We, the faculty, 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.
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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).
Alum Emmanuel Camacho Larios (B.A. ‘23) has co-curated and is
featured in the exhibiton
Desde los Cielos (From the Heavens at The Cheech Center
Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture. This exhibition
features fifteen Inland Empire artists who use the concept of
alienness to explore personal and communal identities that defy
societal norms.
Join PBS KVIE for a
screening of Leonardo
da Vinci, a new film by Ken Burns, followed by a
conversation with art studio alum Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) and
design Professor James Housefield as they discuss
the towering achievements of Leonardo da Vinci.
Alum Mercy Hawkins is featured in the group show “Packing and
Cracking: The Art of (and Response to) Gerrymandering” at
Saint
Joseph’s Arts Foundation in San Francisco.
Eungie Joo is Curator and Head of
Contemporary Art at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior to SFMOMA, Joo
was Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and
Public Programs at the New Museum in New York (2007 to
2012).
Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
Fernando Palma Rodríguez combines his training
as an artist and mechanical engineer to create robotic sculptures
that utilize custom software to perform narrative choreographies.
Central to Palma Rodríguez’s practice is an emphasis on
indigenous ancestral knowledge, both as an integral part of
contemporary life and a way of shaping the future.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
You are invited to a book celebration for Renny Pritikin’s
memoir, At
Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists. Pritikin
is a San Francisco Bay Area based curator, art writer and
poet who was curator and director of The Nelson Gallery and Fine
Arts Collection at UC Davis from 2004 to 2012.
Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter
working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between
ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. She works in in
painting, drawing, and sculpture, and her abstract works examine
human geography and the history of Black spatial liberation
strategies, often grappling with the ways in which space is
perceived, imagined and negotiated particularly by black and
brown bodies.
Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
Marie Lorenz is a New York-based
printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker. Her work is rooted in
the exploration and narrative of New York City’s waterfronts.
Combining psycho-geographic exploration with highly crafted,
material forms, Lorenz uses boats to create an uncertain space
and bring about a heightened awareness of place.
Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
Byron Kim creates paintings that double as
portraits and landscape paintings, utilizing the languages of
formal abstraction, observational paintings, and conceptual art.
His well-known Synecdoche series (1991–present) is a
group portrait composed of hundreds of 10 x 8 in panels, each
painted to match the skin tone of a sitter.
Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
