Since the early 2000s, the Visiting Artist Lecture Series has
invited nationally recognized artists, critics, and curators
to campus for public lectures and interactions with students
pursuing the M.F.A. degree in studio art. This series is housed
in the College of Letters and Science and organized by faculty in
the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program and M.F.A. studio
art candidates.
Fernando Palma Rodríguez combines his training
as an artist and mechanical engineer to create robotic sculptures
that utilize custom software to perform narrative choreographies.
Central to Palma Rodríguez’s practice is an emphasis on
indigenous ancestral knowledge, both as an integral part of
contemporary life and a way of shaping the future.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California