Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Laura Richard

Spring 2010 ARC Fellow and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UC Santa Cruz
Laura Richard was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Laura Richard works in modern and contemporary art with a designated emphasis in film. Her recently completed dissertation, “In Situ and On Location: The Early Works of Maria Nordman,” is a political reappraisal of the films, performances and rooms made by the artist between 1967 and 1979. Other current research interests include Judy Chicago’s smoke works, theories of temporality...

Barbara Jane Reyes

Poet, Author, Co-Editor of Doveglion Press, and Adjunct Professor at USF’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program
Barbara Jane Reyes gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in May 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, the Philippines, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. She earned a BA in ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She is the author of the poetry collections Letters to a Young Brown Girl (2020), Invocation to Daughters (2017...

Charles Renfro

Architect and Partner at the Diller Scofidio + Renfro Firm
Charles Renfro gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 27, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Charles Renfro was born in Baytown Texas in 1964. He is a practicing architect and has been based in New York City since 1989. He joined Diller + Scofidio in 1997 and was promoted to partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 2004. DS+R is an interdisciplinary studio that fuses architecture, the visual arts and the performing arts while investigating issues of contemporary culture such as...

Ishmael Reed

Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Songwriter, Composer, Playwright, Editor, and Publisher
Ishmael Reed gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

One of America’s most significant literary figures, Ishmael Reed has published over 30 books of poetry, prose, essays, and plays, as well as penned hundreds of lyrics for musicians ranging from Taj Mahal to Macy Gray. His work is known for its satirical, ironic take on race and literary tradition, as well as its innovative, post-modern technique. Critic Robert Elliot Fox described Reed’s work: “In his...

Wendy Red Star

Contemporary Multimedia Artist
Wendy Red Star gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on Apr 1, 2022. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Wendy Red Star (b.1981, Billings, MT) lives and works in Portland, OR. Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), both of which have her works in their permanent collections; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Paris, France), Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Bignan, France), Portland Art...

Will Rawls

Contemporary Choreographer, Performance Artist, Curator, Writer, and Associate Professor in The Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA
Will Rawls gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on October 18, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Will Rawls is a New York-based choreographer, dancer, and writer whose work unfolds at the edges of sense when dance and language clash. His multi-disciplinary work exists at theaters, galleries and museums, and focuses on how black...

Martha Redbone

Roots Music Singer
Martha Redbone facilitated a Songwriting Workshop offered as a collaboration between Cal Performances' Illuminations, the Department of Music, and the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2025. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and 2021 United States Artist Fellow celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music. Drawing from the folk and mountain blues sounds of her Appalachian upbringing in Kentucky and the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn, Redbone...

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

Film & Media Scholar, Professor, and Vice Chair in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at UCLA
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli 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.

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a film and media scholar whose research has developed in two related directions. One has been in film studies and theory (focusing mostly on political, sexual, and ethnic violence), and the other in digital technologies, social media and surveillance, dispersed techno-human encounters, theories of affect, and the...

Layli Long Soldier on What Poetry Carries

April 22, 2026
Aisha Kazi
What does it mean to continue writing when language itself can feel insufficient? What does poetry ask of us in moments of grief, violence, and historical rupture? And what responsibility does the artist hold when words fail or falter?

These questions lingered throughout two evenings with poet and scholar Layli Long Soldier, whose visit to the Arts Research Center on April 1 and 2 marked both the beginning of National Poetry Month and a key moment in ARC’s 25th anniversary season. Across a public reading and a conversation with poet Solmaz Sharif and...

Drew Woodson, Playwright-in-Residence

April 14, 2025
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program Drew Woodson Playwright-in-Residence April 14 – 18, 2025 Location/map to the Arts Research Center here

Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, in partnership with Alternative Theater Ensemble, and with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, the Department of...