UC Davis Art Studio MFA and BA Programs

NEW 🗓️ DATE:

Save the date for the winter quarter Open Studios! On Thursday, Mar. 12, from 4:30–6:30 p.m., our graduate students will open their studios to the public.
Featured students include Nick Block, Tara Daly, Levi Keatts, Davion Macks, Sean Olmstead, Marjorie Williams, Sierra Faust, Gemma Pasilla, Erica Rawson, Julio Rodriguez and Lulu Smith.

Studios are located in TB9 and the Grad Art Building.

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Robin Hill, Professor of Art in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program, makes work that focuses on the intersection between drawing, photography, and sculpture. Her recent work takes on a collaborative
sensibility, where objects and materials which have been rejected by others have served as starting points for acts of transformation. Robin strives to give shape to nuance and to relocate familiar things in an unfamiliar order. While handmade might best describe her early
work, hand-altered is a more apt description for the work she is doing today.

For Robin, a good studio day looks like this: “Turn the radio on. Drink coffee. Walk the dog. While swimming laps I conjur solutions to problems and set goals for the day. Drive to studio. Dive into one or more projects that are underway. Lose track of time. Succeed in being
only partial sidelined by janitorial, archivist, educator,
administrator, public relations tasks. Go home.”

The best advice she has ever received and one she shares with her MFA students now? “Keep going. Make the work you want to see.”

Photos courtesy of Marjorie Williams .loop