Event
“Breath, Soil, Water Life”
at the Manetti Shrem Museum
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Audiences are invited to witness a live meditation on breath, identity, resistance and the power of listening in this culminating performance by UC Davis students in African American Studies 152: Major Voices in Black World Literature. The course is being taught at the museum by Professor Margaret Kemp during the spring and fall 2025 quarters. Students respond to artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Flint is Family in Three Acts, on view in the exhibition Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, and engage themes of climate and social justice through poetry, gesture and voice to weave personal narrative with collective memory.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA











