Julia Koerner created the headpiece and shoulder mantle for the character Queen Ramonda (played by Angela Bassett) in “Black Panther.” (Marvel/Disney) |
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Visiting Designer Excels in Fashion, Sustainability, Movie Costumes and More |
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Julia Koerner – an acclaimed designer and member of the 2019 Academy Award-winning costume design team for Black Panther – is the speaker for the Alberini Family Speaker Series in Design. Koerner, whose creative endeavors include architecture, fashion, sculpture and product design, will give a presentation titled “Models & Models” on April 22 at 4 p.m. PDT.
Koerner’s online talk will focus on how architects and fashion designers are collaborating to create new looks and construction techniques with 3D printing, while also reducing shipping costs, waste and other environmental impacts. Her works have been exhibited at museums around the world.
The series, organized by the Department of Design, is supported through an endowment by the Carlos and Andrea Alberini Family Foundation.
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Student Fashion Hits Virtual Runway — April 15
The annual student fashion show, created by students in the Department of Design’s “Signature Collections” course, takes place on a virtual runway this year. Titled “Uncharted,” it will showcase collections created by 10 students working in isolation due to COVID-19.
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Hear Three Piano Masterworks – April 8
Derek Tam will perform three major piano pieces: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Robert Schumann’s Papillons op. 2, and Franz Schubert’s Klavierstücke No. 2 in E-Flat Major. Tam is a conductor and historical keyboardist, executive director of the San Francisco Early Music Society; artistic director of the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition; and president-elect of the board of Early Music America.
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Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Performs — April 15
Members of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble will perform a wide-ranging program of music by Zoltán Kodály, Nina Shekhar, Witold Lutosławksi, Gioacchino Rossini and others.
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Couple Sings Out — April 22
Director of UC Davis Choirs Caleb Lewis and his wife Tabitha Lewis will perform vocal works by J.S. Bach, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot and Gerald Finzi, accompanied by pianist and music faculty member I-Hui Chen.
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Telegraphing Music — April 29
The Telegraph Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, will perform the String Quartet No. 2 by Eleanor Alberga, a Jamaican-born composer who is a faculty member at Royal Academy of Music in London, and the String Quartet Nov. 2 in A Minor by Johannes Brahms.
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“Trust Women” by Andrea Bowers
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Making Art for Change – April 7
Andrea Bowers will speak about her drawings, videos and installations that deal with women's and workers’ rights, climate change and immigration. She has had solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Bronx Museum in New York.
Her art is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Her art can be seen in two exhibitions at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis when the museum is able to reopen.
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Art and Poetry as One – April 22
Arnold J. Kemp, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, brings together an unexpected mix of painting, poetry, sculpture and photography. For this online event, he will read his poetry then talk with Sampada Aranke, Manetti Shrem Museum scholar-in-residence and curator of the museum’s exhibit, “Arnold Joseph Kemp: I would survive. I could survive. I should survive.”
Kemp’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Telling Toy Stories — April 5-7
Joy, Unboxed, written by and starring graduate student Jennifer Grace, tells the story of an isolated woman who creates online videos for children. The play moves from comedy to tragedy and back again, incorporating videos, projections and live action.
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Projected image from OJOXOJO
New Play Gives Testimony – April 10-12
Graduate student Verónica Díaz-Muñiz’s play OJOXOJO examines state-sanctioned violence though the lens of Chile’s social upheavals of 2019 and recent protests over police killings in the U.S. The play uses soundscape, video and projection to evoke territories of protest and takes its audience on a journey that transcends borders.
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Danielle Levin
Created From the ‘Whole Cloth’ — April 15-17
Graduate student Danielle Levin’s Whole Cloth centers on a woman with no siblings, spouse or children, wrestling with questions of legacy and heritage. Stories are embroidered and woven, literally and figuratively, in imagined conversation with her seamstress great-grandmother and S. Ansky, a Jewish-Russian writer and ethnographer.
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Pictured from left: Jessica Laser, Margaret Ross and Noah Warren |
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Three Poets Talk and Read – April 8
Visiting poets Jessica Laser, Margaret Ross and Noah Warren, whose work makes equal use of music and story, will have an online conversation at 3 p.m. PDT with poet Katie Peterson, director of the Department of English’s Creative Writing Program, and a Q&A session with audience members. The discussion will be followed by a reading at 4:30 p.m. PDT.
Laser has written two books of poems, Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides and Planet Drill; Ross is the author of A Timeshare; and Warren’s books are The Complete Stories and The Destroyer in the Glass.
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