Visiting Lecturer

Luis Valdez

Playwright, Director
Luis Valdez gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 18, 2014.

Luis Valdez is regarded as one of the most important and influential American playwrights living today.His internationally renowned, and Obie award-winning theater company, El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers’ Theater) was founded by Luis in 1965 – in the heat of the United Farm Workers (UFW) struggle and the Great Delano Grape Strike in California’s Central Valley.His involvement with Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the early Chicano Movement left an indelible mark that remains...

V. Vale

Cultural Historian, Writer, Keyboard Player
V. Vale gave a Visiting Lecture Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 19, 2017.

V. Vale is a San Francisco cultural historian, writer, keyboard player and, as Vale Hamanaka, was a member of the initial configuration of Blue Cheer. In 1977 V. Vale founded as sole proprietor Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first Punk Rock publication. In 1980, V. Vale launched as sole proprietor RE/SEARCH. V. Vale is most likely the longest lasting (and still active) Punk publisher. Although Vale released books that include Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch, and many other...

Chloe Veltman

Journalist, Broadcaster
Chloe Veltman was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Radio, Podcast, and Contemporary Cultural Criticism Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 24, 2017.

Chloe Veltman is a creator and shaper of engaging written, audio, and video content in the arts and culture media space. Her home base for storytelling is NPR, where, as a staff culture correspondent since July 2022, she covers a wide range of topics across digital and broadcast platforms, including both breaking news and in-depth features.

Before joining NPR, Veltman worked as an arts and...

Andrew Weiner

Associate Professor of Art Theory and Criticism at NYU

Andrew Weiner is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work aims to theorize and historicize relations between aesthetics, politics, and media. His dissertation tracked the increasing convergence of these spheres in West Germany and Austria during the 1960s, focusing on "events"—new modes of public action that combined experimental art with radical demonstration. It considers the practices of artists such as Joseph Beuys, Jörg Immendorff, VALIE EXPORT, and Peter Weibel alongside those of activists on the emergent New Left. The project argues that this "aesthetico-political...

Robert Wilson

Experimental Theater Stage Director & Playwright
Robert Wilson was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. After being educated at the...

Jenna Wortham

Journalist
Jenna Wortham gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2017.

Jenna Wortham (they/them), also known as J Wortham, is a sound healer, reiki practitioner, herbalist, and community care worker oriented towards healing justice and liberation.

J is also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and co-host of the...

Kathy Zarur

Curator & Educator
Kathy Zarur gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2018.

​Kathy Zarur is a curator and educator based in San Francisco. She has curated exhibitions for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Center for Asian American Media Film Festival, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Kearny Street Workshop, SOMArts, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, and Museum of the African Diaspora (all in San Francisco). In 2011, she was assistant curator of the Sharjah Biennial. She co-produced artist Wael Shawky’s live installation...