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Crocker Art Museum
by Crocker Art Museum
The Crocker brings people together and connects them in unexpected ways with art, ideas, each other, and the world around them.
Episodes
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Art Stories: Narsiso Martinez
Students unpack how Martinez tackles the lack of recognition of the contribution of farmworkers in America through painting. For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s US and Caribbean Art: Race and Representation class worked in...
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Art Stories - Thomas Hill
Travel to the scene with students as they discuss the concept of representation, how Hill created the romanticized vista, and the influence of the Hudson River School in Hill’s paintings. For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s...
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Art Stories: Jamie Vasta
Students discuss Vasta’s characteristic use of glitter, how she creates paintings with glue, and the influence of Italian baroque painter Caravaggio on her practice. For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s US and Caribbean Art:...
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Art Stories: Judy Chicago
Follow along as students detail Chicago’s fierce approach to feminism and how this plate became a part of one of art history’s most famous artworks – the Dinner Party. For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s US and Caribbean…
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Art Stories: Hung Liu
In this guide, students discuss how photography, drips of paint and the Chinese Cultural Revolution are intertwined in Liu’s exploration of memory and the passages of history. For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s US and...
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Art Stories: Ruth Miller Kempster
In this guide, students discuss the way in which Kempster captures the impact of the Great Depression and how this work may be relevant to today’s current socio-economic context. For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s US and...
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Model as Muse Panel Discussion
The Crocker’s Adult Education Coordinator, Houghton Kinsman, sits down with Twinka Thiebaud and renowned photographers Judy Dater and Tami Bahat to explore the exhibition Twinka Thiebaud and the Art of the Pose and discuss how the model, actress, and occasional painter’s catalogue is epitomized…
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Art Stories: Kehinde Wiley
For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s US and Caribbean Art: Race and Representation class worked in teams to research and develop polyphonic audio guides about contemporary artworks by women, artists of color, and queer…
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Art Stories: Brian Tripp
For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s US and Caribbean Art: Race and Representation class worked in teams to research and develop polyphonic audio guides about contemporary artworks by women, artists of color, and queer…
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Art Stories: Akinsanya Kambon
For Art Stories: Student Voices on the Crocker Collection, forty students in Assistant Professor, Mya Dosch’s US and Caribbean Art: Race and Representation class worked in teams to research and develop polyphonic audio guides about contemporary artworks by women, artists of color, and queer…
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Artful Meditation
This guided meditation is meant to be experienced in a calm, comfortable, and quiet space without distractions. Find a comfortable posture, switch off your electronics, and then listen in or follow along through closed captions here.
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Kingsley Art Club Lecture: Scott Shields on Granville Redmond
American painter Granville Redmond (1871–1935) produced a body of work that captures California’s diverse topography, vegetation, and color. Representing both northern and southern parts of the state, his paintings range in style from contemplative, Tonalist works that evoke a quiet calm, to...
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Re-Framing Culture: Roundtable Q&A
Panelists from the Healing Through Art: Cultural Resiliency in Native American Artistic Practices discussion are joined onstage by the rest of the symposium’s presenters to discuss subjects surrounding the world of museums and Native American contemporary art practices.
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Artist Talk: Jamie Okuma
Winner of the Crocker’s John S. Knudsen Prize for emerging artists, Jamie Okuma delves deeper into her work, No Place Like Home “Holyulkum” (2018), and draws connections between her family’s history and her artistic practice.
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Re-Framing Culture: Joely Proudfit, PhD
Rounding out the panel discussion, Re-Framing Culture: Native American Art and Activism in the Museum, Joely Proudfit, PhD, details her role as director of the California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center and expresses her hopes for Native American cultural sovereignty moving forward.
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Re-framing Culture: Geri Montano
Following Barbara and Cavan Gonzalez, Geri Montano explores how her practice operates as a form of cultural activism, and discusses how she reframes her Native identity through works such as A Is For Apple; I Is NOT For Indian (2016).
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Re-Framing Culture: Barbara Gonzalez and Cavan Gonzalez
Opening the panel discussion, Re-Framing Culture: Native American Art and Activism in the Museum, Barbara and Cavan Gonzalez present on the development of San Illdefonso blackware pottery and its connection to their family, as well as how their practice keeps alive many of the traditions of the...
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Kingsley Art Club Lecture: Maren Conrad
Sacramento artist Maren Conrad discusses her work and life.
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Artist Talk: Richard Jackson
Sacramento-born artist Richard Jackson returns to the Crocker for his first local exhibition in more than 30 years, and speaks about his process, inspirations, and definition of art and art-making as “unusual behavior.”
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Kingsley Art Club Lecture: Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin
As an “observational realist” who has lived and worked exclusively in California, Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin presents an overview of paintings and drawings spanning four decades with a sprinkling of insight into her working process. Her work ranges from cityscapes to lanscapes, daylight to nocturnal...
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Kingsley Art Club Lecture: Lisa Reinertston
Lisa Reinertson shares the journey of her career in art, starting with her student days at UC Davis and the notorious TB-9 in the early 1980s, where she began exploring large-scale figurative ceramic sculptures with a focus on women and nature. Reinertson describes her work on large-scale bronze...
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Ian Koebner on Art Rx and the Analgesic Museum
Dr. Ian Koebner, assistant professor in the department of anesthesiology and pain medicine at UC Davis, explores the potential role of museums as partners in public health. Koebner speaks about his research on Art Rx, an innovative collaboration initiated in 2013 between the Crocker Art Museum…
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Kingsley Art Club Lecture: Buck Busfield
The B Street Theatre's producing artistic director, Buck Busfield, discusses the art of stage productions and the ways in which theater can and must adapt to the digital age.
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