Since the early 2000s, the Visiting Artist Lecture Series has
invited nationally recognized artists, critics, and curators
to campus for public lectures and interactions with the Master of
Fine Arts program. This series is housed in the College of
Letters and Science and organized by the Department of Art and
Art History studio faculty and M.F.A. studio art candidates.
Public lectures are at 4:30 pm and are free and open to the
public.
Lectures will be held primarily in the Community Education Room
at the Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, unless otherwise
noted.
FALL QUARTER VISITING ARTIST:
Public lecture October 28, 2021
Janelle Iglesias, our first speaker in the 2021-2022 Visiting
Artist Lecture Series, is a sculptor and installation artist
whose work explores our complicated and commodified relationship
to nature.
WINTER QUARTER VISITING ARTIST:
Public lecture February 17, 2022
Kota Ezawa’s work explores the appropriation and mediation of
current events and images, referencing sources from the news, art
history and popular culture.
WINTER QUARTER VISITING ARTIST:
Public lecture March 3, 2022
Simphiwe Ndzube is a painter and sculptor
who uses flamboyant color and theatrical space to
tell a story of the Black experience in post-apartheid
South Africa.
The Art Building is located on Hutchison Drive, about halfway
between the Memorial Union and Mrak Hall on the UC Davis campus.
There is limited parking behind the building, but there is
visitor parking nearby, across the Arboretum in lot VP5.
