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Extended Voices: Prints from Crow’s Shadow Press debuts at the over two days next week: first, the opening, on Monday (April 4), then an artist's talk and reception on Tuesday (April 5).

Crow’s Shadow Press is the publishing arm of the in Pendleton, Ore. With a primary focus on printmaking, the institute’s studio attracts established as well as emerging Native American artists.

Extended Voices, presented in collaboration with Tamarind master printer Frank Janzen, reflects a range of printing techniques by such established artists as Rick Bartow, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Lavadour, Kay Walkingstick, Joe Feddersen, Marie Watt, Phillip John Charette, Gerald McMaster and Wendy Red Star.

The museum announced that Janzen will give a talk about the history and collections of Crow’s Shadow Press, starting at 4 p.m. Tuesday in 3201 Hart Hall, and a reception will begin at 5.

The exhibition is scheduled to run through June 12. The museum is in 1316 , and regular hours are noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. 

RECEPTION NEXT WEEK

• Doors — Oil paintings on doors, not canvas, by Erin Jackson, ceramics instructor at the . Through April 30, , . Regular hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekends. Reception, 6-7 p.m. Friday, April 8.

OTHER NEW EXHIBITIONS

• Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture — Photos by New Mexico’s Roberta Price, who left her home in the Northeast to pursue the hippie aesthetic in the late ’60s and became one of the founders of Colorado’s Libre commune, which still exists today. The exhibition’s title is the same as the title of Price’s new book, published last November by the University of New Mexico Press. Through May 22, , (formerly the University Club). Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, and by appointment on Fridays.

• Least Favorite: Josh Greene — The San Francisco-based art humorist addresses the question: What do your parents really think of what you do? In a larger sense, he is exploring what the wider society thinks about contemporary art. He enlists his family in many of his art projects, and, for this work, he asked his parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, and others to name their least favorite of his art projects over the past decade, and to explain why. Least Favorite comprises the responses, along with portraits of the responders. Through May 22, , (formerly the University Club). Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, and by appointment on Fridays.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

• — 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, . 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.

• — This exhibition takes its name from a UC Davis symposium, held in November, about the Brazilian writer, poet and intellectual Euclides da Cunha, whose seminal work, Os sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), published in 1902, recounted the messianic religious uprising that led to the 1897 Canudos War. Da Cunha also worked as an engineer, cartographer and geographer, and he was an early environmental scientist. This exhibition is the work of Myra Appel, head of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services Department and bibliographer, Latin American Studies; and professors Leopoldo Bernucci and Robert Newcomb of the Department of Spanish and Classics, with assistance from Tim Silva (graphics) and Alison Lanius (display). Through winter quarter, 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.

• — 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 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 winter quarter, 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.

• — This exhibition comprises selected works by Joyce Carol Thomas, the poet, novelist, playwright, educator and motivational speaker who was the featured author for the School of Education's seventh annual program (Feb. 9). The General Library prepared the exhibition, which is scheduled to stay in place through the winter quarter 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

• TANA Student Art Exhibition — The first such exhibition ever at the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ-affiliated community art center, which opened in December 2009 at , Woodland. The conceived of TANA and runs it; TANA stands for Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer, or Art Workshops of the New Dawn. The Student Art Exhibition is scheduled to run through May. Viewing hours: noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Workshops are in session 3-6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.

• Wayne Thiebaud, professor emeritus of art — Five of his paintings are on display at the in Sacramento, in conjunction with his induction Dec. 14 into the California Hall of Fame. See separate stories on Thiebaud, and his into the California Hall of Fame. The museum has gathered personal items from all of the 2010 inductees, for an exhibition that is scheduled to run through Oct. 31. Thiebaud's picks: Bikini Figure (1966), Waterland (1996), Two Tulip Sundaes (2009), and Intersection Building and Cliff Ridge (both from 2010), all oils, on canvas or wood. The museum is in the California State Archives building at 1020 O St., at the corner of 10th Street, one block south of Capitol Park. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. (No one admitted after 4:30 p.m.) Closed all major holidays and furlough Fridays.

• Touching Base — Art professor Robin Hill curated this exhibition, comprising new works by 11 undergraduate art major alumni from the past decade and coinciding with Hill's 10th anniversary at UC Davis. The artists: Hilary Alder (drawing), Caetlynn Booth (painting), Colby Claycomb (sculpture), Ryan Gallant (sculpture), Daniel J. Glendenning (drawings-sculpture), Matthew Gottschalk (video-photo), Kyle Hittmeier (video-prints), Amy Lincoln (painting), Elizabeth Ottenheimer (sculpture), Allison Taylor (sculpture) and Jason Trinidad (sculpture). Through April 21, , 212 D St., Davis. Hours: 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.