Opening Celebration: 2026 Graduate Exhibition

Two visitors, one in red-yellow jacket, view gallery shoe display

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Graphic logo: Arts & Humanities Graduate Exhibition 2026, blue block with vertical dots
June 4, 2026 - 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art


About the Opening Celebration

The free public opening features performances by master’s and doctoral students, as well as the presentation of the LeShelle and Gary May Art Purchase Prize, the Keister and Allen Art Purchase Prize, the Letters and Science Prize, and the Savageau Award in the Department of Design.

Explore new ways of seeing and understanding the past, present and future. Works by graduate students in the Department of Design, Performance Studies Graduate Group, Art History Program, and the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program at UC Davis are represented in this multidisciplinary exhibition.

Schedule of Performances

5:30–5:55 p.m.

Events Plaza

Sean Olmstead, M.F.A. Art Studio
I Know I Am Here, But Where Is Here?

 

5:40–5:55 p.m. (Part 1)
7:05–7:20 p.m. (Part 2)

Art Studio

Elmira M. Sultan Rashid, Ph.D. Performance Studies,
in collaboration with Samira Danesh
Grape Blood

 

7:20–7:50 p.m.

Collections Classroom

Erika Tsimbrovsky, Ph.D. Performance Studies
Diary as Score: Asemic Embodied Citation

 

7:50–8:15 p.m.

Courtyard

Melinda Marks, Ph.D. Performance Studies,
in collaboration with Adam Magill
Excerpt: The Annotated Macbeth

 

8:15–8:45 p.m.

Community Education Room

Gino Robair, Ph.D. Performance Studies, in collaboration with Gabriel Aguilar, Sepehr Jafari Jozani, Madeline Lazarus, Esther Shih and Sam Tillett
Radical Divination (for two papermakers and musical ensemble) 

 

Exhibition Participants

Event Category

Design