Visual Arts

Two-Day Letterpress Workshop

February 28, 2026
Two-Day Letterpress Workshop
Sat February 28th & Sun March 1st, 2026
10am to 4pm each day
Location: The Codex Foundation, 1331 Seventh Street, Unit D, Berkeley, CA

Open to Berkeley undergraduate & graduate students
Limited enrollment, capped at 8 students
Spots given on a first-come, first-served basis
Cost to participants underwritten by the Arts Research Center

Due to the limited space and cost, we ask that you commit to attending if you sign-up; we are taking a waiting...

Kathy Zarur

Curator & Educator
Kathy Zarur gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

​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...

Anicka Yi

Conceptual Artist
Anicka Yi gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on January 25, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between what is human, animal, plant and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. She...

Caroline Woolard

W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement & Founding Co-Organizer of Art.coop
Caroline Woolard gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 26, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Caroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement and a founding co-organizer of Art.coop. She is the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and ...

Angie Wilson

Interdisciplinary Artist
Angie Wilson gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 2, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Angie Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist working in textile-based sculpture, installation, social practice, interiors, and costume design. She is interested in the intimacy of textiles – as protective, sheltering, comforting, and expressive. Textiles as clothing and domestic objects signify identity, hold memory, and tell stories. Angie references weaving as a powerful metaphor for...

David Wilson

Paper & Performance-based Artist
David Wilson was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Living Time Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 21, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

David Wilson is an artist based in Oakland, CA. He creates observational drawings based in direct experiences with landscape and orchestrates site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artisans into collaborative relationships. He organized the experimental exhibition The Possible...

Fred Wilson

2002/3 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Fine Artist
Fred Wilson was the 2002-2003 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Fred Wilson is renowned for his interdisciplinary practice that challenges assumptions of history, culture, race, and conventions of display. By reframing objects and cultural symbols, he alters traditional interpretations, encouraging viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives.

Wilson’s early work was directed at marginalized histories, exploring how models of categorization, collecting, and display exemplify...

Anne Walsh

2011 & 2019 ARC Fellow
Anne Walsh was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 & Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Anne Walsh is a maker of performance, video, sound, and text works, many of which re-mediate the works and lives of other artists and her own family. Walsh’s book Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh (2019, no place press/MIT Press) epitomizes the aggressively indexical, personal, and analytical nature of her practice: it is a visual and written ‘adaptation’ of Leonora Carrington...

Cecelia Vicuña

Poet, Artist, Activist, Filmmaker
Cecilia Vicuña gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against the president Salvador Allende. In London, she was a co-founder of Artists for Democracy in...

Chris Vargas

Video Maker and Interdisciplinary Artist
Chris E. Vargas was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 - he was selected in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Chris E. Vargas is a video maker & interdisciplinary artist currently based in Bellingham, WA whose work deploys humor and performance in conjunction with mainstream idioms to explore the complex ways that queer and trans people negotiate spaces for themselves within historical & institutional memory and popular culture. He earned his MFA in the department of Art Practice from...