CELEBRATING 25 YEARS AT BERKELEY
The Arts Research Center acts as a hub and a meeting place, a space for reflection where artists, scholars, curators, and civic arts leaders from a variety of disciplines can gather and learn from one another. ARC serves as an incubator for new research and artistic experimentation, as a nexus for faculty, students, and art professionals, and as an advocate that champions the arts on and off campus.
Fall 2025 Highlights
Upcoming Events
LIVESTREAM
Isabel Allende, in conversation with Dean Sara Guyer
Wednesday November 5, 2025 at 5pm
Join the Arts Research Center for an evening with literary legend, feminist icon, and social activist Isabel Allende, in conversation with Dean Sara Guyer of the Division of Arts & Humanities. Presented by ARC in celebration of 25 years as an incubator, nexus, & advocate of the arts on & off campus (event info here).
*In-person tickets have sold-out but Allende has generously allowed us to livestream to the public. Also available on ARC's YouTube channel here.
"The struggle to ensure that art work is recognized as real work and compensated accordingly is an essential one, and it continues through the efforts of art collectives and organizations, the actions of artists, and countless individual decisions to accept or reject engrossing but unpaid jobs."
— Elyse Mallouk, “On Laboring for Love”, from ARC's Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Gathering