Staff members are offering up their own artworks in the ninth annual Craft Center Staff Show and Silent Auction, with all proceeds going toward the support of Craft Center programs.

Jan Garrison, Craft Center coordinator, said the gallery will be full of jewelry, glass work, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, woodwork, photography, painting, drawing, screen printing and mixed media — unique crafts for yourself or for gift-giving.

The show and auction are set to open Nov. 5; written bids can be submitted any time when the Craft Center is open.

The sale is scheduled to conclude during a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3. All written bids must be in by 6 p.m. — and, at that time, 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. Closed Nov. 11 and 24-28.

For more information, call the Craft Center, (530) 752-1475.

ALSO OPENING NEXT WEEK

• Diane Carlson: Oil Paintings — The artist is a UC Davis graduate who studied with professors Mike Henderson and Wayne Thiebaud. Says 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." November and December, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Regular hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Reception, 6 p.m. Nov. 5.

• 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. Nov. 1-Dec. 17, ArtLounge, second floor, Memorial Union.

NEW AT SHIELDS LIBRARY

• Disability Is Everywhere, Once You Think to Look for It — In connection with National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the grand opening this week 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.

Disability Is Everywhere is scheduled to remain on display through fall quarter in the lobby of Shields Library. The Center for Accessible Technologies is not far away: in Room 163 on the library's first floor. From the lobby, Room 163 is a straight shot down the corridor on the right, just past the reserves counter. Read about the new center.

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.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

• The Architecture of Thought — Ceremic works by Latika Jain, wheel throwing instructor at the Craft Center. Through today (Oct. 29), Craft Center Gallery, South Silo. Hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 10 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekends.

• 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 the 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.

• 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.

• De Atole a Cuitlacoche … De Panuchos a Tlacoyos: Los Sabores de Mexico — A monthlong exhibition of many of the library’s food ethnographies, cookbooks and culinary histories of Mexico — which boasts one of the world's four greatest cuisines, according to the library's website. Through October, 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.

• 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.,

• Monotypes-Mixed Media on Paper — Described by the artist, Emma Luna, as "unique impressions produced by painting oil inks onto a plate." Through Oct. 31, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

• 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." Tthrough Dec. 5, Design Museum, 145 Walker Hall. Hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

• 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.