Performance

Dena Beard

Director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts Brooklyn College
Dena Beard gave a Visiting Lecturer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 8, 2017.

Dena Beard is director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. She was Executive Director of The Lab in San Francisco from 2014–2023 and Assistant Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from 2007–2014. Beard has organized hundreds of projects with artists such as Lutz Bacher, Sadie Barnette, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ellen Fullman, Dora García, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Anna Halprin, Asher Hartman, Annea Lockwood, Barry McGee,...

Rob Bailis

Artistic and Executive Director of BroadStage
Rob Bailis was a Moderator and Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Conference on November 16, 2015, and the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Conference at ARC on January 17, 2024.

Rob Bailis became the Artistic and Executive Director of BroadStage in Santa Monica in 2019. Before then, he worked as a performing classical musician for ten years prior to becoming the Interim Artistic Director and Associate Director of Cal Performance at the University of California,...

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...

Knut Ove Arntzen

Theatre Critic and Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Bergen
Kunt Ove Arntzen was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Knut Ove Arntzen, was since 1983 assistant and later associate professor at the former Institute for theatre studies, now the Section for theatre studies at the Institute for Cultural Studies and Art History at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has been a free lance theatre critic at the paper Arbeiderbladet in Oslo, 1976-1986, and has benn in the function of a scientific consultant to the Bergen International Theatre. He was...

Laurie Arnold

Associate Professor of History, Director of Native American Studies, and Chair of Humanities at Gozanga University
Laurie Arnold gave a Visiting Scholar Reading at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 6, 2023.

Laurie Arnold is an enrolled citizen of the Sinixt Band of the Colville Confederated Tribes. She is Associate Professor of History, Director of Native American Studies, and the Robert K. and Ann J. Powers Chair of the Humanities at Gonzaga University. In 2019-20 she held the Frederick W. Beinecke Senior Research Fellowship at Yale University and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. Her first book, Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville...

Katherine Agyemaa Agard

Writer and Interdisciplinary Artist
Katherine Agyemaa Agard gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in Fall of 2021, part of the Flash Reading Series.

Katherine Agyemaa Agard is the eldest daughter of a zoologist and a botanist. At 18, she won, and declined, an Open National Scholarship in the Natural Sciences from the government of Trinidad & Tobago. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in painting, performance, and writing. She holds an AB in Visual and Environmental Studies and Social Anthropology from Harvard College and an MFA in Writing from UC-San...

Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 28, 2016.

Vito Acconci was a contemporary American poet, performance artist, and architect—a founder of the Performance Art movement. He has been immortalized in the canon of art history for his seminal works, including the infamous Seedbed (1971), which Marina Abramovic re-performed in 2005. In the original performance, Acconci positioned himself beneath a wooden...

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...

Theater as a Site of Public History: Dillon Chitto in conversation with Laurie Arnold

February 6, 2023
Theater as a Site of Public History: Dillon Chitto in conversation with Laurie Arnold February 6th, 2023

ARC SPRING 2023 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

in conversation with Laurie Arnold

with Beth Piatote as interlocutor

Watch the conversation here(link is external)!

Reflection of the event by our very own...

Lily Gee

Program & Communications Coordinator

Lily Gee (she/her) is a hapa arts administrator, movement artist, and Bay Area native. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College in Science, Technology, and Society as well as minors in both Dance Performance and Mathematics. In March 2024, her latest work, Choose Left, was premiered through the ODC Pilot 74 Program. She recently finished choreographing on the Shawl Anderson Youth Ensemble, of which she was a member in high school. While at Vassar, Gee produced over ten dances, including two longform works. Her piece Mine,...