Mondavi Center Receives Grant to Integrate the Arts
The University of California, Davis, has received $six hundred 000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to provide guides that merge arts, humanities, and science in undergraduate seminars co-taught using science, humanities, and art school, with the paintings of journeying performing artists included into the curriculum.
The software is known as SHAPE, named for Science, Humanities, and Arts: Process and Engagement. “SHAPE is meant to collectively address complementary sets of worries in today’s society — the marginalization of the performing arts and a lack of know-how of or even hostility in the direction of science,” stated Don Roth, government director of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis. “SHAPE will address those imbalances, thru an application to increas...