Performance

Andrea Abi-Karam

Poet-Performer Cyborg
Andrea Abi-Karam gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, as part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Andrea Abi-Karamis a trans, SWANA, punk poet-performer cyborg, workshop facilitator, and activist. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH(Commune Editions, 2016), queers Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Under the full...

Sam Aros-Mitchell, IPAR Artist-in-Residence

April 20, 2026
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Sam Aros-Mitchell Choregrapher/Performer April 20 – 25, 2026

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Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of...

Lily Gee

Program & Communications Coordinator

Lily Gee (she/her) is a hapa movement artist and arts administrator from Berkeley, CA. Lily has worked in arts adminstration since 2020 and became ARC's Program & Communications Coordinator in January 2024. Her work focuses on producing events, social media management, and creating safe spaces for art to grow. As a choreographer, Lily seeks to humanize both the dancers and audience. She has produced original dance works with ODC Pilot 74, Battery Dance Festival, SAFEHouse RAW, Kearny Street’s APAture Festival, Shawl Anderson's Youth Ensemble, and most...

Diné Nishłį or, A Boarding School Play

April 10, 2024
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) or, A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson April 10 – 13, 2024 Staging by AlterTheater Directed by Daniel Leeman Smith Produced by Karen A. Smith Cast: Honokee Dunn (Shawna), Sage Hemstreet (Rosie), Lea McCormick (Ms. B), Zoey Reyes (Kaylene), Sabrina Saleha (Jolene), and Shawna Shandiin Sunrise (Ms. K)

Co-sponsored by a partnership between the Arts Research Center, the Department of...

Drew Woodson, Playwright-in-Residence

April 14, 2025
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program Drew Woodson Playwright-in-Residence April 14 – 18, 2025 Location/map to the Arts Research Center here

Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, in partnership with Alternative Theater Ensemble, and with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, the Department of...

Super Futures Haunt Qollective

Artist Collective
Super Futures Haunt Qollective gave a Performance and Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 18, 2025.

Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ) is an art and research based collaboration between three avatars.

In their terrestrial forms, SFHQ members F. Sam Jung (MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a sky person and urban planner in New York. C. Ree (MFA University of California, Irvine) is an artist and film programmer based in San Diego, California. Angie Morrill (Klamath Tribes...

Drew Woodson

2025 ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency AIR, Playwright
Drew Woodson was a Playwright-in-Residence with ARC through the Indigenous Performing Arts Residency in April 2025.

Drew Woodson is a Western Shoshone playwright based in New York City. He has had his work read in multiple theaters across New York, including Rattlestick Theater where he was asked to open the first annual Northeastern Native Arts Festival with his play “Your Friend, Jay Silverheels.” For this same work, Drew was named Yale's Young Indigenous Playwright of 2021. More recently, Drew completed a two month artists residency on Governors Island for AICH, and...

Blossom Johnson

2024 ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency AIR, Diné playwright, Screenwriter and Dramaturg
Blossom Johnson was the ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency's first-ever artist-in-residence (2024).

Blossom Johnson is a Diné storyteller, playwright, teaching artist and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan.

She was raised by her grandmother on the very top of Dził Yijiin (Black Mesa), AZ and she’s always been surrounded by stories. When she opens the front door of her grandma’s yellow house, she can see a coal mine. Below the...

Caring for Our Ancestors: Weaving ~ Listening ~ Writing

April 30, 2025
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)...

Julia Keefe

Vocalist, Actor, Activist, and Educator
Julia Keefe gave an Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 18, 2025.

Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) is an internationally acclaimed Native American jazz vocalist, actor, activist, and educator currently based in New York City. Her professional career has spanned over 20 years and she has headlined marquee events at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., NMAI-NY, as well as opened for the likes of 20-time GRAMMY Award winner Tony Bennett and 4-time GRAMMY Award winner Esperanza Spalding. Her life’s work is the revival and honoring of the...