Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture
With Horace Ballard In conversation with Justin Underhill Thursday, February 27 | 5:00-7:00pm
Visual Resource Center, Room 308A | Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Berkeley Center for New Media

A photograph is many things. It is a relationship, an index, a text, a betrayal. It is a contract. It is a sustainable fragility. It is a political act of community-making. It is a matrix of entangled signs and...

Celebrating Cave Canem: Cornelius Eady with Morgan Parker & Cameron Awkward-Rich in conversation with Chiyuma Elliott & Vincente Perez Wednesday, October 20th 2021 5:00 – 6:30pm PST Watch the recording here!(link is external)

Artist Talk with Jeffrey Gibson in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Tuesday, January 25th 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm PST Watch the recording here!(link is external)

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

Jeffrey Gibson is a multidisciplinary artist and craftsperson merging traditional Native American materials and forms with those of Western contemporary art to...

Reading by Deborah Miranda in conversation with Estelle Tarica Monday, January 29, 2024 2:00 – 3:15pm Maude Fife Room 315, Wheeler Hall

The Arts Research Center welcomes writer Deborah Miranda to Berkeley for a reading and conversation, free and open to the public. Her reading will be followed by a short conversation with Estelle Tarica, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Dept of Spanish & Portuguese.

Deborah A. Miranda...