Research papers from art history students Isabelle (Izzy)
Villanueva (BA ‘25) and Sophie Jorcino (BA ‘25)
were recently published in see/saw (vol 2, no. 1
(2025).
New podcasts are streaming straight from UC Davis Letters &
Science students, faculty, and staff, including our very own MA
students Anya Thompson and Madeline Madrid. Anya and Madeline
started The E.A.R (Educated Art Review) to make art history
fun and approachable.
Professor Katharine Burnett gave a talk for Professor An-yi Pan’s seminar
“Object, Ritual and Tea” in the History of Art and
Visual Studies Department at Cornell University on Monday, Feb.
26.
UC Davis art history alum were well represented at this
years College
Arts Association conference in New York City. Srđan Tunić
(M.A. ‘23), Anya Shulman (M.A. ‘22), Dada Wang (M.A. ‘22) and
Sienna Weldon (M.A. ‘23) all presented papers or spoke at
roundtables.
Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh joined Dr. Andy Jones on his KDVS
radio show and podcast Dr Andy’s Poetry and Technology
Hour. This Feb. 5 interview is now available online.
The
10th Annual Global Tea Institute’s colloquium examined the
relationship between tea and peace during it’s day-long event. On
Thursday, Jan. 30, “Tea and Peace: Bringing Communities Together”
invited humanities scholars, science and health researchers and
members of the tea industry to come together to explore the
role tea plays in soothing the soul and developing
community.
In conjunction with the Global Tea Institute’s 10th Anniversary
Colloquium, Tea
and Peace: Bringing Communities Together, alum
Hunter Kiley (M.A. ‘24) has curated a special exhibition of
tea related objects in the Global Tea Institute’s Collection
of Art and Material Culture.
The Global Tea Institute celebrates its 10-year anniversary this
year. In the last decade, what started as a group of 12
like-minded scholars gathering together has turned into a hub for
the study of tea across the disciplines. Every year its annual
colloquium brings between 400 and 800 people from all over the
world to UC Davis.
Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh is participating in a
forum exploring issues of heritage — antiquities,
landscapes, sites, ancestral remains, or immaterial cultural
expressions – as “cultural assets” in Istanbul, Turkey from
Oct. 3-4, 2024.
Join PBS KVIE for a
screening of Leonardo
da Vinci, a new film by Ken Burns, followed by a
conversation with art studio alum Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) and
design Professor James Housefield as they discuss
the towering achievements of Leonardo da Vinci.
Recently gifted works to the Manetti Shrem
Museum from dedicated art lovers and philanthropists Jan
Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem are the focus on a new exhibition
curated and designed by UC Davis students.
Carnegie Institute, established in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania during the great age of museum building in the
United States, took shape between 1895 and 1907. Financed
solely by Andrew Carnegie, it stood as an oddity in having no
founder’s collection leading some to interpret Carnegie’s
role as that of a silent financial partner who turned over
creative control to others.
Professor Diana Strazdes has published an article in
Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of
American Art on the artist William James Stillman that
explores the varied career of the artist.
The Art and Art History Club is open to all art studio and art
history majors, minors, and friends. Our purpose is to learn
about and discuss all things relating to art and art history. We
do this through open discussions at meetings, going on field
trips to art museums and galleries, watching art-related movies,
selling student-made art, and promoting art education. We are
working hard to create an art community among UC Davis
undergraduates.
