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Column: Cayce's $400k troll misses the potential and purpose of public art
The City of Cayce plans to spend nearly half a million dollars to bring one of Thomas Dambo’s popular giant troll figures to its riverwalk. The cute creature could well be embraced by the community and bring folks from far and wide, but this project reveals a lack of understanding of the role of public art specifically and art in general. Public art is at its best when the work is deeply connected to the place it is located, providing understanding and insights possible only through art.
USC's schools of music and art celebrate 100 years. The schools have 'profoundly impacted' SC.
COLUMBIA — This academic year marks historic arts milestones for the University of South Carolina — the 100th anniversaries of the School of Music and the School of Visual Art and Design. The programs have produced respected and widely recognized visual artists and musicians, as well as teachers, professors, curators, band leaders and heads of cultural organizations in the region and beyond. The faculty of both have enriched the arts ecosystem in South Carolina.
Choice Author Lineup at Sonoma Valley Authors Festival, April 26 - 28
Spring in Sonoma Valley begets growth and new beginnings: blooming flowers along coastal trails, sweeping scents of fresh lavender, and scenic horse rides through miles of vineyards. It’s also a time of intellectual growth and exploration, as the town becomes host to hundreds of visitors for the annual Sonoma Valley Authors Festival (SVAF).
Choice Author Lineup at Sonoma Valley Authors Festival, April 26 - 28
Spring in Sonoma Valley begets growth and new beginnings: blooming flowers along coastal trails, sweeping scents of fresh lavender, and scenic horse rides through miles of vineyards. It’s also a time of intellectual growth and exploration, as the town becomes host to hundreds of visitors for the annual Sonoma Valley Authors Festival (SVAF).
Experiential Theater Revives Age of Speakeasy, Bebop
If any performing art form is particularly equipped to dramatize our American culture in its various permutations — and to immerse audiences in specific time periods in ways more encompassing, more visceral than traditional proscenium plays — it is immersive theatre, popularized by such progenitors as “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding” and the New York hit “Sleep No More.” Chorus girls backstage at Boxcar Theater's Speakeasy. Main image, Katie Lavellle.
The Graffiti Aesthetic: The Art of Barry McGee
The Graffiti Aesthetic: The Art of Barry McGee Revered as a prominent figure within the bi-coastal subculture encompassing skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers, Barry McGee was born in California in 1966. He earned a BFA in painting and printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991.
Unity and the Musical Language of Birds
Sahba Aminikia believes in the power of art to unify. For the composer’s contemporary interpretation of a 12th-century epic poem, that means gathering artists of various sorts to develop a creation of artistic and universal accord that will be passed on to those who experience it. Reimagining "The Language of the Birds," by the mystic Attar of Nishapur required many minds.
Malaquías Montoya’s Multi-Generational Impact Featured in Two Museums in Region
Montoya, a professor emeritus of Chicana and Chicano studies at UC Davis, is being widely celebrated with two major exhibitions: “Malaquías Montoya and the Legacies of a Printed Resistance” at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis and “Por el Pueblo: The Legacy and Influence of Malaquías Montoya” at the Oakland Museum of California. Montoya is an artist. But he is much more.
When Aaron Copland and the U.S. State Department Made Musical Diplomacy
This article first appeared on the UC Davis College of Letters and Science website on Oct. 24, 2023. In late September, the U.S. Department of State launched the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative to elevate music as a diplomatic tool to promote peace and exchange of ideas.
Music Diplomacy: Professor Traces Impact of State Department, Aaron Copland’s Latin American Outreach
The U.S. Department of State launched in October the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative to elevate music as a diplomatic tool to promote peace and exchange of ideas. In partnership with the music industry, the initiative includes a music mentorship program to bring artists from around the world to the United States for networking and training; a fellowship for scholars researching the intersection of arts and science; and using music as an English language learning tool around the globe.
Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Comes to UC Davis
When the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize comes to UC Davis this fall, it will be a kind of homecoming. California’s Central Valley was Montoya’s native region; his brother Maceo Montoya is a professor and their father Malaquias Montoya is a professor emeritus, both at UC Davis.
A Floating Opera: Music Professor Part of Trio Behind Opera About Toxic Waterway
“Black mustard” is what people call the thick oil that is often visible — particularly at sunset — on the surface of Newtown Creek, which runs between Queens and Brooklyn in New York City. The estimated 30 million gallons of oil is one of many toxins in the creek, an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. This would seem an unlikely place to not only inspire, but to also be the venue for an opera, but it is.
