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EXHIBITIONS: Winter season begins next week

The winter exhibition season begins next week with openings at the Craft Center Gallery and the C.N. Gorman Museum.

鈥 2.5 Dimensional 鈥 instructor Joanna Kidd presents ceramic bas-relief portraits in fragment, removed from any surrounding narrative context. The work in this exhibition combines the three-dimensional depth of sculpture and the illusion of depth on a flat surface of drawing. This combination of sculptural depth and illusion creates distortions in the images when viewed from different angles, lending the sculptures a curious animation as the viewer moves around them. Jan. 7-Feb. 8, , . Closing reception, 6-7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8. Regular hours, 12:30-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 12:30-7 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekends.

鈥 鈥 The award-winning Navajo weaver creates tapestries with a unique blend of traditional techniques and contemporary design, capturing the changing light, silhouettes and colors of her homestead in Tselani, Ariz. Jan. 8-March 15, , 1316 . Reception and artist talk, Tuesday, Feb. 12: reception starts at 4 p.m. in the museum, and the lecture starts at 4:30 p.m. next door, in 2 . Regular hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

THE REST OF THE WINTER SCHEDULE

鈥 鈥 In conjunction with the that is now under way for the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. 鈥淎s our architects are working on their designs, you are invited to participate in this exciting process by contributing your vision, ideas and designs for our new museum as part of the open-call exhibition Design + Build, hosted at the Nelson Gallery," museum leaders said. Visual ideas and designs will be accepted one day only, Feb. 1, and text-based contributions are due by that same date. Casual participation is welcome all throughout the exhibition, where building blocks, site analysis and construction advice will be available. Feb. 8-March 17, , Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8. Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and Saturday-Sunday, and Friday by appointment.

鈥 Structures, Signifiers and Society: People and TextilesGlobal ethnographic and contemporary works from the university鈥檚 Design Collection, in an exhibition that coincides with the release of alumna Mary Schoeser鈥檚 new book, Textiles: The Art of Mankind. It features more than 200 objects from the Design Collection, and more than 50 of these are in the exhibition. Jan. 22-March 18, , 124 . Opening reception and a lecture by Schoeser, 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. Admission is free; people interested in attending are asked to RSVP by email, designmuseum@ucdavis.edu. Guided museum walk with the curators, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. Regular hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday, 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

AT SHIELDS LIBRARY

Celebrating National Disability Awareness Month and California Disability History Week. The 鈥淐ollege to Work鈥 theme comes from the campus鈥檚 Disability Awareness Fall Symposium, which presented two 嘿嘿视频 鈥渟uccess stories鈥: a Ph.D. student in chemistry who is blind, and a medical student who has profound hearing loss. Fall quarter.

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 , 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 . Fall and winter quarters. 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.

A sampling from the of the university archives, keeper of such memories as Labor Day, Frosh Dinks, Tank Rush, Frosh-Soph Brawl and Wild West Days. Exhibit prepared by Sara Gunasekara, collections manager. For more information or to share your memories of 嘿嘿视频 traditions, send an e-mail to Special Collections, speccoll@ucdavis.edu.

It started as a subgenre of science fiction in the 1980s 鈥 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 鈥 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. Fall and winter quarters.

The 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.

OFF CAMPUS

鈥 Playing Their Dream 鈥 嘿嘿视频 retiree Charlie McDonald presents a selection of images from the River Cats' 2012 season, during which he served as a photography intern for the Sacramento baseball team. Playing Their Dream "is my collection of photographs depicting the color and design of the game 鈥 and the character of the men involved while playing professional baseball at the Triple-A level," McDonald said in a news release. Through January, Gallery 1075, inside the West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 W. Capitol Ave. Regular hours: 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

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