Performance

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...

Martha Redbone

Roots Music Singer
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...

Vincente Perez

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Vincente Perez was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Vincente Perez (He/They) is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis with an interest in the way that artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities. Their work centers Black and Latinx lived experience with a stylistic approach...

Maurya Kerr

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Maurya Kerr was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based writer, educator, and artist. Maurya’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and appears or is forthcoming in multiple journals, including Inverted Syntax, Chestnut Review, Tupelo Quarterly, little somethings press, and an anthology, “The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry.” Much of her artistic work, across disciplines, is focused on Black...

Ivanie Aubin-Malo

Dancer, Choreographer, and Curator
Ivanie Aubin-Malo was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in November 2023, participating in a cyclical series of dance rehearsals alongside of Tanya Lukin Linklater.

Wolastoq and Quebecois dancer, choreographer and curator Ivanie Aubin-Malo invests herself in projects that reflect on ecology and human ethics regarding our environment. She has also danced Fancy Shawl, a powwow style, since 2015, connecting with the spirit of transformation and celebrating women’s audacity. Her artistic research as a creator aims to shed light on the beauty of...

Andrea Abi-Karam

Poet-Performer Cyborg
Andrea Abi-Karam gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.

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 Community Engagement Scholarship, Andrea received their MFA in Poetry from Mills College. With Drea Marina...