UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence and Who’s There? director Sinéad Rushe and a crew of six student actors are turning William Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside out.
Maria Manetti Shrem has pledged more than $20 million to UC Davis to further the art patron’s longstanding philanthropic partnership with the university.
The Exhibition and Experience Design Handbook is an illustrated handbook that explains how to design exhibitions and attractions successfully; contextualize contemporary exhibition design practice through its historical and theoretical underpinnings; and elevate understanding of one of the most rapidly evolving and trans-disciplinary creative disciplines.
Alan Templeton is no stranger to the UC Davis campus. The alum spent his undergraduate years exploring the Quad and combing through art history books in Shields Library. Templeton (B.A., art history and psychology, ‘82) has worked as a professional artist, labor union administrator and investor. He’s an art collector and is passionate about helping elevate and grow the arts and humanities at UC Davis.
In her new collection A Piece of Good News, Katie Peterson, English professor and head of the creative writing program, explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure and shelter. The poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship and happiness. Katie Peterson is the author of six collections of poetry, including the forthcoming Fog and Smoke (2024).
Art history professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice traces eight illustrated pages from a 13th-century Armenian manuscript that disappeared in 1920 to their purchase by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1995.
Daniela Gutiérrez Flores, assistant professor of Spanish at UC Davis, recently appeared on KQED's "Beyond the Menu" show.
In this episode, host Cecilia Phillips interviews the owners of El Garage in Richmond, Calif. as well as food writer Bill Esparza and Gutiérrez Flores, who specializes in early modern Spanish and colonial Latin American studies, about birria tacos — and their history — in the Bay Area and beyond.
As part of UC Davis' celebration of 30 years of Eggheads, Trevor Bashaw, creative writing MFA candidate and associate instructor of English, was asked to write a poem inspired by the famous public art. Bashaw shared his poem during the Robert Arneson Eggheads 30th Anniversary Launch Party at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art on April 4.
In her new book Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indígena Ancestries , Susy J. Zepeda, an associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial theory through the work of select queer Indígena cultural producers and thinkers.
Beginning April 1, the UC Davis campus is celebrating the Year of the Eggheads, marking the 30th anniversary of the campus installation of Robert Arneson’s iconic Egghead sculptures.
