NEW AT THE ALUMNI AND VISITORS CENTER

The Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center is hosting an exhibition by Emma Luna: Monotypes-Mixed Media on Paper, which she describes as "unique impressions produced by painting oil inks onto a plate."

She said she improvised this technique by adding photographic images from her past as well as texturing materials such as metal screen, cheesecloth, wood cuts and etchings. The resulting combination of color, texture and representational images and natural “found” shapes (such as leaves and pods) produces a layered, multiplanar or depth effect.

The photographic images are taken from the Dominican Republic and other Latin American sites — images that become the visual equivalents of distant, childhood memories by being framed and captured within the labyrinth of colored planes and layers of semitransparent, screenlike surfaces.

"These haunting images thus combine the personal and evocative effects of painting with uniform surface and collage effects that can result only when the painted image is passed through a press. Hence, the artist as adventuress in form meets the artist as colorist."

Luna is known for her work in ceramics, as well as mixed media; she is also a print maker, painter and sculptor. Her work is exhibited widely on both the East and West coasts, as well as in her native country, the Dominican Republic.

In 2003-04, she received a Fulbright scholarship that took her to back to the Dominican Republic to teach art. In 2000, she became the first ceramics artist to receive prestigious Pollock Krasner foundation grant.

Her exhibition at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center is scheduled to run through Oct. 31. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

• Autobiographical Comics: "Sometimes a Mere Glance Will Do ..." — An exhibition and selected bibliography of autobiographical comics and associated research resources, celebrating the increasingly popular medium for artists and exploring its enduring appeal to readers of all ages. Through Oct. 31 in the main display cases in the lobby of Shields Library.

According to the Shields website, autobiographical comics and their creators have received increased recognition in the popular sector, in noted periodicals such as The New York Times  The New Yorker, and in classrooms, libraries, and bookstores throughout the United States and abroad.

"The artwork and narrative structure of autobiographical comics come together to create a level of sophistication that is often brilliant, frequently frightening, and, at times, psychologically disturbing.

"At their best, these comics challenge basic assumptions of decency, honesty, truth and civilized beliefs in order, justice and continuity. They question easily held opinions on mental health and the spiritual.

The exhibit features an introduction and bibliography that offers interested readers insights into the lives of the artists and the nature of their work.

Exhibit prepared by Roberto C. Delgadillo, information services librarian for the humanities, social sciences and government.

Shields Library intersession hours, through Sept. 22: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, closed Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Fall quarter, Sept. 23-Dec. 10: 7:30 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-midnight Sunday.

• Mural Sketches: 30 Years of Community Muralism — Preparatory drawings from 30 years of the Chicana/o Studies Mural Workshop. At the TANA community art center, 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.

TANA hours: 3-6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday (the center often opens as early as noon on these days), and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.

• A Woman’s Place: An Exhibit on the History of the Women’s Rights Movement — In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution's 19th Amendment, in August 1920, giving women the right to vote. The exhibit features books, pamphlets, and other documents and ephemera from the Women's History Collection and other research collections held in the University Library's Special Collections. Items on exhibit include 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century publications documenting the growth and development of the women's rights movement. The exhibit offers a special tribute to the campaign for women's suffrage and provides a wide view of the evolution of social and political views of the "place of women" over the last three centuries. The exhibit puts a special focus on the period between the emergence of a women's movement in the United States in the 19th century and continuing through the emergence in the 1960s and 1970s of a second wave of the movement in the form of the women's liberation movement. Exhibit prepared by John Sherlock of Special Collections. Through summer, lobby, first floor, Shields Library. Shields Library intersession hours, through Sept. 22: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, closed Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Fall quarter, Sept. 23-Dec. 10: 7:30 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-midnight Sunday.