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Enjoy some air conditioning and view art on campus. And don't forget, you can buy tickets to the (which starts in October). Read on. This blog was updated in August to reflect new works on view. 

New Exhibitions Open Aug. 7 at Manetti Shrem Museum

‘OJO’ and ‘Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice. Both exhibitions are on view Aug. 7–Dec. 1, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, �����о���

Experience two powerful exhibitions that consider our shared future — a view from the borderlands by Julio César Morales, and a group exhibition connecting social and environmental injustice from the Hammer Museum at UCLA.

Morales — artist, curator and a former museum director — grew up along the U.S.–Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana. After nearly a decade in Arizona creating work about the border, “������” marks his California homecoming and return to full-time studio practice through a mid-career survey bridging past and future to reflect on the present. This theme of history and what lies ahead is central to both the exhibition and Morales’ neon sign welcoming visitors to the Manetti Shrem Museum.

Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice

Yoshitomo Nara, School Strike for Climate, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 47 1/4 × 43 5/16 in. (120 × 110 cm). (Keizo Kioku; image courtesy of the artist, Yoshitomo Nara Foundation.)

The lungs of our planet — oceans, forests and the atmosphere — are under threat, invaded by carbon emissions, plastics and man-made pollutants. The act of breathing was rendered even more perilous by the COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality. Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice considers the connections between social and environmental injustice through the lens of contemporary art. This groundbreaking exhibition brings together works focused on climate change by artists, scientists and activists whose practices encompass photography, multimedia, large-scale sculptures, painting and more.

Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice is organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and guest curated by Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake with Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow, Pacific Standard Time Fellow.

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The Gorman Museum of Native American Art showcases art from Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians

On display until Aug. 31 at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art

Above art, Coyote dancer with flute #III, 1983, Acrylic wash/paper. (Courtesy/Gorman Museum of Native American Art).

The solo-exhibition Olé Ham Nees: We Call Him Coyote features the artwork of Harry Fonseca drawn from the Shingle Springs Band Collection. Harry (1946-2006) was born in Sacramento of Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, and Portuguese heritage, and was an enrolled citizen of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

The exhibition, running from Feb. 12 through Aug. 31, considers multiple series and stylistic shifts from Fonseca’s earliest pieces reflecting his Nisenan Maidu heritage, the Coyote series for which he is most recognized, the influences of rock art in Stone Poems, the political views of Discovery of Gold and Souls in California, to the abstraction and examination of painting in the Stripes and Seasons series.

The  is located at , on the �����о��� campus. This exhibition is sponsored by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Futures Fund and the �����о��� College of Letters and Science.

Read more about the exhibit and artist in this article: Gorman Museum Features 'Olé Ham Nees: We Call Him Coyote' | �����о���

The Gorman Collections Gallery

On view until Sept. 1 at The Gorman Museum of Native American Art

D.Y. Begay, Arapaho Style, 2014. Gift of Patrick V. and Mary Beth Musick. (Courtesy/ The Gorman Museum of Native American Art)

The Collections Gallery features a selection of artworks from the Gorman Museum Collections on a rotational basis. The current exhibition is a survey spanning across the collection.

Display cases in the Collections Gallery serve as visible storage, housing much of the museum's ceramic and basketry collection.  By moving museum collections from storage into prominent long-term exhibits in the main public galleries, the Collections Gallery provides enhanced visibility, access, and engagement to collections for visitors while also furthering university teaching and research.

Read about the exhibit here:

Shields Library presents 'Queer Visual' Art and Arboretum history

Gender Passport, by Kitty Koppelman, 2024, Fine Press and Book Arts Collection, FPBAC 93:6. (Courtesy/ Shields Library)

[NOTE: THIS EXHIBITION IS NO LONGER ON VIEW AS OF AUG. 20]

With candor and veracity, the Making Our Mark: Queer Visual Art and Culture in the Modern Era displays how queer communities across the United States are using visual art and poetry to render themselves larger than life, resist erasure, and make their indelible mark on history. The exhibit also features over two dozen queer works and draws primarily from Archives and Special Collections’ , and . One piece is from our

Making Our Mark is located in the main lobby to the left of the grand staircase, and is running until Aug. 1.

The ������� Arboretum serves as an outdoor museum and living laboratory for the university, a public resource for sustainable landscape practices and a treasured, contemplative space for all who visit. It occupies 100 acres along the banks of the north channel of Putah Creek and features demonstration gardens and a collection of 22,000 trees and plants. Education and outreach programs offer guided tours, classes, workshops, family nature programs, and talks by artists, scholars, and scientists. The exhibit Community in Bloom: A history of the ������� Arboretum includes more than a dozen photos and documents from the University Archives Photographs Collection, Stumpf (Paul K.) Slides of the ������� and Davis, California, The California Aggie, and the ������� Arboretum Records.

Community in Bloom is running until Aug. 29, and is located in the main lobby to the left of the grand staircase.

Students in the Arboretum, circa 1970-1979. (Courtesy/ Shields Library)