The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies will bring Sacramento-based fiber artist Josh Faught and Los Angeles-based curator Anne Ellegood to give free, public talks on campus at UC Davis in October.

Faught will speak on Oct. 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Main Theatre, Wright Hall at UC Davis. Doors open at 4 p.m. Ellegood will speak Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. in the large screening room in Cruess Hall.

Faught uses traditional textile techniques including loom-weaving, knitting, and crocheting to create sculptures that explore craft traditions, queer culture and personal history. In 2025, Faught received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Josh Faught, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2025) and Look Across the Water into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2022).

Ellegood has been the executive director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) since September 2019. She was senior curator at the Hammer Museum from 2009 to 2019, and has held curatorial posts at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She has organized numerous group exhibitions, including Made in L.A. 2018, Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology (2014), All of this and nothing (2011), and The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture (2006). 

The talks are organized by The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program.

The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies is an academic program in the Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis. Visiting artists engage with students at the undergraduate and graduate levels through seminars, critiques, and public lectures in residencies that are focused on teaching. Each academic year, the program supports two visiting professors in quarter-long residencies and three “spotlight” artists in weeklong residencies.