RECEPTIONS AND OPENINGS

• Sticks and Bones is now showing at the Craft Center Gallery, where a reception for the artists is scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday (May 18).

According to a news release, "Sentient sticks, stork women and a collection of other beings emerge from the inner worlds of artists Dede deGraffenried and Liz Webb for their story telling in this mixed-media exhibition.

The exhibition is scheduled to run through June 7. The Craft Center Gallery is in the South Silo. Regular hours: 12:30-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 12:30-7 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

• Design M.F.A. Graduation Exhibition — Master of Fine Arts candidates Charlotte Semmes and Christine Tao present their final research and creative projects, documenting the theoretical framework and methodology that went into them. May 20-June 6, Design Museum, 124 Cruess Hall. Opening reception and M.F.A. presentations, 6-8 p.m. May 23. Regular hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

• Between Time and Beyond Words: Patterns of Consciousness — Semmes demonstrates through creative explorations in pattern how mindfulness and ritual can enhance the design process. The intuitive play of line, color and shape in each pattern is a sensory and emotive response to a moment in time. The body of work includes hand-painted mandalas on silk, a unique collaborative community quilt project and digitally printed textiles encompassing 100 days of spontaneous hand-drawn patterns.
• Visual Research Archives: Rethinking and Redesigning the Management of Research Materials — Tao identifies design strategies to increase the organization, dimensionality, clarity and accessibility of information stored in digital reference management applications. Her work demonstrates how visual and spatial attributes improve recognition, memory and recall to more effectively manage and make sense of the vast and invaluable resources collected by researchers. This exhibition highlights Tao’s user-centered and collaborative interdisciplinary research and design process, from initial inspirations to concept and design development.

• M.F.A. Dramatic Art Design Showcase — In which scenic designer Travis Kerr and costume designer Loree Sweger will discuss their work for stage and screen. 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, Main Theatre (Wright Hall).

• Past Year Reservations — Works by first-year Master of Fine Arts students in studio art: Brett Davis, Jamie Dunn, Rachel Gelenius, Jacob Greenlund, Daniel Harano, Jeffrey King, Alyssa Lempesis and Joyce Nojima. May 23-June 4, in the old Nelson Gallery offices on the first floor of the Art Building. Opening reception, 5-8 p.m. May 23.

• 2013 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition — Works by Andrew Armas, Jason Engelund, Evan Jose, Sarah Julig, Andrea Muñoz Martinez, John Tronsor and May Wilson. June 1-22, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall. Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m. June 7. Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday, and by appointment on Fridays.

MORE ON CAMPUS

• Design Deliberation: An Exhibition of Three Competing Museum Designs — Detailed drawings and architectural models from the three architect-contractor teams vying to design and build the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Through May 19, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall. Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday, and by appointment on Fridays.

• Together Again: Lillian Pitt, Gail Tremblay, Joe Feddersen and Rick Bartow — Pitt (Warm Springs, Wasco and Yakama), Tremblay (Mi'kmaq and Onondaga), Feddersen (Colville) and Bartow (Wiyot and Yurok) have participated in previous exhibitions at the Gorman, contributing to the museum’s rich history — and now they are back to help celebrate the museum’s 40th anniversary year. They are presenting recent works in a variety of media. Through June 6, C.N. Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall. Regular hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

• Views on Migration: Jacob Lawrence and Elizabeth Catlett — A continuation of the 2012-13 Campus Community Book Project, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Greatest Migration. The exhibition features works by the late African American artists Jacob Lawrence and Elizabeth Catlett, who complemented each other in their depictions of the black experience. Catlett was known for her intergenerational portraits, specifically images of mother and child, making personal both the vitality and struggle that Lawrence depicted in his images of community, in series such as Toussaint L’Ouverture and Migration. Through May 19, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall. Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday, and by appointment on Fridays. Read more.

