wildfire recovery and an immersive installation exploring memory, have received seed grants from the Chancellor’s Arts Initiative. Administered by the Chancellor’s Council on the Arts in partnership with the Office of Research and Creative Activities, the initiative provides seed funding for faculty-led projects that advance UCLA’s commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry and the public impact of the arts.
This year’s grants, ranging from $5,000 to $15,000, support a diverse group of UCLA faculty exploring history, culture, technology and community through creative research. The funded projects span disciplines across campus and highlight the arts as a catalyst for scholarship, public engagement and social dialogue.
The grants went to projects initiated by faculty in the departments of art, design media arts, architecture and urban design and world arts and cultures/dance in the school of the arts and architecture; the departments of musicology, ethnomusicology and music industry in the Herb Alpert School of Music; the department of theater and performance studies in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; and the departments of anthropology, Asian American studies, Chicana/o and Central American studies and English at UCLA College.
Since its launch, the Chancellor’s Arts Initiative has supported more than 60 faculty-led projects across UCLA, investing in research and creative work that brings artists and scholars together across disciplines while engaging communities on campus and beyond.
2025 Arts Initiative supported projects include Elizabeth DeLoughrey’s project with Keith Camacho, detailed below:
Calling Junior, this is Håyun Lågu — Keith Camacho, department of Asian American studies professor; Elizabeth DeLoughrey, department of English professor. A film project that explores the Chamoru (peoples of Guam and the Mariana Islands) diaspora through storytelling centered on trees as witnesses to colonial history, foregrounding Indigenous knowledge and sovereignty.
Read the full announcement.