The UC Davis Creative Writing Series for the spring will be part of an art installation at a performing arts center, include a celebration and discussion in Woodland of a new book by a Mexican poet, and feature a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner.

Arts and Words from Ashwini Bhat and Forrest Ganter

There is nothing better than having a long-planned project come together even better than originally envisioned! This is what the Mondavi Center staff that worked over several years to bring the SHAPE project to life experienced in November as the three performances connected with SHAPE courses were presented at the Mondavi Center....

Friends of Mondavi Center, Jan 2022 issue

A couple of years ago, Mondavi Center Executive Director Don Roth hatched an idea for an innovative program that would expand the horizons for students...

Friends of Mondavi Center article, July  2021 issue

Save the date for next Wednesday’s free concert at the Mondavi Center (virtually) featuring the Fry Street Quartet and Robert Davies....

https://www.ucdavis.edu/arts/blog/weekender-virtual-live-music-discussions

....the live performance of self-taught animator Jeremy Rourke with his piece 'The Exploded View From My Time Machine'. He will take the journey of an artist who has perhaps unintentionally been asking rather scientific questions for a while. Why does this lens flare look so beautiful? What f-stop will blur this old photograph just so? How many frames make up this walking cycle?  

....on December 5, 2020 at 7:30pm the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis will present a virtual showing of The Vortex, a work created by Donna Sternberg & Dancers in collaboration with visual artist Meredith Tromble and geobiologist Dawn Sumner.

... the performance of 'The Vortex' by Donna Sternberg & Dancers, as part of the Mondavi Center, First-Year Seminars, University Honors Program, and the UC Davis Humanities Center SHAPE (Science, Humanities and Arts: Process and Engagement) project funded by the Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation.

Several years ago, Professor Dawn Sumner in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences collaborated with a choreographer and a visual artist to create a dance, spoken word and video project based on stories of female, BIPOC or gender-fluid scientists.......