Activism

Jenna Wortham

Journalist
Jenna Wortham gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jenna Wortham (they/them), also known as J Wortham, is a sound healer, reiki practitioner, herbalist, and community care worker oriented towards healing justice and liberation.

J is also a staff writer for...

Nellie Wong

Poet, Socialist Feminist Activist
Nellie Wong gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Nellie Wong was born in Oakland, California, on September 12, 1934. As a teenager she worked in her parents’ Chinese restaurant, and after graduating high school, she took a job as a secretary for Bethlehem Steel Corporation, where she worked until 1982. In her mid-thirties, she began studying creative writing at San...

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...

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...

Tourmaline

Artist, Filmmaker, Activist, Editor, and Writer
Tourmaline gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 5, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Tourmaline is an artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist whose practice highlights the experiences of Black, queer, and trans communities and their capacity to impact the world. Her films and photographs rewrite mainstream narratives and cultural histories to initiate a paradigm shift and imagine a more pleasure-filled future. Tourmaline’s practice invites us to fundamentally reshape our beliefs...

The Yes Men

Activist Duo
The Yes Men gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on March 2, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos Through various actions, the Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about problematic social and political issues. To date, the duo have produced three films: The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix the World (2009),...

Leslie St Dre

Artist, Organizer, Educator
Leslie St Dre was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Art in City: The City in the Art event at the Arts Research Center on July 17, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Leslie St Dre (formerly Dreyer) is an artist, organizer and educator dedicated to building joyfully militant and intersectional movements for land and housing justice. They’ve spent the past decade honing a tactical arts organizing practice utilizing integrated narrative and media strategies. This work merges popular...

Eric Stanley

Chair in LGBT Equity and Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley
Eric A. Stanley was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 5, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Eric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory.

Eric’s first manuscript ...

Tonika Sealy-Thompson

Ambassador of Barbados to Brazil
Tonika Sealy-Thompson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Movement as Research Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 18, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Tonika Sealy-Thompson is a diplomat, academic, social justice and education activist from Barbados. She was appointed ambassador to Brazil in 2019, and also now serves concurrently as Barbados’ Ambassador to Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Her research explores the links between the women in politics and performing arts across...

Susan Schweik

Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities and Emeritus Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley
Susan Schweik was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the City, Arts and Public Spaces Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Susan Schweik's last book was The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. She is completing a book tentatively titled Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Asylum Overturned Ideas about IQ, & Why You Don't Know About Their Work. A recipient of Berkeley's Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and U.C.'...