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Grains of Connection
Art, Food & Conversation

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

 

“Grains of Connection” is anchored by the museum’s current solo exhibition Sahar Khoury: Weights & Measures. Khoury, an Oakland-based sculptor, is inspired by familial and global histories, and cultural rituals of food, music and mourning. This event weaves together a variety of interactive experiences such as guided tastings of bread and olive oil, hands-on art and agriculture activities, and pop-up gallery talks with Associate Curator Susie Kantor.

Reem Assil & Charlotte Biltekoff Talk: Dialogue and za’atar making with award-winning Bay Area chef and community organizer Reem Assil and Charlotte Biltekoff, the UC Davis Darrell Corti Endowed Professor in Food, Wine and Culture (3:30 p.m.)

Sample foods from Reem’s California and UC Davis’ Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science; plant seeds from the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library with the UC Davis Student Farm; try your hand at grinding wheat; and sculpt dough with herbs and spices, among other experiences. 

Hear stories from “human books” about others’ lived experiences with support from the Human Library Organization and the UC Davis Library. 

Presented in partnership with the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the UC Davis Library, the UC Davis Student Farm, American Studies Department, Department of Food Science and Technology, Middle East/South Asian Studies Program and Human Library Organization. 

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
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Anne Applebaum: “Autocracy, Inc — or Democrats United? On the war of ideas that will shape the future”
Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Many of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like. There is a bad man at the top. He controls the army and the police. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services  — military, police, paramilitary groups, surveillance — and professional propagandists. They don’t share an ideology, but they do have a common goal: to defeat the ideas and language of liberal democracy, inside their own countries and around the world.

This lecture will examine this network, and describe how it has shaped the world — and the United States. Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and leading public intellectual focused on authoritarianism, democracy and modern political history. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of award-winning and bestselling books including Gulag, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy, and Autocracy, Inc.

A reception follows the lecture.

Co-Sponsored by the UC Davis History Department, Pi Sigma Alpha - Delta Upsilon, and the Manetti Shrem Museum. With generous support from the Lunn Family and the public.

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

The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, is a contemporary art museum for today, committed to honoring the past and shaping the future while making art accessible and approachable to all. It builds on UC Davis’ legacy of exceptional teaching and practice of the arts to offer engaging experiences, exhibitions and educational programs that reflect and serve the community. The museum is a hub of creative practice for today’s thinkers, makers and innovators, now and for generations to come.

One-third of the museum’s 30,000-square-foot space is devoted to instruction, including a 125-seat lecture hall, classroom space and the drop-in Carol and Gerry Parker Art Studio. Opened in November 2016, the museum has earned LEEDv3-NC Platinum status and was named one of the 25 Best Museum Buildings of the Past 100 Years by ARTnews.

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Gorman Museum

The Gorman Museum is committed to the creative expressions of Native American artists, and artists of diverse cultures and histories.   Changing exhibits feature contemporary artwork in a wide range of media, reflecting the canon in which Indigenous artists are working today. Founded in 1973 by the Department of Native American Studies, the museum is named in honor of retired faculty member, Carl Nelson Gorman, Navajo artist, WWII code-talker, cultural historian, and advocate for Native peoples.

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Design Museum
Cruess Hall

Enhancing the teaching and research activities of the Department of Design, the UC Davis Design Museum explores how design shapes, improves and makes economically viable the objects, technology and environments we use, inhabit and experience every day. 

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TANA
Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer

1224 Lemen Ave. Woodland. 95776

Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) is a collaborative partnership between the Chicana/o Studies Program at the University of California, Davis and the greater Woodland community.

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