NEW AT SHIELDS LIBRARY

• 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. Spring and summer quarters, 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.

• 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. 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.

RECEPTION THIS WEEK

• Doors — Oil paintings on doors, not canvas, by Erin Jackson, ceramics instructor at the Craft Center. Through April 30, 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. Reception for the artist, 6-7 p.m. Friday, April 8. Earlier coverage.

OPENING NEXT WEEK

• Design by Design: Juried Student Design Competition — Described as "a lively survey of student talent and creativity that reflects the multidisciplinary breadth of the Design Program." April 11-22, Design Museum, 145 Walker Hall. Regular hours: noon- 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 2-4 p.m. Sunday. This annual exhibition coincides with Picnic Day, which is scheduled this year for Saturday, April 16 — and, yes, the museum will be open for visitors that day.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

• Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture — Photos by New Mexico’s Roberta Price, who left her home in the Northeast to pursue the hippie aesthetic in the late ’60s and became one of the founders of Colorado’s Libre commune, which still exists today. The exhibition’s title is the same as the title of Price’s new book, published last November by the University of New Mexico Press. Through May 22, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall (formerly the University Club). Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, and by appointment on Fridays. Earlier coverage.

• 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.

• Euclides da Cunha: A Life Between the Disciplines — This exhibition takes its name from a UC Davis symposium, held in November, about the Brazilian writer, poet and intellectual Euclides da Cunha, whose seminal work, Os sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), published in 1902, recounted the messianic religious uprising that led to the 1897 Canudos War. Da Cunha also worked as an engineer, cartographer and geographer, and he was an early environmental scientist. This exhibition is the work of Myra Appel, head of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services Department and bibliographer, Latin American Studies; and professors Leopoldo Bernucci and Robert Newcomb of the Department of Spanish and Classics, with assistance from Tim Silva (graphics) and Alison Lanius (display). 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.

• Least Favorite: Josh Greene — The San Francisco-based art humorist addresses the question: What do your parents really think of what you do? In a larger sense, he is exploring what the wider society thinks about contemporary art. He enlists his family in many of his art projects, and, for this work, he asked his parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, and others to name their least favorite of his art projects over the past decade, and to explain why. Least Favorite comprises the responses, along with portraits of the responders. Through May 22, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall (formerly the University Club). Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, and by appointment on Fridays. Earlier coverage.

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.

• Touching Base — Art professor Robin Hill curated this exhibition, comprising new works by 11 undergraduate art major alumni from the past decade and coinciding with Hill's 10th anniversary at UC Davis. The artists: Hilary Alder (drawing), Caetlynn Booth (painting), Colby Claycomb (sculpture), Ryan Gallant (sculpture), Daniel J. Glendenning (drawings-sculpture), Matthew Gottschalk (video-photo), Kyle Hittmeier (video-prints), Amy Lincoln (painting), Elizabeth Ottenheimer (sculpture), Allison Taylor (sculpture) and Jason Trinidad (sculpture). Through April 21, Pence Gallery, 212 D St., Davis. Hours: 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Earlier coverage.