Seven Master of Fine Arts graduates explore art in the age of Facebook and Twitter, in an exhibition set to open next week. An opening reception for The House of Others is scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday (June 3) at the Nelson Gallery; the closing date is June 24.

“This small group of dedicated young artists offers a sneak peek at the concerns and investigations that will surface in contemporary art over the second and third decades of the 21st century,” said Renny Pritikin, director of the Nelson Gallery.

The exhibitors:

Painters

• Manuel Fernando Rios
  
• Matthew Taylor
  
• Mathew Zefeldt

Sculptors

• Lisa Rybovich Crallé
  
• Paul Taylor (also showing documentation of outdoor sculpture)

Video and media art

• Jen Cohen
  
• Benjamin Rosenthal

An accompanying catalog will include short essays by Pritikin on each of the artists, the Nelson Gallery announced.

The Nelson is in Nelson Hall (formerly the University Club). Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, and by appointment on Fridays.

Another MFA exhibition is already open:

Design Program MFA Graduate Exhibition — Through June 14, Design Museum, 145 Walker Hall. Regular hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday. The exhibitors:

• Elizabeth Kaino Hopper — Snap, Zip, Wrap: Fashion Design for Diverse Bodies.
• Rachel Smith — Produce: Packaging Design for a New Generation of Small Farms. 

Earlier coverage.

Art history grad student to give talk

An art history graduate student will give a talk centered around the mid-19th-century photograph Palazzo Ducale, Venice, from the university's Fine Arts Collection, the Nelson Gallery announced.

Kamal Zargar’s talk, “The Transformation and Preservation of the Republic of Venice by the Photographs of the Fratelli Alinari,” is scheduled to begin at noon Tuesday, May 31, at the gallery in Nelson Hall (formerly the University Club). Admission is free and open to the public.

“This project looks into how this photograph, taken by the prolific studio of the Fratelli Alinari in Florence, simultaneously helped transfer Venice into the modern period while preserving its republican glory as seen through the city’s art and architecture,” Zargar wrote for a flier announcing his talk.

This program marks the first time that the gallery has commissioned a talk by an art history graduate student, about a selection from the Fine Arts Collection. The commission came by way of the Nelson’s first Art History Fellowship, a $500 award given by the gallery with the help of the Nelson ARTfriends.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

• Conversations About Race — Built around this year's Campus Community Book Project: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum. The General Library Committee on Diversity prepared the exhibition. Through spring quarter, lobby, Shields Library. Regular hours: 7:30 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-midnight Sunday.

• Extended Voices: Prints from Crow’s Shadow Press — Crow’s Shadow Press is the publishing arm of the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton, Ore. With a primary focus on printmaking, the institute’s studio attracts established as well as emerging Native American artists. Extended Voices, presented in collaboration with Tamarind master printer Frank Janzen, reflects a range of printing techniques by such established artists as Rick Bartow, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Lavadour, Kay Walkingstick, Joe Feddersen, Marie Watt, Phillip John Charette, Gerald McMaster and Wendy Red Star. Through June 12, C.N. Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall. Regular hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Earlier coverage.

• More Than Just a Picture: A Garden of Graphics in Special Collections — University Archivist presents a selection of botanical engravings, line drawings and watercolors from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The early illustrations, made for growers and scientists, show plants in ways that would not be duplicated until the advent of color photography. Through spring quarter and summer, lobby, Shields Library. Regular hours: 7:30 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-midnight Sunday.

• Nuevo Latino Cuisine — Presenting the academic side of nuevo Latin or Pan-Latin cuisine, the exhibition draws on the University Library’s collections on native foods, agricultural sustainability, and the impact of historical events on the definitions of national cuisines and the cultural representation of these varied cuisines. The scholarship comes from several disciplines: history, agricultural economics, anthropology and the life sciences. Exhibition prepared by Myra Appel, head of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services Department, and bibliographer for Latin American Studies. Through spring quarter and summer, Shields Library. Regular hours: 7:30 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-midnight Sunday.

• Oil Paintings and Custom Jewelry — By Andrew Dorn, precious metalsmithing instructor at the Craft Center. Through June 3, Craft Center Gallery, South Silo. Regular hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekends.

• Rooted in Sovereignty: Still Here, Still Strong — In connection with Native American Culture Days. This exhibition presents a tiny sampling of the University Library's world-class Native American Studies collections. Adam Siegel, Native American Studies bibliographer, prepared the exhibition. Through spring quarter, lobby, Shields Library. Regular hours: 7:30 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-midnight Sunday.

OFF-CAMPUS

• TANA Student Art Exhibition — The first such exhibition ever at the UC Davis-affiliated TANA community art center, which opened in December 2009 at 1224 Lemen Ave., Woodland. The Department of Chicana/o Studies conceived of TANA and runs it; TANA stands for Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer, or Art Workshops of the New Dawn. The Student Art Exhibition is scheduled to run through May. Viewing hours: noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Workshops are in session 3-6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Earlier coverage, with images of some of the students' artwork.

• Wayne Thiebaud, professor emeritus of art — Five of his paintings are on display at the California Museum in Sacramento, in conjunction with his induction Dec. 14 into the California Hall of Fame. See separate stories on Thiebaud, "Painter, teacher, visionary" and his induction into the California Hall of Fame. The museum has gathered personal items from all of the 2010 inductees, for an exhibition that is scheduled to run through Oct. 31. Thiebaud's picks: Bikini Figure (1966), Waterland (1996), Two Tulip Sundaes (2009), and Intersection Building and Cliff Ridge (both from 2010), all oils, on canvas or wood. The museum is in the California State Archives building at 1020 O St., at the corner of 10th Street, one block south of Capitol Park. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. (No one admitted after 4:30 p.m.) Closed all major holidays and furlough Fridays.