Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Susan Meiselas

Documentary Photographer and President of the Magnum Foundation
Susan Meiselas gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 10, 2018.

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers(1976), Nicaragua(1981), ...

Julie Mehretu

Contemporary Visual Artist
Julie Mehretu gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 22, 2019.

Julie Mehretu, (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) lives and works in New York City. She received a B.A. from Kalamazoo College, Michigan, studied at the University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar Senegal, and received a Master’s of Fine Art with honors from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1997.

In exploring palimpsests of history, from geological time to a modern day phenomenology of the social, Julie Mehretu's works engage us in a dynamic visual articulation...

Erin McElroy

Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington
Erin McElroy gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 3, 2020.

Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. McElroy’s work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, digitality, empire, and racial capitalism in the US and in Romania, alongside housing justice organizing, countermapping, and transnational solidarities. This informs the focus of their manuscript, Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies...

Kiko Mayorga

Co-Founder of the Escuelab.org Project
Kiko Mayorga gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 6, 2015.

Kiko Mayorga researches and promotes the social adaption of technologies in Lima, Perú. He has worked in a range of curatorial and medial experiments dealing with the particularities of local technological appropiation. He is an active participant of the OLPC volunteering community in Perú, promoting and organizing talks, workshops, field activities, etc. Since 2009 he co-directs the Escuelab.org project, an informal school/laboratory in the center of Lima that hosts processes...

Angela Mattox

Director of Artist Initiatives at Creative Capital
Angela Mattox was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011.

For over two decades, Angela Mattox has dedicated her career to supporting and championing contemporary artists as a multi-disciplinary funder and presenter. From 2020-2024, she served as Creative Capital’s Senior Manager of Awardee Engagement. In that role, she worked closely with Creative Capital awardees to support the development of their projects, connecting artists to the skills, resources and industry networks they need...

J. Michael Martinez

Poet and Assistant Professor of Poetry at San Jose State
J. Michael Martinez gave a Visiting Writer Reading/Conversation at the Arts Research Center on September 28, 2023.

J. Michael Martinez was born and raised in Greeley, Colorado. He is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado and received an MFA from George Mason University. In 2009, Martinez’s collection Heredities was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera for the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award and was published by Louisiana State...

José Carlos Martinat

José Carlos Martinat gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 6, 2015.

José Carlos Martinat lives and works in Lima, Peru. Martinat’s projects are characterized by exploring a relationship with the context in which it is presented, on a social, cultural or political level, in order to achieve a real and direct communication between the viewer, the work and the space. Martinat works within a multidisciplinary practice utilizing sculpture, robotics, programming, audio, sound, appropriation and interaction where relevant. His work has taken...

Leigh Markopoulos

Curator, Art Writer, and Former Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts
Leigh Markopoulos was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011.

Leigh Markopoulos (1968-2017) was a writer, editor, curator, arts manager, the Director of the Steven Leiber Trust, a significant collection of artist's books, ephemera, and works, and the chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco since 2008. Markopoulos came to San Francisco from London in 2002 to become deputy director of the CCA Wattis Institute for...

Randall Mann

Poet, Critic, and Professor of Writing at Bennington College
Randall Mann gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in November 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

A queer poet, critic, and medical writer, Randall Mann is the author of five poetry collections: Complaint in the Garden, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, Straight Razor, Proprietary, and A Better Life. He is also the author of a book of criticism, essays, and interviews, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry. His writing has appeared in TheAdroit...

Adam Mansbach

Author and Former Visiting Professor of Literature at Rutgers University-Camde
Adam Mansbach gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.

Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, cultural critic and humorist. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, which has been translated into forty languages, named Time Magazine's 2011 "Thing of the Year," and sold over three million copies worldwide. The two sequels, You Have to Fucking Eat and Fuck, Now There Are Two of You are also New York Times...