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Enrique Chagoya
2025 Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born American painter, printmaker and educator. His prints, drawings, collages and multiples offer critical commentary on the global reach of the United States and its cultural, political and historical tensions with Latin America.

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
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“Cultural Heritage at Stake: Between Conservation and Criminality”
Templeton Colloquium

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Threats to cultural heritage are on the rise globally, due to factors ranging from war and intentional destruction to unfettered development and climate change. International cultural heritage institutions and their methods seem inadequate at best, and abetting threats to culture at worst. Join two of the most incisive voices in debates on cultural heritage today to explore the stakes for the protection of cultural around the world.

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
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Torkwase Dyson
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

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.

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Linda Sormin
Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

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

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Marie Lorenz
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

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.

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Byron Kim
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

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.

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Rebeca Bollinger
Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

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

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