Burbank

Burbank is located in Stern Hall, close to Green Library, Stanford Bookstore, Main Quad, Wilbur Field, Meyer Green, and outdoor space (including basketball and sand volleyball courts). The house includes a lounge, library, kitchen, yoga/dance studio, meeting/seminar rooms, art space, and computer cluster.

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Meet the Burbank Resident Fellows

Resident Fellows, or RFs, are Stanford faculty and senior administrative staff who live in apartments or cottages adjacent to student residences and serve as leaders for their communities. A-lan Holt and Felipe Jimenez

Hello! My name is A-lan Holt. I am an artist, mother, and director of IDA Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts. At IDA we believe that cultural change precedes political change and that the arts can be a powerful means for empowering difference, dismantling oppression, and building more sustainable futures. I am excited to create a community at Burbank (Stanford’s Art Dorm) with these aims in mind. I am also excited to support you as artists, creatives, changemakers, and as folks who simply enjoy making stuff new things. We’d love to have you on our RA team and as leaders of this dorm community.

About the ITALIC+Arts Theme

All pre-assigned residents of ITALIC+Arts must demonstrate interest in and active engagement in the arts. But, you don’t need to be a prodigy or even majoring in the arts! We are as interested in your enthusiasm for the community as we are in your arts practice!

ITALIC+Arts shares Burbank House with the 46 students who are part of the first-year interdisciplinary academic arts program called ITALIC. Learn more about ITALIC here, here, or here. To build connections between these groups of residents, sophomores, juniors and seniors may opt to attend field trips and workshops with the ITALIC class, as ticketing and transportation allow. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors may also serve as mentors to the first-year ITALIC students, continuing a long-standing tradition in ITALIC.

ITALIC+Arts residents have access to the suite of specially-designed arts practice rooms (a music room, a dance/improv space, an art studio), as well as a basement gallery, a flexible performance space with a baby grand piano, and two seminar rooms.

All residents of ITALIC+Arts will be expected to attend at least two of the community’s programmed events per quarter. Taking or teaching an ITALIC 99 course also counts towards your engagement. ITALIC 99 courses are 1-unit courses focusing on the arts and taught by ITALIC alumni and residents of ITALIC+Arts.

ITALIC+Arts Student Leadership Committee coordinates programming, such as workshops, exhibitions, screenings, rehearsals, and performances that address residents’ interests in music, visual arts, theater and dance, writing and spoken word poetry. The Leadership Committee also coordinates the ordering and management of supplies in the basement art studio.

Kim Beil, Associate Director, ITALIC.
Jonathan Berger, William R. and Gretchen B. Kimball Fellow in Undergraduate Education; Denning Family Provostial Professor of Music
Richard Thompson Ford, George E. Osborne Professor of Law
Marisa Galvez, Associate Professor of French and Italian, and by Courtesy, German Studies; Director, Structured Liberal Education (SLE)
Karla Oeler, Faculty Director, ITALIC; Associate Professor (Teaching), Department of Art & Art History.
Adam Tobin, Senior Lecturer, Film & Media Studies, Department of Art & Art History
Amir Abou-Jaoude, ITALIC and Stanford alum (Art & Art History major)
Jessica de La Paz, ITALIC and Stanford alum, Master’s student in CEE Atmosphere and Energy Course and Instructor for CEE277S/X at Stanford
DeAndre Johnson, Undergraduate ITALIC student
Claudia Dorn, Manager of Resources and Community, Office of the Vice President for the Arts
Anne Shulock, Assistant Vice President for the Arts
A-lan Holt, Resident Fellow Burbank, Director Institute for Diversity in the Arts