Catherine Yasuda, student manager of the Craft Center woodshop, installs hand-shaped mule deer footprints for her exhibition, Odocoileus hemionus (mule deer), at the Craft Center Gallery. As of early this week, an equipment breakdown in the woodshop had delayed her work on the exhibition’s centerpiece, an intarsia, or mosaiclike work of pieces of wood that appear to be inlaid, but in fact fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Yasuda’s intarsia is a mule deer, made from different species of wood. Likewise, the hoofprints are from more than 150 species of wood. The exhibition is scheduled to be in place through Oct. 30. Craft Center Gallery, South Silo, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Telephone: (530) 752-3096.

RECEPTION TODAY

C.N. Gorman Museum — For Diversity in the C.N. Gorman Museum Collections, featuring recent donations: lithographs and sculpture by Salvador Dalí, and paintings and drawings by Florentino Laime Mantilla. Through Dec. 6, C.N. Gorman Museum. Opening reception, 4-6 p.m. Oct. 2. C.N. Gorman Museum, first floor, Hart Hall, noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Telephone: (530) 752-6567.

NEW THIS WEEK

How to Make a (Political) Play: Behind the Scenes with the San Francisco Mime Troupe — Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political theater group. The exhibition is drawn from script drafts, memos, correspondence, broadsides, graphics, photographs and even old checkbooks — among the troupe’s archives that are housed in the UC Davis General Library’s Special Collections. The artifacts “vividly illustrate an ex-trouper’s account of what it takes to create and mount a performance, and to meet the constant challenge of keeping a company alive and afloat.” This exhibit was created and prepared by Joan Holden, principal playwright for the mime troupe from 1970 to 2000, and Jenny Hodge, Liz Phillips and John Skarstad of Special Collections. Fall and winter quarters, lobby, Shields Library.

RECEPTIONS NEXT WEEK

Design Museum — For Typographic Exploration in Hangul: Work by Hyunju Lee and Phil Choo. Their typographic roots began in Hangul, the native script of Korea. Opens Oct. 4 and runs through Dec. 6. Opening reception and designers’ talk, 1 p.m. Oct. 4. Design Museum, 145 Walker Hall, noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday. Telephone: (530) 752-6150.

Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center — For One-Person Show: Mary Louise Delonge. The Davis artist’s drawings are being presented by the Nelson Gallery in recognition of National Disability Awareness Month (October). Through Dec. 6. Reception, 4-5:30 p.m. Oct. 8. Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, Old Davis Road at Mrak Hall Drive, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

African American Quilts — Quilts made by former slaves, plus 21st-century creations informed by time-honored veins of African American quilting. From the collections of Avis C. Robinson of Washington, D.C., and Sandra McPherson of Davis. The latter, a UC Davis professor emeritus of English, writes poetry that is rooted in quilting traditions. Through Dec. 13, Nelson Gallery, Room 124, Art Building, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, and by appointment on Fridays. Telephone: (530) 752-8500.

Art and Bliss — Formerly titled Painting From Abroad, now renamed to link it with the Campus Community Book Project. The exhibition comprises students’ work from their Summer Abroad course, Painting in Rome and Umbria, led by Professor Gina Werfel. Through Oct. 3, Education Abroad Center, Suite 120, 207 Third St. (near A Street), Davis.

Merch Art — Investigating art as commodity, as in merchandise art, from the collection of Lawrence Banka and Judith Gordon of San Francisco, and from the university’s Fine Arts Collection. Through Dec. 13, Nelson Gallery and Nelson Entryway Gallery, Rooms 124-125 Art Building, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, and by appointment on Fridays. Telephone: (530) 752-8500.

University Library: Building a Foundation, 1908-2008 — Centennial exhibition. Lobby, Shields Library. 7:30 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-midnight Sunday.