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Photographers discuss work in Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture Thursday

Thursday, Jan. 15, 4:30 p.m. , Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art; free

In a conversation format, acclaimed photographers Teju Cole and John Gossage discuss their art during their appearance at the 2026 Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture at �鶹��ý. 

Cole is a novelist, essayist, and photographer. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019. He is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. His photography and writing have received numerous awards.

His most recent novel, Tremor (2023), was named a book of the year by Time, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, among others. It was shortlisted for the National Critics Circle Book Award and was awarded the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. In 2021, Cole published the photobook Golden Apple of the Sun and the essay collection Black Paper, which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and named a book of the year by the Paris Review and Artnet, among others.

Gossage is a photographer and bookmaker. Over the course of his nearly five-decade-long career, Gossage’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, and he has published over 30 books. In 2002, Gossage started his own publishing company, Loosestrife Editions. In 2021, he received the Guggenheim Fellowship.

The lecture is Thursday, Jan. 15 at 4:30 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Doors open at 4 p.m. Free and open to all.

The Thiebaud Endowed Lecture is organized by the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program and co-sponsored by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

The Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Lecture in the Theory, Practice and Criticism of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture celebrates the Thiebauds’ longtime commitment to educating the eye and hand, along with the mind. The annual lecture series presents practicing artists, along with critics, curators, writers, historians, and museum professionals. 

Michael G. French, College of Letters and Science

Concerts: Shinkoskey Noon Concert this week is Seraph Brass

Thursday, Jan. 15, 12:05–1 p.m., at the Pitzer Center, �鶹��ý

Seraph Brass, whose mission is to showcase the excellence of women brass players and highlight musicians from marginalized groups, both in personnel and in programming, performs. View a .

Artists in Residence

Mary Elizabeth Bowden and Raquel Samayoa, trumpets

Layan Atieh, horn • Lauren Casey-Clyde, trombone

Robyn Black, tuba

Program

Edvard Grieg: Prelude from Holberg Suite, arr. Jeff Luke

Kevin Day: “Lunaire” from Fantasia III

Gala Flagello: Monochrome Metronome

Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, arr. Jeff Luke

Teresa Carreño: Un bal en rêve, arr. Tom Holtz

Jeff Scott: Showcase

Catherine McMichael: “Virgo, the Lover of Justice” from Asteria

Reena Esmail: Tuttarana

Friday concert: Artists-in-Residence

Friday, Jan.16, 5–6 p.m., at the Pitzer Center

Program

All new works by �鶹��ý graduate student composers:

Patricia Bartow: Platform Sirens

Colin Minigan: Hermit Cave

Samane Paya: Unheard

Joseph Donald Peterson: waiting for the world to end

Evan Wright: Without a Blueprint

Guang Yang: Landscape I

Coming up next week

Design museum opens exhibition on Village Homes 

Jan. 20 through April 26, Design Museum, Cruess Hall. Free.

In 1975, ground broke on a radical design experiment in community living in Davis, California. The Village Homes neighborhood took root in a town shaped by the influence of the University of California, Davis, progressive local government, and a culture open to forward thinking.  A bit of luck — and a lot of vision — helped turn that moment into a model for sustainability still studied, and lived in, today.

The exhibition on that concept, Village Homes: A Radical Plan, celebrates the 50th anniversary of an innovative west Davis neighborhood community. Curated by �鶹��ý Professor of Design and guest curator Adrienne McGraw, the installation showcases the vision, concepts and development behind the project and its goals. The exhibition runs Jan. 20 through April 26 in the �鶹��ý Design Museum.

McNeil said that the design of the Village Homes neighborhood shares features with other intentional sustainable communities. Distinctive features include the community growing its food, using passive solar architecture, managing rainwater through an urban watershed, promoting walkability and bike access, and encouraging strong neighborly collaboration.  

See the full news story here.  

BEWELL deal for employees, retirees: Bladerunner at Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Jan. 23

If you are on the �鶹��ý staff or a retiree you can get discount tickets to “Blade Runner” (2007 final cut) at Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, �鶹��ý. The screening and performance is Friday, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m. For those who are not staff or retirees, tickets may be  

Watch Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (2007 Final Cut) on a large HD screen as Vangelis’ score is performed live in sync by The Avex Ensemble. The film follows detective Rick Deckard as he hunts escaped Replicants while developing feelings for Rachel, a Replicant at the Tyrell Corporation. 

Promo Code: BEWELL. Available through Jan. 22 at 11:59 p.m. for �鶹��ý employees and retirees; limit of two tickets per promo code.

For those who are not staff or retirees, tickets may be