Site-specific art is on display once again around the UC Davis campus, as part of an interdisciplinary course titled Where Here Is, presented by the Department of Art and Art History.

A reception and walking tour are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 6. The event begins with light refreshments in the Art Building lobby at 11 a.m., followed by a student-led walking tour from noon to 2 p.m.

The artworks are due to be on display through Dec. 14.

Robin Hill, associate professor of art, said the course asks student teams, in conceiving their art, to focus on the idea of “the local”—i.e., the specific site where the art will be located.

“By massaging each site for meaning (social, cultural, aesthetic, historical), these works of art will define, enhance or transform the places in which they are installed,” Hill said.

The teams include students from art and art history, design, landscape design, nature and culture, English, sociology and more.

“Frequent class discussions-critiques, assigned readings, slide presentations and field trips to area studios and public art sites strengthened presentation skills and deepened students’ understanding of the meaning of site-specificity as it relates to visual art,” Hill said.

Students worked in collaboration with staff from Buildings and Grounds, the arborteum, the Police and Fire departments, and Shields Library, and with conceptual artist Steve Kaltenbach of Davis.

For a copy of the exhibition’s catalog, or for more information, contact Hill by e-mail: rhill@ucdavis.edu.