Category Archives : ARC Past Events


ARC 2021-22 Poetry Fellows Reading: May 5

This event is presented by ARC in partnership with Engaging the Senses Foundation The Arts Research Center will celebrate the 2021/22 ARCPoetry Fellows with an in-person reading of work created during their fellowship semester! This event will feature undergrad fellows Anastasia Le and Gisselle Medina; graduate fellows Lindsay Choi and Vincente Perez; faculty fellows Ahmad Diab and Jesse Nathan; and community fellows Maurya Kerr and D’mani Thomas, and […]


Detroit Roots: Tarfia Faizullah, Vievee Francis, & Matthew Olzmann: April 28

Detroit Roots: A reading featuring Tarfia Faizullah, Vievee Francis, and Matthew Olzmann in conversation with Chiyuma Elliott & Jesse Nathan Thursday, April 28, 2022, from 5:30 – 7pm PSTLocation: Doe Library Room 308A, UC Berkeley Watch the recorded video of the event on ARC’s YouTube channel here! This event is presented in celebration of National […]


Flash Reading Series: April 2022

To train myself, in the midst of a burning world,to offer poems of love to a burning world.– Katie Farris 27 Featured Poets in Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Katherine Agyemaa Agard, Dodie Bellamy, Maxe Crandall, Eric Falci, Caroline Goodwin, Amanda Gunn, Ra Malika Imhotep, Mason J, Fiza Jihan, Nathalie Khankan, Ava Koohbor, Dana Koster, Angie Sijun […]


Artist Talk with Wendy Red Star: April 1

Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new […]


Artist Talk with Dario Robleto, Artist-in-Residence: March 15

Dario Robleto is an artist, researcher, writer, and teacher based in Houston, Texas. Throughout his twenty-five career, Robleto has sought to cultivate rigorous, mutually transformative interactions between the arts, humanities, and sciences. Tapping into multiple creative traditions ranging from astrophysics to cardiology to poetry to DJ culture, his work has focused with particular intensity on […]


Artist Talk with Jeffrey Gibson: Jan 25

Jeffrey Gibson is a multidisciplinary artist and craftsperson merging traditional Native American materials and forms with those of Western contemporary art to create a new hybrid visual vocabulary. Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, is forging a multifarious practice that redresses the exclusion and erasure of indigenous […]


Fall 2021 Poetry Fellows Reading: Dec 8

The Arts Research Center will celebrate the 2021 Fall Poetry Fellows with a reading of work created during their fellowship semester. This event will feature undergrad fellows Anastasia Le and Gisselle Medina; graduate fellows Lindsay Choi and Vincente Perez; faculty fellows Ahmad Diab and Jesse Nathan; and community fellows Maurya Kerr and D’mani Thomas, and be […]


Day With(out) Art 2021: Dec 1

The Arts Research Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and California College of the Arts for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad […]


Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay: Nov 17

Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay: Black Nature, Poetry, and Coexistence in conversation with Aya de León and Maurya Kerr Wednesday, November 17th 2021 5:00 – 6:30pm PST Watch the livestream on YouTube here. This event is presented by the Arts Research Center and Engaging the Senses Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Black Studies Collaboratory, […]