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...

Vincente Perez

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Vincente Perez was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Vincente Perez (He/They) is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis with an interest in the way that artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities...

Morgan Parker

ARC Fellow, Poet, Essayist, and Novelist
Morgan Parker was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections...

Shari Paladino

ARC Fellow, Artist, Designer, and Educator
Shari Paladino was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Shari Paladino is an artist, designer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has exhibited work at the Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Richmond Art Center. She attended University of California, Berkeley, earning her bachelor’s degree in art education and disability studies, as well as a master’s degree in fine arts. Shari developed curriculum for...

Marcus Owens

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Washington State University
Marcus Owens was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Initially trained as an Architect, Marcus Owens received a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from UC Berkeley. He has worked in a variety of professional contexts, including founding CAMO Studio with Christina Antiporda, focused on community engaged design/build, and with the US Forest Service....

Daniel O’Neill

ARC Fellow, Japanese Program Associate Professor, and Head Undergraduate Academic Advisor at UC Berkeley
Daniel O'Neill was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Associate Professor Daniel O'Neill received his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Yale University. He teaches courses in modern Japanese literature, cinema, and cultural history. His research interests include nonfiction and experimental media, the intersections of media theory and ecocriticism, the locations of...

Alva Noë

ARC Fellow, Philosopher, and Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley
Alva Noë was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher living in Berkeley and New York. He works on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of Action in Perception (MIT Press, 2004); Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and...

Tiffany Ng

ARC Fellow, Associate Professor of Carillon, and University Carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tiffany Ng was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Tiffany Ng is an associate professor of carillon and university carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An energetic advocate of diversity in contemporary music, she has premiered or revived over sixty pieces by emerging and established composers from Augusta Read Thomas to Yvette Janine Jackson, pioneered models for interactive “crowdsourced” carillon performances and environmental-data-...

Greg Niemeyer

ARC Fellow, Data Artist, Co-Founder of BCNM, Professor of Media Innovation, an Director of the Art Practice Graduate Program at UC Berkeley
Greg Niemeyer was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 and 2018 – he was chosen in the Faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Greg Niemeyer is a data artist and Professor of Media Innovation in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. He's the former director and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He started out with studies in Classics and Photography in Switzerland and switched to new media when he moved to the Bay Area in 1992.

He received his MFA from Stanford University in New Genres in...

Jesse Nathan

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Jesse Nathan was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 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.

Jesse Nathan’s poems appear in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, FENCE, The Yale Review, Harvard Review, and American Poetry Review. His translations of Alfonsina Storni and Brenda Solís-Fong in Mantis and Poetry International. Nathan was born in...