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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 University of California, Davis, is one of the few university-based Native American Art museums in North America.

Weekender: Celebrate Your Love of Art this Valentine's Weekend

Jamie Sara Gelfond — February 13, 2025 - 11:12am

This week, you'll find a slew of activities in music, art and culture. Read about them all in the �ٺ��Ƶ Arts Blog.

�ٺ��Ƶ Art History’s Watenpaugh Inspires with Her Perspective on Art and Cultural Heritage Destruction

Jamie Sara Gelfond — February 10, 2025 - 3:01pm

Weekender: Soul Music, Drag and ArtMix Bring Fun to the Arts

Jamie Sara Gelfond — February 06, 2025 - 8:27am

Indulge your senses in Shaam-E-Ghazal poetry night

Flyer for Shaam-E-Ghazal (courtesy)

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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 — Brought to Light by �ٺ��Ƶ Historian — 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