Art History is the study of the visual arts in civilization. It
examines changing values in all fields of visual culture,
including painting, sculpture, graphics, photography,
architecture, film, the mass media, and forms of popular
expression. Its interdisciplinary reach encompasses literature,
history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies,
critical theory, and cultural studies. Art History emphasizes
visual as well as verbal and written literacy, providing more
than the standard advantages to a liberal arts education.
Students majoring in Art History will engage with the
wide-ranging opportunities its curriculum presents for learning
and research. Studying Art History develops visual
literacy, communication skills, critical/creative thinking and an
understanding of diversity.
Professor Michael Yonan has received a grant from the France-Berkeley Fund, a UC
funding program to co-organize a conference at the
University of Grenoble, France.
Katya Grokhovsky is a Ukrainian born, New
York City-based multidisciplinary visual artist. Her work
explores cultural identity, labor, body, history and the
self in installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, fiber,
video, and performance.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of World Arts and
Cultures at UC Los Angeles Allen F. Roberts will
give a free public talk on the murals of the
Senegalese artist Pape Diop for the Sociocultural
Anthropology Colloquium.
Exploring migration, memory, place and origin, via installation,
sculpture, video, painting and performance, visual
interdisciplinary artist Katya Grokhovsky mines family archives
and her memories of Ukraine, as well as her experience of dual
migration to Australia and to the U.S by employing the notion of
play and material experimentation, as a transformative,
innovative and soothing gesture at the time of “war at home”.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
Sky Hopinka, who was born and raised in
Ferndale, Washington, is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga
Band of Luiseño Indians. His video, photo, and text work centers
around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape,
designs of language as containers of culture expressed through
personal, documentary, and nonfiction forms of media.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist,
writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her prolific
filmmaking and writing occupies a position between the fields of
art, philosophy and politics.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
