Curatorial

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...

Adrienne Edwards

Scholar, Writer, and Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Adrienne Edwards was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices roundtable conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar and writer whose work concerns visual, performance and cross-boundary art as well as histories, concepts, modes and methods of blackness.

Currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Edwards has realised a number of interdisciplinary projects and commissions with a wide...

Derrick Duren

Curator
Derrick Duren was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Amateurism Across the Arts Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Derrick Duren is a senior transfer student at UC Berkeley completing a double major in Media and American Studies. Derrick has dedicated much of their extracurricular time to social justice education and advocacy through their experiences as Multi-Cultural Awareness Chair and as a curator for Multi, their inaugural art showcase for students of color at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Derrick currently serves...

Jess Dorrance

ARC Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Jess Dorrance was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Jess Dorrance is a writer, curator, activist, and and doctoral student in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about the intersections between art, performance, and queer, feminist, and anti-racist politics. She holds an MA in Art History (2014) from McGill University (thesis on queer visibility, representation, and trauma), and has been working with the Institute for Queer Theory since 2008.

While living in Berlin (2008-2012) Jess has...

Apsara DiQuinzio

Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Nevada Museum of Art
Apsara DiQuinzio gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art, where she oversees the contemporary program. Over the course of DiQuinzio’s twenty-year career as a curator, she has organized over fifty exhibitions of art, including solo exhibitions with leading contemporary artists such as Michael Armitage, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Arthur Jafa, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Otobong Nkanga, Christina Quarles, R.H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema, among many...

Joseph Del Pesco

Independent Curator, Organizer, Art Journalist, Web-Media Producer
Joseph del Pesco was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Location/Translation Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 19, 2012.

Joseph del Pesco is an independent curator, organizer, art journalist, and web-media producer. He has realized curatorial projects at Artists Space in New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; Galerie Analix in Geneva, Switzerland; the Rooseum in Malmö, Sweden; Articule in Montréal, Canada; the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; the Nelson Gallery at the University of California, Davis; and most recently at...

Seth Curcio

Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery
Seth Curcio was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Seth Curcio, Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery, has served as Senior Director from 2016–2022. During this time, he spearheaded the gallery’s relocation from Venice Beach to its current home at 616 N La Brea Ave in Hollywood, and expanded the gallery’s presence by adding a second exhibition space in the same location in 2020.

Since joining the gallery, Curcio has been pivotal in...

Deena Chalabi

Writer, Curator, and Strategist
Deena Chalabi was a Moderator at the Syria’s Fraught Balance Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 19, 2020.

Deena Chalabi is a strategist, curator and writer whose work explores how individual expression and critical thought can impact and expand public imagination. She was most recently Senior Director of Growth and Partnerships at The OpEd Project, a global thought leadership initiative for elevating underrepresented voices working towards a more intelligent and inclusive world.

Deena is also Brand Advisor at Armory Square Ventures and teaches global...

Anthony Cascardi

Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Spanish
Anthony J. Cascardi was a Moderator at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at ARC on March 13, 2015, and the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

Anthony J. Cascardi is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Spanish, and served for ten years as Dean of Arts and Humanities. He is also former Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and of the Arts Research Center. Cascardi’s research interests include the relations between literature and philosophy; aesthetic theory; the novel; and early modern Europe....

Johanna Burton

Director of The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Johanna Burton was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Johanna Burton is the Maurice Marciano Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Prior to joining MoCA, Burton served as executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and as Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum, New York. Burton has been active in the contemporary art field for more than 20 years, including more...