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Richard L. Nelson was the founder of the art department at UC Davis, [3] and he recruited a faculty in the early 1960s that included highly successful artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Roland Petersen and William T. Wiley. Several were associated with the Funk art genre. [4]
Robert Arneson, professor emeritus of art, known for ceramics, artist of the Eggheads sculptures scattered through the UC Davis campus [1]; Larry Austin, professor of music, composer, and later taught at University of South Florida and University of North Texas [2]
Robert Carston Arneson (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades. [ 2 ]
The Gorman Museum of Native American Art was founded in 1973 by the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis. The name of the museum is in honor of Carl Nelson Gorman, the Navajo code talker, artist, and a former faculty member at UC Davis. [1] [2]
Simon Sadler (b. 1968, UK) is a professor in the Department of Design and in the Art History Program at the University of California, Davis.His publications focus on histories, theories and ideologies of architecture, design and urbanism since the mid-twentieth century, and include studies of the Archigram group, the Situationists, and counterculture.
Nationality: American: Education: Kansas City Art Institute: Known for: Sculpture, Drawing, cyanotypes: Awards: University of California, Davis New Initiative/Collaborative Research Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grant, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
The arts are also studied extensively on campus with subjects such as studio art, design, music, theater and dance. The Design Department at UC Davis is the only comprehensive academic design unit of the University of California system. [101] There is also the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts which features artists from all over the globe.
Christina Grace Cogdell (born 1969 in Austin) is an American art historian and educator. Cogdell is currently Professor of Design and Chair of the Department of Design at the University of California, Davis. [1] Her research focuses on the intersection between architecture and biology, as well as eugenics.