Exhibition

Backstory: Digitizing the Museum Collection
January 21–May 2, 2026

Hand-drawn animation of five football player standing in front of a crowd with interlocked arms.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

A working digitization laboratory and open storage featuring hundreds of works from UC Davis’ Fine Arts Collection, this exhibition invites visitors to see how artworks are researched, documented and photographed as part of the museum’s 10th anniversary digitization initiative. 

More than 80 works by artists such as Ansel Adams, Robert Arneson, Deborah Butterfield, Roy De Forest, Richard Diebenkorn, Kota Ezawa, Mike Henderson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Giorgio Morandi, Bruce Nauman, Roland Petersen, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley will be on view throughout the exhibition.

Exhibition developed by Randy Roberts, deputy director, and Jez Flores-Garcia, associate curator for collection digitization, with support from UC Davis students in the fall 2025 Exhibition Practicum course taught by Assistant Professor Alexandra Sofroniew.



 

 

 

 

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
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