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Open Inquiry: UC Arts
A new generation of UC artists in groups show

Open Inquiry: UC Arts brings together emerging artists from the University of California’s leading art programs at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis for a group show at the Sausalito Center for the Arts.

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Alum Jessica Wimbley featured in Moving Image Media Art

Alum Jessica Wimbley (MFA, ’05) is featured in the West Hollywood’s next Moving Image Art Media  (MIMA) series.

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Alum in solo show at the Pence Gallery

Alum Manuel Fernando Rios’ (MFA, ‘11) new solo show at the Pence Gallery is a reflection on the complex nature of memory, how certain moments can hold both joy and pain, comfort and conflict.

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Alum in Group Show at Portland Tea Shop

Work by alum Noah Green (M.F.A. ‘18) is featured in a group show at Portland’s Bardo Tea. The installation titled “Rest Haven” is presented in collaboration with Helen’s Costume Fine Art and brings together painting, drawing, collage, object-based work and sound that operate through ambiguity, staging and spatial relation. The exhibition opens Jan. 25 at 6 p.m.

Upcoming Events

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Stephanie Syjuco
Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Cruess Hall, Room 1002

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship.

Cruess Hall, Davis, CA
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Art History and Climate Change
The Templeton Colloquium in Art History

The intersection between climate change and art history opens new pathways for understanding how visual and material culture mediates human relationships to the natural world. Historical and contemporary depictions of nature illuminate how aesthetic practices register environmental knowledge and respond to ecological stress. Far from being a luxury of elite culture, art history is an essential tool for imagining alternative ecological futures.

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MFA Open Studios

The winter quarter Open Studios is coming! On Thursday, March 12, from 4:30-6:30 p.m., our graduate students will open their studios to the public. Come and see new work and meet the local art community!

Featured students include MFA students Nick Block, Tara Daly, Levi Keatts, Davion Macks, Sean Olmstead, Marjorie Williams, Sierra Faust, Gemma Padilla, Erica Rawson, Julio Rodriguez and Lulu Smith.

Studios are located in TB9 and the Grad Art Building

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Andre Keichian
The California Studio

Main Theatre, Wright Hall

Andre Keichian is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working across photography, video and sculptural installation. His work houses conversations around exile, trans identities, and diaspora and questions how these connections might speak to geopolitical and subjective understandings of migration. 

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

Cruess Hall, Room 1002

Mimi Plumb is part of a long tradition of socially engaged photographers whose work explores the landscapes and communities of California and the American West. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support her ongoing project, The Reservoir.

Cruess Hall, Davis, CA
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Dyani White Hawk
The California Studio

Manetti Shrem Museum

Dyani White Hawk is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. Her practice, strongly rooted in painting and beadwork, extends into sculpture, installation, video, and performance, reflecting upon cross-cultural experiences through the amalgamation of influences from Lakota and Euro/Americanabstraction.

Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, CA

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