There will be an artist talk titled “Tea and Peace” with Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes on Wednesday, April 23 at 3m p.m. in the UC Davis Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem of Art. The event is free and open to all.

Artists Ginsburg and Hughes will discuss the Tea Project, for which they created 779 porcelain cast Styrofoam teacups, one for each individual detained in the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp. These cups are inspired by the stories from detainees who carved flowers into Styrofoam cups to express themselves in the face of extreme oppression.

Thirty-six of these porcelain tea cups are featured in the UC Davis Global Tea Institute’s Tea and Peace spring exhibition in the museum’s Collections Classroom, on view March 30–June 14. This exhibition explores the role that tea and material tea culture serves in creating space for conversations, building community and cultivating connections that transcend barriers of difference. 

Organized by Katharine Burnett and the Global Tea Institute with support from the Department of Art and Art History. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.