We, the faculty in Art
Studio, stand with our community of students, faculty,
staff, researchers and colleagues to uphold our commitment
to listen, learn and to take action against social
injustice. We pledge to act in solidarity with those
who seek to end racism and achieve equity and justice for
all.
The UC Davis Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis offers
a Bachelor of Arts in Art Studio with a broad range of studio
courses providing hands-on practice including painting,
sculpture, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and
time-based media.
To set up an advising appointment current students please
click here. If you
are not a current student please call 530-752-0890 to set up an
appointment.
Art Studio class instructors will receive cards for their classes
in the second week of each quarter, automatically (there is no
need to submit a request).
Art Music Lit
Space’s new show “Dead Reckoning” will hold an Opening
Reception Thursday, October 22. “Dead Reckoning: brings together
artists from different countries, backgrounds and ways of
creating. From New Media to traditional mediums and an exciting
new Audio Work.
Claudia Rankine, an award-winning author, playwright, poet and
multimedia artist, comes to UC Davis, virtually, on Nov. 4 for a
reading and lecture based on her new book, “Just Us: An American
Conversation,” which is being hailed as a must-read book this
fall, and her “magnum opus.” “Citizen: An American Lyric,” a
meditation on race relations in the United States, is widely
considered one of the most influential books of our age.
Njideka Akunyili
Crosby, whose art negotiates the cultural terrain between her
adopted home in America and her native Nigeria in collage and
photo transfer-based paintings, will give the
seventh Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture on
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. This year’s lecture celebrates
Wayne Thiebaud’s centennial.
Defying categorical restraint, Kyle Dunn
combines sculptural and painterly traditions, including
bas-relief and trompe l’oeil, to express the vibrancy of the
masculine emotional landscape not often represented in popular
visual culture. Drawing upon a range of influences such as
Italian cinema as well as horror and science fiction novels,
Dunn’s contorted figures ache with emotional and physical desire.
Rita Gonzalez is the Terri and Michael
Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art where she has
curated Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano
Movement; Asco: Elite of the
Obscure; Lost Line: Contemporary Art from
the Collection; Agnés Varda in
Californialand, In Production: Art and the Studio
System, Christian Marc
Soo Sunny Park is Professor of Studio Art
Department at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
Park received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in
Columbus, Ohio and M.F.A in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of
Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After a residency in Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture, 2000, she was awarded with the
River Front Times Best of 2001, Sculptor of St. Louis.
Growing up in Jim Crow South during the Civil Rights
Movement, Ramekon O’Arwisters had a
safe haven, quilting with his Grandmother where he was “embraced,
important and special.” These early memories prompted his nascent
series of unique crocheted/ceramic sculptures
titled, Mending. Employing ordinary household, or decorative
pottery, broken and discarded, O’Arwisters combined traditional
crafts into a dimensional woven tapestry, stripping both cloth
and ceramic of their intended function.
Irina Rozovsky (born 1981, Russia) has exhibited
in museums and galleries in the US and abroad. She has published
two monographs, One to Nothing (2011) and Island in
my Mind (2015). A monograph of her ten year project, In
Plain Air is forthcoming in 2021. Irina’s work is in the
collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, and Haggerty Museum of Art and is currently
featured in MoMA’s New Photography: Companion Pieces. With her
husband Mark Steinmetz, she runs The Humid, a photographic
project space in Athens, GA.
