The UC-Davis affiliated TANA community art center launched its first-ever Student Art Exhibition with an open house last month, drawing 175 people, and now the center has scheduled another open house, this one from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 19.

The center also announced that its next screenprinting workshop, for youths and other community members, is scheduled to run from April 7 to June 11. People interested in participating are invited to attend an introductory silkscreen workshop from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 7.

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. It opened in December 2009 in Woodland, in a one-time maintenance shed at 1224 Lemen Ave., across the street from a large neighborhood of subsidized housing.

Carlos Francisco Jackson, TANA director and assistant professor of Chicana/o studies, said this weekend’s open house will showcase the artwork that came out of the winter workshop.

“This open house would be a great opportunity for anyone interested in learning more about TANA and the ongoing quarterly screenprinting workshops that are offered during the winter, spring and fall,” he added.

The workshops encourage the exploration and representation of culture as a means to empower and encourage self-determination, Jackson said.

The Student Art Exhibition is scheduled to run through May. Viewing hours: noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Workshops are in session 3-6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.

Earlier coverage, with images of some of the students' artwork.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

• Conversations About Race —Built around this year's Campus Community Book Project: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum. The General Library Committee on Diversity prepared the exhibition. Through spring quarter, lobby, Shields Library. Intersession hours, March 20-27: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-6 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 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.

• Euclides da Cunha: A Life Between the Disciplines — This exhibition takes its name from a UC Davis symposium, held in November, about the Brazilian writer, poet and intellectual Euclides da Cunha, whose seminal work, Os sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), published in 1902, recounted the messianic religious uprising that led to the 1897 Canudos War. Da Cunha also worked as an engineer, cartographer and geographer, and he was an early environmental scientist. This exhibition is the work of Myra Appel, head of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services Department and bibliographer, Latin American Studies; and professors Leopoldo Bernucci and Robert Newcomb of the Department of Spanish and Classics, with assistance from Tim Silva (graphics) and Alison Lanius (display). Through winter quarter, lobby, Shields Library. Intersession hours, March 20-27: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-6 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 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.

• Harvesting Sugar Beets, 1942 — Comprising work by F. Hal Higgins, a prominent California agricultural journalist of the early to mid 20th century, who had been asked to document — in words and pictures — the importation of Mexican guest workers under a U.S.-Mexico agreement that later became known as the Bracero Program. Patsy Inouye of the University Library's Special Collections Department assembled the exhibition from the library's F. Hal Higgins Collection, one of the largest and most significant agricultural technology history collections in the United States. According to the University Library's website, Higgins' photographs offer an extraordinary look at the optimism and promise that the Mexican guest workers brought to California agriculture. Through winter quarter, lobby, Shields Library. Intersession hours, March 20-27: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-6 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 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.

• Words Take Wing: Honoring Diversity in Children's Literature — This exhibition comprises selected works by Joyce Carol Thomas, the poet, novelist, playwright, educator and motivational speaker who was the featured author for the School of Education's seventh annual Words Take Wing program (Feb. 9). The General Library prepared the exhibition, which is scheduled to stay in place through the winter quarter in the Shields Library lobby. Intersession hours, March 20-27: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-6 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 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.

OFF-CAMPUS

• Wayne Thiebaud, professor emeritus of art — Five of his paintings are on display at the California Museum in Sacramento, in conjunction with his induction Dec. 14 into the California Hall of Fame. See separate stories on Thiebaud, "Painter, teacher, visionary" and his induction into the California Hall of Fame. The museum has gathered personal items from all of the 2010 inductees, for an exhibition that is scheduled to run through next Oct. 31. Thiebaud's picks: Bikini Figure (1966), Waterland (1996), Two Tulip Sundaes (2009), and Intersection Building and Cliff Ridge (both from 2010), all oils, on canvas or wood. The museum is in the California State Archives building at 1020 O St., at the corner of 10th Street, one block south of Capitol Park. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. (No one admitted after 4:30 p.m.) Closed all major holidays and furlough Fridays.

• Touching Base — Art professor Robin Hill curated this exhibition, comprising new works by 11 undergraduate art major alumni from the past decade and coinciding with Hill's 10th anniversary at UC Davis. The artists: Hilary Alder (drawing), Caetlynn Booth (painting), Colby Claycomb (sculpture), Ryan Gallant (sculpture), Daniel J. Glendenning (drawings-sculpture), Matthew Gottschalk (video-photo), Kyle Hittmeier (video-prints), Amy Lincoln (painting), Elizabeth Ottenheimer (sculpture), Allison Taylor (sculpture) and Jason Trinidad (sculpture). Through April 21, Pence Gallery, 212 D St., Davis. Hours: 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Earlier coverage.