Art and Film

Explore how artists, filmmakers, and curators use moving images and film in their work. Each program includes a screening of a short film, video artwork, or digital media production, as well as a presentation that spotlights how this medium fits within or inspires each speaker’s artistic and/or curatorial practice.

Jan 18 Jessica Wimbley
Jessica Wimbley is an African American womanist artist making mixed and multi-media art focusing on intersectional identity, history, myth, and futurity.

Feb 15 Faith J. McKinnie
Faith J. McKinnie is a curator whose practice interrogates visual culture and its relationship to post-colonialism, feminist and race theories, migration, land degradation, and the historicity of the personal narrative.

Mar 21 Tavarus Blackmon
Tavarus Blackmon is a Sacramento native and recent graduate of the MFA program and Provost Fellow at The University of California, Davis. He has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally.