The “Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition” at the Jan Shrem
and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art showcases the work and
research of graduate students across various disciplines
including art studio, design, art history, music, theatre, and
creative writing among others.
Kathy Butterly (MFA 1990), who lives and works in New York, has
exhibited internationally and her art is in the collections of
the Museum of Modern Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts; the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the de Young Museum, San
Francisco. She has received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean
of Research, Roski School of Art
& Design, USC, and is a curator and scholar of contemporary
art, performance, and feminist/sexuality studies. Recent
publications include Seeing Differently: A History and
Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (2012);
co-edited with Erin Silver, Otherwise: Imagining Queer
Feminist Art Histories (2016); and the edited special
issue “On Trans/Performance” of Performance
Research (2016).
A native New Yorker, Jonathan Calm is a visual artist in the
media of photography and video whose work combines as well as
challenges the aesthetic and ideological tenets of architecture,
documentary journalism and sculpture. A central theme of his work
is the relationship between photography and urban architecture,
and the powerful role of images in the way architectural
constructs shape the lives of individuals and communities.
Frances Stark’s drawings, collages, videos, PowerPoint
presentations, performances, and paintings have been extensively
exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. In 2017 a new suite
of her paintings were included in the Whitney Biennial, her
cinematic opera, The Magic Flute, premiered at LACMA,
and an earlier work was featured in the Venice Biennale. In 2015,
Stark’s sprawling mid-career survey, “UH-OH: Frances Stark
1991-2015,” opened at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles before
traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Meg Shiffler is the Galleries Director for the San Francisco Arts
Commission (SFAC), the arts agency of the City and County of
San Francisco. In this role since 2005, she curates exhibitions
featuring local, national and international artists that provoke
a dialogue between contemporary art and broad civic and social
issues.
The UC Davis Department of Art and Art History’s Art Studio
Visiting Artist Lecture series brings artists, writers and
curators to campus. All presentations are free and take place at
4:30 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of
Art.
Join us for lunch and a conversation with professionals working
in a number of visual arts-related fields as we discuss a variety
of career paths open to Art and Art History students.
