Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Jeff Davis

University Carillonist
Jeff Davis was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 15, 2016.

Jeff Davis, renowned as the University Carillonist at UC Berkeley, retired in 2024 after a distinguished career spanning over three decades. Throughout his tenure, Davis presided over Berkeley's iconic Campanile, home to one of the world's foremost carillons comprising 61 bells. He joined UC Berkeley in 1983, initially supporting the music department with his diverse skills before formally studying under Ronald Barnes, the university's...

Bruce Beasley

Sculptor
Bruce Beasley was a Visiting Artist who participated in a conversation at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 24, 2015.

Bruce Beasley was born in Los Angeles in 1939. A typical hot rod loving teen raised in West Los Angeles, he graduated from University High School then headed for Dartmouth as a Freshman to study rocket engineering. After taking one of the few art classes Dartmouth offered, Beasley knew that his calling was art. He transferred to the University of California, Berkeley to study sculpture, and while still an undergrad, Beasley’s...

Sharon Daniel

Multimedia Artist, Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Sharon Daniel was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

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...

DJ Lamont

DJ, Founder of Fingersnaps Media Arts
DJ Lamont was a Visiting Artist Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Conference at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

DJ Lamont started playing with records when his mother gifted him a “Close N’ Play” record player for his 5th birthday in 1969 and he has been playing with records, cassettes, CD’s, DJ Software, and DJ Controllers ever since.

Established June 1, 2004, in DJ Lamont’s spare bedroom (on 20th & Folsom Street), hundreds of people over the past 15 years of all ages, genders, cultures, and...

Aruna D'Souza

Editor, Writer, Curator
Aruna D'Souza gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 21, 2018.

Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art; intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics; and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board, and she is a contributor to The New York Times. Her writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Art News, Garage, Bookforum, Frieze, Momus, Art in America, ...

Bojana Cvejić

Professor of Dance Theory at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Bojana Cvejić gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center in Feburary 20, 2014.

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,...

Seth Curcio

Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery
Seth Curcio was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Seth Curcio, Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery, has served as Senior Director from 2016–2022. During this time, he spearheaded the gallery’s relocation from Venice Beach to its current home at 616 N La Brea Ave in Hollywood, and expanded the gallery’s presence by adding a second exhibition space in the same location in 2020.

Since joining the gallery, Curcio has been pivotal in...

Michael Creedon

Teacher, Fine Art Photographer, Digital Imaging Consultant
Michael Creedon was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Michael Creedon is a Fine Art Photographer and Digital Printer. He was an instructor of Digital and Film Based Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2001 through 2012. Since 1984 he has documented the Mission Bay Area of San Francisco, showing how this 300 acre site has slowly evolved over the past 25 years as the political and economic wind swirls over this proposed City within the City....

Margaret Crawford

Director of Urban Design, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Margaret Crawford was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.

Margaret Crawford holds degrees in architectural history, housing, and urban planning. Before coming to Berkeley, Crawford chaired the History, Theory, and Humanities Program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and, from 2000–2009, was professor of urban design and planning theory at the Harvard GSD, teaching history and design workshops and studios. Her scholarly work includes Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The History of...

Peter Coyote

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Author, Narrator of Films, Theatre, Television, and Audiobooks
Peter Coyote gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 12, 2017.

Peter Coyote was born Robert Peter Cohon in October of 1941 to a highly intellectual, culturally Jewish, secular family involved in liberal politics.

While a student at Grinnell College in 1961, Coyote was one of the organizers of a group of twelve students who traveled to Washington, D.C. during the...