"Umbria Jazz Feast" is a documentary film that investigates multi-sensorial intersections during the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. It presents a new look at this festival by addressing the question: how is jazz perceived as part of a new global identity intersecting with local and global cuisine, art and culture? There will be a free screening of the film on May 6 in Davis.

Julie Wyman, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and associate professor of cinema and digital media at UC Davis, finds belonging and an unexpected history within the dwarf community whilst working on her documentary, "The Tallest Dwarf." It will be screened at theaters across the U.S., including at UC Davis, and have its broadcast premiere this spring on PBS.

A new exhibition of work by recent University of California alumni highlights UC's artistic legacy and shows California’s world-class public university is ready to step in as art schools across the country disappear.

Twenty-one UC Davis alumni have been selected to exhibit their artistic works alongside other emerging artists from UC Berkeley and UCLA as part of the 'Open Inquiry: UC Arts' exhibit at Sausalito Center For The Arts, March 14 - April 26.

Archana Venkatesan discusses the importance of ancient poetry and her research on as the Alvars, which translates to “those who are immersed in god.” This type of "slow study" resonates with students who, in current times, don't get to do much of it anymore.