Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Sam Aros-MitchellChoregrapher/PerformerApril 20 – 25, 2026
Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of...
Hendl Helen Mirra was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center in 2003-2004. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Hendl Helen Mirra was born in Rochester, New York in 1970 and lives in West Marin, California. Major solo exhibitions include Rochechouart Museum (2022); Museo de Arte Zapopan, Jalisco (2020); Berkeley Art Museum (2019); The Aspen Art Museum (2015); Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2012); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Bonner Kunstverein (both 2011); Dallas Museum of Art (2004); Whitney Museum...
Tim Miller was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center in 2001. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed performance artist. Miller’s creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual, and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Hailed for his humor and passion, Miller has tackled this challenge in such pieces as Postwar (1982), Cost of Living (1983), Democracy in America (1984), Buddy Systems (1985), ...
Actress, Singer, Musical Director of the Isongo ensemble, and Senior Lecturer Classical Voice at the University of Cape Town
Pauline Malefane was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center from 2008-2009. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Pauline Malefane is co-founder and co-Music Director of Isango Ensemble. She has worked with members of the company since 2000. She is also an advocate for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She saw world-wide success playing the role of Carmen, both on stage and in the Golden Bear-winning feature film U-Carmen eKhayelithsa, for which she won a Golden Thumb from Roger Ebert. She...
The Arts Research Center 2014 Artist-in-Residence: Rick LoweNovember 17-November 24, 2014 If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
The Arts Research Center is delighted to host a 10-day residency with acclaimed artist, community organizer, and 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Rick Lowe.
Stan Lai was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center from 2012-2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
One of the most celebrated voices in the contemporary Chinese theatre, Stan Lai has been called "The best Chinese language playwright and director in the world." (BBC) "The preeminent Chinese playwright and stage director of this generation." (China Daily) "Asia's top theatre director." (Asiaweek) "The most celebrated Chinese language playwright and director in the world and his body of work...
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid were ARC's 2001-2002 Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid are Moscow-born artists who emigrated to Israel in 1977 and then to New York in 1978. The two artists first collaborated on a joint exhibition entitled Retrospectivismin Moscow in 1967, and from 1972 started signing all their works with both names, regardless of whether they were made collaboratively. They continued to collaborate until the early 2000s, referring to their...
2024 ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency AIR, Diné playwright, Screenwriter and Dramaturg
Blossom Johnson was the ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency's first-ever artist-in-residence (2024). If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Blossom Johnson is a Diné storyteller, playwright, teaching artist and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan.
She was raised by her grandmother on the very top of Dził Yijiin (Black Mesa), AZ and she’s always been surrounded by stories. When she opens...
ARC Artist-in-Residence, Cellist, Composer, Arranger, Improviser, and Former Member of the Kronos Quartet
Joan Jeanrenaud was an ARC artist-in-residence from 2008 to 2009. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Joan Jeanrenaud is a cellist, composer, arranger, and improviser. She was the cellist of the Kronos Quartet for 20 years. Her work with Kronos included more than 30 recordings and over 2000 performances that took her to virtually every major concert hall worldwide. During those years the group became, in the words of The New York Times critic John Rockwell, "the world's best known, most innovative contemporary-...
John Gromada was the 2008-2009 Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
John Gromada is a multi-award winning, pioneering sound designer and composer, with a career spannning more than three decades. He has composed scores for 40+ critically acclaimed Broadway productions and hundreds off- Broadway and at major regional theatres across the nation and abroad. Highly sought as a collaborator for sound designs that combine original music, abstract sound, and found music to support...
