Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Erika Balsom

Film Scholar, Critic, and Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London
Erika Balsom was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the "Curating People" Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011.

Erika Balsom is a Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, focusing on the histories, aesthetics, and politics of nonfiction cinemas.

She has published extensively on the intersections of art and the moving image, often focusing on questions of technological change and/or examining the relationship between artistic practices and their institutional contexts.

She is the author of TEN SKIES (2021), An...

Horace D. Ballard

Curator of American Art at Harvard Art Museums
Horace D. Ballard gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 27, 2020.

Horace D. Ballard (he/they) investigates the art, ideas, and visual cultures of the United States and the Americas. His research interests include the legibilities of gender and race in 18th- and 19th-century portraiture, colonial men’s fashion, and the visual and material cultures of religion. Before arriving at the Harvard Art Museums, Ballard held positions in the curatorial, education, and interpretation departments of the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA...

Ivanie Aubin-Malo

Dancer, Choreographer, and Curator
Ivanie Aubin-Malo was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in November 2023, participating in a cyclical series of dance rehearsals alongside of Tanya Lukin Linklater.

Wolastoq and Quebecois dancer, choreographer and curator Ivanie Aubin-Malo invests herself in projects that reflect on ecology and human ethics regarding our environment. She has also danced Fancy Shawl, a powwow style, since 2015, connecting with the spirit of transformation and celebrating women’s audacity. Her artistic research as a creator aims to shed light on the beauty of...

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Visiting Writer
Cameron Awkward-Rich was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Celebrating Cave Canem Conversation at the Arts Research Center on October 20, 2021.

Cameron Awkward-Rich is a black, trans writer & educator, currently living in Northampton, MA. His first collection of poetry, Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His second collection, Dispatch, was the winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice award & was published by Persea Books in December,...

Tarek Atoui

Artist, Composer
Tarek Atoui gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2015.

Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer working within the realm of sound performance and composition. His work challenges traditional ways of perceiving sound and focuses on the medium’s ability to act as a catalyst for human interaction, while exploring its relation to current social, historical and political realities. Atoui’s work often revolves around large-scale, collaborative performances that stem from extensive research into music history and anthropology. He engineers...

Neda Atanasoski

Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland
Neda Atanasoski was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity(University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Surrogate...

Berit Ashla

Director of Philanthropy for Fremont Group
Berit Ashla was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Conference at ARC on January 17, 2024, and Reimagining Progress Conference at ARC on May 5, 2014.

Berit Ashla is Director of Philanthropy for Fremont Group, a San Francisco based family office, designing the family’s integrated philanthropy practice. Prior to joining Fremont, Berit led Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ West Coast advisory office managing client engagements with individual, family foundation, and corporate donors. She holds a wealth of experience in grantmaking,...

Sigrun Åsebø

Professor of Art History at University of Bergen
Sigrun Åsebø was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Sigrun Åsebø works as an Associate Professor of Art History at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen. Her research interests are feminist historiography and theory, and questions of gender, sexualities, women artists from modernity until today, and gender, diversity in art museums and curating. She is the co-founder of the “Network for Gender and Diversity in Nordic and Baltic Art...

Knut Ove Arntzen

Theatre Critic and Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Bergen
Kunt Ove Arntzen was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Knut Ove Arntzen, was since 1983 assistant and later associate professor at the former Institute for theatre studies, now the Section for theatre studies at the Institute for Cultural Studies and Art History at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has been a free lance theatre critic at the paper Arbeiderbladet in Oslo, 1976-1986, and has benn in the function of a scientific consultant to the Bergen International Theatre. He was...

Laurie Arnold

Associate Professor of History, Director of Native American Studies, and Chair of Humanities at Gozanga University
Laurie Arnold gave a Visiting Scholar Reading at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 6, 2023.

Laurie Arnold is an enrolled citizen of the Sinixt Band of the Colville Confederated Tribes. She is Associate Professor of History, Director of Native American Studies, and the Robert K. and Ann J. Powers Chair of the Humanities at Gonzaga University. In 2019-20 she held the Frederick W. Beinecke Senior Research Fellowship at Yale University and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. Her first book, Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville...