Visual Arts

Susan Greene

Interdisciplinary Artist, Clinical Psychologist

Susan Greene is the director of US based Art Forces. She is an interdisciplinary artist and clinical psychologist. Her practice traverses cultural arenas including video, new media, public art and murals. Greene’s work focuses on the psychologies of space, intersections of trauma, creativity, memory, resilience and resistance. Specifically, she is concerned with the ways in which architecture and tourism reinforce and reimagine borders, migrations, environmental and racial justice and decolonization.

Jonathan Green

Director of the UCR/California Museum of Photography, Professor of Studio Art and Art History

Jonathan Green is Director of the UCR/California Museum of Photography and professor in the departments of Studio Art and Art History. Green was associate editor of Aperture Quarterly, 1974-1976. His book American Photography: A Critical History (Abrams 1984, reprinted 1996) was selected as the Nikon Book of the Year, 1984, and received the Benjamin Citation from the American Photographic Historical Society. Other books include Camera Work: A Critical Anthology, 1973; The Snapshot, 1974; and with Minor White, Celebrations, 1974. In 1999, MIT Press published Continuous...

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

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 art and technology in the future.

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

Gisselle Medina

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Gisselle Medina’s identity consists of multitudes—a Latine, queer, non-binary from Los Angeles. They are a poet, visual artist and journalist in their final year as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. In Medina’s scholarship, they investigate the history of literature and intertwine various methods and theories into literary and cultural analysis. In their poetry, Medina writes fiercely about their restless past and our collective world, in hopes to inspire and transcend anyone willing to listen. Medina inspires to be an investigative reporter for...

Anastasia Le

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Anastasia Le is a poet and printmaker from the Lake Chabot area of the East Bay. Her work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review’s Midterm Five: Interlace/Intersect, the 2021 Southeast Asian Student Coalition anthology, and on the walls of her former co-op. She approaches poetry with a Vietnamese linguistic sensibility, but writes in English—she’s working on that. You can find her behind the counter at Eastwind Books of Berkeley planning their next open mic.

Anastasia was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the...

Andrea Gagliano

2017 ARC Fellow

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.

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

Jason Fritz

2013 ARC Fellow

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 identities, the transformative potential of objects and environments, and how transformation...

José Figueroa

2016 ARC Fellow

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 imperialism have played in collapsing geography onto itself and seeks to revise these spaces and histories by...

Ayling Zulema Dominguez

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator rooted in a poetics of anticolonial imagination. Their art and poetry ask who we are at our most free and what it might take to arrive there. Lyricality and reclamation of historically silenced voices and experiences inform their writing and artistry, as does abundance and collective care. They were a 2023 Prufer Poetry Prize Finalist, and received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize. They are an active mentee in the Latinx in Publishing Writers Mentorship Program....

Cross Sector Conference

Open Engagement Pre-conference | CROSS-SECTOR Thursday, April 28, 2016, 10am to 6pm Friday, April 29, 2016, 10am to 1:30pm The Magnes Collection, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Accessible from the Downtown Berkeley BART station CROSS-SECTOR pre-conference will be free and open to the public. Kindly REGISTER here for the plenary talks, break-out sessions, and closing lecture so we can track attendance.