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Rick Lowe: “Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial”

November 17, 2014, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Rick Lowe is an artist and community organizer and founder of Project Rowhouses, a community-based arts and culture organization in one of Houston’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. In September, 2014, Lowe received a MacArthur Foundation “genius award” for his visionary work in purchasing and restoring twenty-two shotgun houses to create an arts venue and community support center. For his Regents Lecture, “Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial” Lowe will speak on socially engaged art and activism.


Creative Time Summit: Stockholm Rebroadcast

November 14 & 17, 2014
Day One of Creative Time Summit at CCA
Day Two of Creative Time Summit at UC Berkeley

For the 2014 streaming event, we are delighted to once again coordinate with both Creative Time and CCA’s Graduate Fine Arts Department, in addition to Stephanie Syjuco’s Social Practice class project ART SCHOOL X. On Monday, at UC Berkeley, we will welcome ARC Artist in Residence Rick Lowe from 9:00am-12:00pm as he engages with students, faculty, and the public as we re-broadcast the second day of Creative Time Summit taking place in Stockholm. The remainder of they day will be open to the public to watch the Summit, converse among yourselves, and have a coffee on ARC!


Creative Time Live Stream

In October of 2012 and 2013, the Arts Research Center and the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts partnered with Creative Time to host a live-streaming of their annual Creative Time Summit. The live-streaming event provided a collective viewing experience for Bay Area artists, curators, scholars, and activists who are concerned […]


Creative Time 2013: Kate Mattingly

Listening to speakers during the Creative Time Summit today, a keyword emerged that was not so much repeated throughout the afternoon (like “vibrant” or “grassroots,” both of which deserve more attention and analysis) but present through the presentations’ modes and priorities: demonstrate.

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ART/CITY: Kathleen Reinhardt

In relation to the arts and civic life, the question I am wrestling with right now is… how engagement-based practices through an anchoring of the artist in the community and space-making through art can occur and why. I am focusing on several projects by black artists (Wangechi Mutu, Edgar Archeneaux, Rick Lowe, Theaster Gates) committed to creating sustainable cultural moments, and how these cultural moments can be of importance not only for the community they are created in, but also for an art audience.

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