Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Joy Harjo

Performer, Writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 22, 2020.

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico and MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Harjo draws on First Nation storytelling and histories, as well as feminist and social justice poetic traditions, and frequently incorporates indigenous myths, symbols, and values into her writing. Her poetry inhabits landscapes—the Southwest, Southeast, but also Alaska and Hawaii—and centers around the...

Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate

April 22, 2020
Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate in conversation with Beth Piatote Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:30 – 7:00pm PDT

Watch the recording here!

Please inquire for an educational copy of the full recording.

Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Interdisciplinary Artist
Bracken Hanuse Corlett gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center in Fall 2024, alongside F2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Amanda Strong.

Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. He began working in theatre and performance in 2001 and eventually transitioned towards his current practice that fuses painting and drawing with digital-media, audio-visual performance, animation and narrative. He is a grad­uate of the En’owkin Centre of Indigenous Art and went to Emily Carr University of Art and Design for...

Hou Hanru

International Art Curator and Critic
Hou Hanru was a Visiting Lecturer/Curator Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Hou Hanru’s prolific curatorial work addresses contemporary practice and the conditions of artists living in the diaspora from the perspective of cultural hybridity. Hou gained international attention with Cities on the Move (1997-2000), a traveling exhibition he curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, which emphasized the ways in which Asian contemporary artists have dealt with rapid changes in urban lifestyles...

Cheryl Haines

Principal of Haines Gallery and Founding Executive Director of the FOR-SITE Foundation
Cheryl Haines gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 3, 2014.

For more than 30 years, Cheryl Haines has developed exhibitions and site-specific public programs that have exposed new audiences to contemporary art and advanced the discourse surrounding what she describes as “art about place.” Through the FOR-SITE Foundation and her gallery, Haines presents provocative exhibitions by artists working across a wide range of media, as well as public, site-specific commissions on a national scale.

In 2003, Ms. Haines established the FOR-SITE...

Joanna Haigood

Co-founder of Zaccho Dance Theatre
Joanna Haigood was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2014.

Since 1979 Joanna Haigood has been creating work that uses natural, architectural, and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. Her stages have included grain terminals, a clock tower, the pope’s palace, military forts, and a mile of urban neighborhood streets in the South Bronx. Her work has been commissioned by many arts institutions, including Dancing in the Streets,...

Raquel Gutiérrez

Critic, Essayist, Poet, Performer, and Educator
Raquel Gutiérrez was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Public Art/Housing Publics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 21, 2014.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez's first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and...

Yi Gu

Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at University of Toronto
Yi Gu was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Living Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2014.

Yi Gu is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a focus on Asia, especially China. Her current research interests lie in the agrarian imaginary and various extractive regimes including those of historical socialism. Her previous work examines epistemic shifts and perception, landscape and nation-building, and Chinese photography. Her book Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting...

Silvia Gruner

Multimedia Artist
Silvia Gruner gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2019.

Working in diverse media, Mexico City based Silvia Gruner (born 1959) examines the body as a depository of memory and various cultural traditions. Often using her own body, Gruner explores multiple readings of the female body as it has traditionally been used to define spiritual, sexual, and national identity. Her work has additionally involved the symbolic reinterpretation of everyday domestic and work objects, transforming the quotidian into fetishistic objects of cult or magic...

Talinn Grigor

Professor of Art History Modern, Contemporary Global Architecture, and Art Critical and (post)Colonial Theory at UC Davis
Talinn Grigor gave a Visiting Lecture Presentation at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Talinn Grigor’s research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art and architectural histories through the framework of postcolonial and critical theories, grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, and Parsi India. Her books include a winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies, The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture (Penn State Univ., 2021); Contemporary Iranian Art: From the...