Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Nadia Elbgal

Oakland Youth Laureate

Nadia Elbgal is the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. She is a Berkeley High graduate currently taking a few classes at Berkeley City College during her gap year. She is a Yemeni-American Muslim woman who advocates for and raises awareness on topics relating to the Middle Eastern and Muslim communities. Nadia has been a literacy mentor to Yemeni students in OUSD elementary schools as well as a teaching assistant in a mental health class at Hoover Elementary’s summer program. As an artist-activist, Nadia’s themes range from the Middle East to American cities: the perspectives,...

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk

Dramturg, Professor of Drama at Oslo Metropolitan University

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk is a practicing dramaturg within the scope of interdisciplinary performing arts. Her research concerns new dramaturgies, staging of documentary material, Applied theatre, and ethics and artistic research. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and a PhD from Roehampton University/ London where she developed the concept 'Theatre-ting', which is a meeting between the possibilities offered by the spaces of theatre and object-oriented philosophy, new materialist, post-human perspectives and documentary material. Eeg-Tverbakk...

Adrienne Edwards

Curator, Scholar, Writer

Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar and writer whose work concerns visual, performance and cross-boundary art as well as histories, concepts, modes and methods of blackness.

Currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Edwards has realised a number of interdisciplinary projects and commissions with a wide range of artists for Performa, where she was previously Curator (2010–2018). She has worked with Jonathas de Andrade, Yto Barrada, Chimurenga, Teju Cole, Kwani Trust,...

Cornelius Eady

Poet, Professor, Co-Founder of Cave Canem

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 Mellon University Press, 1991), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986),...

Dillon Chitto – Spring 2023 Artist in Residence

Spring 2023 ARC Artist in Residence Dillon Chitto Pueblo Revolt February 2 – 12, 2023 Production by AlterTheater Arts Research Center: Hearst Field Annex D23, UC Berkeley

Directed by Reed Flores
Featuring Steven Flores & Eduardo Soria

$15 students/$25 general/sliding scale

ARC provided 100 comped tickets to Berkeley students

Presented by the Arts Research Center in collaboration with Art Works Downtown.

Review: Dillon Chitto in Conversation with Laurie Arnold

February 22, 2023
Eva Whitney

Spring 2023 Artist in Residence Dillon Chitto held a conversation on February 6th, 2023

The full recording of the event is viable for viewing on ARC’s YouTube channel.

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Tanya Lukin Linklater – Fall 2023 Artist in Residence

Fall 2023 ARC Artist in Residence Tanya Lukin Linklater Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth. November 1 – 4, 2023 Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Galleries Wed Nov 1: 3 – 7pm
Thu Nov 2: 3 – 7pm
Fri Nov 3: 2 – 5pm
Sat Nov 4: 2 – 5pm

Presented by the Arts Research Center in collaboration with the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, Native American Student Development, the Department of...

Camille T. Dungy

Poet, Professor, Teacher

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 of her writing, Dungy considers history, landscape, culture, family, and desire. Her latest book...

Olya Dubatova

Painter, Filmmaker, Installation Artist

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 was awarded the prestigious Visions and Voices Grant in 2016. Her projects with UC Berkeley, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and Internet Archive...

Glenda Drew

Media Artist, Professor of Design at UC Davis.

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 interface and artistic installations. Her practice is multifaceted in form and includes...