Visual Arts

Two-Day Letterpress Workshop

February 28, 2026
Two-Day Letterpress Workshop
 Sat February 28th & Sun March 1st, 2026
10am to 4pm each day
Location: The Codex Foundation, 1331 Seventh Street, Unit D, Berkeley, CA

Open to Berkeley undergraduate & graduate students
Limited enrollment, capped at 8 students
Spots given on a first-come, first-served basis
Cost to participants underwritten by the Arts Research Center

Due to the limited space and cost, we ask that you commit to attending if you sign-up; we are taking a waiting...

Raqs Media Collective

Multimedia Artist Collective
Raqs Media Collective gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 7, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Raqs Media Collective (* 1992, by Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta). The word “raqs” in several languages denotes an intensification of awareness and presence attained by whirling, turning, being in a state of revolution. Raqs take this sense to mean ‘kinetic contemplation’ and a restless and energetic entanglement with the world, and with time. Raqs practices...

Michael Rakowitz

Conceptual Artist
Michael Rakowitz gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 20, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American artist working at the intersection of problem-solving and troublemaking. His work has appeared in venues worldwide including dOCUMENTA (13), P.S.1, MoMA, MassMOCA, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Palais de Tokyo, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, the 10th and 14th Istanbul Biennials, Sharjah Biennial 8, Tirana Biennale, National Design...

Nuno Ramos

Artist, Designer, Sculptor, Scenographer, Filmmaker, Composer, and Writer
Nuno Ramos 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.

Nuno Ramos is a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo. Ramos gained early recognition in the 1980s through his association with Casa 7, a group of young paulista painters who sought to move beyond the modernist aesthetics that had dominated Brazilian art in the mid-century. Largely self-trained, painters of the Casa 7 group were known for the...

Ronald Rael

ARC Fellow, Designer, Architectural Researcher, Author, Entrepreneur, Professor of Architecture and and Chair of Art Practice at UC Berkeley
Ronald Rael was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011, 2016, and 2019 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Professor Ronald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture in the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design, and is also a member of the art faculty in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley. His past leadership roles have included serving as Department Chair, Director of the Masters of Architecture, and Director of the...

Ignacio Rábago

Installation Artist
Ignacio Rábago was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center in 2004-2005. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ignacio Rábago was born in Madrid, Spain in 1950 and has been living in Copenhagen since 1978. Being educated as a painter and sculptor, Rábago has specialized in large scale installations. Since his first exhibition in 1974 Rábago´s work has been presented regularly in galleries, museums and public institutions. Among the most important of his exhibitions are: Gallery Hastings, New York, 1981...

David Rabinowitch

Sculptor
David Rabinowitch was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center in 2002-2003. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

David Rabinowitch was born in 1943 in Toronto, Canada and passed away in 2023. He was a Canadian sculptor whose work is influenced by architecture, science, philosophy and music. Born in Toronto and twin brother to Royden Rabinowitch, Rabinowitch studied English Literature at the University of Western Ontario. In 1972 he settled in New York. After an encounter with the work of sculptor David Smith...

Ted Purves

Artist, Writer, and Founder of the Social Practice Program at CCA
Ted Purves was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ted Purves was an independent artist, editor, and curator. His work has been exhibited and published in many venues and journals throughout California, as well as in New York, Boston, Albany and several cities in Germany. Purves has won funding from the Creative Work Fund in San Francisco and the Headlands Center for the Arts and been an artist-in-...

Devi Peacock

Founder and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion
Devi Peacock gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 6, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Devi Peacock is a South Asian non-binary storyteller, performing artist and community organizer based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, they were the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion, an Oakland-based BIPOC, queer- and trans-led arts organization, as well as the co-organizer of the Liberated 23rd Ave. cultural land trust in Oakland. They additionally...

Shari Paladino

ARC Fellow, Artist, Designer, and Educator
Shari Paladino was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Shari Paladino is an artist, designer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has exhibited work at the Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Richmond Art Center. She attended University of California, Berkeley, earning her bachelor’s degree in art education and disability studies, as well as a master’s degree in fine arts. Shari developed curriculum for...