Activism

Visual Activism: Favianna Rodriguez

September 15, 2023
Favianna Rodriguez Tuesday, September 15
11:30-12:30pm PST

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Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and social justice activist based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, gender justice, climate change, racial equity, and sexual freedom. Her practice boldly reshapes the myths, stories, and cultural practices of the present, while healing from the wounds of the past.

Feminist Curatorial Practices

April 11, 2018
Feminist Curatorial Practices: A roundtable convening Wednesday, April 11 at 5:30pm
Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor, Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley

Join the Arts Research Center and Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis Matrix Curator at BAMPFA for a roundtable conversation about Feminist Curatorial Practices. The evening will consist of participants responding to one image that they consider to be urgent and relevant to the current state of feminism, and one...

Berkeley/Stanford Symposium

April 7, 2018
Berkeley/Stanford Symposium A Line in the Sand: Art, Ecology, & Precarity Saturday, April 7 from 10am-5pm
White Box Gallery, 4th Floor, SFMOMA, San Francisco

Join the Arts Research Center and Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis Matrix Curator at BAMPFA for a roundtable conversation about Feminist Curatorial Practices. The evening will consist of participants responding to one image that they consider to be urgent and relevant to the current state...

Day With(out) Art

December 5, 2017
Day With(out) Art: Alternative Endings, Radical Beginnings Tuesday, December 5, 7:00 pm Nahl Hall, 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Public screening co-presented with the
California College of the Arts

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Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA

Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA

Join us every Monday evening to explore cutting-edge thinking and making on topics of current interest to UC Berkeley’s creative faculty. Whether we are exploring new immersive art technologies, the future of cultural criticism, or the role of the arts in social justice, expect an exciting array of ideas and people. All lectures will commence at 6:30pm in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Theater. Co-curated by...

Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures

Spring 2017 Lecture Series: Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures

We are reprising last year’s Big Ideas course, “Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley,” and once again, this course will open its doors to the public each Wednesday at noon. This year’s theme — “California Countercultures” — is co-taught and co-organized by Natasha Boas, independent curator, and critic of contemporary art and theory, and Michael Cohen...

Rick Lowe: “Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial”

November 17, 2014
Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial with Rick Lowe Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
November 17, 2014, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Co-presented with the Regents Lecturer Program.

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A Week of Socially Engaged Art: October 6-12, 2014

A Week of Socially Engaged Art: October 6-12, 2014 Dive in and out of a week-long series of events, and meet artists and institutions that are making waves in the evolving practice of Socially Engaged Art!

This week, the Arts Research Center is partnering with the Center for Art and Inquiry at the Exploratorium as well as New York’s Blade of Grass, to program a series of Bay Area events that demonstrate the range and reach of socially engaged art! With Maya Lin at the David Brower Center, Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Island, Rick Lowe in residence at the Arts Research Center, Paul Ramirez Jonas...