The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies at UC
Davis presents contemporary forms of practice and approaches to
studio art education. The program brings a group of visiting
artists to the Department of Art and Art History every year.
We, the faculty in Art
Studio, 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.
The UC Davis Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis offers
a Bachelor of Arts in Art Studio with a broad range of studio
courses providing hands-on practice including painting,
sculpture, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and
time-based media.
To set up an advising appointment current students please
click here. If you
are not a current student please call 530-752-0890 to set up an
appointment.
Art Studio class instructors will receive cards for their classes
in the second week of each quarter, automatically (there is no
need to submit a request).
The Wayne Thiebaud Foundation has donated 12 works to the UC
Davis Fine Arts Collection that originated in the personal
collection of the late Department of Art and Art History
Professor Emeritus (1961-1991).
Professor emeritus Lynn Hershman Leeson embarks on a
transformative journey through time, identity, and the future of
human existence with her latest exhibition,
“Anti-Aging.”
Alum Will Maxen’s (M.F.A., ‘23) upcoming opening of
“And the Land Stands Still” marks Maxen’s inaugural showcase
with the UTA Artist
Space and his first-ever showing in New York.
The 62nd Ann Arbor Film
Festival will present a free encore screening of the program
“What Are Words For?” on Sunday, April 7, 4 p.m. at the
Michigan Theater. The program, curated by Professor Darrin
Martin, is available now in the online festival through April
7.
Kota Ezawa is a media artist known for
creating computer animations that explore the mediation of
cultural and historical events. His work has been featured
in solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2021 and the
Baltimore Museum of Art. Ezawa has received a number of
fellowships, awards, grants, and residencies, including the Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2003; a SECA Art Award from
SFMOMA in 2006 and a Eureka Fellowship in 2010.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
Maria Maea is a multidisciplinary artist working
in sculpture, installation, performance, film and sound. Through
her art practice, she deepens her connection to land, somatic
memory, and ancestry. Her works investigate and celebrate her
experience growing up in Southern California in her family’s
Samoan Mexican American community.
Tania Candiani is an interdisciplinary visual
artist whose work explores the intersection of art, literature,
music, architecture, science, and labor. Her production methods
emphasizes ancestral knowledge and its techniques and
technologies. One of the central interests of her work is an
expanded idea of translation, extended to the experimental field
through the use of visual, sound, textual and symbolic languages.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
