Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Bojana Cvejić

Professor of Dance Theory at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Bojana Cvejić gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center in Feburary 20, 2014.

Bojana Cvejić’s work spans philosophy, performance practice and theory and dance. She studied musicology (BA, MA, University of Arts, Belgrade) and philosophy from which she received a PhD at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London. Cvejić has made more than twenty theater and dance performances since 1996 as (co)director (five experimental opera stagings, performances with Jan Ritsema) or dramaturg (in choreographies by among others Xavier Le Roy,...

Seth Curcio

Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery
Seth Curcio was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Seth Curcio, Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery, has served as Senior Director from 2016–2022. During this time, he spearheaded the gallery’s relocation from Venice Beach to its current home at 616 N La Brea Ave in Hollywood, and expanded the gallery’s presence by adding a second exhibition space in the same location in 2020.

Since joining the gallery, Curcio has been pivotal in...

Michael Creedon

Teacher, Fine Art Photographer, Digital Imaging Consultant
Michael Creedon was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Michael Creedon is a Fine Art Photographer and Digital Printer. He was an instructor of Digital and Film Based Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2001 through 2012. Since 1984 he has documented the Mission Bay Area of San Francisco, showing how this 300 acre site has slowly evolved over the past 25 years as the political and economic wind swirls over this proposed City within the City....

Margaret Crawford

Director of Urban Design, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Margaret Crawford was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.

Margaret Crawford holds degrees in architectural history, housing, and urban planning. Before coming to Berkeley, Crawford chaired the History, Theory, and Humanities Program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and, from 2000–2009, was professor of urban design and planning theory at the Harvard GSD, teaching history and design workshops and studios. Her scholarly work includes Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The History of...

Peter Coyote

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Author, Narrator of Films, Theatre, Television, and Audiobooks
Peter Coyote gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 12, 2017.

Peter Coyote was born Robert Peter Cohon in October of 1941 to a highly intellectual, culturally Jewish, secular family involved in liberal politics.

While a student at Grinnell College in 1961, Coyote was one of the organizers of a group of twelve students who traveled to Washington, D.C. during the...

Cindy Cox

Professor, Former Chair of the Music Department
Cindy Cox was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

Transparent yet richly multifaceted, Cindy Cox’s compositions synthesize old and new musical designs through linked strands of association, timbral fluctuation, and cyclic temporal processes. The natural world, ecology, and the concept of emergence inspire many of the special harmonies and textural colorations in her compositions, as in her piano trio la mar amarga, the octet Cañon, and the string...

Brett Cook

Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator
Brett Cook gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 6, 2014.

Brett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being. His public projects often involve community workshops featuring arts-integrated pedagogy along with contemplative practices, performance, and food to create a fluid boundary between art making, daily life, and healing.

Teaching and public speaking are extensions of Cook’s social practice that involve communities in dialogue to generate experiences of...

Donovan Kūhiō Colleps

Kanaka ʻŌiwi Poet & Editor
Donovan Kūhiō Colleps gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 23, 2023.

Donovan Kūhiō Colleps is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi poet and editor. His book of docu-poetry, Proposed Additions (Tinfish Press), was originally published in 2014. His recent work has appeared in Poetry, The Slowdown, Poets.org, and the Norton anthology, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through.

Michael Mark Cohen

Professor of African American Studies
Michael Mark Cohen gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2017.

Michael Mark Cohen was born in Denver, Colorado, the child of two public school teachers. He holds a BA in History from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University (2004). He is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at UCB with a joint appointment in American Studies and African American Studies. His general research and teaching areas cover the cultural and political history of the United States from the Civil War to the Present....

Tiffany Chung

Multimedia Artist
Tiffany Chung gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 3, 2017.

Tiffany Chung is globally noted for her interdisciplinary and research-based practice consisting of hand-drawn and embroidered cartographic works, paintings, photographs, sculptures, texts, and videos. Chung’s artistic praxis reflects her intellectual inquiries into a complex framework of social, political, economic and environmental processes, at times entwined in landscape archaeology and historical ecology. Cultivated through archival and field research into specific locales, her...