Posts Tagged: Gale Okumura
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: See 'Bird's Eye View' at the Raptor Center
Last year during the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, visitors to the California Raptor Center, 1340 Equine Lane, off Old Davis Road, marveled at all the hawks and owls held by the trainers. News flash: This year, at the 13th annual Biodiversity Museum Day, set Saturday,...
This is the newly installed mural, "Bird's Eye View," which visitors to the California Raptor Center, UC Davis campus, can see during the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 10. (Photo by Diane Ullman, UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology and artist)
The Magic of a Mural
The magic of a mural! It was quite a celebration during the unveiling of a UC Davis ceramic-mosaic mural, The Secret Life of Vineyards, took place at a Napa Valley organic vineyard. The 10 x 6-foot mural, which graces an outer wall of the Matthiasson Winery on Dry Creek Road, Napa, depicts...
Posing for a celebratory photo are five mural participants with Chancellor Gary May and UC Davis distinguished professor Diane Ullman. From left are Kerry Lin, Sierra Deaver, Alia Tu, Chancellor May, Zoe Meilandt, Lily Nugent and Professor Ullman. (Photo courtesy of Jael Mackendorf, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
A Mural Like No Other
“The Secret Life of Vineyards” depicts what you may never see: the life that inhabits a vineyard. A UC Davis team created the insect-themed ceramic-mosaic mural that was recently installed at the Matthiasson Winery, 3175 Dry Creek Road, Napa. Measuring 10 feet wide by six...
UC Davis distinguished professor Diane Ullman (right) and assistant professor and urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke taught the class.
UC Davis distinguished professor Diane Ullman (right) with UC Davis retired lecturer artist/retired lecturer in the Department of Design, an integral part of the mural project.
The large-scale mural is on the outer wall of the Matthiasson Winery Building and Tasting Area. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An Amazing UC Davis Mural: 'When Words Are Not Enough
How do you design a symbol that is meaningful to you and that addresses a problem in the world? UC Davis faculty members Diane Ullman and Gale Okumura challenged their students to do just that in their remote-instructed class “The Power of Visual Language through Symbolism and Expression in...
This is the mural newly installed in the hallway of the the UC Davis Environmental Horticulture Building. The tiles are the work of top (from left) Heewon Shin, Diane Ullman, and Mai Xiong; center (from left) Jason Hu, Emma Stone, and Analiese Ignacio, and bottom (from left) Anushka Vispute, Gale Okumura, and Leslie Briceno-Marquez.
Designer-lecturer Gale Okumura of the UC Davis Department of Design engaged in printing
UC Davis Design, Entomology Students to Showcase 'The World of Insects' at Art Exhibition June 6
Take the creative and collaborative minds of students studying design and entomology at the University of California, Davis. Add an innovative project involving insects. Add three talented instructors: Diane Ullman, professor of entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and...
Graphic design examples by UC Davis student Emily Liu comprise her business system revolving around crickets: "Chirpies."
Silkscreen work hanging on a wire. It will be displayed June 6 at an art exhibit from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Environmental Horticulture courtyard.
Demonstrating the silkscreen process are Gale Okumura (back) and Diane Ullman, partially seen.