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Weekender: Music, New Book, Puppet Master and More

Jamie Sara Gelfond — April 17, 2025 - 3:41pm

This "weekender" covers two weeks of events while the Arts Blog is on hiatus next week.

Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington plays flute concert

Thursday, April 17, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Weekender: Picnic Day Brings the Art to Davis

Jamie Sara Gelfond — April 10, 2025 - 10:22am

The California Studio Lecture series presents Marie Lorenz, who works on water

Thursday, April 10, 4:30-6 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, doors open at 4 p.m.

Merging the Ethereal and the Tangible

Jamie Sara Gelfond — April 07, 2025 - 9:56am

Non-linear time sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but what if we could rewrite our histories in ways that feel as if things don’t happen sequentially? Overlapping the concepts of time, memory and the body, Gracianne Kirsch uses many art modalities to explore their own many-sided self.

Weekender: Spring into Spring Arts

Jamie Sara Gelfond — April 03, 2025 - 10:06am

This weekend, lots of music, exhibitions and even a party. Make reservations for upcoming events.

Adele Zhang Brings 91��Ƭ Davis Textile Collection to London

Jamie Sara Gelfond — March 27, 2025 - 9:25am

Adele Zhang, senior continuing lecturer in the Department of Design at 91��Ƭ Davis, has been the Jo Ann C. Stabb Design Collection curator and manager since 2006. After spending the last year researching the collection's archive, Zhang spent the first few weeks of 2025 packing up and shipping 134 objects to London, where they will be on display at the Fashion and Textile Museum from March 28 through September 7.

Weekender: End the Quarter with Exciting Music and Dance

Jamie Sara Gelfond — March 13, 2025 - 10:08am

This week’s free Shinkoskey Noon Concert features Student Chamber Ensembles

Thursday, March 13, 12:05-2 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center

Pete Nowlen, coordinator

Program

Works to be announced.

Annual M.F.A. Open Studios are back

Thursday, March 13, 4:30-6:30 p.m., at TB9 and the Art Grad Building

Weekender: Start Your March with the Arts

Jamie Sara Gelfond — March 06, 2025 - 10:10am

Concert in memory of Albert J. McNeil (music department faculty); Thursday noon concert, music from Hawaii and more.

Weekender: The Sun is Out, New Art is In

Jamie Sara Gelfond — February 27, 2025 - 10:43am

Le Jazz Hot Quartet plays in the style and spirit of Django Reinhardt for noon concert

Thursday, Feb. 27, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall at Ann E. Pitzer Center

Weekender: Experience the Art, Music of Different Cultures

Jamie Sara Gelfond — February 19, 2025 - 2:15pm

This week’s Shinkoskey Noon Concert on 'The Art of the Trio Sonata'

Thursday, Feb. 20, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall at Ann E. Pitzer Center

Gorman Museum Features 'Olé Ham Nees: We Call Him Coyote'

Karen Michele Nikos — February 19, 2025 - 1:20pm

A solo exhibition now on view at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art features the artwork of Harry Fonseca drawn from the Shingle Springs Band Collection. Embracing the lifework of this tribal citizen, the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians acquired an important collection of works spanning his career.

The Gorman Museum, at the 91��Ƭ, Davis, is one of the few university-based Native American Art museums in North America.