A Think Tank for the Arts

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The Arts Research Center is a think tank for the arts. It 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.

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Fall 2024 Artist-in-Residence filmmaker Amanda Strong to visit UC Berkeley for Oct 30th Film Screening & Nov 1st Artist Talk with Visiting Artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Read an interview with Amanda Strong in Berkeley News!

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Upcoming Events

LIFT & LOFT Grants open till 11/1

The Arts Research Center will support eight up to $500 LIFT awards for students and three $2,000 LOFT awards for faculty

11/14: The Loft Hour, with Asma Kazmi + SanSan Kwan

Elevate your lunch break and join arts faculty as they riff on their work, in conversation with Carolyn Chen.

11/14 Lisa Blackmore: “How to Eat a River”

Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in conversation with Natalia Brizuela
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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