The UC Davis Department of Art and Art History is pleased to
announce the 2019-2020 Art Studio Visiting Artist
Lecture Series. The series is housed in the College of
Letters and Science and organized by the Department of Art and
Art History studio faculty and Master of Fine Arts 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.
Yevgeniya Baras is an artist living and working in New York.
She received her BA and MS from the University of
Pennsylvania (2003) and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).
Kathy Butterly (MFA 1990), who lives and works in New York, has
exhibited internationally and her art is in the collections of
the Museum of Modern Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts; the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the de Young Museum, San
Francisco. She has received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean
of Research, Roski School of Art & Design, USC, and is a curator
and scholar of contemporary art, performance, and
feminist/sexuality studies. Recent publications
include Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of
Identification and the Visual Arts (2012); co-edited
with Erin Silver, Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist
Art Histories (2016); and the edited special issue “On
Trans/Performance” of Performance
Research (2016).
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.
