Manetti Shrem Museum of Art Grand Opening

November 13, 2016

Noon

Verge is pleased to announce its partnership with the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Museum at UC Davis.

The Manetti Shrem Museum opens to the public on Sunday, November 13th, 2016, and will host a celebration with activities, programming, and a special ribbon cutting ceremony created by UC Davis alumna, Lisa Rybovich Crallé.

The grand opening weekend’s festivities will be curated by Verge in collaboration with Crallé including a series of hands on art making experiences and activities including: a screenprinting workshop in the museum’s wet studio present by Interval Press, Pink Pix a Pink Week inspired photobooth complete with pink props created by Gioia Fonda, and Pedal Theory an interactive bike sculpture. Leading up to the ribbon cutting we’ll have a party hat station in the opening day street fair where you can make a Wayne Thiebaud or Roland Peterson inspired hat to sport during the ribbon cutting ceremony.

About the Artist

Lisa Rybovich Crallé is an interdisciplinary artist based in the SF Bay Area. Her installations and collaborative performance projects incorporate elements of drawing, painting, and sculpture to address the possibilities of spectatorship, participation, and embodiment. Lisa is the recipient of the 2011 Robert Arneson Award and the 2015 Alternative Exposure Award.Her work has been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), the Berkeley Art Museum,di Rosa (Napa), Field Projects (NYC), Weekend (LA), The Dublin City Gallery (Ireland) and other venues. Lisa has been an artist in residence at Arteles Center for Creative Art, (Finland),Bubec Sculpture Studio (Prague), Ox-Bow (MI), Art342 (CO), and The Studios of Key West (FL). In addition to her studio practice, Lisa teaches Sculpture at California College of the Arts. For more info: www.lisaRcralle.com