Department of Art Studio/Art History/Technocultural Studies
Mailing Address
- Art Building, Room 101
- One Shields Avenue
- Davis, CA 95616
- Telephone
530-752-0105
- Fax
530-752-0795
Administrative Staff
Departmental Staff
Omar Arason, Shop Technician
- Manage Shop Facilities
- Shop/Lab inventory
- Loans for Shop Equipment
- Maintain Shop and Plaster Room
- Shop lectures on use of facility
- EH & S
- Manage Shop Courtyard
- Supervision of Art Technicians
Jesse Vasquez, Photography / Digital Lab Technician

- Provide technical assistance to Instructor and TA for the Digital and Photography lab areas
- Train and supervise students in proper and safe use of equipment and lab procedures
- Supervise and train volunteer lab monitors
- Manage and maintain the equipment
- Maintain the black and white and color facilities
- EH & S Support in the lab
Dan Quillan, Printmaking Lab Technician
- Provide laboratory supervision and technical support for the printmaking laboratory
- Designated Safety Coordinator
- Locker Checkouts
- Coordinate the evacuation plan
- Hazardous Waste Coordinator for the entire department
- Equipment Inventory for department
Brian Perkins, Ceramics Technician
- Prepare and set up materials for the ceramics laboratory
- Clean up and maintain TB9 Ceramics Lab and Kiln Rooms
- Responsible for all maintenance of the ceramics lab and firing kilns
- Maintain MSDS logs, inventory and use logs.
- Develop and distribute Laboratory Safety Plan
Don Yee, Computer Technician

- Provide computer, server and technical support for TCS
- Manage and support TCS servers
- Maintain TCS databases
Lisa Zdybel, Visual Resource Facility Library Assistant

- Provide administrative support to Visual Resource Facility
- Provide instructional and technical support for Department faculty and teaching assistants
- Provide art & art history bibliographic / reference support
- Provide image support for instruction and research
- Produce and manage departmental instructional course web pages
- Provide and manage circulating audiovisual materials for instruction
- Produce and manage departmental public relations and publications
- Department liason for Letters and Sciences Marketing and Communications
- Assist with Image Database
Leah Theis, Visual Resource Facility Librarian/Manager

- Direct and manage Visual Resource Facility
- Provide instructional and technical support for Department faculty and teaching assistants
- Provide art & art history bibliographic / reference support
- Provide image support for instruction and research
- Produce and manage departmental instructional course web pages
- Provide and manage circulating audiovisual materials for instruction
- Assist with departmental public relations and publications
- Manage Art History and Art Studio program web pages
- Maintain Image Database