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Artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2024, the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S Pavilion at the international art event, with an exhibit titled "the space in which to place me."

Fall 2023 Poetry & the Senses Fellow Reading

December 12, 2023

5:30 pm

Online

The Arts Research Center (ARC) celebrates our Fall 2023 ARC Poetry & the Senses Fellows with a reading of work created during their fellowship semester. Please join us in welcoming thirteen extraordinary poets to ARC’s virtual stage:

Day With(Out) Art: Everyone I Know is Sick

December 1, 2023

All Day

Online

PROGRAM LINK AVAILABLE DECEMBER 01 - watch here.

Echoes from the Borderlands

with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum,and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists

November 30, 2023

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

This event was hosted by BCNM. You can find the original event page on their website here.

The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye

November 16, 2023

Noon — 1:00 PM

Arts Research Center (Hearst Field Annex, D23)

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

What Gets Amplified

with Raven Chacon
Composer

November 13, 2023

5:00 — 6:30 PM

Arts Research Center (Hearst Field Annex, D23)

Event hosted by BCNM. You can find the original event page on their website here.

Claudia Rankine & Pamela Sneed

November 8, 2023

6 p.m.

Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

In Citizen. An American Lyric, poet, playwright and MacArthur fellow Claudia Rankine writes: “This would be your fatal flaw–your memory, vessel of feelings …” The accumulation of everyday violence and racism forms heavy memories that make it difficult to imagine a present and future different from the past.

The recent hire of 10 faculty members in UC Berkeley’s Division of Arts and Humanities is "the largest arts hire in recent years, and it shines a light on the important role that artists play at a public research university," said Sara Guyer, dean of the division.

The Loft Hour: Zamansele Nsele + Nicole Starosielski

October 19, 2023

Noon - 1 p.m.

Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex, D23

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations

October 12, 2023

9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Hearst Muesum 102 Anthropology and Art Practice Building, Berkeley, CA 94720

An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure––a tourist route of non-touristic places

Craft Talk with dg nanouk okpik

Eskimo in the City: Reading and Writing for Life

October 5, 2023

4 - 5:15 p.m.

Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex, D23

Latinx Poetry Now: A Reading and Conversation with J. Michael Martinez + aracelis girmay

Thursday Sept 28, 2023

11am - 12:30pm

Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

All Arts Welcome!

Reception and Open House

September 21, 2023

4 - 5:30 p.m.

Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan

September 20, 2023

1 p.m.

Online

Favianna Rodriguez

Tuesday, September 15
11:30-12:30pm PST

Watch the recording here!

Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and social justice activist based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, gender justice, climate change, racial equity, and sexual freedom. Her practice boldly reshapes the myths, stories, and cultural practices of the present, while healing from the wounds of the past.

Maziar Maghsoodnia Poetry Fund 2023 Reading Featuring Solmaz Sharif

September 13, 2023

4 p.m.

David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room

Six Art Practice faculty and alumni included in prestigious Bay Area Now 9 exhibition

Part of our research mission as a think tank for the arts is to be a hub and meeting place, a place to support conversation, dialogue and debate.

We extend that to uplifting the work of our colleagues and partners

Poetry & the Senses 2022/23 Fellows Reading

Thursday, May 4th, 2023
5:00 – 6:30pm PDT

Watch the livestream here!

This event is presented by ARC in partnership with Engaging the Senses Foundation

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 PST
Doe Library Room 308A, UC Berkeley

Watch the recording here!