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Weekender: Ruby Neri and Her Art, Thiebaud Endowed Lecture, New Art Coming to Gorman

Jamie Sara Gelfond — January 30, 2025 - 9:00am

Welcome to the weekend (almost)

In this week’s Arts Blog, you can catch artist Ruby Neri talking about her art at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and an opera at The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. (Tickets are almost out for the opera though). Also, the annual Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed lecture features Mexican American painter Enrique Chagoya. All these events are free. And there’s much more.

First Opera by Black American — Discovered by �ٺ��Ƶ Historian — Finally Gets Its Due

Karen Michele Nikos — January 30, 2025 - 2:59am

Digitized version of original opera by Edmond Dédé uncovered in historian Sally McKee's research.

Weekender: 10th Annual Tea Colloquium; New Exhibits Opening

Jamie Sara Gelfond — January 23, 2025 - 9:23am

This year’s annual Valente Lecture features Emily Zazulia on Medieval Music

Thursday, Jan. 23, 4-5:30 p.m., Everson Hall Room 266

Weekender: Exciting Art Lectures, Music, More

Jamie Sara Gelfond — January 16, 2025 - 3:19am

Experience Dvořák Wind Serenade for this week’s noon concert

Thursday, Jan. 16, 12:05 p.m., Shinkoskey Noon Concert, Recital Hall at Ann E. Pitzer Center, free

Program

Antonín Dvořák: Serenade in D Minor, op. 44, B. 77

Robert Schumann: Selections from Six Studies in Canon Form, op. 56
with Cindy Behmer, oboe, Susan Lamb Cook, cello, and I-Hui Chen, piano

Ongoing Art in Davis: Winter 2025

Jamie Sara Gelfond — January 16, 2025 - 3:02am

Warm up from the winter cold at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art through Jan. 26

Brenda Mallory’s exhibit, including the red mixed media piece you see here, will be on display at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art until Jan. 26.

Weekender: New Year, New Art

Jamie Sara Gelfond — January 09, 2025 - 9:52am

Welcome to the new year

This month, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art will open two new exhibitions focusing on women artists, including Ruby Neri, a Los Angeles artist who is the daughter of the late Manuel Neri, �ٺ��Ƶ professor emeritus and sculptor. You will have to wait until next month for the Gorman Museum of Native American Art's mid-winter exhibition, but enjoy now beautiful mixed media in Brenda Mallory: In the Absence of Instruction until Jan. 26.

Postcards from the Edge (of Davis) and Cookbooks through the Ages at Library

Jamie Sara Gelfond — January 07, 2025 - 2:12pm

Shields Library at �ٺ��Ƶ has incorporated two new exhibits onto its main floor, allowing students, faculty and staff to take a break to learn about the history of Davis through postcards as well as how cultures preserve their histories through cooking. If you want to have a peek at how life was like before social media and recipe web sites, have a look. It's worth a visit.

Weekender: A Last Look at Exhibits; Film Screening

Jamie Sara Gelfond — December 12, 2024 - 9:06am

Get 'Last Look' at fall quarter exhibits at Manetti Shrem; check out art, gifts at Gorman

In addition to regular hours through Dec. 22, special hours are Saturday, Dec. 28 and Sunday, Dec. 29, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, 254 Old Davis Road

Gorman Museum of Native American Art: exhibition and gift shop hours until Dec. 22, 181 Old Davis Road

Weekender: A White Christmas Performance, �ٺ��Ƶ Alum Exhibit, and More!

Jamie Sara Gelfond — December 05, 2024 - 3:26am

She Kills Monsters’ final performances are this week

Thursday, Dec. 5 and Friday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m., Main Theatre at Wright Hall, �ٺ��Ƶ

Saturday, Dec. 7 at 2 p.m., Main Theatre at Wright Hall, �ٺ��Ƶ

The Arts Blog Gift Guide 2024 Offers Gifts for the Art Lover

Jamie Sara Gelfond — December 02, 2024 - 1:06pm