Gorman Museum of Native American Art Reopening in New, Expanded Home
Quick Summary One of the few museums in nation focused on contemporary Native American art Collection consists of about 2,250 works, most created since 1980 Opening exhibition will feature works by 20 California Native artists The Gorman Museum of Native American Art at the University of California, Davis — unique in focusing on, exhibiting and collecting contemporary Native American art — will reopen in a new, greatly expanded location with a celebratory weekend Sept.
Arts and Humanities Graduate Students’ Work Takes Center Stage With Annual Exhibition
UC Davis Exhibition on View June 8-25 at Manetti Shrem Museum of Art Quick Summary Three prizes to be awarded on opening night, June 8 Many universities hold annual Master of Fine Arts exhibitions showing what students have accomplished during their studies. The model is more expansive at the University of California, Davis, showcasing the breadth of work from students in departments across the College of Letters and Science.
UCD hosts artists-in-residence in May
Lynn Hershman Leeson, a groundbreaking artist across mediums Hershman Leeson, a professor at UC Davis from 1993 to 2004, is a pioneer in the fields of photography, video, film, performance, artificial intelligence, installation, and interactive and net-based media art. Her work investigates the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression.
'CULTIVATION' Celebrates Asian and South Asian Cultural Contributions to the Region
As the fruit trees bloom, seeds sprout and gardens fill with flowers, the UC Davis Humanities Institute will delve into the rich cultural landscape of California in the next few months with its year-long public initiative, “CULTIVATION: Food, Farming, and Heritage in the Sacramento Valley and Beyond.” The upcoming events are focused on Asian and South Asian contributions.
Rappahannock High School students compete in regional civics competition
Nine Rappahannock County High School seniors in a U.S. government class competed at the “We the People” regional civics competition in Purcellville last Saturday. Teams emulated experts testifying before Congress on a variety of constitutional issues and took questions from a panel of judges, including attorneys and government officials.
Post-Coast Guard, M.A. Alumnus Wins UC Davis’ Maurice Writing Prize
Kirk Colvin spent a year asU.S. Coast Guard attaché to the American Embassy during the final months of the brutal Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier regime in the 1980s. His time there informed his novel Bloodless Coup, the 2022 winner of UC Davis’ Maurice Prize for Fiction, given annually to an alumnus. Bestselling author John Lescroart established the $10,000 prize 17 years ago in honor of his father. Learn more about the award and past winners.
UCD graduate show shines light on excellence
Back in person after two years UC Davis College of Letters and Science graduate students will share their work with the public again as the multidisciplinary “Arts & Humanities 2022 Graduate Exhibition” returns to the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in June following two years of virtual exhibitions due to COVID-19.
Groundbreaking artists at The California Studio for 2022 Original
The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies in the UC Davis Department of Art and Art History will welcome acclaimed painter Jennifer Packer to campus in February. Packer currently has solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She will work with students and give a public talk at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 at Wright Hall at UC Davis.
Telling the Story of Yemeni Americans Through Their Corner Stores
Sunaina Maira, a UC Davis professor of Asian American Studies, had planned to explore how President Trump’s travel ban on people from Muslim-majority countries affected Arab American communities in the Bay Area. When COVID-19 hit, she shifted her approach. She found her story on her own street in Oakland in one of the many Bay Area corner stores run by Yemeni Americans. “I’d go to the stores and combine my shopping with fieldwork,” said Maira.
Professor Wins Human Rights Education Award
Keith David Watenpaugh, founder and director of Human Rights Studies at UC Davis, has received the 2021 O’Brien Award for Human Rights Education. A leading historian of human rights, Watenpaugh has led important educational initiatives at UC Davis and collaborated with partners in the Middle East and beyond.
New program brings leading contemporary artists to UC Davis classrooms
Internationally known contemporary artists who have exhibited widely their sculptures, performance art, paintings and other works will engage with students and the public beginning this fall as artists and teaching artists-in-residence at the University of California, Davis.
UC Davis Graduate Student Virtual Exhibition showcases varied works
The annual exhibition by UC Davis arts and humanities graduate students will showcase works across the disciplines of art, design, music, creative writing, Native American studies, English, Spanish and French. The exhibition is hosted by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and can be viewed June 10 through Sept. 6 on the museum’s website. This is the second year it will be taking place online due to COVID-19.
