Honoring Wayne Thiebaud
The Manetti Shrem Museum mourns the passing of Wayne Thiebaud. Watch a video made for the museum’s gala in honor of his 101st birthday. Read the university’s statement.
Unexpected Legends Docuseries
As part of the celebration, this documentary tells the tale of the UC Davis art department — from its founding artists to the present faculty and students who follow in the founders' footsteps. The first-generation artists built their community in the ceramics building known as TB 9, or Temporary Building 9, and ignited an art revolution.
Arts & Humanities 2021 Graduate Exhibition Virtual Opening Celebration
Artists Lois Dodd and Wayne Thiebaud in Conversation with Karen Wilkin
Arnold Joseph Kemp in Conversation with Sampada Aranke
Preview: Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation
November 2020: Founding Director Rachel Teagle and Associate Curator Susie Kantor discuss the 2021 winter exhibition about Wayne Thiebaud's legacy and influence.
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists book launch and conversation
Oct. 29, 2020: Associate Curator Susie Kantor in conversation with collector Bernard Lumpkin, writer and curator Antwaun Sargent and curator Matt Wycoff about the Young, Gifted and Black exhibition, which traveled to the Manetti Shrem Museum in 2022.
Closure with Stephen Kaltenbach
Oct. 18, 2020: When the museum was forced to close due to the onset of the pandemic, the building was safely locked up with much of artist Stephen Kaltenbach's work inside. Perhaps the ultimate irony of his long career, The Beginning and The End became a time capsule itself. In this virtual tour and conversation with the artist and guest curators Constance Lewallen and Ted Mann, we invite you in for another look at this monumental exhibition considering Kaltenbach's engagement with time as a principal theme across his career.
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See the museum as you’ve never seen it before in this short film that swoops over the UC Davis campus, exploring the relationship between nature and architecture.
Meet Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem
February 2016: This video introduces the founding donors to the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Rachel Teagle Speaks at Fall Convocation
Oct. 4, 2012: The Manetti Shrem Museum's Founding Director, Rachel Teagle, speaks at fall convocation about the importance of considering "strange ideas" and how the vision of a new contemporary art museum would be realized.
Rachel Teagle on UC Davis' New Art Museum
Aug. 15, 2012: Rachel Teagle talks about the importance of the new facility for university students as well as her excitement to be able to shape its future from the early stages.
UC Davis Museum Design Announced
May 1, 2013: Florian Idenburg, design architect and partner for SO–IL, talks about how the winning design for the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis will embrace new ways of thinking about the art experience.