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Carson concedes District 1 race to Vaitla
Converted from the old UC Davis Faculty Club, the new C.N. Gorman Museum will be able to hold 2,500 pieces of contemporary art by Native American and Indigenous artists.
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
According to Jack Forbes, acclaimed author, activist and professor emeritus of Native American studies , the museum's earliest days were born in the Tecumseh Center, a small house in downtown Davis. Shortly after the burgeoning collections, art studio and museum were located in the temporary buildings next to Walker Hall. It was in 1992 that the museum moved to a current location in Hart Hall for nearly 30 years.
Davis City Councilman Dan Carson said Tuesday he had spoken with challenger Bapu Vaitla, congratulating him on his victory in the District 1 council race and also wishing him well in his upcoming term. Carson was first elected to the council in 2018 in the city’s final atlarge council race and, following the move to district-based elections, was seeking to represent West Davis on the council for another four years. But his decision in the spring to sue opponents of Measure H (the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus) over what he called false and misleading ballot arguments, as well as a subsequent decision to seek attorneys fees from those individuals, may have cost Carson re-election. While a judge did order two small changes to the ballot argument that Carson sought, he left the bulk of the argument intact and ordered Carson to pay more than $42,000 in attorneys fees. Measure H ultimately went down to defeat. Carson has since said the lawsuit was a mistake and should never have been filed, but the damage was likely done.
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Museum to reopen for 50th anniversary By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer The C.N. Gorman Museum of Native American Art will have a new, much larger home on the UC Davis campus sometime next year, coinciding with the museum’s 50th anniversary. Converted from the old UC Davis Faculty Club, the new museum will be able to hold 2,500 pieces of contemporary art by Native American and Indigenous artists, have administration space for staff and student employees, state of the
art lighting for the art collection, small gift shop, a conference room that will serve as a Special Collections Library, public visibility into collection preservationists working and outdoor event areas that will encase the building and cascade down into the arboretum. “It is necessary, and it's relevant, and it's critical because we've had these really terrific collections, and we want to make them accessible to our visitors,” Veronica Passalacqua, the museum’s curator, said. The building will operate at
higher, museum standards of humidity and temperature controls, security, and all LED lighting. “So we're just meeting a better standard of exhibition quality that frankly, Native American work deserves,” Passalacqua said. The C.N. Gorman Museum was formally established in 1973 and named in honor of Navajo artist, Carl Nelson Gorman (1907-1998), who as one of the founders of the UC Davis Native American Studies Department, taught art history and art studio beginning in 1969.
Moon rises as School Board trustee By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer The Davis School Board election race is over and winning the position of Area 4 Trustee is none other than Elizabeth Moon. Although new to the position, Moon’s experience in equity and education serves to eclipse any misgivings of this novice trustee’s capabilities. Originally from New Jersey, Moon went to college in Washington, D.C., where she majored in anthropology and minored in Chinese language and literature. From there, Moon joined the ranks of the nonprofit Teach For America and went to Houston to teach English as a
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second language. All the while, Moon yearned to live abroad and fate would facilitate with an opportunity to teach English in South Korea. Moon seized the opportunity, met her husband and then moved back to Houston where fate would have another surprise in store. “My husband was given an opportunity to work with Caltrans, and I happened to be teaching with someone that year who had just moved from Davis to Houston to be near her grandkids. She was like, ‘oh my gosh, if you’re moving to the Sacramento area, you have to live in Davis. It’s the best community for children,’ ” Moon explained.
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“So, we moved to Davis in 2,000. My children were born here, they went to MOON Montgomery, Pio- New trustee in Area 4 neer, Holmes and then graduated from Davis High School.” Moon’s inspiration to enter the educational field was to simply make a difference and support others in wrangling their dreams. To her, teaching is an art form that requires a lot of care, time, commitment
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Former Davis woman conquers addiction issues By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Barbara’s plunge into drug and alcohol addiction began with highschool experimentation. Like her friends at Davis High School, she began using booze and pills — including opiates and antidepressants — on weekends during her sophomore year. “It seemed like a good idea — it looked fun,” said Barbara (not her real name). Before long, however, weekend use crept into the weekdays, too. “I was constantly doing something,” Barbara said.
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Eventually, at the start of her senior year, “I just stopped going to school.”
Her old friends gave way to new ones who introduced Barbara to heroin. A boyfriend preferred using methamphetamine, “so I started doing that, too,” she said. “Everything I did was about finding drugs, or finding a way to buy drugs.”
That led to trouble with the law — misdemeanor drug-possession crimes at first, then felonies, like the conspiracy charge when she and others
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