EXHIBITIONS: Ceramic 'rascals' at the Craft Center Gallery

OPENING NEXT WEEK

Imps, Pixies and Other Rascals — Ceramic sculpture by Craft Center instructor Radomir Schmidt. June 28-July 30, Craft Center Gallery, South Silo. Summer hours: 12:30-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 12:30-7 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday. Reception, 4:30-6 p.m. July 17.

Registration opens June 28 for summer classes at the Craft Center.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

• The Art of Fashion: Experimental Textiles — An exhibition of work by Kinor Jiang, professor of textiles at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in collaboration with other designers. The exhibition includes metalized and etched metallic fabrics created from physical and chemical treatments. Through July 18, Design Museum, first floor, Walker Hall. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

• Bridging Art and Science — Work from Science and Society 40, in which students use photography to explore the common ground occupied by art and science. Through June 27, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

• Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song — Exhibition by second-year Master of Fine Arts students, in two venues, through June 25.

At the Nelson Gallery, on campus, works by Johanna Barron, installation; Aleksander Bohnak, photography; Jingjing Gong, photography; Traci Horgen, silkscreen prints; Robert Machoian, video; and Linda Miller, ceramics.

At the Pence Gallery, downtown Davis, works by Hyung-Mo Chu, large cardboard cityscape installation; Joshua Pelletier, drawings; and Christopher Woodcock, photography.

The Nelson is in 124 Art Building; regular hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and by appointment on Fridays. (Closed June 14 and 15, for campus closure.)

The Pence is at 212 D St.; regular hours are 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and 7 to 9 p.m. during Second Saturday (6 p.m. for members).

• First Ladies and Fashion: Style Icons on a Political Runway Through spring quarter, first floor, Shields Library. Intersession hours, June 11-20 and Sept. 11-22: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Summer hours, June 21-Sept. 10: 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, and 1-7 p.m. Sunday. Closed June 13-15, July 4 and Sept. 6; and noon-6 p.m. July 5.

Mural Sketches: 30 Years of Community Muralism — Preparatory drawings from 30 years of the Chicana/o Studies Mural Workshop. Plus, the workshop's newest project: 8 feet by 40 feet, on the subject of the Pacific Coast Producers cannery and the cannery's importance to the Woodland community. The mural is due to be installed inside the cannery in late June.

The sketches and mural are on display 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. Spring and summer quarters, lobby, first floor, Shields Library. Intersession hours, June 11-20 and Sept. 11-22: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Summer hours, June 21-Sept. 10: 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, and 1-7 p.m. Sunday. Closed June 13-15, July 4 and Sept. 6; and noon-6 p.m. July 5.

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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu

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