ARC Fellow

Beth Piatote

ARC Director, 2020 ARC Fellow – Poetry and the Senses

Beth Piatote is a creative writer, playwright, and scholar. She is the author of two books, including the mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize, and short-listed for the California Independent Booksellers Association “Golden Poppy” Prize for Fiction. The Beadworkers was named the winner of the 2020 Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories. Her full-length play...

Maw Shein Win

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Maw Shein Win was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Maw Shein Win is a poet, editor, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English...

Eli Wirtschafter

2012 ARC Fellow
Eli Wirtschafter was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was selected in the Undergraduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Eli Wirtschafter is the Program Director for KALW's project in state prisons. We teach incarcerated people how to record and edit audio stories, and air them as part of the series Uncuffed.

Eli graduated from KALW's Audio Academy in 2016. He became KALW's transportation reporter, and also...

David Wheeler

2019 ARC Fellow
David Wheeler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

David Wheeler received his BA from Macalester College in 2009, where he double majored in Theatre and Classical Archaeology. During his time there, he spent two seasons working on Macalester’s excavations at Omrit in Israel and a third season at Kenchreai in Greece. He also spent a semester in Egypt studying at the American University in Cairo, where he was awarded the prestigious Simpson...

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...

Scott Wallin

2010 ARC Fellow
Scott Wallin was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

As a theatre director, psychiatric social worker, and university instructor, Scott Wallin is passionate about working closely with others to create works of art that build community, push expectations, and explore a diversity of experiences. His scholarly work examines how theater reflects and influences our understandings of madness and mental illness. Other interests include applying performance theory...

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...

Ken Ueno

ARC Fellow, Composer, Vocalist, Sound Artist, and Professor of Composition at UC Berkeley
Ken Ueno was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and sound artist. His music celebrates artistic possibilities which are liberated through a Whitmanesque consideration of the embodied practice of unique musical personalities. Much of Ueno’s music is “person-specific” wherein the intricacies of performance practice is brought into focus in the technical...

Cesar Armando Torres

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington
Cesar Armando Torres was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 - he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Dr. Cesar Armando Torres is the director of The Hybrid Atelier and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. As a design researcher, he synthesizes new media and craft theory into the software and hardware design of creative, tangible user interfaces. He has received multiple best paper awards at top-tier venues within HCI...

Kellen Trenal

ARC Fellow, Visual Artist, Performer, and Small Business Owner
Kellen Trenal was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – they were chosen in the Community Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kellen Trenal (pronounced like “Chanel”) is a visual artist, performer, small business owner, alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, and holistic wellness enthusiast, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Proudly representing both African (Black American) and niimíipuu (Nez Perce) ancestry, Kellen...