As always during the shelter-at-home order, the Arts Blog continues its efforts to help you enjoy art virtually! This month, by the way, we have experienced our greatest readership ever. This means people are craving art, we think, even if virtually. We deliver. We also give a nod to some of our most famous former faculty, Wayne Thiebaud and Manuel Neri. And if you take the walk suggested by the museum, you'll find fellow-faculty William Wiley's work, as well. We also feature another Manetti Shrem video offering a little project. Hint: it involves, yet again, a precious toilet paper roll. Read on. And thank your for reading.
Compiled by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Media Relations Intern Leigh Houck
Manetti Shrem At Home
We excerpt the newsletter from the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art:
鈥淚n this week's Manetti Shrem Museum At Home, we explore the abundant opportunities for connection and reflection in the once casual and leisurely activity of 鈥渢aking a walk.鈥 If we pay attention, each walk can be a new experience and a chance to bring art into our lives. Challenge yourself to look more closely during your next walk and let your creative process flow as you observe how artists respond to their surroundings.鈥
with Dan Nadel, who curated Landscape Without Boundaries from the university鈥檚 Fine Arts Collection and found artwork that is profoundly attuned to being alive, in nature, at any time.
Meet 鈥溾 Pete Scully, who works at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis' Department of Statistics, and see some of his colorful sketches of campus life and Davis that were featured in a .
Explore, sketch and spark conversation with outdoor sculptures on the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis campus through . Take a tour either virtually or in person (with proper social distancing, of course).
Even if we walk the same path, what we see can be completely unique. why everyone sees a different rainbow in this SFMOMA video about his 2007 work, 鈥淏eauty.鈥
Don't throw out that toilet paper roll: Did the Manetti Shrem at Home newsletter inspire you to find beauty in taking a walk? Do you need a little help to see that beauty? Try a pair of homemade binoculars. Check out the latest video in Manetti Shrem鈥檚 video series Build It With Brandon. This week鈥檚 episode uses toilet paper tubes and tape to make homemade binoculars. Watch it .
At the Arts Blog, we would add this walking opportunity: Tour the murals of Sacramento. Read our story about that here published earlier this week.
Mondavi Center offers concerts and a film this weekend: around the world, and rural America
This weekend, listen to world music by group Bokant茅 on Friday, May 1. Continue your musical journey around the world by listening to the music of Japan and India played by Yumi Kurosawa and Anubrata Chatterjee on Friday May 1 and Saturday May 2. Finally, on Sunday May 3, return to rural America to enjoy a streaming of the Oscar nominated neo-Western film "Hell or High Water."
During the closures, Mondavi continues to offer free virtual concerts. The virtual concerts will be shared on the dates the shows were scheduled to occur. Click to view the full schedule of virtual concerts.
Crocker Art Museum: Find peace and Wayne Thiebaud
The Crocker Art Museum Adult Education Coordinator Houghton Kinsman has put together an article on the benefits of art during stressful times. Read this piece on art and wellness . At the bottom of the page is an Artful Meditation recording by Matthew Roselli. Roselli usually leads the Crocker鈥檚 in-person Artful Meditation program alongside Teresa Sedano on the fourth Saturday of every month. Listen along to find some peace.
Wayne Thiebaud, renowned artist and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis art professor emeritus, will turn 100 years old this coming November. Read an article by the Crocker Art Museum on Wayne Thiebaud鈥檚 early life and how his experiences impacted his art . An celebrating his centennial birthday, Wayne Thiebaud 100, Paintings, Prints and Drawings is slated to open at The Crocker on Oct. 11. This exhibition brings Thiebaud鈥檚 work full circle, as his first solo exhibition was at The Crocker in 1951.
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis students and faculty participate in refugee awareness art
Dozens of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis students, alongside two Department of Design lecturers, are participating in The 25 Million Stitches Project. This project is a response to the global refugee crisis by artist Jennifer Kim Sohn. Each stitch represents one of the 25 million refugees worldwide.
Learn more about the 25 Million Stitches Project and more about 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis student and faculty participation .
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis art in the news: Artforum
While Stephen Kaltenbach鈥檚 at the Manetti Shrem Museum is currently inaccessible, Artforum is sharing his art with the world via Instagram. The post of Kaltenbach鈥檚 painting 鈥淪unset鈥 is captioned in the social media platform as follows:
Stephen Kaltenbach, Sunset, 1970-71/2019-20, acrylic and fluorescent paint on fiberglass, 106 1/2鈥 x 118鈥.
Artforum is posting images from artists鈥 exhibitions around the globe that have been shuttered or postponed during the coronavirus crisis. Here: 鈥淪tephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End鈥 at Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, California, January 26-May 10, 2020.
View the post . It earned more than 2,000 views.
Art Tweet of the Week
This week鈥檚 art of the week comes from the Crocker Art Museum. It focuses on the sculptural work of artist and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Art Professor Emeritus Manuel Neri.
