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Opening Celebration: 2026 Graduate Exhibition
Arts & Humanities

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

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, CA
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Arts & Humanities 2026 Graduate Exhibition

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum

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.

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum, 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.

Wendy Red StarEnit, 2010Lithograph with photograph
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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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