ARC Fellow

Reclamation Poetry Gathering with Natalie Diaz, Craig Santos Perez, and Beth Piatote

February 15, 2024
Reclamation Poetry Gathering February 15 – 18, 2024 Public Programming: February 16 – 17, 2024

A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an oceanic-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary

Reclamation gathered 19 fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program for a weekend of readings, conversations, and workshops. Three readings, hosted at...

D’mani Thomas

ARC Fellow, Writer and Creative
D'mani Thomas was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

D’mani Thomas (he\they) is a writer, and creative from Oakland, California (Ohlone territory). They are currently obsessed with surveillance and intimacy. They have received fellowships from UC Berkeley’s Art & Research Center via The Engaging the Senses Foundation, The Watering Hole, Foglifter and others. In 2023, they became a finalist for the Penrose Poetry Prize and were awarded a California Arts Council grant...

Vincente Perez

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Vincente Perez was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Vincente Perez (He/They) is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis with an interest in the way that artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities. Their work centers Black and Latinx lived experience with a stylistic approach...

Maurya Kerr

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Maurya Kerr was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based writer, educator, and artist. Maurya’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and appears or is forthcoming in multiple journals, including Inverted Syntax, Chestnut Review, Tupelo Quarterly, little somethings press, and an anthology, “The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry.” Much of her artistic work, across disciplines, is focused on Black...

Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, & D'mani Thomas

April 3, 2025
Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading
featuring Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez,
& D'mani Thomas Thursday, April 3, 2025 5:00 - 6:30pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Amy Rathbone

ARC Fellow and Visual Artist
Amy Rathbone was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category

Amy Rathbone’s process is one of meticulous construction that occurs over an extended period of time. Each element of the work is painstakingly assembled from minuscule parts to form an immersive whole. Wire, sandbags, spray paint, ink and gouache are employed to form a novel environment, which holds its own inner logic. She has shown her drawings and installation work internationally. From 1999-2009 she worked as a draftsperson for Sol LeWitt.

Amy Rathbone was born in...

Jess Dorrance

ARC Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Jess Dorrance was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Jess Dorrance is a writer, curator, activist, and and doctoral student in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about the intersections between art, performance, and queer, feminist, and anti-racist politics. She holds an MA in Art History (2014) from McGill University (thesis on queer visibility, representation, and trauma), and has been working with the Institute for Queer Theory since 2008.

While living in Berlin (2008-2012) Jess has...

List of ARC Fellows

List of ARC Fellows from 2009 through 2024

Charles Altieri

Fellow and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley
Charles Altieri is a primary co-founder of the Arts Research Center and was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011– he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Charles Altieri has been primarily interested in the varieties of Twentieth Century American poetry, especially in relation to philosophy and to the visual arts. He also recently wrote a book on the affects and that shapes his thinking on most topics. But he is in transition. Altieri has been teaching Shakespeare and Hegel and will teach the epic because he wants a grand stage on which to figure out what he can...

Poetry & the Senses Fellows’ Reading

December 9, 2020
Poetry & the Senses Fellows’ Reading Wednesday December 9, 2020 5:00-6:30 PST

Watch the recording here!