Visual Arts

Brett Cook

Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator

Brett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being. His public projects often involve community workshops featuring arts-integrated pedagogy along with contemplative practices, performance, and food to create a fluid boundary between art making, daily life, and healing.

Teaching and public speaking are extensions of Cook’s social practice that involve communities in dialogue to generate experiences of reflection and insight. He has taught at all academic levels in a variety of subjects, and...

Tiffany Chung

Multimedia Artist

Tiffany Chung is globally noted for her interdisciplinary and research-based practice consisting of hand-drawn and embroidered cartographic works, paintings, photographs, sculptures, texts, and videos. Chung’s artistic praxis reflects her intellectual inquiries into a complex framework of social, political, economic and environmental processes, at times entwined in landscape archaeology and historical ecology. Cultivated through archival and field research into specific locales, her projects excavate layers of history to unpack conflict, geopolitical partitioning, spatial...

Phillip Cash Cash

ARC Fellow, Scholar, Artist, Writer, and Traditional Healer

Phillip Cash Cash is a niimíipuu (Nez Perce)/weyíiletpuu (Cayuse) human, an award winning Indigenous scholar, artist, writer, and traditional healer. He is a younger speaker of nimiipuutímt, the Nez Perce language, a severely endangered language. Cash Cash holds doctoral degrees in linguistics and anthropology. His creativity and inquiry are life-centered endeavors committed to cultural revitalization and community-based language advocacy. He sees our Native languages as vital elements of epistemology, consciousness, and spirit that connects us...

Art/Politics/Aesthetics with Stephanie Syjuco

April 5, 2017
Art/Politics/Aesthetics Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures Stephanie Syjuco, Professor of Art Practice Wed., April 5, 2017 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures is co-taught by Natasha Boas, independent curator, art historian and critic, and Michael Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor in the African American Studies Department. The Wednesday public lecture series is organized by Natasha Boas....

Bull.Miletic

Collaborative Artistic Pair Focused on Media Installations

Bull.Miletic is a collaborative artistic duo comprised of Synne Tollerud Bull and Dragan Miletic. Through their award-winning media installations, Bull.Miletic focus on the transformative effects of media technologies and the way they infiltrate and take effect in the physical environment of everyday life. Bull.Miletic have shown internationally at venues including Venice Biennale, California Biennial, WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Pasadena Museum of...

Tania Bruguera

Artist, Activist

Tania Bruguera was born in 1968 in Havana, Cuba. Bruguera, a politically motivated performance artist, explores the relationship between art, activism, and social change in works that examine the social effects of political and economic power. By creating proposals and aesthetic models for others to use and adapt, she defines herself as an initiator rather than an author, and often collaborates with multiple institutions as well as many individuals so that the full realization of her artwork occurs when others adopt and perpetuate it.

reelaviolette botts-ward

Poetry and the Senses Fellow and Postdoctoral Scholar in American Studies at UC Davis

reelaviolette botts-ward is a homegirl, an educator, and a nontraditional multimedia artist from Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a doctoral candidate in African Diaspora Studies researching Black women’s healing spaces in Oakland. ree centers “everyday round the way Blackgirl methodology” to theorize creative innovation in the wake of displacement. Founder of blackwomxnhealing, ree curates healing circles and exhibitions for and by Black womxn, using Black feminist poetics and artistry as tools for translation between academic and community audiences. Her first book,...

Natasha Boas

Contemporary Art Curator, Writer, Critic

Natasha Boas is a French-American contemporary art curator, writer, and critic. She has taught art history and curatorial studies at Yale, Stanford, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her exhibition on the Modernist Algerian artist, Baya MahieddineBaya: Woman of Algiers in 2018 at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University garnered her international critical attention. In 2017 she was featured in Lynn Hershman Leeson's...

Peter Bittner

ARC Fellow, Multimedia Journalist, and Lecturer in the UC Berkeley School of Journalism

Peter Bittner is the founder of The Upgrade and is passionate about making a difference through emerging media & technology.

His photography and videography have been published on the front page of The New York Times and in CNN, Bloomberg, NBC, Reuters, Vox, Business Insider, Hearst Digital, Al Jazeera, Popular Mechanics, VICE News, and other major outlets. Peter is a Fulbright Scholar and has covered science, sports, travel, politics, and culture — and has a special knack for projects that get him outdoors and off the grid.

Peter produces content for...

Evan Bissell

ARC Fellow, Artist, Researcher, Facilitator, and Administrator

Evan Bissell (he/him, white) facilitates participatory art and research projects that support equitable systems and liberatory processes. With groups around the country, he has supported the development of curriculum, public art, laws, books, and convenings that build imagination, power and capacity around the just transition, anti-prison and police efforts, housing justice, and health equity, among others. Most recently Evan created the Arts & Cultural Strategy program at the Othering & Belonging Institute and helped found Richmond LAND, the first community land...