This year’s annual Valente Lecture features Emily Zazulia on Medieval Music

Thursday, Jan. 23, 4-5:30 p.m., Everson Hall Room 266

Valente Lecture: Emily Zazulia 'The Friend Who Got Around: Medieval Theater, Church Music, and a Rather Inappropriate Song'

Within the gold-tinged choirbooks of 15th-century Europe, a bawdy song about genitalia is perhaps the last thing one might expect to find. Yet L’ami Baudichon (“the friend Baudichon”), whose text leaves little to the imagination, shows up as the basis for an early mass by Josquin des Prez. The song’s presence in sacred polyphony has long puzzled musicologists. Whatever the song is doing in Josquin’s mass, it also appears in other contexts: combinative songs, theater pieces, poetry, and literature. This lecture examines the song’s varied uses in early French theater, focusing on its appearances in a morality play about blasphemy and a ribald farce.

Read more here: Valente Lecture: Emily Zazulia- UC Davis Arts 

Orange Road Quartet, UC Davis graduate students, take on this week’s Shinkoskey Noon Concert

Thursday, Jan. 23, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall at Ann E. Pitzer Center, free

Miguel Calleja and Holly Workman, violin
Nicky Moore, viola
Jordan Bartow, cello

Program

Jacob Lane: Frozen Moment PREMIERE

Colin Minigan: stillness and winter beech PREMIERE

Zoë A. Wallace: String Quartet 4: Unstuck in Time PREMIERE

James R. Larkins: Between Us PREMIERE

Bryndan Moondy: five exposures PREMIERE

New exhibitions are coming to the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art this weekend

Saturday, Jan. 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Two exhibits are moving into the Manetti Shrem Museum with an opening day of Jan. 26. Curated by Ginny Duncan, the exhibit Ruby Neri: Taking the Deep Dive is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work and features personal motifs and the female body. 

The second new exhibit at the museum is Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection which 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. Some featured artists include Giulia Andreani, Vanessa Beecroft, Berlinde De Bruyckere, June Crespo, just to name a few. 

Ruby Neri: Taking the Deep Dive will be on display until May 5, and Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection will be on display until June 22.

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

The Artery presents The Art of Stillness

Running through Monday, Jan. 27, 207 G Street, Davis

With a spiritual leaning that bridges Eastern and Western philosophy, each piece in this exhibition contains heart and soul. Art reflects life…a return to decades long practices of meditation, silence and contemplation are reflected in this collection. Between 3D sculptures and framed pieces, it is Louise’s desire that the viewer remember a bit of peace and stillness as they stop into the gallery in the new year.

Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture  features Mexican American painter, printer, educator Enrique Chagoya

Thursday, Jan. 30, 4:30 p.m., in the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, free

Using his art to comment on social and environmental issues, Enrique Chagoya’s 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.

​​Chagoya is a Mexican-born American painter, printmaker and educator. He received an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute and has won awards and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, National Academy of Arts and Letters, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. He received the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award from Southern Graphics Council International and was inducted into the National Academy of Design in 2021. Chagoya is a Professor of Art at Stanford University. 

Read more about Enrique Chagoya - UC Davis Arts 

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of UC Davis and The Global Tea Institute’s Annual Colloquium

Thursday, Jan. 30, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., UC Davis Conference Center, 550 Alumni Lane, Davis

The Global Tea Institute celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a Colloquium on Tea and Peace: Bringing Communities Together. The speakers will discuss the role that tea plays in bringing people together and the wonderful properties that tea can provide. During this day-long event, experts will demonstrate through engaging presentations how the theme of tea can impact culture, society, science, health, and other industries. Katharine Burnett, director of the Global Tea Institute (GTI), is also a co-chair of the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Letters and Science.

To get tickets, please go to UC Davis GTI's 10th Annual Colloquium: Tea and Peace. To read more about tea and The Global Tea Institute, read Maria Sestito’s in-depth article here: Global Tea Institute Celebrates 10th Anniversary | letters and science mag.

Study Abroad Photo Contest winners chosen

The annual UC Davis Study Abroad Photo Contest aims to recognize and celebrate student photography taking place on the many study abroad programs offered throughout the year at UC Davis. Over 500 photos were submitted this year. This year the theme was broken up into two categories: Places and People. See a UC Davis slideshow featuring some of the incredible photos along with information about the locations here. 

Congratulations to the 2024 contest winners: Reilly Dunn ’26, computer science and engineering major in the PLACES category and Ali Yavuz Bozatli '26, mechanical engineering major in the PEOPLE category.

Celebrate new Manetti Shrem season with women artists

Sunday, Feb. 2, 2-5:30 p.m., at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, free

Celebrate the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art's winter season with Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, the first U.S. presentation of the renowned contemporary art collection, and Ruby Neri: Taking the Deep Dive, Neri’s first solo museum exhibition. The exhibitions join Light into Density: Abstract Encounters 1920s–1960s | Selections from the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Collection. 

UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, singers from the San Francisco Opera Center come together for Rising Stars of Opera performance

Sunday, Feb. 2, 2 p.m., Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, limit of two tickets per person, free

Since its inception in 2010, The Barbara K. Jackson Rising Stars of Opera has featured vocal artistry, stirring arias and a glimpse at the opera stars of tomorrow; and every ticket has been free to the public thanks to the generosity of Barbara K. Jackson.

Today, Rising Stars of Opera features several singers from the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Center performing a wide range of great arias with full orchestral accompaniment from our own UC Davis Symphony Orchestra.

Get your free tickets here: Barbara K. Jackson Rising Stars of Opera | Mondavi Center 

The Axis Gallery features artist Steve Briscoe in exhibition

Running from Saturday, Jan. 31 to Sunday, Feb. 23, hours for Axis Gallery are 12-5 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, 625 S Street, Sacramento

Second Reception on Feb. 8 from 5-8 p.m.

The exhibition, Disputed territory: The Patriot/Profile/Portrait Scroll and Other Works, by Steve Briscoe spans three decades and includes graphic and sculptural works. The show's centerpiece is the Patriot/Profile/Portrait Scroll, a 30-foot-long work on paper, that ruminates on the post-9/11 security push that led to the Patriot Act and subsequent profiling apparatus that monitors and assesses threats. Started in 2002 and readdressed in 2019, this major work has only been exhibited publicly once. 

To learn more about Steve Briscoe and the Axis Gallery, go here.