RECEPTION THIS WEEKEND

• Imps, Pixies and Other Rascals — Ceramics by Craft Center instructor Radomir Schmidt. Through July 30, Craft Center Gallery, South Silo. 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.

OTHER 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.

• First Ladies and Fashion: Style Icons on a Political Runway — Through summer, first floor, Shields Library. Summer hours, through 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. Exception: closed Sept. 6.

• Flatlanders 3 — Third biennial survey of the Davis-Woodland-Sacramento-area art community. Five painters, all of whom work figuratively: Suzanne Adan, James Albertson, Patrick Marasso, Irving Marcus and Jack Ogden. Plus: Mitra Fabian, who is making a wall installation using hundreds of office clips; Ianna Frisby, embroidered drawings inspired by dressmaking pattern illustrations; and Michael Stevens, a sculptor who works in wood, often with painted elements. Through Aug. 15, Nelson Gallery, 124 Art Building Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, and by appointment on Fridays.

• In the Wild — Photojournalist Clyde L. Elmore, a retired UC Davis weed scientist, presents a diverse collection of landscape and wildlife images from North America. Through Aug. 31, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

• Mural Sketches: 30 Years of Community Muralism — Preparatory drawings from 30 years of the Chicana/o Studies Mural Workshop. 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. Through summer, lobby, first floor, Shields Library. Summer hours, through 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. Exception: closed Sept. 6.