“Instinct Extinct: The Great Pacific Flyway”is a
multi-disciplinary art and design installation that explores and
celebrates the biology, beauty, and bounty of the Pacific Flyway.
The exhibition opens the UC Davis’ Design Museum’s 2017-2018
season running through Nov. 19.
The Pacific Flyway is viewed through a range of lenses: wildlife
habitat, agricultural heartland, recreational commons,
conservation story, and inspirational phenomena for artists,
writers and everyone in California and beyond. The exhibition is
a partnership of the visual artist team including UC Davis art
professors Glenda Drew and Ann Savageau, and Valerie Constantino
from Sacramento State University as well as with various
organizations, associations, agencies, scientists, and scholars.
Speaking on behalf of the artist team, Drew said, “we hope that
this exhibition conveys the unique character of this
irreplaceable treasure and serves as a springboard for awareness
and action.”
The Pacific Flyway is a major
north-south flyway for migratory birds in
America, extending from Alaska to Patagonia. Every
year, migratory birds travel some or all of this distance both in
spring and in fall, following food sources, heading to breeding
grounds, or travelling to overwintering sites.
The Design Museum, part of the College of Letters and Science, is
in Cruess Hall, Room 124. It is free and open weekdays noon to 4
p.m. and Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.
Art and design intersect with the natural sciences at “Instinct
Extinct: The Great Pacific Flyway,” a multi-disciplinary art and
design installation that celebrates the biology, beauty, and
bounty of the Pacific Flyway.
The Pacific Flyway is viewed through a range of lenses: wildlife
habitat, agricultural heartland, recreational commons,
conservation story, and inspirational phenomena for artists,
writers and everyone in California and beyond.
M.A. Interdisciplinary Arts and Education, San Francisco State University
Specialization: Digital media
Research
glenda drew’s research is based at the intersections of visual
culture and social change, with a particular emphasis on the
working class. Her subjects include country musicians,
waitresses, feminists and precarious workers. Her practice is
multifaceted in form and includes film/video, motion graphics,
photography, graphics, augmented reality, interactivity and
audience participation.
M.F.A. Textiles, Wayne State UniversityA.B. Anthropology, Stanford University
Ann Savageau has exhibited widely, both nationally and
internationally. She has had 17 solo exhibitions and
78 group exhibitions. National exhibition venues include The
Detroit Institute of Arts; Long Beach Arts; the University of
Wisconsin, Madison; The Textile Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
and the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi. International
exhibitions include “K-18 Stoffwechsel,” Kassel, Germany;
Editions Gallery, Perth, Australia; Third International
Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, London, England.
Valerie Constantino is a visual artist and writer, working in a
range of traditional and contemporary hybrid art forms. Her
seminal studies in textiles led to broad investigations on the
subject of materiality and the malleable intersection of time and
matter. These considerations prompted ongoing research on the
mutable nature of ecosystems, societal systems and the physical
and psychological substances of selves.
