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Professor Cortez featured in new show at LACMA

The new group show Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960-2020 at the California Museum of Photographer (UC Riverside) features work by Professor Beatriz Cortez.

Announcement

Professor Cortez featured in new show at LACMA

Professor Beatriz Cortez’s sculpture Ilopango, Stela A (2022) has been included in an upcoming groundbreaking exhibition at LACMA. The exhibition, titled Grounded, will open Sept.14. 

Announcement

Alum awarded Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation fellowship

Nicole Anderson (M.F.A. ‘25) has received a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. This is Nicole’s third grant from the foundation which supports young artists working at the forefront of representational art.

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New works from M.F.A.s on view at 5 Olive Gallery

Art studio graduate students will be featured in a group show presenting new work from M.F.A. candidates from San Francisco State University and UC Davis. “(dis)Solve (et coagula)” opens Thursday, Aug. 7 with an opening reception from 6-9 p.m. at the 5 Olive Gallery.

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Event

Josh Faught
The California Studio

Main Theatre, Wright Hall

Josh Faught is a Sacramento-based fiber artist. Faught creates sculptures that use traditional textile and homespun techniques, such as loom-weaving, knitting, and crocheting, to explore craft traditions, queer culture, and personal history. In 2025, Faught received the Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Josh Faught, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2025) and Look Across the Water into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2022).

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Anne Ellegood
The California Studio

1002 Cruess Hall 

Anne Ellegood has been the executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) since September 2019. She was senior curator at the Hammer Museum from 2009 to 2019, and has held curatorial posts at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She has organized numerous group exhibitions, including Made in L.A.

Cruess Hall, Davis, CA
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Mimi Plumb
Visiting Artist Lecture Series

More details to come

Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5-7 p.m.
Cruess Hall, Room 1002

Organized by the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program and supported by the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis. 

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California

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