Dena Beard

Woman with wavy brown hair in a navy-blue dress stands in front of a wall with beige acoustic panels and black chairs with wooden frames.
EVENTS + CONTRIBUTIONS

Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures

Experimental Art and Subjectile Space with Dena Beard

Topics

Curatorial topic page, Performance topic page, Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer topic page
Job title: 
Director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts Brooklyn College
Bio/CV: 

Dena Beard is director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. She was Executive Director of The Lab in San Francisco from 2014–2023 and Assistant Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from 2007–2014. Beard has organized hundreds of projects with artists such as Lutz Bacher, Sadie Barnette, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ellen Fullman, Dora García, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Anna Halprin, Asher Hartman, Annea Lockwood, Barry McGee, Silke Otto-Knapp, Brontez Purnell, Wadada Leo Smith, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Role: 
Visiting Lecturer