• Diane Carlson: Oil paintings — The artist is a UC Davis graduate who studied with professors Mike Henderson and Wayne Thiebaud. Said Carlson: “I try to create paintings that reflect the influence of my own inspirations and vision, bringing a colorful and off-kilter perspective and excitement to the canvas. ... I regard myself as a perceptual experimenter and my art as a laboratory in self-expression. I paint in bold colors and wide strokes and seek emotional expression in a visual context without giving too much detail in the painting." Through  December, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

• 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. 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.

• Craft Center Staff Show and Silent Auction — Ninth annual event, with all proceeds going toward the support of Craft Center programs. Jan Garrison, Craft Center coordinator, said the gallery is full of jewelry, glasswork, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, woodwork, photography, painting, drawing, screen printing and mixed media — unique crafts for yourself or for gift-giving. A reception is scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3, and written bids are due by 6 p.m. at that event. Then, a live auction will commence for any items for which interested bidders are in attendance. The Craft Center and gallery are in the South Silo. Hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

• Disability Is Everywhere, Once You Think to Look for It — In connection with National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the recent grand opening of UC Davis' Center for Accessible Technologies. History professor Catherine Kudlick provided the exhibits and descriptions, showing, for example, a tactile replica of Paris' Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, where Louis Braille invented his system of raised dots for reading and writing; a tactile map of Washington, D.C., with Braille labels; and the books Forgotten Crimes: the Holocaiust and People with Disabilities and Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community. Through fall quarter, lobby, Shields Library. 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 fall quarter, lobby, Shields Library. 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.

• I Am ... — Earlier this quarter, the "I Am ..." organizers asked members of the campus community to share their identities, by giving life to the statement: "I am ... ." The organizers asked for any kind of submission: words alone, perhaps in poetic form, or drawings — anything that represents who you are. Those submissions are on display through Dec. 10 in three venues: Mrak Hall (first floor), Hart Hall (second floor) and the Women's Resources and Research Center (Righteous Babes Lounge).

• Lampo Leong — Guest-curated by Katharine P. Burnett, professor, art history. Through Dec. 12, Nelson Entryway Gallery, 125 Art Building.

• Larry McNeil xhe dhé and Da-ka-xeen Mehner — Native Alaskan artists whose exhibition this quarter explores ideas that inform our times — from the artists' ancestral and personal histories to global climate change. The artists work in photography and lithography, and, for the former, incorporate Kodachrome film in homage to its pending demise and place within the history of photography. Through Dec. 5, C.N. Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

• Vanishing Traditions: Textiles and Treasures from Southwest China — Wearable textiles and ornaments typical of the minority population of southwest China, where the skills of such adornment are vanishing.The exhibition's curator, Bea Roberts, shares what the museum describes as a "visually superb collection, acquired during her early visits to the region, when the villages were primarily intact in their cultural identity and before the traditions vanish in today's globalization race." Through Dec. 5, Design Museum, 145 Walker Hall. Hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

• Who We Are: Selections from the Chicana/o Studies Poster Workshop — In connection with the Campus Coimmunity Book Project. Carlos Jackson, assistant professor, leads the workshop that sees the poster as a voice art form used by Chicanas/os and other people of color to point to the defects of social and political existence and the possibility of change, from the artists’ perspectives, according to the course description. Through Dec. 17, ArtLounge, second floor, Memorial Union.

• Wonderers — In guest-curating this exhibition, Matthias Geiger, assistant professor in the art department, gathered images from seven photographers and a collective whose work reflects the uprooted, peripatetic, nomadic existence that is many younger people live today. The exhibitors include Abby Banks, Richard Gilles, Justine Kurland, Joel Sternfeld, and Kyer Wiltshire, and the Cutter Collective. Through Dec. 12, Nelson Gallery, 124 Art Building. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and by appointment Friday-Sunday.

• Works by Maurine (Fay) Morse Nelson — Largely overshadowed by her husband, the Nelson Gallery namesake, Fay Morse Nelson "was "clearly a talented artist in her own right," says Renny Pritikin, director of the Nelson Gallery, who curated this exhibition. It includes almost all of Fay Morse Nelson's works from the university's Fine Arts Collection — with most of the works being exhibited for the first time in 13 years. Through Jan. 21, Gallagher Hall (home of the Graduate School of Management).

OFF CAMPUS

Christopher Dewees, professor emeritus in the Sea Grant Extension Program and a Cooperative Extension specialist in  Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, is one-half of the artist team behind Fins, Feathers & Flowers: Art From Nature — an exhibition of delicate fish and plant prints.

Dewees' art partner is his wife, Christine. Their exhibition is scheduled to run through Jan. 21 at the Davis Community Gallery, 2051 John Jones Road. 

Read more and see their work online.