UC Merced Arts

12/05/2025

🏙️ There are only two weeks left to see 20 Years of UC Merced Art and Architecture before the exhibit closes on December 13th! Don’t miss your chance to explore the history and art that makes our campus unique—plan your visit today!

📍 Gallery Hours:
Thursday through Saturday
10:00am — 1:00pm and 2:00pm — 6pm

12/03/2025

🗺️ Join us for a brown-bag lunch talk at La Galería!

As part of our “20 Years of UC Merced Art & Architecture” exhibition, we’re diving into the vision behind UC Merced’s new Field Education Research Center (FERC) and its home within the Merced Vernal Pools & Grassland Reserve (MVPGR).
Hear directly from Emily Jones of WRNS Studio (the architects behind the project) and Joy Baccei, Director of the MVPGR, in a conversation moderated by Collin Lewis, Executive Director for the Arts.

📅 Tuesday, December 9
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 La Galería (El Portal 120), UC Merced
✨ Free and open to all — bring your lunch! Space is limited, please reserve your spot through the link in our bio.

12/02/2025

It’s Giving Tuesday! 💛 Today we’re celebrating a record-breaking year for the arts at UC Merced — thanks to supporters like you. Swipe to see some 2025 highlights ➡️

🎨 “Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology” at La Galería
🏛️ “20 Years of UC Merced Art & Architecture” at La Galería
💀🎶 Hasta La Muerte with at the
🎻 2nd Annual Side-by-Side Spectacular with at

Your gift today helps us create more exhibitions, performances, public art, and K–12 arts programs in 2026. All gifts of $25+ to UC Merced Arts include a Friends of UC Merced Arts membership. 💛
Make your Giving Tuesday gift today through the link in our bio!

11/20/2025

Need a break from the rain? ☔️ 20 Years of UC Merced Art and Architecture is open this week! 🏙️

We’re taking a short break for Thanksgiving next week, but we’ll be back December 4th through Dec 13th for the final days of the show. Plan your visit today!

Gallery hours:
Thursday — Saturday
10:00am — 1:00pm & 2:00pm — 6:00pm

11/17/2025

🎭 Audition Notice! Shakespeare in Yosemite is casting for our 2026 production of “Love’s Labor’s Lost” — a vibrant, time-jumping take set in both 1976 and 2026, featuring Shakespeare’s text alongside musical covers and original songs. Come on out and audition - no preparation required!

📅 Auditions
Saturday, December 13, 2025
1:00 PM
📍 UC Merced — SSM 116
No preparation needed! Scripts will be provided.
🎶 Optional: Bring 16–32 bars of a song to sing a ca****la.

✨ Performance Dates
April 23 at UC Merced
April 24–26 in Yosemite National Park

🗣 Auditions are open to all community members, with priority consideration given to UC Merced students when casting.

Questions or can’t make the audition?
Contact UC Merced Arts: [email protected]

Creative Team:
- Bethy Harmelin, Guest Director
- Tonatiuh Newbold, Music Director
- Katie Brokaw, Director Emeritus & Artistic Advisor

Produced by in partnership with

10/24/2025

La Galería had so much fun sharing the art of printmaking with Merced last weekend at & ‘s Bloom event! 🌼🧡

🎨Catch our live printmaking demos at our next tabling dates:

🔵 October 30th @ Pavillon Lawn, 12:30-2pm
🟡 November 5th @ Pavillon Lawn, 12pm-2pm
🟠 November 6th @ Mercado Night Market, 6-9pm

20 Years of UC Merced Art and Architecture is on view now at La Galería- Thursdays through Saturdays from 10am — 1pm & 2pm — 6pm 🌟

10/21/2025

🎶 The Merced Symphony returns to UC Merced next week!

Experience the 2nd Annual Side-by-Side Spectacular on Tuesday, October 29 at 6:00 PM at UC Merced’s Wallace-Dutra Amphitheatre.

This special concert unites professional musicians from the Merced Symphony with talented student performers from and , sharing the stage in a powerful evening of music and celebration.

🎟️ $15 - $45 General Admission | FREE for all college students (with ID) and children!
📍Wallace-Dutra Amphitheatre at UC Merced
🔗 Visit arts.ucmerced.edu/boxoffice for tickets (link in bio)

10/11/2025

Gracias Merced 🙌🏽 Couldn’t ask for a better way to start the tour 🫶🏽 You packed the house 🏠 you filled our hearts ❤️ We laughed 😂 we cried 😢 we remembered

Next stop, Los Angeles 💙 for our LA Premiere

10/11 Los Angeles, CA
10/14 San Diego, CA
10/17 Chandler, AZ
10/19 Albuquerque, NM
10/22 Oklahoma City, OK
10/24 Taos, NM
10/28 Santa Fe, NM
10/30 Rohnert Park, CA
10/31 San Francisco, CA
11/1 Davis, CA
11/2 Carmel, CA
11/4 Corvallis, OR
11/5 Seattle, WA @ The Moore
11/6 Port Angeles , WA
11/7 Mount Vernon, WA
11/9 Beaverton, OR

10/02/2025

⚡ One night only! bring their acclaimed production Hasta La Muerte to Merced. Don’t miss this electrifying Día de los Mu***os–inspired performance to celebrate the season.

📅 Wed, Oct. 8 at 7:30 PM | The Art Kamangar Center at The Merced Theatre
🎟️ Free for students & children (reservation required) | $15 General Admission

10/01/2025

09/24/2025

🌼 Día de los Mu***os is a time to honor, remember, and celebrate. Hasta La Muerte weaves music, dance, and story into an unforgettable evening with Las Cafeteras – just two weeks away!

📅 Oct. 8 at 7:30 PM | The Art Kamangar Center at the Merced Theatre
🎟️ Free for students & children (reservation required) | $15 General Admission | Tickets available at arts.ucmerced.edu/boxoffice (Link in Bio!)

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