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Picnic Day 2023 Arts Roundup: Fill Your Day with Arts, Music

Karen Michele Nikos — April 06, 2023 - 11:51am

Those attending the 2023 ��Ƶ Picnic Day festivities Saturday, April 15, will have no problem filling their day with an arts theme.

Weekender: Get Tickets for Concerts; Local Galleries Have Art

Karen Michele Nikos — January 05, 2023 - 10:39am

Get tickets to two concerts next weekend at Mondavi.

Mondavi Center, Other ��Ƶ Performances and Exhibitions Canceled, Postponed

Karen Michele Nikos — March 18, 2020 - 8:30pm

Starting today, March 18, most performing and visual arts events and exhibitions on the ��Ƶ campus are canceled through the academic year all the way until June. Ticket holders of paid events will be refunded in full.

Weekender: Catch Art Lecture; TANA’s ‘Guerrera’

Karen Michele Nikos — December 04, 2019 - 4:57pm

Art lecture, community chorus, TANA, other events highlight a weekend of activities.

THE DOWNLOAD: Understanding Clothing, Clothing the Needy

Cody Kitaura — November 19, 2019 - 12:40pm

When getting dressed in the morning, seams and patterns likely aren’t at the top of many people’s minds.

Adele Zhang, a lecturer in the Department of Design, hopes to change that with “Shape Up: Case Studies in Fashion Making.” The exhibition turns garments inside out to show their structure, and runs at the ��Ƶ Design Museum through Dec. 8.

Lunchable: View a World of Garments at the Design Museum

Karen Michele Nikos — November 14, 2019 - 1:56pm

Located in the cool, quiet and aesthetically pleasing ��Ƶ Design Museum in Cruess Hall, “Shape Up: Case Studies in Fashion Making,” is the current exhibition. It makes a great "lunchable" or something to view during a short lunch or break.

��Ƶ Design Museum Explores Garment Creation

Karen Michele Nikos — September 18, 2019 - 3:56pm

Exhibition on 'inside-out clothing' begins Sept. 23 and runs through Dec. 8

Contributed by Michael G. French, College of Letters and Science

An exhibition that turns garments inside out to show their structure, Shape Up: Case Studies in Fashion Making opens the ��Ƶ Design Museum’s 2019-2020 season on Sept. 23.

Lunchable: The Art of Japanese Textile Making Closes Dec. 9

Karen Michele Nikos — December 06, 2018 - 4:51pm

Lunchables are Arts Blog features about exhibitions that can be viewed during lunch or another short break of time in a day.

There are a few days left to see the beautiful Japanese textiles in Tekunikku: The Art of Japanese Textile Making at the ��Ƶ Design Museum. This exhibition offers an exploration of Japan’s iconic textile design methods featuring fabrics and garments from ��Ƶ alumna Catherine Cerny’s extensive collection. The exhibition opened the ��Ƶ Design Museum’s 2018-2019 season running through Dec. 9

EXHIBITIONS: Into Winter Quarter We Go

Dave Jones — December 12, 2016 - 12:42pm

The Jan Shrem and Manetti Shrem Museum of Art’s inaugural exhibitions are staying up into the new year, with varying closing dates, and the museum itself is the subject of the Design Museum’s winter quarter exhibition, opening Monday, Jan. 9. The C.N. Gorman Museum’s winter exhibition, Protest & Prayer, will open Tuesday, Jan. 10.

Manetti Shrem Museum

Besides its four ongoing exhibitions, ��Ƶ’ new museum closes out the year and moves into the new with these related programs: