Artist-in-Residence

Each year ARC affiliated faculty are joined by prominent or emerging artists who are invited to campus for extended visits to pursue their own original creative research, collaborate with students and faculty, present their work to the general public in various forums, and engage with other units on campus.

Residencies of three days to three months give visiting artists space and time to pursue their work; allow students to work with leading practitioners in their fields; stimulate and challenge faculty artists and scholars; and give local community members the opportunity to engage with important artists (and artists the chance to engage with our community). Artists visiting Berkeley find particularly valuable the opportunity to interact not only with other artists, but with the University’s critics and curators, and with scholars from the humanities and sciences. Over the past 23 years, ARC has been honored welcome 28 artists, writers, composers, directors, playwrights, filmmakers, musicians, and choreographers to campus.

Past artists-in-residence (AIR) can be searched in our events archive here.

The retired Arts + Science residency can be viewed in our past programs here.

Spotlight on recent AIRs

Amanda Strong - Fall 2024 Artist-in-Residence

Amanda Strong will be the Arts Research Center's Artist-in Residence for fall 2024. She is a Michif (Metis) interdisciplinary artist with a focus on filmmaking, stop motion animations and media art. Currently based on unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, BC, Canada, Strong has a cross-discipline focus. Common themes of her work are reclamation of Indigenous histories, lineage, language and culture. Strong will be sharing an evening of films at BAMPFA, giving an artist lecture, and visiting classes during her stay at Berkeley. She will be joined by her colleague Bracken Hanuse Corlett.

Blossom Johnson – Spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence

Blossom Johnson presented four staged readings of Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) or, A Boarding School Play with AlterTheater Ensemble and director Daniel Leeman Smith. Her residency was in conjunction with the Dept of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, and the Indigenous Performing Arts Residency.

Tanya Lukin Linklater – Fall 2023 Artist-in-Residence

Tanya Lukin Linklater performed Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth. at BAMPFA from Nov 1 – 4, a cyclical series of dance rehearsals with Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, in response to the Duane Linklater exhibition mymotherside. The public was invited to view the in-situ, unfolding, durational processes of embodiment, gesture, and sensation over a 4-day period.

Dillon Chitto – Spring 2023 Artist-in-Residence

Dillon Chitto premiered Pueblo Revolt, an equally hilarious and poignant play that wove together history and Indigifuturism to examine queerness, family, religion, and survival, at the Arts Research Center from Feb 2 - 12 with production by AlterTheater Ensemble. On February 6, Chitto was joined by Laurie Arnold for a lecture, Theater as a Site of Public History.

Dario Robleto - Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence

Dario Robleto is an artist, researcher, writer, and teacher based in Houston, TX. Throughout his twenty-five career, Robleto has sought to cultivate rigorous, mutually transformative interactions between the arts, humanities, and sciences. Tapping into multiple creative traditions ranging from astrophysics to cardiology to poetry to DJ culture, his work has focused with particular intensity on theories and practices of recording, and on the material + emotional structures of intergenerational relay and memory.

Timeline of ARC Artist-in-Residence Program
Year	Visiting Artist and Project
F2024	Filmmaker Amanda Strong
S2024	Playwright Blossom Johnson, Staged Readings of Diné Nishłį
F2023	Choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater, Open Dance Rehearsals of "Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth."
S2023	Playwright Dillon Chitto, world premiere staging of "Pueblo Revolt"
2022	Artist and materialist poet Dario Robleto
2018-2019	Art + Science Artists-in-Residence with Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler / Morris)
2017	Inaugural Art + Science Artists-in-Residence with Bull.Miletic (Synne T. Bull and Dragan Miletic)
2014	Artist and community organizer Rick Lowe
2012-2013	Playwright, director and Berkeley alum Stan Lai
2009-2010	Campo Santo company members Sean San José and Erika Chong Shuch of Campo Santo
2008-2009	Writer/director Alex Harvey and composer John Gromada
2008-2009	South African opera singer, film actress and writer Pauline Malefane
2008-2009	Playwright and filmmaker Philip Kan Gotanda
2008-2009	Composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud
2007-2008	The Builders Association Artistic director Marianne Weems
2006-2007	Touchable Stories Artistic director Shannon Flattery
2005-2006	New York-based choreographer Reggie Wilson
2004-2005	Spanish-born, Denmark-based artist Ignacio Rábago
2003-2004	Fine artist Helen Mirra
2002-2003	Fine artist Fred Wilson
2002-2003	Sculptor David Rabinowitch
2002-2003	Pioneering New York musician/composer Henry Threadgill
2001-2002	New York-based, Russian-born conceptual artists Komar & Melamid
2001	“Pilot” ARC residency with Los Angeles-based performance artist/activist Tim Miller

Check out ARC's performance archive and digital publication of Tanya Lukin Linklater’s creative process with "Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth."

Image credit:

Laurie Macfee