Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Lisa Wymore

Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Lisa Wymore gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2017.

Lisa Wymore completed her graduate study at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Moe Family Award for her creativity. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Dance in 1998, she moved to Chicago and continued her career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She was a faculty member within the Northwestern University Dance Program from 2000 to 2004....

Cynthia Wu

Professor of Gender Studies & Asian American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington
Cynthia Wu was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Cynthia Wu is an interdisciplinary scholar with intellectual origins in literary and cultural criticism. Their work focuses on how racialized masculinities are produced through investments in physical or psychosocial difference, queerness, and non-normative affiliations. Their first two monographs, Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Literature and Culture and Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial...

Jenna Wortham

Journalist
Jenna Wortham gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2017.

Jenna Wortham (they/them), also known as J Wortham, is a sound healer, reiki practitioner, herbalist, and community care worker oriented towards healing justice and liberation.

J is also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and co-host of the...

Caroline Woolard

W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement & Founding Co-Organizer of Art.coop
Caroline Woolard gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 26, 2015.

Caroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement and a founding co-organizer of Art.coop. She is the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and ...

Winnie Wong

Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Winnie Wong was a Visiting Scholar Participant at the Minding Time Talk and Exhibition at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2016.

Winnie Wong is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an art historian with a special interest in fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits. Her work explores authorship, property, and likeness through interdisciplinary inquiry, while her research is animated by the global reach of artists in and from the cities of...

Robert Wilson

Experimental Theater Stage Director & Playwright
Robert Wilson was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. After being educated at the...

David Wilson

Paper & Performance-based Artist
David Wilson was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Living Time Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 21, 2014.

David Wilson is an artist based in Oakland, CA. He creates observational drawings based in direct experiences with landscape and orchestrates site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artisans into collaborative relationships. He organized the experimental exhibition The Possible at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and received the San...

Angie Wilson

Interdisciplinary Artist
Angie Wilson gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 2, 2017.

Angie Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist working in textile-based sculpture, installation, social practice, interiors, and costume design. She is interested in the intimacy of textiles – as protective, sheltering, comforting, and expressive. Textiles as clothing and domestic objects signify identity, hold memory, and tell stories. Angie references weaving as a powerful metaphor for interconnectivity - of the universe, our communities, our bodies, and minds. In her work, she...

Dominic Willsdon

Educator, Curator
Dominic Willsdon was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the The Arts and Public Service Conference at the Arts Research Center on May 11, 2017.

Dominic Willsdon is an educator and curator. He is the Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he is also associate professor in art education. He was formerly Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Practice at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a Pedagogical Curator of the 9th Mercosul Biennial (2013) and a Co-Curator of the 9th...

Linda Williams

Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Film & Media at UC Berkeley
Linda Williams was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Body, Intellect, Resistance Talk at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 13, 2017.

Linda Williams taught courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and “body genres” of all sorts). She has also taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Bunuel and Pedro Almodovar, melodrama, film theory, selected “sex genres,” and The Wire. Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema, Figures of Desire (1981), a co-edited volume of feminist film criticism (...