Led by Shannon Jackson (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies and the Arts Research Center), four Allied Arts GROUP research teams provided unique opportunities for undergraduates to develop skills as art researchers, writers, interviewers, documentarians, and archivists.

The Art +TIME Research Team convened a series of working groups and public programs exploring the blurred boundary between visual and performance art. A second research project, the Art + NEIGHBORHOOD Research Team, convened a series of working groups and public programs to explore alternatives to the gentrification discourse that currently dominates arguments for the role of the arts in neighborhood vitalization. The Art + UNIVERSITY Research Team developed plans to organize teaching and research activities around a newly-commissioned opera based on the novel Death With Interruptions by Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago. The fourth research project, the Art + STEM Research Team, conducted research on the intersection of art, science, and technology, forming a “Berkeley perspective” on the emerging discussion of “STEM to STEAM.”