OFF-CAMPUS EXHIBITIONS: Artwork with UC Davis connections is being exhibited in two places off-campus:

The Artemis K. Nelson Memorial Art Exhibit, featuring her paintings, greeting cards and ceramics, is scheduled to run through Feb. 3 in the sanctuary at Davis Community Church, 412 C St. Visiting hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 2 and 3. Nelson worked at Shields Library for more than 20 years, retiring in 2006, and was pursuing a bachelor's degree in studio art at the university. Nelson died Dec. 11, 2007.

Student-made screenprint posters from 10 years of Chicano Studies 172, led by Professor Malaquis Montoya and Assistant Professor Carlos Francisco Jackson, are on display through May 2 in the Davis Community Gallery at the Davis Community Clinic, 2051 John Jones Road. The selections are from the Chicana/o Studies Poster Collection. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

ECKERT TO PRESENT ORPHEUS X: Granada Artist-in-Residence Rinde Eckert plans to stage his Orpheus X at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 in Main Theatre. The play was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

The UC Davis show, a special presentation by the American Repertory Theatre, is in preparation for the play's production at the Hong Kong International Festival.

Orpheus X is a riff on the ancient myth in which the poet Orpheus risks death to rescue Eurydice from the underworld. But when he looks back, he loses her forever. In Eckert's take, Orpheus the rock singer locks himself in his recording studio and dreams of rescuing the poet Eurydice from the underworld. Eurydice, meanwhile, is welcomed to the afterlife by the Queen of the Dead, who offers her something that she could never have in the world above.

Eckert wrote the text and music, and he appears in the play with two other actors.

All tickets are $5 and are available through the Mondavi Center box office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or www.mondaviarts.org.