ARC Fellow

Jason Fritz

2013 ARC Fellow
Jason Fritz was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 - he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Jason Fritz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work shuttles between performance, film, installation, and disaster. Originally from Detroit, now living and working in San Francisco, Fritz’s work is heavily in conversation with the histories of the queer future and representation through documentation. He holds an MFA can in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. His work focuses on the idea of transformation, the ability of individuals to transform their own...

Carolyn Finney

2014 ARC Fellow
Carolyn Finney was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was selected in the Faculty Fellow category.

Carolyn Finney, PhD is a storyteller, author and a cultural geographer who is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. The aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Carolyn is...

José Figueroa

2016 ARC Fellow
José Figueroa was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Caracas, Venezuelan-born and currently based in Oakland, California, José Figueroa is an artist working in drawing, photography, video and sculpture. He has studied at the Skowhegan School, Cooper Union (BFA) and recently received his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Best known for his map-like drawings that document (in playful detail) his surroundings, Figueroa is a keen observer of life. He is interested in the role colonization and...

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Elizabeth Zhiying Feng was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng is a visual artist, writer, and programmer from the Bay Area. Elizabeth is a second year Electrical Engineering & Computer Science major at Berkeley. She creates visual poetry that combines writing with elements of photography, typography, cinematography, and composition. She’s also interested in new media, immersive computing, and machine creativity, and hopes to discover new ways to combine...

Keith Feldman

2016 ARC Fellow
Keith Feldman was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Keith Feldman is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. At its core, his research program takes cultural studies approaches to theorize and narrate the interface between race, culture, knowledge, and state power. His work explores race as a “master category” (following Omi and Winant) and as a “medium” (following WJT Mitchell) by crafting comparative, relational, intersectional, and transnational analyses situated in localized and embodied contexts. By...

Marisha Farnsworth

2011 ARC Fellow
Marisha Farnsworth was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in Faculty Fellow category.

Marisha Farnsworth is an artist and an architect whose large-scale public space interventions explore future ecosystems, infrastructural utopias and the social and ecological implications of materiality in the built environment. Her work has been exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Venice Biennale and is in the collection of the Nevada Museum of Art.

Kris Fallon

2011 ARC Fellow
Kris Fallon was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Kris Fallon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema & Digital Media at UC Davis where he was also a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures. He completed his PhD in Film and Media with a Designated Emphasis in New Media in 2013.

Fallon’s work analyzes the documentary impulse across a range of sites, from film and photography through data visualization and other digital platforms. His first book, Where Truth...

Maria Faini

ARC Fellow and Program Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities
Maria Faini was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Maria Faini is the Program Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities. In 2012, she wrote her dissertation in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory, titled The Art of Occupation: Moral Injury, Artisanal Destruction, and a Politics of Non-Arrival. Her academic publications include pieces in Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies and Ada: A Journal of Gender, Technology, and New Media, and upcoming in a/b:...

Joey Enos

ARC Fellow and Sculptor
Joey Enos was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Joey Enos (b. Berkeley, California, 1981) is a sculptor who started by studding at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. In 2014 he received his MFA degree at the University of California, Berkeley. At his time in Berkeley Enos focused his studies on large-scale artworks, history of Bay Area sculpture, and the profession of art handling. His work has recently been exhibited at Ever Gold Gallery and Alterspace in...

Amanda Eicher

ARC Fellow, Artist, Educator, and Arts Administrator
Amanda Eicher was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Amanda Eicher is an artist, educator, and arts administrator who has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 1999. Currently the Executive Director at NIAD Art Center, Amanda has also worked at Creativity Explored as a teaching artist. In 2001, she collaborated with Andrew McKinley and the Adobe Books community (which includes many CE artists) to open The Back Room Gallery, a one-room project space dedicated to installation work by emerging artists, where Amanda was a...