Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Cornelius Eady

Poet, Professor, Co-Founder of Cave Canem
Cornelius Eady was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Celebrating Cave Canem Conversation at the Arts Research Center on October 20, 2021.

Born on January 7, 1954, Cornelius Eady was raised in Rochester, New York. He attended Monroe Community College and Empire State College.

Eady is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008); Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie...

Derrick Duren

Curator
Derrick Duren was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Amateurism Across the Arts Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Derrick Duren is a senior transfer student at UC Berkeley completing a double major in Media and American Studies. Derrick has dedicated much of their extracurricular time to social justice education and advocacy through their experiences as Multi-Cultural Awareness Chair and as a curator for Multi, their inaugural art showcase for students of color at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Derrick currently serves...

Camille T. Dungy

Poet and Professor
Camille T. Dungy gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 17, 2021.

Camille T. Dungy was a visiting writer with the Arts Research Center. Dungy was born and raised in the western United States (Colorado and California), though she has lived briefly in most other regions of the U.S. and has spent time on all but one continent and several countries. Dungy attributes some of the energy in her writing to both her delight in going new places and meeting new people and the good fortune of having a beautiful place to root down and call home. In much...

Olya Dubatova

Painter, Filmmaker, Installation Artist
Olya Dubatova was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2016.

Olya Dubatova is a Russian/American artist based in New York, Tbilisi (Georgia), and Yucatan, Mexico. Dubatova’s work has been exhibited in multiple galleries and museums internationally, including Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum Aldobrandini (Rome) Riddoch Gallery in Mount Gambier, Australia, and the Bookstore Project in Amsterdam. She co-founded and was the director of BlenderLabs at USC (Los Angeles). BlenderLabs...

Glenda Drew

Media Artist and Professor of Design at UC Davis
Glenda Drew gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 13, 2015.

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...

Alex Donis

Visual Artist
Alex Donis gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2020.

Alex Donis is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work examines and redefines the boundaries set within religion, politics, race, and sexuality. Interested in toppling societies’ conventional attitudes, his work is often influenced by a tri-cultural (Pop, Latino, and Queer) experience. He has worked extensively in a variety of media including painting, installation, photography, video, and works on paper.

He was born in 1964 in Chicago, IL and was educated...

Natalie Diaz

Mojave American poet, Language Activist, Former Professional Basketball player, Educator
Natalie Diaz gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 26, 2021.

Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She earned a BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a full athletic scholarship. Diaz played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before returning to Old Dominion to earn an MFA. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and...

Susana de Sousa Dias

Independent Filmmaker
Susana de Sousa Dias gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 24, 2019.

Susana de Sousa Dias' cinematic works explore the dialectics of history and memory, questioning established regimes of visibility with a focus on the archive. Her works have been presented both in art venues and film festivals such as the Berlinale, Documenta, and Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, among others.

She received a FIPRESCI Award and the Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel for her film 48. She was guest artist at the Flaherty Seminar in 2012 and...

Apsara DiQuinzio

Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Nevada Museum of Art
Apsara DiQuinzio gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art, where she oversees the contemporary program. Over the course of DiQuinzio’s twenty-year career as a curator, she has organized over fifty exhibitions of art, including solo exhibitions with leading contemporary artists such as Michael Armitage, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Arthur Jafa, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Otobong Nkanga, Christina Quarles, R.H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema, among many...

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 was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

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:...