The C.N. Gorman Museum celebrates its 40th anniversary by bringing back four artists who have contributed to the museum's rich history. The exhibition, Together Again, is scheduled to open Tuesday (April 2).

Next week also brings new shows at the Design Museum, the Craft Center Gallery, and the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, where a UC Davis alumnus and staff member is presenting his second show of watercolors in two years.

Lastly, the Nelson Gallery next week makes room for a second spring show: the three proposed designs for the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. The designs are due to go on display Thursday (April 4), the morning after they are revealed to the public at Imagine! — 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (April 3) at the Conference Center. Read more about Imagine!

• Together Again: Lillian Pitt, Gail Tremblay, Joe Feddersen and Rick Bartow — Pitt (Warm Springs, Wasco and Yakama), Tremblay (Mi'kmaq and Onondaga), Feddersen (Colville) and Bartow (Wiyot and Yurok) present recent works in a variety of media. April 2-June 6, C.N. Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall. Regular hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

• Design by Design — A juried competition described as “a lively survey of undergraduate student talent and creativity that reflects the multidisciplinary breadth of the Department of Design.” April 4-26, Design Museum, 124 Cruess Hall. Regular hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

• Crafting on the Clock — Mixed media by Craft Center managers and recent managers. April 1-May 3, Craft Center Gallery, South Silo. Closing reception for the artists, 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, May 3. Regular hours: 12:30-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 12:30-7 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

• Peter Shahrokh Watercolors — April 1-May 31, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Regular hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Reception, 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 26.

Holder of a Master of Business Administration from the Graduate School of Management (1999), Shahrokh is the commissioning analyst in Design and Construction Management, working with engineers to ensure the university gets what it ordered in capital projects and that they function as intended. He also serves as the commissioning authority on projects for which the university is pursuing LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).

Having taught himself how to paint eight years ago, he now shares his passion with others as a teacher at the Craft Center.

Shahrokh presented his first show at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center in April-May 2012. His new show “is going to feature lots of animals: bugs, fish, crows,” he said. “There are going to be some of my favorites from last time, but it’s mostly other stuff that I’ve done throughout my ‘career’ as a watercolor painter.”

The Nelson Gallery has two spring exhibitions:

• Views on Migration: Jacob Lwrence and Elizabeth Catlett — It opened March 28 and runs through May 19. Read more.

• Design Deliberation: An Exhibition of Three Competing Museum Designs — Detailed drawings and architectural models from the three architect-contractor teams vying to design and build the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. April 4-May 19.

The Nelson Gallery is in Nelson Hall. Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday, and by appointment on Fridays.

MORE ON CAMPUS

• Cornucopia: A Celebration of Mediterranean Agriculture — Margaret Eldred’s acrylic paintings of crops grown within bicycling distance of Davis paired with canvases of similar crops from Italy, Turkey and Morocco. Through March 28, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Regular hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

OFF CAMPUS

• Dignidad Rebelde: Prints for the People — By Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza, Oakland-based artists-activists of the graphic arts collaborative Dignidad Rebelde. Through June, Taller Arte del Amanacer, or Art Workshop of the New Dawn, run by the Department of Chicana/o Studies. TANA is at 1224 Lemen Ave., Woodland. Call for exhibition hours: (530) 402-1065.

• Foodies in Exile — Art lecturer Bryce Vinokurov says his move to Davis from Boston eight years ago left him feeling like an exile from urban city life. "However," he said, "the inspiration of the Northern California landscape and the emergent national fixation with the sustainable food industry and culture quickly became an inspiration.” The result? A body of work he calls Foodies in Exile, including large and small oil paintings, collages, linocuts and intaglio etchings. Through May 9, Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville (Napa County). Regular hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. seven days a week (closed Easter Sunday, March 31). Read more.

