Professor Katharine Burnett gave a talk for Professor An-yi Pan’s seminar “Object, Ritual and Tea” in the History of Art and Visual Studies Department at Cornell University on Monday, Feb. 26. Her talk, “What is a teapot? (And what isn’t?)” examines the ubiquitous object but aknowledges the teapot was not always so singular and common.
UC Davis art history alum were well represented at this years College Arts Association conference in New York City. Srđan Tunić (M.A. ‘23), Anya Shulman (M.A. ‘22), Dada Wang (M.A. ‘22) and Sienna Weldon (M.A. ‘23) all presented papers or spoke at roundtables.
Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh joined Dr. Andy Jones on his KDVS radio show and podcast Dr Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour. This Feb. 5 interview is now available online.
The 10th Annual Global Tea Institute’s colloquium examined the relationship between tea and peace during it’s day-long event. On Thursday, Jan. 30, “Tea and Peace: Bringing Communities Together” invited humanities scholars, science and health researchers and members of the tea industry to come together to explore the role tea plays in soothing the soul and developing community.
In conjunction with the Global Tea Institute’s 10th Anniversary Colloquium, Tea and Peace: Bringing Communities Together, alum Hunter Kiley (M.A. ‘24) has curated a special exhibition of tea related objects in the Global Tea Institute’s Collection of Art and Material Culture.
The Global Tea Institute celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year. In the last decade, what started as a group of 12 like-minded scholars gathering together has turned into a hub for the study of tea across the disciplines. Every year its annual colloquium brings between 400 and 800 people from all over the world to UC Davis.
Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh will present a public lecture at the Getty Center Research Institute on cultural heritage and genocide. In “Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide,” Watenpaugh will discuss how the genocidal process, specifically as it relates to the Armenian Genocide, extends beyond the physical extinction of the targeted community to include the erasure, appropriation, or transfer of the community’s cultural assets.
Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh is participating in a forum exploring issues of heritage — antiquities, landscapes, sites, ancestral remains, or immaterial cultural expressions – as “cultural assets” in Istanbul, Turkey from Oct. 3-4, 2024.
Join PBS KVIE for a screening of Leonardo da Vinci, a new film by Ken Burns, followed by a conversation with art studio alum Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) and design Professor James Housefield as they discuss the towering achievements of Leonardo da Vinci.
Recently gifted works to the Manetti Shrem Museum from dedicated art lovers and philanthropists Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem are the focus on a new exhibition curated and designed by UC Davis students.
Congratulations to alum Hannah Thompson (M.A. ‘23) on her new position as Cultural Facilities Curator for the City of Oroville Museums. Hannah will support Oroville’s five museums: C.F. Lott Historical Home, The Oroville Chinese Temple, The Feather River Nature Center and Native Plant Park, The Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum, and The Pioneer History Museum.
Carnegie Institute, established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the great age of museum building in the United States, took shape between 1895 and 1907. Financed solely by Andrew Carnegie, it stood as an oddity in having no founder’s collection leading some to interpret Carnegie’s role as that of a silent financial partner who turned over creative control to others.
Professor Diana Strazdes has published an article in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art on the artist William James Stillman that explores the varied career of the artist.
Professor Talinn Grigor participated in a two-day international colloquium focused on the Armenian diasporic dynamics in the 21st century. Grigor presented “Of Feminist Interventions in Irano-Armenian Diaspora-in-Motion: Suitcase Objects as Depository” at panel 4: (In)visible diaspora agents.
