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Susan Tonkin Riegel: Marking Time

Pence Gallery (Pence) 212 D St., Davis

Susan Tonkin Riegel’s residencies in France over two years have yielded a dynamic new series of abstract mixed media work. Her compositions vibrate with gestural lines, both drawn and stitched, and saturated areas of color on paper and other surfaces. New two-dimensional work includes elements such as letters, symbols, and enigmatic figures, and two-sided pieces […]

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Judith Foosaner: Decameron

Pence Gallery (Pence) 212 D St., Davis

While in quarantine this past spring and summer, Judith Foosaner began to paint large sheets of cardboard on the ground with painterly calligraphic marks. By cutting the sheets into shapes and tacking them up on the wall, the artist noticed that her arrangement seemed to create a playful choreography of animate shapes in her studio. […]

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Easter Plant Sale

Davis Cemetery 820 Pole Line Road, Davis

Family and friends of loved ones buried at the Davis Cemetery can order a special potted plant to be placed on their gravesites this Easter. Each arrangement will feature a hand-painted Easter egg pot complete with lilies and carnations. These cheerful seasonal blooms are a symbol of friendship and true love for those who cannot […]

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FOOD

Virtual CA

A multi-sensory performance piece, FOOD is co-devised and directed by Geoff Sobelle, Granada Artist-in-Residence. From the collective minds of a kitchen-full of UC Davis graduate and undergraduate artists, and led by theatre-artist Sobelle, FOOD offers up a dreamscape cooking show that promises to sate, disgust, amuse and amaze even the most discerning of appetites. The […]

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It’s Not Just Birds – Plants of the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area

Online via Zoom

When you visit the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area (YBWA) in Davis, CA, have you ever wondered what those flowers are that are blooming along the road, in the rice fields, out in the canals? Are they native plants or introduced? There are many different plant habitats in the YBWA and they support a very wide […]

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