ARC Fellow

Maurya Kerr

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Maurya Kerr was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based writer, educator, and artist. Maurya’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and appears or is forthcoming in multiple journals, including Inverted Syntax, Chestnut Review, Tupelo Quarterly, little somethings press, and an anthology, “The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry.” Much of her artistic work, across disciplines, is focused on Black...

Asma Kazmi

ARC Fellow, Artist, and Associate Professor of Art at UC Berkeley
Asma Kazmi was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.

Asma Kazmi is a research-based artist who combines virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity—a tug of more than one time and place. Her work involves long term engagement with cities, architecture, plants, animals, stones, and other matter to locate vestiges of relations forged by the legacies of colonialism and post-colonial contexts.

Combining visual and textual detritus from western and non-western historical manuscripts, photographs, archival material, fragments of...

Leena Joshi

ARC Fellow, Artist, Writer, and Educator
Leena Joshi was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Leena Joshi is an artist, poet, and educator working across sculpture, video, performance, and text. Their work considers experiences of desire, illness, and the labor of appearance for queer, racialized, and trans people, often engaging the digital and speculative as spaces to explore a shifting, illegible, and expansive definition of personhood. Joshi’s work is curious about new forms and practices in an embrace of amateurism and play. Leena’s poetry and written work...

Nathan John

ARC Fellow, Designer, Writer and Visual artist
Nathan John was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Nathan John is a designer, writer and visual artist based in Oakland, California. As Head of Architecture at Google R+D for the Built Environment, Nathan is a leader in the development of flexible systems for architecture, iterative approaches to design and construction, and innovative strategies for community and stakeholder engagement. Leveraging the methods of the hacker/maker...

Erin Johnson

ARC Fellow, Visual Artist, and Filmmaker
Erin Johnson was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 –she was chosen in the Graduate category.

Erin Johnson is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her immersive installations and short films explore notions of collectivity, dissent, and queer identity. In her shape-shifting videos, constellations of artists, biologists, and film extras address the imbrication of science and nationalism.

Johnson is a current Working Artist Fellow at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY) and a Winter Resident at Wave Hill (Bronx, NY).

Johnson received an MFA and Certificate in New Media from UC...

Amanda Galvan Huynh

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Amanda Galvan Huynh was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with University of Hawaiʻiy – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Amanda Galvan Huynh (she/her) is a Xicana writer and educator from Texas. She is the author Where My Umbilical is Buried (Sundress Publications 2023), a chapbook Songs of Brujería (Big Lucks September 2019), and Co-Editor of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (The Operating System 2019). Amanda has been...

Jen Chen-su Huang

Spring 2012 ARC Fellow, Artist, Writer, and Part-time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design
Jen Chen-su Huang was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Jen Chen-su Huang is a multidisciplinary artist, whose process-driven works interweave elements of craft tradition, language, history, and memoir. Her practice has been supported by fellowships through the Fulbright Commission in Taiwan, Luminarts, and the Textile Society of America, among others. She is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch, a part-time lecturer at Parsons School of Design, and an editor for the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of...

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

2019 ARC Fellow
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (Olomidara Yaya) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, performer and healer. Her practice fluctuates between collaborations and participatory projects with alternative gallery spaces within various communities to projects that are intimate and based upon her private experiences in relationship to historical events and contexts. Her practice serves as a bridge, merging the intersections of art, activism, spirituality and healing as tools for...

Roberto D. Hernández

ARC Spring 2010 Fellow, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University
Roberto D. Hernández was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Dr. Roberto D. Hernández (Xicano) is a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University and an actively engaged, community-based researcher, scholar, teacher and writer. Born in Mexico, but raised in San Ysidro, within blocks of the busiest port of entry in the world, the U-S///Mexico border has figured prominently in his intellectual, political and professional development and commitments. He earned a Chicana/o Studies Honors BA (with an emphasis in...

Richard Koci Hernandez

ARC Spring 2017 Fellow, Visual Journalist, Author, Photojournalist, and Associate Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley
Richard Koci Hernandez was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Richard Koci Hernandez is an internationally recognized, award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia. Koci Hernandez published The Principles of Multimedia Journalism: Packaging Digital News, Taylor & Francis, 2015. In this much-needed examination of the principles of multimedia journalism, experienced journalists Koci Hernandez and co-author Jeremy Rue systemize and categorize the characteristics of the new, often experimental story forms...