Sarah Biscarra Dilley was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in January 2025, giving an Artist talk and leading a Workshop: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation.
Sarah Biscarra Dilley (b. 1986, unceded Nisenan land, unratified Treaty “J” region) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.
Their practice is grounded in collaboration across experiences, communities, and place. Relating land and beings throughout...
Caring for Our Ancestors: Weaving ~ Listening ~ Writing Co-organized by Dr. Tanya Lukin Linklater & Dr. Beth Piatote April 28 - May 2, 2025 Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 (map)
This gathering is part of a five-year project titled “Xóxelhmetset te Syewá:l | Caring for Our Ancestors: Reconnecting Indigenous Songs with Community and Kin” led by co-investigators Dr. Dylan Robinson (University of British Columbia)...
On November 15th, ARC hosted a zine-making workshop facilitated by Sierra Edd, that was open to both experienced and beginner zinesters of UC Berkeley. The workshop featured a step-by-step guided zine making tutorial and also offered a brief background to zine making and Indigenous storytelling through zines. Participants included undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty from across campus.
Edd is a Diné writer and artist who has been collaborating and working on zine projects (including...
Jake Skeets Craft Talk: The Memory Fieldin conversation with ARC Director Beth Piatote Thursday, October 6, 2022 4pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23
Co-presented by the Arts Research Center & the Berkeley English Dept with generous support from Engaging the Senses Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Tom Colby, the UC Berkeley Library, the Morrison Library Fund, the Dean’s Office of the College of Letters and Science, and Poets & Writers, Inc.
"The Golden Earring" is a chapter from Uzbek writer O'tkir Hoshimov’s popular memoir Dunyoning ishlari (Earthly things, 1982). Set in the years directly following World War II, Dunyoning ishlari is a linked collection of semi-fictionalized recollections—what today might be called autofiction. From superstition to neighbor drama, its setting has all the trappings of a remote village but is in fact a mahalla (neighborhood) in the capital’s old city. The lack of definition between city and countryside erodes socialist narratives of progress—even in Tashkent, the “showcase city” of...
