Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

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...

Ajuan Mance

Visual Artist, Author, Editor, and a Professor of Ethnic Studies and English at Mills College
Ajuan Mance gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 24, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ajuan Mance is a Professor of African American literature at Mills College in Oakland, California. A lifelong artist and writer, Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as comic and zine fests, from the Bay Area to Brooklyn. In her art, illustration, and comics, Ajuan uses humor and bright colors to explore race, gender, power, and the people and places in which they...

Wendy MacNaughton

Illustrator and Graphic Journalist
Wendy MacNaughton gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center on July 17, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. MacNaughton has published eleven books, including three New York Times best-sellers. MacNaughton's work combines illustration, journalism, and social work to tell the stories of overlooked people and places. Her art has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, Juxtapoz, GOOD, Time Out NY, 7x7, and Gizmodo. She has...

Jean Ma

Scholar of Film and Media History and Theory and Former Professor in Film and Media Studies Program at Stanford
Jean Ma was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jean Ma is a scholar of film and media history and theory, with specializations in Asian cinema, gender, sexuality, sound studies, and moving image art. Her books include Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema; Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema; and Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography. She...

tanea lunsford lynx

Writer and Professor of Social Justice and Ethnic Studies at City College of San Francisco
tanea lunsford lynx gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

tanea lunsford lynx (pronouns flexible) is a writer, abolitionist, and fourth generation Black San Franciscan on both sides.

tanea is a proud alum of Voices of Our Nation (VONA) and the Lambda Literary Retreat. In 2023 tanea grew her showings of multidisciplinary work to include her first solo exhibition (we were here) at the San...

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Multidisciplinary Artist
Cannupa Hanska Luger gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Incorporating ceramics, steel, fiber, video and repurposed materials, Luger activates speculative fiction, engages in land-based actions of repair and practices empathetic response through social...

Maya Lin

Architect, Designer, and Sculptor
Maya Lin gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 29, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Maya Lin is known for her large-scale environmental artworks, her architectural works and her memorial designs. Her unique multi-disciplinary career has “resisted categories, boundaries and borders” (Michael Brenson). In her book Boundaries, she writes I see myself existing between boundaries, a place where opposites meet; science and art, art and architecture, East and West. My work...

Alan Pelaez Lopez

Poet, Installation, and Adornment Artist
Alan Pelaez Lopez gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Alan Pelaez Lopez, Ph.D., was born in Mexico and constantly migrated between the state of Mexico, Mexico City, and Oaxaca’s Costa Chica. At five, Pelaez Lopez migrated alone to the United States, undocumented. As a minor, Pelaez Lopez began to make jewelry as a source of income, which is where they found their passion for art.

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Miguel A. López

Writer and Former Chief Curator/Co-Director at TEOR/ética
Miguel A. López gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 19, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Miguel A. López is a writer and curator. In his practice, he focuses on the role of art in politics and public life, collective work and collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist rewritings of history. He is a co-curator for the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as Chief Curator, and later Co-director at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. Previously, López was...

Lili Loofbourow

Staff writer at Slate
Lili Loofbourow gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 29, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Lili Loofbourow is a staff writer at Slate. Before that, The Week. An essay of hers was in Best American Essays 2019, and she won the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Staige...