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).
Alum Kyle Austin Dunn (M.F.A., ‘12) will present his first
European solo exhibition at Galeria Nicola Pedana in
Caserta, Italy. “Motto”
opens April 27 and is on few to June 22, 2024.
Among other things, “motto” can be defined as the short
expression of a guiding principle. Though not quite universal,
this word is at least understood in English and Italian to mean
the same thing, and that convergence is one of several important
values Austin Dunn explores in this new body of work.
“Beatriz Cortez & Candice Lin” is a new exhibition at Performance Space
featuring works deeply engaged with the histories of
colonialism and migration across time and space.
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).
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