Art history M.A. candidate Sienna Stevens will be off to New
Bedford, Massachusetts this summer where she will intern
with the New
Bedford Whaling Museum.
Art History M.A. candidates Srđan Tunić and Anya Shulman,
and second-year M.F.A. candidate Kelley O’Leary will present
public lectures in “Weird Studies,” a graduate student symposium
sponsored by the Department of French and Italian. The symposium
will take place Saturday, April 23 and continue on the following
Saturday, April 30 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
Congratulations to Layne Little, lecturer in art history and
religious studies, on his National Endowment for the
Humanities Professional
Development Grant.
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)’s
first Annual Vartan Gregorian Memorial Lecture features a
presentation by Professor Talinn Grigor and co-author Professor
Houri
Berberian,
On April 5, Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh will present “From
Genocide to Justice: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript” at
the Department of Art History at Rice University.
Congratulations to second-year graduate student Dada Wang who
will present her paper “Reframing Narratives of Water Control:
Mechanisms of Resistance in Chinese Performance Art” at the Mary
L. Cornille Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium in the
History of Art & Architecture on April 2.
In a celebration long delayed by the pandemic, the UC Davis
Foundation on Feb. 4 honored Sacramento business owner and
philanthropist Rita Gibson (B.A., art history ’82) as
the 2020 winner of the university’s Charles J. Soderquist Award.
On Thursday, January 20th, Professor Talinn Grigor will
participate in the vrtual symposium “Surrealism Beyond Borders”
sponsored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Caitlin Schwarz (M.A.,’ 19) explores Victorian mourning culture
with a focus on how the Victorians celebrated romantic and
familial love through jewelry and other everyday objects in her
public lecture ”‘Til Death Do Us Part: How the Victorians
Kept Love Alive from Beyond the Grave.”
Professor Talinn Grigor explores the ruins of Persepolis in
the aftermath of its excavation by Ernst Herzfeld in a public
lecture entitled “Persepolis After Lindon Smith: The Modernist
Afterlife of the Ruins.”
Alumnus and philanthropist Alan Templeton (B.A., art history and
psychology, ‘82) recently received the highest honor U.C. Davis
bestows: the UC Davis Medal.
First year Art History graduate student Srđan Tunić, along with his
colleagues in Street Art Belgrade, have just completed a
project dedicated to making street art accessible to blind
and visually impaired individuals using 3D printing technology.
How have artists and arts workers been conducting their careers
and their lives during the last eighteen months? In a piece
written for SF MOMA’s Open Space, alum Daniel Trejo
(B.A., art history and art studio, ‘13) shares his experiences of
making art in the Sacramento region as a Latinx
artist in “Thoughts
at 70 mph”.
Professor Katharine Burnett participated in the latest Asian
Food Study Conference with her talk on ”How Do We Know When
Culture Crosses the Border? The Case of Sino-Viet Teapots before
1700.”
In a recent
opinion piece in Newsweek, Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh
discusses a pair of lawsuits now before the International Court
of Justice and their possible impact on the prevention of
cultural heritage destruction and accountability for destruction.
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.
