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
Year | Visiting Artist and Project |
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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 |