Former ARC Director, Professor & Scholar of Modern and Contemporary Art
History of Art
Julia Bryan-Wilson's research interests include feminist and queer theory, theories of artistic labor, performance and dance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices. She is the author of four books: Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California, 2009, named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Artforum); Art in the Making: Artists and Their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing (with Glenn Adamson,...
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...
The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye November 16, 2023 Noon — 1:00 PMArts Research Center (Hearst Field Annex, D23)
Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities
Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The...
Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities
Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-...
Latinx Poetry Now: A Reading and Conversation with J. Michael Martinez + aracelis girmay Thursday Sept 28, 2023 11am - 12:30pm Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Join the Arts Research Center for our first Poetry & the Senses reading of fall 2023, featuring the incredible poets and multimedia artists J. Michael Martin and aracelis girmay. Following their readings, they will be in conversation with Prof John Alba Cutler (English).
J. Michael Martinez is a multimedia artist and the author of three collections of poetry, including Heredities, which received the Walt...
Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan September 20, 20231 p.m.Online
Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi and Kāi Tahu) has won awards for his poetry, editing, and writing for children, including the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai’i, the Montana New Zealand Book Award for co-editing Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, the Māori Literature Award for co-editing Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry...
Join us at our annual Open House to renew connections and meet new arts faculty at UC Berkeley. We’ll showcase our programming for the year, including our new series, The Loft Hour.
Maziar Maghsoodnia Poetry Fund 2023 Reading Featuring Solmaz Sharif September 13, 20234 p.m.David Brower Center, Tamalpais RoomSolmaz Sharif will give the 2023 Maziar Maghsoodnia Memorial Fund Reading. She will be in conversation with Lubna Safi, an...