• Legacy: Recent Paintings and Prints — By alumnus Jamie Montiel, artist in residence at the university's Taller Arte del Amanacer, or Art Workshop of the New Dawn. Montiel is "a committed community artist," said Carlos Francisco Jackson, assistant professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, and director of TANA, referring to the art workshop in Woodland. Through May 3, Davis Community Clinic, 2051 John Jones Road. Gallery hours: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, and 9 a.m-5 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.

• Mexico Mágico: People, Traditions and Color — Professor Marc Schenker presents a collection of photos from the last 20 years or so, taken during his work missions and other trips. As a physican and professor (Department of Public Health Sciences), he focuses on migration and health, occupational and environmental health, pulmonary disease, and global health research and teaching. As a hobbyist photographer, he is particularly interested in cultures, climate and geography around the world. His work encompasses universal themes such as family, work, humor, leisure and personal relationships. He said his photographs on work are a direct outgrowth of his research on occupational health hazards — for example, in agriculture, an area in which he has published numerous scientific papers. Through July 14, Mexican Consulate, 2093 Arena Blvd., Sacramento. Regular hours: 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Schenker's photography website.

AT SHIELDS LIBRARY

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• Maynard Amerine: In His Own Words — Professor Amerine (1911-98) joined the UC Davis Division of Viticulture in 1935 and retired in 1974. As a junior enologist, he was hired to work with Professor A.J. Winkler to improve the quality of grape varieties grown in California. From this modest beginning, Amerine became known throughout the world as a foremost wine expert. For this exhibition, Patsy Inouye, photograph curator in Special Collections, drew on the library’s Maynard A. Amerine Papers, including travel diaries, photographs, a map of his travels and selections of his writings. The exhibition also includes a computer station where visitors can watch Amerine's lectures from VEN 125, "Sensory Analysis of Wine" (the library recently converted the videotaped lectures to digital files). Through spring quarter.

• Distinguished Speakers Series: Harry Belafonte — Actor and activist, and singer, of course, credited with introducing calypso music to mainstream audiences in the United States in the 1950s. In My Song: A Memoir, written with Michael Shnayerson, Belafonte discusses his early life in Harlem and Jamaica; his struggle to break into acting; his early success as a singer and his award-winning musical career; and his lifelong involvement in human rights campaigns. His music has often conveyed a joie de vivre that masks the pain and suffering in which the songs are rooted. But, as his memoir makes clear, Belafonte has always spoken out against racism and oppression and worked for social justice. In fact, it is this legacy that the artist hopes most to preserve. Winter quarter. (Belafonte gave his talk Jan. 17 in the Distinguished Speakers Series at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.)

• Following the Great Migration: Researching the 2012 Campus Community Book Project Book — Library resources that complement the 2012 section, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson's award-winning study of the Great Migration, the movement of almost 6 million African-Americans from the South from 1915 to 1970. Display assembled by David Michalski, social and cultural studies librarian, who also has compiled an online resource guide, including parallel texts for examining and interpreting the Great Migration's profound influence on American society and culture. The online guide also includes interviews with Wilkerson, a list of influential books on the Great Migration, and links to archival sources and other research tools that can help animate the discussion of this year's book. Through winter quarter. For more information about the exhibition and-or the online research guide, send an email to the Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Services Department,  hssref@lib.ucdavis.edu.

• Worlds of Steampunk: Fiction, Art, Fashion and Culture — It started as a subgenre of science fiction in the 1980s — incorporating fantasy, alternate history and fantastic technology, inspired by the advances of the Industrial Revolution and the late 19th century. Like its antecedents, including the novels of Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) and H.G. Wells (The Time Machine), steampunk fiction features dirigibles, balloons, everything powered by steam, and mechanical contraptions of all kinds. You can see it today in movies and art — and in an entire subculture with its own fashion style (goggles, corsets, fancy top hats, and all manner of mechanical accessories decorated with wheels, cogs, gears, clockworks and other imaginative devices). Exhibit prepared by Roberto C. Delgadillo and Marcia Meister, Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Service. Winter quarter.

The Shields Library exhibitions are in the lobby. Regular 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. Holidays and other exceptions.

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