Diana Arce is an artist and researcher. Her latest project, White Guilt Clean Up, is about dismantling white privilege and supremacy via providing online and offline services to individuals and groups.
Diana has discussed her work on NPR, BBC Outlook, Deutschland Radiokultur and ARD and has been featured in Comedy Central’s Indecision 2008, Metro New York, The New Amsterdam News, IQ Style and Center for Artistic Activism. She has performed, lectured and led workshops internationally on her work and artistic activism including at Open Engagement, European Alternatives #FixEurope Campus and Open Knowledge Festival ’14. She has a BA in Cultural Studies and Experimental Film from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and an MFA in Art in Context from the University of Arts, Berlin, Germany. She also hold degrees from the Academy of Rebellion and School for Creative Activism.
She’s survived an apartment fire, lived in a commune, traveled internationally and multiple times across the continental United States and once shepherded a herd of sheep in Hawaii. She is also the founder of Politaoke, the nonpartisan political speech karaoke bar and Artists Without a Cause, a non-profit that develops collaborations between activist-artists and social justice groups.