RECEPTION TODAY

Painting from Abroad — Students’ work from their Summer Abroad course, Painting in Rome and Umbria, led by Professor Gina Werfel. Opened last week and runs through Oct. 3, in the Education Abroad Center, Suite 120, 207 Third St. (near A Street), Davis. Reception, 4-6 p.m. Sept. 25.

ART WALK THIS WEEKEND

EC Garden Art Walk — Featured artists include Katy Jeanne Karns, Veronica Brookshaw, Rob Ireland, Maya McNeil, Sean McCaffrey and Catrina McCaffrey. Plus music. Free and open to the public. 1 p.m.-dusk Sept. 26, Experimental College’s Community Garden, adjacent to the Student Farm on Orchard Park Drive, south of the Domes and Orchard Park Apartments.

NEW THIS WEEK

How to Make a (Political) Play: Behind the Scenes with the San Francisco Mime Troupe — Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political theater group. The exhibition is drawn from script drafts, memos, correspondence, broadsides, graphics, photographs and even old checkbooks — among the troupe's archives that are housed in the UC Davis General Library's Special Collections. The artifacts "vividly illustrate an ex-trouper's account of what it takes to create and mount a performance, and to meet the constant challenge of keeping a company alive and afloat." This exhibit was created and prepared by Joan Holden, principal playwright for the mime troupe from 1970 to 2000, and Jenny Hodge, Liz Phillips and John Skarstad of Special Collections. Fall and winter quarters, lobby, Shields Library.

OPENING NEXT WEEK

Odocoileus hemionus — Woodworking by Catherine Yasuda, student manager of the Craft Center woodshop. The exhibition features an intarsia wall mural with a mule deer theme. In the mosaiclike work, different pieces of wood appear to be inlaid, but in fact the separate pieces fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Also, more than 150 species wood are showcased in hand-shaped mule deer hoof prints that surround the mural like the track of a real animal. Through Oct. 30, Craft Center Gallery.

RECEPTIONS NEXT WEEK

Nelson Gallery — For two new exhibitions, African American Quilts and Merch Art. The former comprises quilts made by former slaves, plus 21st-century creations informed by time-honored veins of African American quilting. From the collections of Avis C. Robinson of Washington, D.C., and Sandra McPherson of Davis. The latter, a UC Davis professor emeritus of English, writes poetry that is rooted in quilting traditions. Merch Art investigates art as commodity, as in merchandise art, from the collection of Lawrence Banka and Judith Gordon of San Francisco, and from the university’s Fine Arts Collection. African American Quilts and Merch Art opened last week and run through Dec. 13, Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Oct. 1.

C.N. Gorman Museum — For the new exhibition, Diversity in the C.N. Gorman Museum Collections, featuring recent donations: lithographs and sculpture by Salvador Dalí, and paintings and drawings by Florentino Laime Mantilla. Opens Oct. 2 and runs through Dec. 6. Opening reception, 4-6 p.m. Oct. 2.

Design Museum — For Typographic Exploration in Hangul: Work by Hyunju Lee and Phil Choo, designers whose typographic roots began in Hangul, the native script of Korea. Opens Oct. 4 and runs through Dec. 6. Opening reception and designers’ talk, 1 p.m. Oct. 4.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

One-Person Show: Mary Louise Delonge — The Davis artist’s drawings are being presented by the Nelson Gallery in recognition of National Disability Awareness Month (October). Through Dec. 6, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Reception, 4-5:30 p.m. Oct. 8.

University Library: Building a Foundation, 1908-2008 — Centennial exhibition. Lobby, Shields Library.