Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Reclamation Poetry Gathering with Natalie Diaz, Craig Santos Perez, and Beth Piatote

February 15, 2024
Reclamation Poetry Gathering February 15 – 18, 2024 Public Programming: February 16 – 17, 2024

A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an oceanic-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary

Reclamation gathered 19 fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program for a weekend of readings, conversations, and workshops. Three readings, hosted at...

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...

Artist Directory

A directory of all artists, writers, performers, art historians and curators who have given lectures with the Arts Research Center

Artist Talk with Wendy Red Star

April 1, 2022
Artist Talk with Wendy Red Star in conversation with Beth Piatote Friday, April 1st 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm PST

Watch the recording on ARC's YouTube here!

This lecture is presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory

Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her...

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...

Sarah Biscarra Dilley

Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Educator,
Sarah Biscarra Dilley was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in January 2025, giving an Artist talk and leading a Workshop: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation.

Sarah Biscarra Dilley (b. 1986, unceded Nisenan land, unratified Treaty “J” region) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.

Their practice is grounded in collaboration across experiences, communities, and place. Relating land and beings throughout...

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...

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...