Visual Arts

Robert Glass

2011 ARC Fellow
Robert Glass was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Robert Glass is the founder of Space Open Studio, a landscape design and ecological planning firm based in Oakland, CA. He previously worked for Hyphae Design Laboratory, where he integrated landscape architecture with recycled water systems and civil engineering on a variety of sites, including public institutions, ecological preserves, hot spring resorts, and both single and multi-family residences.

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Jeffrey Gibson

Interdisciplinary Artist
Jeffrey Gibson gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 25, 2022.

Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972) is an interdisciplinary artist. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea. He received a bachelor of fine arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and master of arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. He was awarded honorary doctorates from Claremont Graduate University (2016) and the...

Andrea Gagliano

2017 ARC Fellow
Andrea Gagliano was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Andrea Gagliano graduated from the School of Information with a Master's in Information Management and Systems in 2017. Prior to the I School, she graduated from the University of Washington with a B.Sc. in mathematics and a B.A in business administration. She is currently head of data science in AI/ML at Getty Images, where she combines art and technology by working on visual search.

Jason Fritz

2013 ARC Fellow
Jason Fritz was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 - he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Jason Fritz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work shuttles between performance, film, installation, and disaster. Originally from Detroit, now living and working in San Francisco, Fritz’s work is heavily in conversation with the histories of the queer future and representation through documentation. He holds an MFA can in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. His work focuses on the idea of transformation, the ability of individuals to transform their own...

Claire Fontaine

Conceptual Artist
Claire Fontaine gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center in May 2013.

Claire Fontaine is a collective feminist conceptual artist founded by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill in Paris in 2004. Since 2017 she lives and works in Palermo. Her name is inspired by Duchamp’s iconic ready-made, the urinal entitled Fontaine, and a famous brand of French notebooks (Clairefontaine); it defines a space where the biographies of the artist is not directly connected to their artworks allowing their research to become a space of freedom and desubjectivisation. The use...

Deborah Fisher

Executive Director at A Blade of Grass
Deborah Fisher was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Deborah Fisher is the founding Executive Director of A Blade of Grass, and a strategic and philanthropic advisor to Shelley and Donald Rubin. She also currently serves on the board of the Center for Artistic Activism.

Fisher is a practicing artist and creative leader working to expand the roles art and artists play within communities. She has worked in many capacities at the intersection of art and civic life in New York City, including as studio manager at...

Shannon Flattery

Artist, Cultural Worker, Activist
Shannon Flattery was an Artist in Residence at the Arts Research Center from 2006 to 2007.

Shannon Flattery is an Artist, Cultural Worker, and Activist based in Santa Fe. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Touchable Stories, an organization that uses art to take community oral history onto the main stage of civic dialogue. Flattery is also the Co-Director of The Bobby Mendes Peace Legacy, an anti-violence program of Touchable Stories, co-directed by peace activist Isaura Mendes. The program was initiated during the Upham's Corner community history/exhibit project 1999-2000....

José Figueroa

2016 ARC Fellow
José Figueroa was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Caracas, Venezuelan-born and currently based in Oakland, California, José Figueroa is an artist working in drawing, photography, video and sculpture. He has studied at the Skowhegan School, Cooper Union (BFA) and recently received his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Best known for his map-like drawings that document (in playful detail) his surroundings, Figueroa is a keen observer of life. He is interested in the role colonization and...

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Elizabeth Zhiying Feng was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng is a visual artist, writer, and programmer from the Bay Area. Elizabeth is a second year Electrical Engineering & Computer Science major at Berkeley. She creates visual poetry that combines writing with elements of photography, typography, cinematography, and composition. She’s also interested in new media, immersive computing, and machine creativity, and hopes to discover new ways to combine...

Marisha Farnsworth

2011 ARC Fellow
Marisha Farnsworth was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in Faculty Fellow category.

Marisha Farnsworth is an artist and an architect whose large-scale public space interventions explore future ecosystems, infrastructural utopias and the social and ecological implications of materiality in the built environment. Her work has been exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Venice Biennale and is in the collection of the Nevada Museum of Art.