Winter Season Celebration

Manetti Shrem Museum (Shrem) 254 Old Davis Rd.

MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Celebrate the museum’s groundbreaking exhibitions at our free public opening celebration. Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, the first US presentation of the renowned contemporary art collection from Italy, and Ruby Neri: Taking the Deep Dive, Neri’s first solo museum exhibition. 2p—5:30p. Free

Free

Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture: Enrique Chagoya

Manetti Shrem Museum (Shrem) 254 Old Davis Rd.

MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Using his art to comment on social and environmental issues, Enrique Chagoya juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols to address the ongoing cultural clash between the United States, Latin America and the world as well. The artist is the 2025 Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecturer at UC Davis. Chagoya is a Mexican-born American painter, printmaker and educator. His prints, drawings, collages and multiples offer critical commentary on the global reach of the United States and its cultural, political and historical tensions with Latin America. 4:30p—6p. Free

Free

Alberini Family Speaker Series in Design: Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall

Manetti Shrem Museum (Shrem) 254 Old Davis Rd.

MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall, a distinguished design anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational design leader, consultant and coach, will give a talk titled “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook” for UC Davis Department of Design’s Alberini Family Speaker Series in Design. 4:30p—6p. Free

Free

In Conversation: Kota Ezawa

Manetti Shrem Museum (Shrem) 254 Old Davis Rd.

MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Kota Ezawa is a Bay Area-based artist known for creating video, animations and lightboxes that explore the mediations of cultural and historical events in an essential, stylized manner. In 2021, his work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art. Ezawa has received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a SECA Art Award from SFMOMA, and a Eureka Fellowship. 4:30p—6p. Free

Free

Observations on the Art Trade

Manetti Shrem Museum (Shrem) 254 Old Davis Rd.

MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Distinguished alum and art collector Alan Templeton (B.A., art history and psychology, ‘82) examines the evolution of the art trade from the 1950s onward in an engaging and insightful presentation. 4:10p—5:30p. Free

Free

Art of Athletes

Manetti Shrem Museum (Shrem) 254 Old Davis Rd.

MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. In this 15th year of the show, you can explore the artwork of student-athletes across 25 teams featuring different artistic mediums, meet many of the artists, & make art of your own. 6p–7:30p. Free

Free

Matthew Zapruder: Reading & Book Signing

Manetti Shrem Museum (Shrem) 254 Old Davis Rd.

MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Poet, editor, & professor, Zapruder is known for his five collections of poetry, most recently Father’s Day (Copper Canyon, 2019), as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) & Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). 4:30p–6p. Free

Free
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