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.”
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 Interpretation 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.
Second-year graduate student Srđan Tunić will share his
findings from his internship at the Bohart Museum of Entomology
in his talk “Plants, Insects and Art: Mary Foley Benson’s
Scientific Illustrations.”
The UC Davis Humanities
Institute’s Book
Chat series opens with Professor Talinn Grigor in
conversation with Dr. Wendy DeSouza. Grigor will discuss her
latest book, The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the
Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture (2021) and her
research on 19th-20th-century art and architectural histories
through postcolonial and critical theories grounded in Iran,
Armenio-Iran, and Parsi India.
Congratulations to Emily Szasz (M.A., ‘22) whose
paper ”Denaturalizing Center Modalities of Making: Reading
Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit” has been accepted for the College
Arts Association’s 111th conference.
Congratulations to alum Kristen Keach Muyo (M.A., ‘15) who
just recently earned her Ph.D. in Italian Studies at
the University of California at Berkeley, with a designated
emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.
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.