Summer exhibitions are under way at the C.N. Gorman Museum, the Nelson Gallery and the Craft Center Gallery.

An exhibition titled 35 Years at the C.N. Gorman Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collections is a celebration of the museum's 35-year history as a showplace for the works of contemporary Native American and other indigenous artists.

The Gorman's permanent collections, dating back to the museum's opening in 1973, mostly comprise donations from artists, collectors and Davis community members.

The summer exhibition includes works by the museum's namesake, Carl Nelson Gorman, plus Frank Day, Pablita Velarde, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, George Longfish, Brian Tripp, Melanie Yazzie, Edgar Heap of Birds, George Morrison and Doug Hyde. The exhibition is scheduled to run through Sept. 5.

Following the success of Flatlanders in 2006, the Nelson Gallery has assembled Flatlanders 2: A Regional Roundup, scheduled to run through Aug. 15.

Like the first Flatlanders, the new edition comprises the work of artists from Davis and environs. The 20 artists in Flatlanders 2 hail from Davis, Clarksburg, Winters and Woodland, all in Yolo County; Sacramento; and Mokelumne Hill in Calaveras County. In general, they completed the works in the show within the last two years.

"I chose to not include any artists who participated in the first go-round," said Renny Pritikin, the Nelson's drector and curator of Flatlanders 1 and 2. "That way I was forced to keep discovering new talents, recent arrivals, recent graduates and people I'd just missed."

The participating artists and the media in which they work:

From Davis -- Linda S. Fitz Gibbon, ceramics; Laura J. Reyes, embroidery; Mike Henderson (UC Davis faculty), Ken Kirsch, Sita Seng and Stacy Vetter, painting; Judith Gefter, David Robertson and Youngsuk Suh, photography; and Cheslyn Amato, sculpture.

From Sacramento -- Gioia Fonda, drawing; Uwe Jahnke, Brenda Louie, Jeff Musser and Peter Stegall, painting; and Liv Moe, sculpture.

From Clarksburg -- Julia Couzens, drawing. From Winters -- Joshua Stern, photography. From Woodland -- David Hollowell, painting. From Mokelumne Hill -- James Aarons, ceramics.

In putting together the exhibition, Pritikin said he was struck by the depth of commitment and talent he found. "I've already got a head start on Flatlanders 3," he said.

The Craft Center Gallery is showing Paper and Clay, a collaboration between Kathy Wong (paper), the Craft Center's incoming student manager for jewelry, and Maisee Lor (clay), the outgoing student manager for jewelry, through Aug. 1.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

Changing California's Landscape, chronicling the impact of the Saratoga Horticultural Research Foundation on ornamental landscapes. Lobby, Shields Library, through summer.

Figure Studies Selected from the Collection, by artists born in the second half of the 19th century. Nelson Entryway Gallery, 125 Art Building, through Aug. 15.

David Fukuyama's Truck Drivers Series, photographs from the university's Fine Arts Collection, presented by the Nelson Gallery at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, through Sept. 28.

Romancing the Road: A Visual History of California's Roadways, lobby, Shields Library.

Complete Campus Calendar: calendar.ucdavis.edu