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Calendar courtesy of The Dirt.
There are several other great resources for finding arts and culture events, exhibits, performances, and other creative activities in the Davis area:
Davis Enterprise | UC Davis Arts & Entertainment | YoloArts | Visit Yolo
GALLERY 1855. Karen Fess-Uecker’s abilities developed not through formal schooling, but through studying other artist’s work either from books or participating in workshops and classes offered by artists she admired. Painting in watercolor, she learned to develop her color and continues to study color today with oil painter and colorist Elio Camacho.
PENCE GALLERY. Jordan Hayes is a figurative painter whose recent work centers on portraying objects with underlying stories and deeper meanings. Her figures engage with these items in quiet scenes, featuring dramatic lighting, eye-catching hues, and attention to detail, to provoke a greater appreciation for life’s subtleties. Free
GORMAN MUSEUM. Solo exhibition, Brenda Mallory includes prints, multi-media and installation artworks to consider the complex relationships and structures of power & identity. 11a-5p. Free
PENCE GALLERY. Stephen Giannetti has explored the grid and the circle in various media over his 30-year career. Early in his career, he pioneered a new mode of approaching the modernist grid. For the past 15 years, Giannetti has adapted his method of hand-painting with traditional oil paint to the more contemporary application of acrylic spray paint. 11:30a—5p. Free
DAVIS ART CENTER. Experiment with an array of different art materials, such as paint, oil pastels, and recycled materials. (An adult must attend with at least one child, and children must attend with an adult.) Supplies will be available to let your creative imagination run wild! 3p—4:30p. $10/person
DAVIS ART CENTER. Experiment with an array of different art materials, such as paint, oil pastels, and recycled materials. (An adult must attend with at least one child, and children must attend with an adult.) Supplies will be available to let your creative imagination run wild! 5p—6:30p. $10/person
LOGOS BOOKS. Sue Peri became interested in photography as a teenager. She and her brother Paul created a darkroom in their family’s garage and spent countless hours developing images. Peri graduated UC Davis in 1979. She worked for The Daily Democrat, and then the Davis Enterprise until 2017. 6p—9p.
PENCE GALLERY. Shop in our Holiday Market, browse all of our new exhibits, and enjoy wine from Terra Sávia Winery & Ettore Winery. Featuring: Stephen Giannetti: All In, Jordan Hayes: The Little Things, and The Stories & Traditions that Shape Us: Work by Filipino Artists. 6p—9p. Free
NATSOULAS GALLERY. Playing selections from Chopin’s prelude op. 28, Chopin’s nocturne op. 48 no. 1, selections from Debussy’s Images, selections from Rachmaninoff’s prelude op. 23, and Brahm’s intermezzo, op. 118 no 2. 6:30p—7:30p. Free