OFF CAMPUS

• Dignidad Rebelde: Prints for the People — By Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza, Oakland-based artists-activists of the graphic arts collaborative Dignidad Rebelde. Through June, Taller Arte del Amanacer, or Art Workshop of the New Dawn, run by the Department of Chicana/o Studies. TANA is at 1224 Lemen Ave., Woodland. Call for exhibition hours: (530) 402-1065.

• Mexico Mágico: People, Traditions and Color — Professor Marc Schenker presents a collection of photos from the last 20 years or so, taken during his work missions and other trips. As a physican and professor (Department of Public Health Sciences), he focuses on migration and health, occupational and environmental health, pulmonary disease, and global health research and teaching. As a hobbyist photographer, he is particularly interested in cultures, climate and geography around the world. His work encompasses universal themes such as family, work, humor, leisure and personal relationships. He said his photographs on work are a direct outgrowth of his research on occupational health hazards — for example, in agriculture, an area in which he has published numerous scientific papers. Through July 14, Mexican Consulate, 2093 Arena Blvd., Sacramento. Regular hours: 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Schenker's photography website.

AT SHIELDS LIBRARY

Amerine

• Maynard Amerine: In His Own Words — Professor Amerine (1911-98) joined the UC Davis Division of Viticulture in 1935 and retired in 1974. As a junior enologist, he was hired to work with Professor A.J. Winkler to improve the quality of grape varieties grown in California. From this modest beginning, Amerine became known throughout the world as a foremost wine expert. For this exhibition, Patsy Inouye, photograph curator in Special Collections, drew on the library’s Maynard A. Amerine Papers, including travel diaries, photographs, a map of his travels and selections of his writings. The exhibition also includes a computer station where visitors can watch Amerine's lectures from VEN 125, "Sensory Analysis of Wine" (the library recently converted the videotaped lectures to digital files).

• Distinguished Speakers Series: Ira Glass — He is the creator, producer and host of This American Life, which premiered on Chicago's WBEZ public radio station in 1995 and is now presented weekly on more than 500 stations with an audience of more than 1.7 million. He is an author and editor, too. The Shields Library collection includes Juvenile in Justice, co-author, 2012; The New Kings of Nonfiction, editor, 2007; and The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens, co-author, 2001.

Under his editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including several Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards. A television adaptation ran on the Showtime network for two seasons, 2007 and 2008, winning three Emmy awards, including outstanding nonfiction series.

The show has put out its own comic book, three greatest hits compilations, DVDs of live shows and other events, a "radio decoder" toy, temporary tattoos and a paint-by-numbers set. Half-a-dozen stories are in development to become feature films. In 2012, he produced and co-wrote, with Mike Birbiglia, a movie called Sleepwalk with Me.

Glass first gave a talk at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in 2010, selling out Jackson Hall. He returns for a program at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18. This event is billed as In Conversation with Ira Glass, with Daniel Handler (a.k.a. the children's book author Lemony Snicket) as the moderator. More information.

• Following the Great Migration: Researching the 2012 Campus Community Book Project Book — Library resources that complement the 2012 section, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson's award-winning study of the Great Migration, the movement of almost 6 million African-Americans from the South from 1915 to 1970. Display assembled by David Michalski, social and cultural studies librarian, who also has compiled an online resource guide, including parallel texts for examining and interpreting the Great Migration's profound influence on American society and culture. The online guide also includes interviews with Wilkerson, a list of influential books on the Great Migration, and links to archival sources and other research tools that can help animate the discussion of this year's book. For more information about the exhibition and-or the online research guide, send an email to the Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Services Department, hssref@lib.ucdavis.edu.

• On Work: Changing Relations of Value and Labor — This exhibition is taken from a bibliography prepared by David Michalski and Michael Winter, humanities and social sciences librarians, in conjunction with a library symposium (held April 19). More information.

The Shields Library exhibitions are in the lobby. 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. Holidays and other exceptions.

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