Art History 102 students are presenting two exhibitions on
the UC Davis campus during last weeks of the winter quarter.
“Appetite for Change” and “Deadline: 11:59pm” opened this
Tuesday, Mar. 14 at the Memorial Union and Katharine Esau
Science Hall.
The Art History Club is seeking a new leader for the next
academic year. The club is hoping to find an art history major
with junio or senior standing who has completed at least one
upper division art history course.
To add your name to the candidate pool, please submit three ideas
you would like to implment for leading the Art History Club.
Please send your submission to Layla Mitchell
(laymitchell@ucdavis.edu or ucdarthistoryclub@gmail.com) by March
31 at 11:59 pm.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum has organized a day-long
symposium exploring the global carving traditions from
across the Pacific Rim that were influenced by, sat in
conversation with, and had an influence on “Yankee” whaling
scrimshaw.
Join the Art History Club for their next scheduled event on
Friday, Mar. 3. At 2:10 pm, the Art HIstory Club will host two
art history grads — Leea Kramer and Sienna Weldon – to
discuss their path into art history, graduate school and what
their plans are post M.A.
This event, as usual, will be in Everson 148.
Please contact Layla
Mitchell if you have any questions.
Professor Talinn Grigor will speak at the Institute of Slavic,
East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley on a
book project that explores the history of Iran’s Armenian
women from the beginning of Naser al-Din Shah’s reign in 1848 to
the 1979 fall of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Congratulations to Maggie Culuris-Harp (M.A., ‘24) and Sienna
Weldon (M.A., ‘23) who will both present papers at
the 19th Annual University of Oregon Graduate Symposium in
the History of Art and Architecture.
Professor Katharine Burnett will be interviewed live on two local
radio stations this week to discuss the Global Tea Initiative and
its
upcoming colloquium on “Tea and Value.”
The roots and development of comics and graphic novels can be
traced across centuries and across cultures. Comics and graphic
novels often employ both image and text to convey their
narratives, inviting exciting interdisciplinary analysis and
discussion from scholars.
Srđan Tunić (M.A., ‘23) is the first guest speaker in the Pence
Gallery’s Art History Lecture Series with his lecture “Plants,
Insects and Art: Mary Foley Benson’s Scientific
Illustrations”. Srđan’s talk stems from his internship
at the Bohart Museum of Entomology.
On Jan. 28, “Mike
Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985″ opens at the Manetti Shrem
Museum. Art history alum Emily Szasz (M.A., ‘22) had the
opportunity to work on this exhibition when she was the first as
Nancy Rutherdale Griffith Curatorial Intern and
later as the Curatorial Department Assistant.
Graduate student Sienna Weldon (M.A., ‘23) has published an
article developed from her work this past summer as the
Summer Research and Intrepretation Curatorial Fellow at the
New Bedford Whaling
Museum.
In March 2022, alum Daniel Alejandro Trejo (B.A., art history and
art studio, ’13) curated “No End in Sight” at the Verge
Center for Arts in Sacramento. The show, which was included as
part of the 2022 NCECA
(National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts)
conference in Sacramento, highlighted local artists
making clay sculpture.
Professor Katharine Burnett presented a paper at the Syncretism
of the Tea and the World symposium in Hangzhou, China on November
26. She discussed “Tea Research, Teaching, and Outreach through
the Global Tea Initiative at UC Davis” at The UC
Davis Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and
Science, for which Burnett is the Founding Director, was one of
the sponsors of this event which ran from November 25-27, 2022.
Alum Ella Cross (B.A., emphasis in architecture and museum
studies, ‘21) completed a three month research internship with
the Society of
California Pioneers Museum and Archive at the Presidio in San
Francisco. During her internship, Ella photographed and
documented material long hidden away in storage: the Presidio’s
shoe, boots and slippers collection.
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.
