Creativity Across the Disciplines: Stan Lai and Bruce Beasley in conversationModerated by ARC Director and Professor Shannon Jackson Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Alumni House, UC Berkeley 4:30-5:00 Light Reception 5:00-6:30 Public Dialogue and Q&A
The Art of Cultural Criticism Fall 2016 Lecture Series
The Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts + Design Initiative, the Arts Research Center, and the Art of Writing are pleased to present TheArt of Cultural Criticism. This yearlong series of conversations features some of the most innovative and incisive writers on culture in its various forms—including visual art, film, old...
Temporal ShiftsTime Across Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Art Practices Friday, Feb 1, 2013 | 3:00 pm Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Free and open to the public.
Temporal Shifts, in February 2013, was organized in conjunction with a residency at the Arts Research Center by renowned Taiwanese playwright/director/filmmaker Stan Lai (Lai Sheng-Chuan), who was on campus for two weeks as an Avenali Resident Fellow in January and February of this same year. This daylong symposium brought together scholars such...
Workshop open to UC Berkeley Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Doc Students
A collaboration between Cal Performances' Illuminations, the Department of Music, and the Arts Research Center with support by the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities...
Ellen Hargis was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the fête at Fontainebleau Performance at the Arts Research Center on February 20, ~2003.
Soprano Ellen Hargis is one of America’s premier early music singers, specializing in repertoire ranging from ballads to opera and oratorio. She has worked with many of the foremost period music conductors of the world, including Andrew Parrott, Gustav Leonhardt, Daniel Harding, Paul Goodwin, John Scott, Monica Huggett, Jane Glover, Nicholas Kraemer, Harry Bickett, Simon Preston, Paul Hillier, Craig Smith, and Jeffery Thomas. She...
Eli Wirtschafter was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was selected in the Undergraduate Fellow category.
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 interned with KQED News and The California Report. He's been working in KALW's training...
Sound Studies Scholar, Art Anthropologist, Curator and Practitioner in Sound Art
Adel-Jing Wang was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.
Based in Hangzhou, China, Adel-Jing Wang is a sound studies scholar, art anthropologist, curator and practitioner in sound art. She is currently an associate professor of sound studies at Zhejiang University, China and has also served as a visiting scholar at MIT Anthropology(2019-2020) andthe School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong (2017.2). She is the artist in residence at The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (2022-2023...
Singer, Percussionist, Producer, Songwriter, and Music Arranger
Linda Tillery was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the The Old World in the New Conference at the Arts Research Center on August 28, 2006.
Linda Tillery first came to prominence as the lead singer in San Francisco group The Loading Zone from 1968 to 1969. She recorded her debut album for CBS Records, and worked as a studio musician through much of the 1970s, playing drums on albums by Santana, Mary Watkins, and Teresa Trull. She became a producer and staff artist at Olivia Records late in the decade, and released a second full-length album on the label in 1978....
Henry Threadgill was the 2002-2003 ARC Artist-in-Residence.
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 Muhal Richard...
