Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Darius Simpson

Writer, Educator, and Performer
Darius Simpso gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Darius Simpson is a writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. He received an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Mills College. Darius was a recipient of the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is the author of Never Catch Me (Button Poetry, 2022).​ He...

Kim Shuck

Poet, Author, Weaver, and Bead Worker
Kim Shuck gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Kim Shuck embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile, taking books out of the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale's. She...

Tiffany Shlain

Filmmaker, Artist, and Author
Tiffany Shlain gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 17, 2017.

Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker,bestselling author...

Gregory Sholette

Artist, Writer, Teacher, Activist, and Professor of Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at CUNY Queens College
Gregory Sholette was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of the Andrew A. Mellon Foundation funded project Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, and was an associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of...

Solmaz Sharif

Poet and Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Solmaz Sharif gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 22, 2024.

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New...

Edward Shanken

Art Historian and Professor of Digital Art and New Media at UC Santa Cruz
Edward A. Shanken was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is Professor at UC Santa Cruz, where he has served as Director of the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program. Prior academic posts include: Associate Professor, Digital + Media MFA program at RISD; Associate Professor, DXARTS Ph.D. program at University of Washington...

Sanjit Sethi

Artist, Writer, Curator, and President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Sanjit Sethi was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant/Speaker at the Location/Translation Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 19, 2012.

Sanjit Sethi (he/him) is currently President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and has over two decades of experience as a cultural leader. Sethi’s previous positions include Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Director of the Center for Art and Public Life, at California College of the Arts; and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute.

As an...

Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Artist, Writer, Curator, and Co-Founder of the Raqs Media Collective
Shuddhabrata Sengupta gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 7, 2018.

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is co-founder, along with Monica Narula and Jeebesh Bagchi, of the Raqs Media Collective. Since its inception in 1992, the members of the Collective have worked in a wide range of forms and formats. In their words, “they create installations, make videos, photographs, print and online works, play with archival traces, make exhibitions and art interventions in public spaces,...

Rolla Selbak

Filmmaker, Podcaster, and Storyteller
Rolla Selbak gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 17, 2017.

Rolla Selbak is a Sundance alumna, and a writer/director of film and TV, with TV projects most recently in development at 20th Century Fox and Sony.She imprints her fresh point of view as a Palestinian American, having moved to the U.S after the first Gulf War, and often focuses on socially topical issues that unite audiences....

Adrien Segal

Artist, Furniture-Maker, and Sculptor
Adrien Segal gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 30, 2015.

Adrien Segal is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2007, and is published in several books and academic journals. She has been awarded numerous Artist Residencies across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has work in permanent collections including the City of Homer, Alaska, the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, and the National Academy of Science in Washington D.C.

In 2022 Adrien was...