We, the faculty, stand with our community of students,
faculty, staff, researchers and colleagues to uphold our
commitment to listen, learn and to take action against social
injustice. We pledge to act in solidarity with those
who seek to end racism and achieve equity and justice for
all.
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Professor Beatriz Cortez, writer Elena Salamanca and artist and
writer Olivier Marboeuf explore the political agency of artistic
forms in relation to the spectral resonances in Central America,
the Caribbean, and their diasporas in a conversation with curator
Patricio Majano.
In “Stacked
Artifacts,” Professor Darrin Martin presents an exhibition of
remixed archival video and sculptural works
which explore the dynamics of media and memory with
particular attention to queer histories. Reflecting on the
past in light of the present, Martin grapples with loss and
change, and the struggle to situate these histories in the
broader assemblage of reality.
“Stacked Artifacts” is on view at Telematic in San Francisco
from Dec. 6, 2025 – Jan. 24, 2026
Sandra Riddell Shannonhouse — an artist and University of
California, Davis, alum whose generous contributions and
advocacy for public art and historic preservation helped shape
vibrant art communities — has died.
Please join us for the Fall 2025 UC Davis Art Studio Graduate
Symposium on Tuesday, Dec. 2.
Daisy Nam, director and curator of CCA Wattis Institute of
Contemporary Art in SF, will give the keynote address at 4 pm.
Following her talk, will be graduate student presentations. We
will conclude with a reception at 8 pm in the Maria Manetti Shrem
Graduate Building.
Please join us for the fall quarter Art Walk, an exhibition
featuring art studio undergraduate art.
Art students will display their work throughout the Maria
Manetti Shrem Art Hall and TB-9 on Friday, December 5 from 12-3
pm. Refreshments will be available.
Teju Cole is a novelist, essayist, and
photographer. He was the photography critic of the New York Times
Magazine from 2015 until 2019. He is currently the Gore Vidal
Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard and a
contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. His
photography and writing have received numerous awards. His most
recent novel, Tremor (2023), was named a book of the
year by Time, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, among
others.
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist
born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the
span of 24 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on
national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed,
or had works performed at LACMA, The Whitney Biennial, Borealis
Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New
York, and more. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer
mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project
(NACAP).
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography,
sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and
craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive
excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and
image-based processes are implicated in the construction of
exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship.
The intersection between climate change and art history opens new
pathways for understanding how visual and material culture
mediates human relationships to the natural
world. Historical and contemporary depictions of nature
illuminate how aesthetic practices register environmental
knowledge and respond to ecological stress. Far from being a
luxury of elite culture, art history is an essential tool for
imagining alternative ecological futures.
Andre Keichian is an interdisciplinary artist and educator
working across photography, video and sculptural installation.
His work houses conversations around exile, trans
identities, and diaspora and questions how these connections
might speak to geopolitical and subjective understandings of
migration.
Mimi Plumb is part of a long tradition of socially engaged
photographers whose work explores the landscapes and communities
of California and the American West. In 2022, she was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship to support her ongoing project, The
Reservoir.
