Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Jenna Wortham

Journalist
Jenna Wortham gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jenna Wortham (they/them), also known as J Wortham, is a sound healer, reiki practitioner, herbalist, and community care worker oriented towards healing justice and liberation.

J is also a staff writer for...

Winnie Wong

Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Winnie Wong was a Visiting Scholar Participant at the Minding Time Talk and Exhibition at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Winnie Wong is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an art historian with a special interest in fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits. Her work explores authorship, property, and likeness through interdisciplinary inquiry, while...

Robert Wilson

Experimental Theater Stage Director & Playwright
Robert Wilson was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have...

David Wilson

Paper & Performance-based Artist
David Wilson was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Living Time Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 21, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

David Wilson is an artist based in Oakland, CA. He creates observational drawings based in direct experiences with landscape and orchestrates site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artisans into collaborative relationships. He organized the experimental exhibition The Possible...

Angie Wilson

Interdisciplinary Artist
Angie Wilson gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 2, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Angie Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist working in textile-based sculpture, installation, social practice, interiors, and costume design. She is interested in the intimacy of textiles – as protective, sheltering, comforting, and expressive. Textiles as clothing and domestic objects signify identity, hold memory, and tell stories. Angie references weaving as a powerful metaphor for...

Linda Williams

Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Film & Media at UC Berkeley
Linda Williams was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Body, Intellect, Resistance Talk at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 13, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Linda Williams taught courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and “body genres” of all sorts). She has also taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Bunuel and Pedro Almodovar, melodrama, film theory, selected “sex genres,” and The Wire. Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema,...

Dominic Willsdon

Educator, Curator
Dominic Willsdon was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the The Arts and Public Service Conference at the Arts Research Center on May 11, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Dominic Willsdon is an educator and curator. He is the Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he is also associate professor in art education. He was formerly Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Practice at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a...

Simone White

Poet, Professor
Simone White gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on March 17, 2021. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Simone White is the author of or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem, 2016), and House Envy of All the World (Factory School, 2010), the poetry chapbook, Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse,...

Marianne Weems

Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz
Marianne Weems is the 2007-2008 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Marianne Weems is a theater and opera director and founder of the award-winning New York-based theater company The Builders Association, an influential ensemble that has created a significant body of work at the forefront of integrating media with live performance. With the company, she has created and directed 17 original large-scale productions and worked with unexpected collaborators including the architects Diller + Scofidio, The...

Michael Wasson

Poet
Michael Wasson gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 8, 2023. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Michael Wasson is Nimíipuu from the Nez Perce Reservation in Lenore, Idaho. His poetry collection This American Ghost (YesYes Books) was winner of the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize. He was a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow and a 2018 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow in Literature. His book Swallowed Light...