Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Myra Melford

Avant-garde Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Professor of Composition and Improvisational Practices at UC Berkeley
Myra Melford gave an Affiliated Faculty Performance and Conversation at the Arts Research Center on January 30, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

For nearly two decades, as a Professor of Composition and Improvisational Practices at UC Berkeley, Myra Melford has pursued a philosophy that honors jazz and new-music traditions while emphasizing emerging developments in musical technique, theory, technology and performance.

The pianist, composer, bandleader and professor Myra Melford—whom the New Yorker called “a...

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

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

Julie Mehretu

Contemporary Visual Artist
Julie Mehretu gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 22, 2019. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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

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, ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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’...

José Carlos Martinat

José Carlos Martinat gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 6, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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,...

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

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...

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

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...