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.
Announcing the 2025/26 LIFT & LOFT Grant Winners!
With generous support from the KAVAH Fund and the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, ARC awarded 20 Arts Development Grants for the 2025/26 year, including 14 LIFT Student Grants of $500 each and 6 LOFT Faculty Grants of $2000 each. Please join us in congratulating our 21 outstanding awardees from 12 departments on campus:
FACULTY
Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre (Geography), Liz Gálvez - Assistant Professor (Architecture), Asma Kazmi & Jill Miller (Art Practice & Berkeley Center for New Media), SanSan Kwan (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies), Tadiwa Madenga (English and Comparative Literature), Courtney Desiree Morris (Gender & Women's Studies)
STUDENTS
Eleni Berg (Art Practice), Ryan Gourley (Ethnomusicology), Muffy Koster (Performance Studies), Cammie Lee (English + film & media DE), Jose Miguel Alvarado Mendoza (Comparative Literature), Macyn Metten (Art Practice), Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán (Art Practice), NAMI (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies), Lorain Khalil Rihan (Art Practice), Irene Franco Rubio (Ethnic Studies + DE in Gender, Women, Sexuality + New Media), Maria Silk (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies), Bhavani Srinivas (Art Practice), Alex K Torrez (Sociology + DE in Gender & Women's Studies), Alder Wheeler (Environmental Science, Policy and Management; Division of Society and Environment )
Read more about the Grant Program here, and awardee profiles & projects here!
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"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