Take Two | UC Davis Magazine
Richa Moorjani ’11 in the first season of Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever.” (Courtesy of Lara Solanki/Netflix) by Jeffrey Day | Jun 1, 2021 | Alumni Achievers, Culture, Spring/Summer 2021 After Richa Moorjani ’11 switched her major from theatre to communication, she accepted that she wouldn’t have a career as a performer. Then, in her senior year at UC Davis, she took an acting class that put her back on a path that led to a major role on a hit television series.
UC Davis lecture series in design features talks about ‘Blank Panther’, 3D design
Breaking News Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband and closest confidant and adviser, dies at 99 April 9, 2021 at 8:22 am A designer whose 3D design creations have included costume collaborations for the “Black Panther” movie, ready-to-wear fashions and other projects will be the featured speaker for the UC Davis Alberini Family Speakers Series in April.
Art history event takes on timely topic of race and museums
During the past year, museums around the nation have been engaged in critical self-examinations of how they have addressed or failed to address issues of race in collections, exhibitions and programming. Many have released public statements acknowledging their shortcomings, the existence of systematic racism in the museum world, and in support of movements such as Black Lives Matter.
Global Tea Initiative Colloquium features bestselling writer, tea experts
Lisa See, the author of a bestselling novel in which tea plays a central role, will give the keynote address at the sixth annual colloquium for the UC Davis Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science. See’s novel, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, explores the lives of a Chinese mother and the daughter she gave up for adoption by an American couple.
Nigerian American artist will give Thiebaud Endowed Lecture
Njideka Akunyili Crosby will give the Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 12, celebrating Wayne Thiebaud’s 100th birthday.
Nigerian American Artist Will Give Thiebaud Endowed Lecture
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose art negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in the United States and her native Nigeria through collage and photo transfer-based paintings, will give the seventh annual Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture at University of California, Davis, on Nov. 12 at 4:30 p.m. This year’s online free lecture celebrates art Professor Emeritus Wayne Thiebaud’s 100th birthday on Nov. 16. Click here for more information and to register.
Poet, essayist Claudia Rankine to address struggle with race at UC Davis event
Breaking News Yolo among those counties seeing power cuts as new fire threat looms October 14, 2020 at 5:43 pm Claudia Rankine, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist, will read from and discuss her new book, “Just Us: An American Conversation,” at UC Davis on Nov. 4.
Heghnar Watenpaugh Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, UC Davis art history professor, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, among 175 given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to mid-career scholars, artists and scientists who have demonstrated a previous capacity for outstanding work and continue to show exceptional promise. ‘THE MISSING PAGES’ Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh is the author of the award-winning The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice (2019).
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Maker of monumental sculptures will give Thiebaud lecture
Sculptor Leonardo Drew will give the sixth annual Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture at UC Davis in early February. The lecture will be held at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, starting at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 6. Drew creates massive sculptures of accumulated, transformed materials that critique social injustices and the cyclical nature of existence.
After three years, a writer and a composer’s collaboration will debut in Sacramento
Ryan Suleiman and Cristina Fries collaborated on “Bones of Girls,” a new opera that has its world premiere this weekend in Sacramento. Jeffrey Day A princess falls from the sky into an unknown land. She has escaped her abusive father, but cannot remember who she is or what she seeks. Her quest for knowledge of herself and her struggle against new challenges comprise the story of “Bones of Girls,” a new opera by Ryan Suleiman and Cristina Fríes that has its world premiere this weekend in Sacramento.
Letter: Trump is no angel, but The Forum is in no position to judge Christians
Letters Written By: Jeffrey L. Day/West Fargo | Dec 25th 2019 - 7am. I’ve never responded to one of the Forum’s opinion letters or op-eds before, however the Forum’s Editorial Board’s arrogance in Sunday’s edition finally brought me from the respected position my Dad taught all of his children that one may think whatever one wishes however it’s wise not to always speak those thoughts out loud.
Filipino studies gets $1M state allocation at UC Davis
The new Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at UC Davis is receiving $1 million in state funding to expand research on one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing Asian American communities. The funding was announced by Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, who championed the funding, at an event on campus last week. “This is a time for celebration,” Bonta said at a gathering of students, faculty and university representatives.
Filipino Studies Gets $1M State Allocation
The new Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at University of California, Davis, is receiving $1 million in state funding to expand research on one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing Asian American communities. The funding was announced by Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, who championed the funding, at an event on campus Thursday, Oct. 24. “This is a time for celebration,” Bonta said at a gathering of students, faculty and university representatives.
