Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Julia Keefe

Vocalist, Actor, Activist, and Educator
Julia Keefe gave an Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 18, 2025. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) is an internationally acclaimed Native American jazz vocalist, actor, activist, and educator currently based in New York City. Her professional career has spanned over 20 years and she has headlined marquee events at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., NMAI-NY, as well as opened for the likes of 20-time GRAMMY Award winner Tony Bennett and 4-time GRAMMY Award...

Kealoha

Hawaiʻi's First Poet Laureate Emeritus
Kealoha gave a Visiting Writer Talk and Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kealoha is Hawaiʻi's first Poet Laureate Emeritus. As an internationally acclaimed poet and storyteller, he has performed throughout the world -- from the White House to the ʻIolani Palace, from Brazil to Switzerland. He is the first poet in Hawaiʻi's history to perform at a governor's inauguration, was selected as a master artist for a National Endowment...

Leandro Katz

Writer, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
Leandro Katz was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Spiraling Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born in Argentina, Leandro Katz arrived in New York in 1965. As a poet, translator, Conceptual artist, and professor, Katz participated in experimental literary movements in Buenos Aires, Quito, Lima, and New York. Coming to the end of a winding path through South and Central America, in New York he found a thriving community of avant-garde artists and...

Asma Kazmi

ARC Fellow, Artist, and Associate Professor of Art at UC Berkeley
Asma Kazmi was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Asma Kazmi is a research-based artist who combines virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity—a tug of more than one time and place. Her work involves long term engagement with cities, architecture, plants, animals, stones, and other matter to locate vestiges of relations forged by the legacies of colonialism and post-colonial contexts.

Combining visual and textual detritus from western...

Gary Kamiya

Author, Journalist and Historian of San Francisco
Gary Kamiya gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Gary Kamiya was born in Oakland, grew up in Berkeley and have lived in San Francisco since 1971. He received my BA and MA in English literature from UC Berkeley, where he won the Mark Schorer Citation. Kamiya was a co-founder and longtime executive editor of the groundbreaking web site Salon.com, where he reported from the Middle East, covered three Olympics, and wrote about politics, pop...

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Spoken Word Artist, Writer, Librettist, and Cultural Strategist
Marc Bamuthi Joseph was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Situated: A Rite to Heal Symposium at the Arts Research Center on October 10, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In the Spring of 2022,...

Sean San José

Writer, Director, Performer, and Co-Founder of Campo Santo
Sean San José was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Chavez Ravine Conference and Performances at the Arts Research Center on March 4, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sean San José is a writer, director, performer, and co-founder of Campo Santo, a new performance group for People of Color in San Francisco. Founded in 1996, Campo Santo is committed to developing new performance and to nurturing People of Color centered new audiences and has premiered over 100 new pieces. For 15 years, he was the Program...

Terry Jones

Producer, Screenwriter, and Director
Terry Jones gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 5, 2022. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Haudenosaunee filmmaker Terry Jones is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, who are located in western New York State. Terry has a passion for sharing his Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) history and culture through his film works. He strives to find a balance between entertaining and educating his audiences. Terry is currently pursuing his MFA in film ptoduction at York University in Toronto,...

Eungie Joo

Curator of Contemporary Art at SF MoMA
Eungie Joo was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. At SFMOMA, Joo organized the group exhibition Soft Power (2019–2020), which looked at the role of artists as citizens and social actors. Her curatorial projects include, Artistic Director, 5th Anyang Public...

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Public Installation, Sculpture, Video, and Performance Artist, and Professor, Art Department Chair, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.
Paul Ramírez Jonas gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989), Ramírez Jonas, currently lives and works in Ithaca NY.

Over the last thirty years Ramírez Jonas has created works that range from large-scale public installations and monumental sculptures to...