AIR

Open Rehearsal Project (draft)

Open Rehearsal | Artists-in-Residence (draft)

From 2026 - 2029, ARC will invite artists who work in a propositional space to Berkeley, theorists who have a practice that informs their scholarly work, and are actively experimenting with form. The AIRS will form a cohort or ensemble of residents that participate in on-campus residencies, which will include a public facing component, studio and class visits, and conversations with faculty. In addition, they will work remotely in conversation with invited faculty during the year. The cohort will build, with...

Drew Woodson

2025 ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency AIR, Playwright
Drew Woodson was a Playwright-in-Residence with ARC through the Indigenous Performing Arts Residency in April 2025. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Drew Woodson is a Western Shoshone playwright based in New York City. He has had his work read in multiple theaters across New York, including Rattlestick Theater where he was asked to open the first annual Northeastern Native Arts Festival with his play “Your Friend, Jay Silverheels.” For this same work, Drew was named Yale's Young Indigenous Playwright of 2021. More recently...

Reggie Wilson

2005/6 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Choreographer
Reggie Wilson was the 2005-2006 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Reggie Wilson (Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer, Performer) founded Fist & Heel Performance Group, in 1989. Wilson draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he often calls “post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances.”

His work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues such as Brooklyn...

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...

Marianne Weems

Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz
Marianne Weems is the 2007-2008 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Marianne Weems is a theater and opera director and founder of the award-winning New York-based theater company The Builders Association, an influential ensemble that has created a significant body of work at the forefront of integrating media with live performance. With the company, she has created and directed 17 original large-scale productions and worked with unexpected collaborators including the architects Diller + Scofidio, The...

Henry Threadgill

Composer, Saxophonist, and Flautist
Henry Threadgill was the 2002-2003 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Since the 1960s, Henry Threadgill has been on the leading edge of avant-garde jazz with his original compositions. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016, one of only three jazz artists to win the prestigious award.

Threadgill grew up on the South Side of Chicago and first played percussion, then clarinet in the Englewood High School band before switching to saxophone at age 15. At 19, he joined ...

Amanda Strong

Filmmaker, Stop Motion Animator, and Media Artist
Amanda Strong was the Fall 2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Amanda Strong 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 received a BAA in Interpretative Illustration and a Diploma in Applied Photography from the Sheridan Institute. With a cross-discipline focus, common themes of her work are reclamation of Indigenous histories, lineage...

Mary Ann Smart

ARC Fellow, Musicologist, and Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley
Mary Ann Smart was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 - she was chosen in the Faculty fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Mary Ann Smart's research has focused on social dimensions of opera in nineteenth-century Europe. Her first book, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera(link is external) (2004), drew on...

Jeffrey Skoller

ARC Fellow, Filmmaker, Writer, and Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley
Jeffrey Skoller was an ARC Fellow in Spring of 2009 and 2013 – he was chosen in the Faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker and writer. He teaches film/video production and courses on the histories and theories of experimental/avant-garde film and video art, documentary/non-fiction film, Third Cinema, activist and other counter-media practices. “In research and image-making, I explore relationships between film and contemporary art, the radical aesthetics and praxis of the...