In harmony with other venues on the UC Davis campus and across
the state of California, The Arts departments are committed to
providing as safe an experience as possible to our greater
community—and will do so until state or county guidelines are
lifted.
There are three ways for you to attend, regardless of whether or
not the event is ticketed.
The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies at UC
Davis presents contemporary forms of practice and approaches to
studio art education. The program brings a group of visiting
artists to the Department of Art and Art History every year.
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).
Professor Darrin Martin’s video and 3D print “Contrapposto” is
included in “Crip*,” a new
traveling exhibition curated by Liza Sylvestre at Krannert Art Museum, University
of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois. ”Crip*” asks:
how do academic and cultural institutions inform awareness of
disability? Who is responsible for access? And what happens when
identities who have historically been excluded from art spaces
begin to occupy these same spaces as artists?
“Take Breath is Breath (Breathe),” Professor Darrin
Martin’s new video in response to the pandemic, makes its
premiere as part of “Interconnected,”
a group show curated by Jackie Clay and Jillian Crochet
at San Francisco’s Southern
Exposure.
Simphiwe Ndzube is a painter and sculptor whose
uses flamboyant color and theatrical space to tell a
story of the Black experience in post-apartheid South
Africa.
