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Glenda Drew

Media Artist and Professor of Design at UC Davis

Glenda Drew is a critical maker whose research is based at the intersections of visual culture and social change, with a particular emphasis on the working class. The content of her work is rooted in creating messaging with greater social implications, fostering innovation and encouraging behavior change. Her subjects include country musicians, waitresses, feminists and precarious workers. In addition, she has recently created a few projects that consider climate change through user interface and artistic installations. Her practice is multifaceted in form and includes...

Erin Doughton

Part-time Faculty, Intermedia; BFA Thesis Mentor; Assistant Professor at Willamette University

Erin Doughton teaches performance and professional practice at PNCA as an Assistant Professor and Mentor. She is Artistic Director and Curator of Performance for PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art) curating and producing PICA‘s performance programs including dance, music, theatre and multi-disciplinary forms as part of PICA‘s annual TBA (Time-Based Art) Festival as well as year-round presentations and residencies. She recently served as a Hub Site representative for the National Dance Project (...

Jess Dorrance

ARC Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley

Jess Dorrance is a writer, curator, activist, and and doctoral student in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about the intersections between art, performance, and queer, feminist, and anti-racist politics. She holds an MA in Art History (2014) from McGill University (thesis on queer visibility, representation, and trauma), and has been working with the Institute for Queer Theory since 2008.

While living in Berlin (2008-2012) Jess has been actively envolved in all areas of running the Institute for Queer Theory: Among others, she co...

Caitlin Dolan

ARC Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate in the Philosophy Department at UC Berkeley, and Lecturer at San Francisco State University

Caitlin Dolan (B.A., summa cum laude, NYU, 2009) works primarily on the philosophy perception, mostly by asking questions about its epistemology and its aesthetic nature. She is interested in contemporary debates on these topics, as well as their roots in the early Modern and early analytic traditions. Her dissertation explores the sense in which depiction is a distinctively visual form of representation.

Caitlin was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

T.J. Demos

Art Historian, Cultural Critic, and Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art at UC Santa Cruz

T. J. Demos is the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016); The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary...

Jen de los Reyes

Artist, Educator Community Arts Organizer

Jen de los Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member. Graduate work at the University of Regina made the space possible for her to see her work as an organizer as a key component of her continued creative work.

Jen de los Reyes is a 'farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts'[2],...

Janet Delaney

Photographer, Educator

Janet Delaney uses research, interviews and photography to record the untold stories of cities in transition. Her first project bore witness to the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco and was published as South of Market (MACK, 2013). In Public Matters (MACK, 2018), Delaney documented daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in Reagan-era San Francisco. Her color photographs of New York City in the 1980s were published as Red Eye to New York, (MACK 2021). She is currently completing...

Whitney Davis

ARC Fellow and Helen Pardee Professor of History of Art at UC Berkeley

Whitney Davis is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art. He has taught at UC Berkeley since 2001. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of York, UK, where he leads the annual York Summer Theory Institute in Art History (YSTI). Previously he taught at Northwestern University, where he was John Evans Professor of Art History, Director of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, and a member of the Program in African Studies. Focusing on ancient African, ancient Egyptian and Near...

Sharon Daniel

Multimedia Artist, Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz

Sharon Daniel is a media artist who produces interactive and participatory documentaries focused on issues of social, economic, environmental and criminal justice. She builds online archives and interfaces that make the stories of marginalized and disenfranchised communities available across social, cultural and economic boundaries. Daniel's work has been exhibited internationally as well as on the internet. Most recently, a solo exhibition titled “Convictions” at STUK Kunstcentrum, Belgium presented the body of new media documentary work she has produced over the last 14...

Bojana Cvejić

Professor of Dance Theory at Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Bojana Cvejić’s work spans philosophy, performance practice and theory and dance. She studied musicology (BA, MA, University of Arts, Belgrade) and philosophy from which she received a PhD at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London. Cvejić has made more than twenty theater and dance performances since 1996 as (co)director (five experimental opera stagings, performances with Jan Ritsema) or dramaturg (in choreographies by among others Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker). Cvejić is author of several books,...