After retiring in 2012 from UC Davis, where he was an art professor for 43 years—and on the eve of a solo show at the Manetti Shrem Museum—Mike Henderson reflects on shining shoes as a young man in Missouri, seeing his soul in Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters," believing he had lost decades' worth of paintings in a fire, and securing his place in one of the greatest university art departments ever assembled.| Sactown Magazine
Last year, Sacramento lost Wayne Thiebaud. We should remember our greatest hometown artist with a museum befitting his global stature.| Sactown Magazine