UCD history, English professors win Guggenheim Fellowships
Two UC Davis faculty members, both in the College of Letters and Science, have been awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships. History professor Ari Kelman and English professor Elizabeth Carolyn Miller are among 173 winners in the U.S. and Canada selected from 3,000 applicants for the prestigious awards. “Our distinguished faculty are at the heart of the excellence that defines the College of Letters and Science,” said Elizabeth Spiller, dean of the college.
History, English Professors Win Guggenheims
Two UC Davis faculty members, both in the College of Letters and Science, have been awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships. History professor Ari Kelman and English professor Elizabeth Carolyn Miller are among 173 winners in the U.S. and Canada selected from 3,000 applicants for the prestigious awards. "Our distinguished faculty are at the heart of the excellence that defines the College of Letters and Science,” said Elizabeth Spiller, dean of the college.
Works of Native American artist Rick Bartow being shown
Around the time of his death in 2016, artist Rick Bartow and his estate donated 45 of his works to the C.N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis. Many of those pieces go on display for the first time in “Comings and Goings: Works on Paper by Rick Bartow” opening at the museum this Monday. Bartow is considered one of the most important leaders in contemporary Native American art.
Hear annual Thiebaud lecturer David Salle on Thursday
David Salle, who became an art star in the 1980s and has also forged a career as an arts writer, will give the Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 1, at UC Davis. “David Salle: How to See” is presented by the department of art and art history in the College of Letters and Science. The free talk is at 4:30 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
UCD arts and humanities faculty awarded Guggenheims
A composer, a poetry expert and a sculptor from UC Davis have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. The awards, announced Thursday, go to a diverse group of scholars, artists and scientists and are aimed at providing creative freedom. Fellows may use the award, which averages $40,000 per person, as they wish.
UC Davis faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
A composer, a poetry expert and a sculptor from UC Davis have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. The awards go to a diverse group of scholars, artists and scientists and are aimed at providing creative freedom. Fellows may use the award, which averages $40,000 per person, as they wish.
3 Arts and Humanities Faculty Awarded Guggenheims
A composer, a poetry expert and a sculptor from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. The awards, announced April 5, go to a diverse group of scholars, artists and scientists and are aimed at providing creative freedom. Fellows may use their awards, which average $40,000 per person, as they wish.
Revision/s Festival focuses on music by eight emerging composers
The UC Davis department of music’s Revision/s Festival brings together eight emerging composers and top professional ensembles — including the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra — for a six-month-long collaboration culminating in three concerts. The composers wrote works, had run-throughs of their pieces with the ensembles, got feedback and had a relatively generous six weeks for revisions in preparation for performances Jan. 18, 19 and 20 at UC Davis.
UC Davis chancellor goes boldly forth with ‘Star Trek’ lecture
The UC Davis uman Rights Lecture Series takes off with a talk about Star Trek, exploring how the television series and movies can help explore human rights topics. “Star Trek/Human Rights: To Boldly Go to Human Rights for All” on Monday starts the three-event series with UCD Chancellor Gary S. May and Human Rights Studies Director Keith David Watenpaugh of the College of Letters and Science.
Snubbing lion hunters could preserve the endangered animals
For hundreds of years young men from some ethnic groups in Tanzania, called “lion dancers” because they elaborately acted out their lion killing for spectators, were richly rewarded for killing lions that preyed on livestock and people. Now when a lion dancer shows up he might be called a rude name rather than receive a reward, according to a new UC Davis study.
UC Davis experts on romance and relationships for Valentine's Day
Commitment and bonding Emilio Ferrer, professor of psychology, has done extensive research on romantic relationships, including analyzing how couples communicate over time, how well they are in sync emotionally and even how their heart and breathing rates compare. His research has been publicized nationally in popular media as well as a number of scholarly journals. Press release and other media on his work. Contact: Emilio Ferrer, eferrer@ucdavis.edu, (530) 752-0184. April S.
Big Questions, Big Answers about Humankind
Alexander “Sandy” Harcourt opens his latest book with a story about his own family. He was born in Kenya but is of British origin. The family left Kenya for Great Britain in 1955. Since 1989, Harcourt has lived in Davis, California, although anyone who hears him speak knows he’s not from here. Shaping Human Diversity New books from UC Davis Faculty and alumni of UC Davis are prolific writers.
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