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Gallery view of 'Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection' on display until June 22. (Courtesy/ The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art)
Gallery view of 'Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection' on display until June 22. (Courtesy/ The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art)

Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

On display until June 22 at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Giulia Andreani, Nudeltish (Spaghetti painting), 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 44 7/8 x 74 3/8in. Courtesy of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
Giulia Andreani, Nudeltish (Spaghetti painting), 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 44 7/8 x 74 3/8in. Courtesy of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. (Courtesy/ The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art)

Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection is not only a mixed media collection by 30 of the most prominent and influential female artists currently working, but also the first U.S. presentation of Italy’s renowned Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection. The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection is one of the most important private collections of contemporary art in Europe. The collection focuses on international and intergenerational perspectives of women artists working in a variety of media. It comprises over 2,000 artworks by both emerging young artists and artists of international renown which have been displayed in museums throughout Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Poland and the United Kingdom. Some featured artists include Giulia Andreani, Vanessa Beecroft, Berlinde De Bruyckere, June Crespo, just to name a few.

To learn more about these exhibits, go here: Manetti Shrem Museum to Present U.S. Debut of Italy’s Sandretto Collection, Solo Exhibition of Ceramic Artist Ruby Neri | UC Davis. 

The Gorman Museum of Native American Art showcases art from Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians

On display until Aug. 31 at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art

Above art, Coyote dancer with flute #III, 1983, Acrylic wash/paper. (Courtesy/Gorman Museum of Native American Art).
Above art, Coyote dancer with flute #III, 1983, Acrylic wash/paper. (Courtesy/Gorman Museum of Native American Art).

The solo-exhibition Olé Ham Nees: We Call Him Coyote features the artwork of Harry Fonseca drawn from the Shingle Springs Band Collection. Harry (1946-2006) was born in Sacramento of Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, and Portuguese heritage, and was an enrolled citizen of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

The exhibition, running from Feb. 12 through Aug. 31, considers multiple series and stylistic shifts from Fonseca’s earliest pieces reflecting his Nisenan Maidu heritage, the Coyote series for which he is most recognized, the influences of rock art in Stone Poems, the political views of Discovery of Gold and Souls in California, to the abstraction and examination of painting in the Stripes and Seasons series.

The museum is located at 181 Old Davis Road, Davis, on the UC Davis campus. This exhibition is sponsored by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Futures Fund and the UC Davis College of Letters and Science.

Read more about the exhibit and artist in this article: Gorman Museum Features 'Olé Ham Nees: We Call Him Coyote' | UC Davis

The Collections Gallery

On display until Sept. 1 at The Gorman Museum of Native American Art

D.Y. Begay, Arapaho Style, 2014. Gift of Patrick V. and Mary Beth Musick. (Courtesy, The Gorman Museum of Native American Art)
D.Y. Begay, Arapaho Style, 2014. Gift of Patrick V. and Mary Beth Musick. (Courtesy/ The Gorman Museum of Native American Art)

The Collections Gallery features a selection of artworks from the Gorman Museum Collections on a rotational basis. The current exhibition is a survey spanning across the collection.

Display cases in the Collections Gallery serve as visible storage, housing much of the museum's ceramic and basketry collection.  By moving museum collections from storage into prominent long-term exhibits in the main public galleries, the Collections Gallery provides enhanced visibility, access, and engagement to collections for visitors while also furthering university teaching and research.

Read about the exhibit here: The Collections Gallery | Gorman Museum 

Shields Library presents 'Making Our Mark: Queer Visual Art and Culture in the Modern Era' and 'Community in Bloom: A history of the UC Davis Arboretum'

Gender Passport, by Kitty Koppelman, 2024, Fine Press and Book Arts Collection, FPBAC 93:6. (Courtesy of Shields Library)
Gender Passport, by Kitty Koppelman, 2024, Fine Press and Book Arts Collection, FPBAC 93:6. (Courtesy/ Shields Library)

With candor and veracity, the Making Our Mark: Queer Visual Art and Culture in the Modern Era displays how queer communities across the United States are using visual art and poetry to render themselves larger than life, resist erasure, and make their indelible mark on history. The exhibit also features over two dozen queer works and draws primarily from Archives and Special Collections’ LGBTQIA+ History and Culture Collection, and Fine Press and Book Arts Collection. One piece is from our Avant Garde Poetry Collection. 

Making Our Mark is located in the main lobby to the left of the grand staircase, and is running until Aug. 1.

The UC Davis Arboretum serves as an outdoor museum and living laboratory for the university, a public resource for sustainable landscape practices and a treasured, contemplative space for all who visit. It occupies 100 acres along the banks of the north channel of Putah Creek and features demonstration gardens and a collection of 22,000 trees and plants. Education and outreach programs offer guided tours, classes, workshops, family nature programs, and talks by artists, scholars, and scientists. The exhibit Community in Bloom: A history of the UC Davis Arboretum includes more than a dozen photos and documents from the University Archives Photographs Collection, Stumpf (Paul K.) Slides of the University of California, Davis and Davis, California, The California Aggie, and the University of California, Davis Arboretum Records. 

Community in Bloom is running until Aug. 29, and is located in the main lobby to the left of the grand staircase.

Students in the Arboretum, circa 1970-1979. (Courtesy, Shields Library)
Students in the Arboretum, circa 1970-1979. (Courtesy/ Shields Library)

 

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