An exhibition of nine new prints by Ben Duax with soundtracks by Leon Hu and James Ketchum is on display at Gallery 1855. In the Owl Bears Cave is a suite of images and sounds reflecting the blue-domed anti-twilight of the central valley. Abandoned station wagons, feral peacocks, sunflowers and poppies illustrate an accompanying soundtrack,
YoloArts is celebrating 14 years of farm visits with the annual Art Farm fundraising event featuring an Art Harvest, silent auction, awards, and music on Saturday, 3 – 6:00 p.m. October 16, outdoors on the grounds of the Gibson House in Woodland. Artwork inspired by Yolo County farmlands and open spaces will once again be
The Pence’s annual Art Auction offers the best in contemporary art, all up for display at the Gallery, and online for silent auction bidding.
5th Grade Art Kits Arrive! The Davis Arts Center and the Davis School Arts Foundation (DSAF) are giving all fifth graders in DJUSD the opportunity to discover their inner artist with a set of take-home guided art projects. Every 5th grade student and teacher received an art kit with all of the supplies and instructions for
Five Yolo County Arts Organizations Awarded YoloArts has distributed $12,630 to support five local arts and cultural nonprofits in Yolo County. In December, the California Arts Council approved the distribution of $710,400 of CARES Act funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The funding was designated for use by California’s state-local arts partners
Members of the local arts community met virtually on Oct. 7 to support each other and share how they are reimagining their work in the time of COVID-19. Arts Alliance Davis was formed a few years ago as a grassroots effort to give artists and their supporters the opportunity to gather, collaborate and create meaningful
Mondavi Center’s HomeStage is here! Experience live-streamed theater, dance, music, and more from the comfort of your home. While the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts will remain physically closed in order to ensure public health and safety, the venue continues to provide a space for artists and audiences to enjoy high-quality
The Pence Gallery has officially reopened! After a head-spinning five months of closure, three weeks of reopening, and two more weeks of closing, visitors can once again peruse the gallery (with a mask and whilst maintaining social distance, of course). Although the gallery remained physically closed for months, director Natalie Nelson immediately transformed the Pence
#Plan4Resilience is a public art project that commissions local artists, impacted by the economic crisis, to create temporary murals out of chalk and tempera paint in Davis, CA.
If you, your children or grandchildren need creative inspiration, materials, or direction for art projects this summer, the Davis Arts Center is looking to help. They’ve created a series of summer programs, complete with materials, instructions, videos, and online “office” hours. Giving careful consideration to the risks involved with resuming in-person programming for a center that
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