Past Events

The Loft Hour: Zamansele Nsele + Nicole Starosielski

October 19, 2023
The Loft Hour: Zamansele Nsele + Nicole Starosielski October 19, 2023 Noon - 1 p.m. Arts 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-...

Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum

Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum

This past April, ARC presented Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum. This event hosted eight artist-led workshops in the UC Berkeley Museum of Art that developed exercises, prompts, or actions to engage questions of art, labor, and economics; the program also included a series of commissioned writings by critics and researchers whose work focuses on artistic labor and cultural economies in a special two-part issue of Art Practical, a leading Bay Area online platform. Both the publication and practicum asked: What kinds of tactics allow...

Cross Sector Conference

Open Engagement Pre-conference | CROSS-SECTOR Thursday, April 28, 2016, 10am to 6pm Friday, April 29, 2016, 10am to 1:30pm The Magnes Collection, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Accessible from the Downtown Berkeley BART station CROSS-SECTOR pre-conference will be free and open to the public. Kindly REGISTER here for the plenary talks, break-out sessions, and closing lecture so we can track attendance.

Keeping San Francisco Alive: A Frank Conversation

June 12, 2015
Keeping San Francisco Alive: A Frank Conversation June 12, 2015

The second of three “Friday Nights” celebrating the work of Janet Delaney, this evening offers a historical and contemporary perspective on the role of the arts in urban planning and public policy in San Francisco. Discussions across the museum will explore exemplary case studies, pivotal policy decisions, creative compromises, and new alternatives that affect the changing cultural life of the city.

Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Chitto

February 2, 2023
Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Chitto
World Premiere of Rella Lossy Award Winning Play

Nordic Time Zones: Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape

March 26, 2014
Nordic Time Zones Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape
 Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo

(Closed roundtable, by invitation only)

Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Marisa Lin and Cianga

April 17, 2024
Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Marisa Lin and Cianga Wednesday, April 17, 2024 5pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Join the Arts Research Center in celebrating the first chapbook publications of Poetry & the Senses Fellows Marisa Lin and Cianga. Each poet will read for 20 minutes, followed by a book signing. Free & open to the public.

Reading by Deborah Miranda

January 29, 2024
Reading by Deborah Miranda in conversation with Estelle Tarica Monday, January 29, 2024 2:00 – 3:15pm Maude Fife Room 315, Wheeler Hall

The Arts Research Center welcomes writer Deborah Miranda to Berkeley for a reading and conversation, free and open to the public. Her reading will be followed by a short conversation with Estelle Tarica, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Dept of Spanish & Portuguese.

Deborah A. Miranda...

Aruna D’Souza in Conversation with Al-An deSouza

September 21, 2018
Aruna D’Souza in Conversation with Al-An deSouza Friday, September 21, 2018
5:00-7:00pm
Maude Fife Room, Room 315, Wheeler Hall

Watch the recording here or listen here!

Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the...

On “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”

November 8, 2019
On “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” Curator Mark Godfrey, Tate Modern, in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle Friday, November 8, 2019
4:00-6:00pm
David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Downtown Berkeley

Watch the recording here!

Please note, this event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served (no tickets). Co-sponsored by The Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice.