Past Events

Visual Activism: Devi Peacock

October 6, 2020
Devi Peacock from Peacock Rebellion Tuesday, October 6

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Devi Peacock is a sixteenth-generation storyteller; a comedy writer; co-organizer of the Liberated 23rd Ave. cultural land trust; and the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion, a Huichin (Ohlone land/Oakland) -based crew of queer and trans Black, Indigenous, people of color (QTBIPOC), named one of the “100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture.” Devi is an advisor to the Resilience Archives and...

Visual Activism: Alfredo Jaar

September 22, 2020
Alfredo Jaar: When the Music Stops Tuesday, September 22, 2020
4:00-5:30pm PDT

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Visual Activism: Favianna Rodriguez

September 15, 2023
Favianna Rodriguez Tuesday, September 15
11:30-12:30pm PST

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Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and social justice activist based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, gender justice, climate change, racial equity, and sexual freedom. Her practice boldly reshapes the myths, stories, and cultural practices of the present, while healing from the wounds of the past.

Alex Donis in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

April 28, 2020
Alex Donis in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Tuesday, April 28, 2020 4:00-5:00pm PDT


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Social Engineer: The Artist as Bridge Builder

April 16, 2020
Social Engineer: The Artist as Bridge Builder with Cannupa Hanska Luger Thursday, April 16, 2020 | 12:00-2:00pm PDT

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Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Ethnic Studies Department, the Native American Studies Program, and Berkeley Arts + Design

This event was part of the Arts + Design Thursdays series.

Launch of “Amateurism”

November 12, 2019
Launch of “Amateurism” | Third Text Special Issue With remarks by Abigail De Kosnik and Anneka Lenssen Tuesday, November 12, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Beta Lounge (rsvp to lauren.pearson@berkeley.edu)

Curating Dirty Looks

April 25, 2019
“Curating Dirty Looks and Presenting the Queer Cinematic Avant-Garde” curator talk and screening by Bradford Nordeen Thursday, April 25, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142/Nestrick Room, UC Berkeley

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Feminist Curatorial Practices

April 11, 2018
Feminist Curatorial Practices: A roundtable convening Wednesday, April 11 at 5:30pm
Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor, Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley

Join the Arts Research Center and Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis Matrix Curator at BAMPFA for a roundtable conversation about Feminist Curatorial Practices. The evening will consist of participants responding to one image that they consider to be urgent and relevant to the current state of feminism, and one...

Berkeley/Stanford Symposium

April 7, 2018
Berkeley/Stanford Symposium A Line in the Sand: Art, Ecology, & Precarity Saturday, April 7 from 10am-5pm
White Box Gallery, 4th Floor, SFMOMA, San Francisco

Join the Arts Research Center and Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis Matrix Curator at BAMPFA for a roundtable conversation about Feminist Curatorial Practices. The evening will consist of participants responding to one image that they consider to be urgent and relevant to the current state...

Amateurism Across the Arts

March 9, 2018
Amateurism Across the Arts Conference Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:30am-6:15pm Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Amateurism Across the Arts is an exploration of vernacular, popular, fannish, kitsch, informal, self-taught, user-generated, and DIY production in music, architecture, literature, the visual arts, dance, and new media– especially in relation to raced, classed, and gendered notions of value. How do the implicitly skilled “arts” rupture and reorganize themselves around hierarchies of taste? And how can critical...