Maria Sestito

2 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Maria Sestito |Laura Compton

Arts and humanities students at UC Davis engage with the world in new, thoughtful and imaginative ways. In the upcoming Arts & Humanities 2025 Graduate Exhibition, students from across the College of Letters and Science are creating public spaces for connection and storytelling, questioning long-held assumptions and histories, and using artistic expression and design to suggest new pathways to a more sustainable future.

2 weeks ago | ucdavis.edu | Maria Sestito |Laura Compton

Arts and humanities students at the University of California, Davis, engage with the world in new, thoughtful and imaginative ways. In the upcoming Arts & Humanities 2025 Graduate Exhibition, students from across the College of Letters and Science are creating public spaces for connection and storytelling, questioning long-held assumptions and histories, and using artistic expression and design to suggest new pathways to a more sustainable future.

2 months ago | ucdavis.edu | Maria Sestito

Non-linear time sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but what if we could rewrite our histories in ways that feel as if things don’t happen sequentially? Overlapping the concepts of time, memory and the body, Gracianne Kirsch uses many art modalities to explore their own many-sided self.

2 months ago | ucdavis.edu | Maria Sestito

Adele Zhang, senior continuing lecturer in the Department of Design at UC Davis, has been the Jo Ann C. Stabb Design Collection curator and manager since 2006. After spending the last year researching the collection's archive, Zhang spent the first few weeks of 2025 packing up and shipping 134 objects to London, where they will be on display at the Fashion and Textile Museum from March 28 through September 7.

2 months ago | lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu | Maria Sestito

Quick Summary Developed a course on antisemitism and Islamophobia It was still early days of the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza when, seeing strong emotions and division erupting on their campus, two scholars at UC Davis decided to come together and take action. To some, it may seem impossible to have a respectful public discourse on issues related to Israel and Palestine, but that is exactly what Associate Professors Sven-Erik Rose and Mairaj Syed set out to do.