Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Claudia La Rocco

Poet, Critic, and Performer
Claudia La Rocco gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 21, 2013.

Claudia La Rocco is the author of Drive By (Smooth Friend, 2022); Certain Things (Afternoon Editions, 2022); Quartet (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020); petit cadeau (The Chocolate Factory, 2015); and The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited, 2014).

Her prose poem I am trying to do the assignment was published by [2nd floor projects] as a limited-edition chapbook. She edited I Don’t Poem: An Anthology of...

Marci Kwon

Assistant Professor Art History at Stanford University
Marci Kwon was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Amateurism Across the Arts Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

A scholar of American Art, Marci Kwon's research and teaching interests include the intersection of fine art and vernacular practice, theories of modernism, cultural exchange between Asia and the Americas, critical race theory, and "folk" and "self-taught" art. She is the co-director of the Cantor Arts Center's Asian American Art Initiative. Her book Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism (Princeton...

SanSan Kwan

Author and Professor in and Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
SanSan Kwan gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 14, 2024.

SanSan Kwan's research interests include dance studies, Asian American studies, and performance studies. Her recent book, Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration (Oxford UP, 2021), is winner of the 2022 de la Torre Bueno© Award. She is also author of Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces (Oxford UP, 2013) and co-editor, with Kenneth Speirs, of Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects (University of Texas Press, 2004...

Rachel Kushner

Writer
Rachel Kushner gave a Visiting Writer Talk at the Arts Research Center on October 27, 2017.

Rachel Kushner is the author of the internationally acclaimed novels THE MARS ROOM, THE FLAMETHROWERS, and TELEX FROM CUBA, as well as a book of short stories, THE STRANGE CASE OF RACHEL K. Her new book, THE HARD CROWD: ESSAYS 2000-2020 will be published in April 2021. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio...

Tina Kukielski

Director and Chief Curator at Art21
Tina Kukielski was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Tina Kukielski joined Art21 after more than thirteen years as a contemporary art curator. She was a co-curator of the acclaimed 2013 Carnegie International, bringing together 35 established and emerging artists from 19 different countries. During her time at the ...

Pamela & Richard Kramlich

Owners of a Large Private Collection of Media Art
Pamela and Richard Kramlich gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 6, 2017.

For more than 35 years, Pamela and Richard Kramlich have cultivated one of the most important private collections of media art in the world. Among the first collectors to focus their attention and patronage on “new media” art in the late 1980s, the Kramlichs have provided pioneering support for the preservation, conservation, and presentation of time-based works and helped advanced the inclusion of this work within the broader narrative of modern and contemporary...

Koyo Kouoh

Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town
Koyo Kouoh was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Koyo Kouoh is the Chief Curator and Executive Director of Zeitz MOCAA. Before joining the museum, she founded RAW Material Company in Dakar in 2008 as an institution dedicated to art, knowledge and society. A centre for critical education, an art exhibition space, and home to a creative residency programme, it supports the work of African and international artists and curators in all contemporary art media. In her independent curatorial...

Dana Koster

Poet and Photographer
Dana Koster gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in October 2021, part of the Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Dana Koster was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Ventura, California. She earned her English degree from UC Berkeley and MFA in poetry from Cornell University. From 2011-2013, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in Modesto, California with her husband and two children, where she works as a wedding photographer, occasional freelance writer and half of the art...

Ava Koohbor

Poet, Visual, and Sound Artist
Ava Koohbor gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi-speaker poet and visual artist who now lives in San Francisco. Many of her poems have been appeared in various magazines. Her chapbook, Triangle Squared, a fictional conversation among John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Morton Feldman, has been published by Bootstrap Press. She’s now working with poet Patrick James Dunagan on translating Hafez’s poems from Farsi into English. She...

Meiling Cheng

Dramaturg, Professor of Dramatic Arts in Theatre Critical Studies at the USC School of Dramatic Arts
Meiling Cheng was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Meiling Cheng is professor of dramatic arts in theatre critical studies at the USC School of Dramatic Arts.

Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Dr. Cheng came to this country in 1986 to study at the Yale University School of Drama, where she received her MFA degree in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism in 1989 and DFA degree in Theatre Arts in 1993. At Yale, she worked as a dramaturg with August Wilson on his Pulitzer Prize-winning...