RECEPTIONS OCT. 23 AND 27

Receptions are scheduled this weekend and next week for ongoing exhibitions at the Craft Center Gallery and the C.N. Gorman Museum. A lecture program accompanies the reception at the Gorman.

• Craft Center Gallery — Reception, 3-6 p.m. Oct. 23 for The Architecture of Thought, ceremic works by Latika Jain, wheel throwing instructor at the Craft Center. The exhibition is scheduled to run through Oct. 29. The gallery is part of the Craft Center in the 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.

• C.N. Gorman Museum — Lecture program and reception, 6 p.m. Oct. 27, with 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. The exhibition is scheduled to run through Dec. 5. The museum is in 1316 Hart Hall. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

• 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.

The exhibition coincides with food historian Diana Kennedy's Oct. 28 visit to campus. On that day, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the library's Special Collections Department (first floor) will host a one-day viewing of some of the library's select holdings on the food and beverage of Mexico.

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

• 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.