Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Dena Beard

Director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts Brooklyn College
Dena Beard gave a Visiting Lecturer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 8, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Dena Beard is director of the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. She was Executive Director of The Lab in San Francisco from 2014–2023 and Assistant Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from 2007–2014. Beard has organized hundreds of projects with artists such as Lutz Bacher, Sadie Barnette, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ellen Fullman, Dora García...

John Perry Barlow

Poet, Essayist, Cattle Rancher, Cyberlibertarian Political Activist, and Former Lyricist for the Grateful Dead
John Perry Barlow gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 8, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. In 1990, John Perry Barlow co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit based in the U.S. that provides legal aid to defend individuals and new technologies from what it considers to be misdirected legal threats. His writing about the impact of the Internet has influenced people’s thinking since the network’s earliest days. His essays for Wired, The New York Times...

Ferran Barenblit

Director of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Ferran Barenblit was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 21, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ferran Barenblit, who was born in Argentina, is a renowned curator and museum director with an extensive career, having led three prestigious art institutions in the last twenty years.

His first position as director was between 2002 and 2008 at CASM (Centro de Arte Santa Mónica de Barcelona), a laboratory for...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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,...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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’...

Tarek Atoui

Artist, Composer
Tarek Atoui gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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 ...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...