Visiting Artist

DJ Lamont

DJ, Founder of Fingersnaps Media Arts

DJ Lamont

Music has always been a beautiful, nurturing, and impressive art form that has influenced my spirit of imagination, since my mom gifted me a “Close N’ Play” Record Player, when I was 5 years of age in 1970.

Growing up, I would turn on the radio and let the music play all night while I was asleep. From time to time throughout, I would hear a song that would inspire me to awake, as I tapped my toes to the Disco beat; nestled under the covers listening, while falling back to sleep.

On the weekends, back in the...

Alex Donis

Visual Artist

Alex Donis is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work examines and redefines the boundaries set within religion, politics, race, and sexuality. Interested in toppling societies’ conventional attitudes, his work is often influenced by a tri-cultural (Pop, Latino, and Queer) experience. He has worked extensively in a variety of media including painting, installation, photography, video, and works on paper.

He was born in 1964 in Chicago, IL and was educated at a Catholic school in East Los Angeles, an east-coast prep school in Massachusetts,...

Glenda Drew

Media Artist, Professor of Design at UC Davis.

Glenda Drew is a critical maker whose research is based at the intersections of visual culture and social change, with a particular emphasis on the working class. The content of her work is rooted in creating messaging with greater social implications, fostering innovation and encouraging behavior change. Her subjects include country musicians, waitresses, feminists and precarious workers. In addition, she has recently created a few projects that consider climate change through user interface and artistic installations. Her practice is multifaceted in form and includes...

Olya Dubatova

Painter, Filmmaker, Installation Artist

Olya Dubatova is a Russian/American artist based in New York, Tbilisi (Georgia), and Yucatan, Mexico. Dubatova’s work has been exhibited in multiple galleries and museums internationally, including Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum Aldobrandini (Rome) Riddoch Gallery in Mount Gambier, Australia, and the Bookstore Project in Amsterdam. She co-founded and was the director of BlenderLabs at USC (Los Angeles). BlenderLabs was awarded the prestigious Visions and Voices Grant in 2016. Her projects with UC Berkeley, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and Internet Archive...

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk

Dramturg, Professor of Drama at Oslo Metropolitan University

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk is a practicing dramaturg within the scope of interdisciplinary performing arts. Her research concerns new dramaturgies, staging of documentary material, Applied theatre, and ethics and artistic research. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and a PhD from Roehampton University/ London where she developed the concept 'Theatre-ting', which is a meeting between the possibilities offered by the spaces of theatre and object-oriented philosophy, new materialist, post-human perspectives and documentary material. Eeg-Tverbakk...

Fantastic Negrito

Singer-Songwriter of Blues, R&B, and Roots

Part love story, part historical excavation, Fantastic Negrito’s extraordinary new album, White Jesus Black Problems, is an exhilarating ode to the power of family and the enduring resilience of our shared humanity. Inspired by the illegal, interracial romance of his seventh generation grandparents—a white indentured servant and an enslaved Black man—in 1750s Virginia, the collection is bold and thought provoking, grappling with racism, capitalism, and the very meaning of freedom itself, all without ever losing sight of the desire and determination at the heart of...

Claire Fontaine

Conceptual Artist

Claire Fontaine is a collective feminist conceptual artist founded by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill in Paris in 2004. Since 2017 she lives and works in Palermo. Her name is inspired by Duchamp’s iconic ready-made, the urinal entitled Fontaine, and a famous brand of French notebooks (Clairefontaine); it defines a space where the biographies of the artist is not directly connected to their artworks allowing their research to become a space of freedom and desubjectivisation. The use of appropriation and hijacking in her work stems from the same intention: not...

Jeffrey Gibson

Interdisciplinary Artist

Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972) is an interdisciplinary artist. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea. He received a bachelor of fine arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and master of arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Claremont Graduate University (2016) and the Institute of American Indian Arts (2023). He is currently an artist-in-residence at Bard College...

Ceinwen Gobert

Multidiscliplinary Artist

Ceinwen Gobert was raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and later graduated with distinction from the collaborative BA program at the University of Calgary and the School of Alberta Ballet. She is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist and has had the pleasure of interpreting works for a number of choreographers and companies, including Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Van Grimde Corps Secrets, W&M Physical Theatre, Paul-Andre Fortier, Darryl Tracy, Brian Solomon, Signal Theatre, and Tanya Lukin Linklater. Ceinwen worked with Kaha:wi Dance Theatre from 2004-2016, was...

Philip Kan Gotanda

Playwright, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley

Over the last four decades, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theater in America. The author of one of the largest bodies of Asian American-themed works, he has been instrumental in bringing stories of Asians in the United States to mainstream American theater as well as to Europe and Asia. Gotanda has specialized in investigating the Japanese American family, writing a cycle of works in theater, film, song, and opera that chronicle Japanese America from the early 1900s to the present. Gotanda is also a...