Martha Redbone facilitated a Songwriting Workshop offered as a collaboration between Cal Performances' Illuminations, the Department of Music, and the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2025.
Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and 2021 United States Artist Fellow celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music. Drawing from the folk and mountain blues sounds of her Appalachian upbringing in Kentucky and the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American roots music. Her work gives voice to social...
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...
El archivo y sus formas en las Américas 23 y 24 de enero, 2025 Locacion: Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 (map)
Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with the Arts Research Center
La conferencia será en español, ingles, y portugues. No habrá traducción. The conference will be in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. There will not be interpretation.
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Organizado por Daylet Domínguez (UC Berkeley) y Adriana Amante (...
Lunch Poems + the Arts Research Center bring poet Sherwin Bitsui to campus for reading & craft talk. Codex Foundation collaborated to create a broadside of one of Bitsui's poems from Flood Song.
On September 5th, ARC partnered with the Lunch Poems series to co-present their first event of the Fall 2024 school year. Sherwin Bitsui, a Diné (Navajo) writer, poet, and Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, presented work from his three collections of poetry, Dissolve, Flood Song, and Shapeshift, along with new work from his upcoming manuscript in a poetry reading at UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library. During the craft talk, Drawing Language from Landscape: An Immersion in Diné Poetic Thought and Structure, Bitsui discussed drawing language from landscape through Diné poetic...
