• Feeling Spirit — Works in fiber and clay by Craft Center ceramics instructor Meg Brown. “The underlying theme seen in the works are centered on the question: Can objects have energy? Can the energy of the artist be connected to an object, thus allowing the object to have a voice or a feeling that speaks independently to the viewer? Can it have its own ‘life’ relationship to the world? This show is that experiment.” Oct. 6-Nov. 5, Craft Center Gallery, South Silo. Opening reception, 5-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. Regular hours: 12:30-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 12:30-7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

• If A Tree Fell: Sustainable Wood Design — Showcasing wood objects created using sustainable practices. The show presents work by Northern California artists Professor Emeritus Gyöngy Laky (art and design departments), Sam Perry, Matthew Scheatzle, and design groups Wowhaus, MRCW Design-Build and Martha Davis, along with significant pieces from the Beanie and Dick Wezelman Collection. The exhibition includes work created and inspired by African, Asian and European traditional craft fused with contemporary styling. Curated by Ernest Jolly, museum preparator, Department of Design. Oct. 9-Dec. 12, Design Museum, 124 Cruess Hall. Opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9. Regular hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

• Lake Tahoe Sonification Project — Sound installation that represents multiple aspects of the Tahoe environment, both above and within the lake. Weather data from the lake is crafted into sound, creating a continuous aural experience that is artistic in design, and intelligible to a listener. The project team comprises several UC Davis graduate students and faculty, working in collaboration with the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, the Department of Music and the Department of Mathematics. Oct. 12-Nov. 2, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall. The gallery's fall quarter opening is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. Opening reception, 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12 (welcome remarks at 5:30 p.m.). Regular hours effective Oct. 13: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday.

• Lessons from the Tuolumne — Photo exhibition dedicated to Campus Recreation and Unions’ Outdoor Adventures, which has been arranging and guiding trips for a rivers class since 1983 when the class originated in the Department of Geology. More recently, the Center for Watershed Sciences has offered the class as a capstone course called "Ecogeomorphology.” “Students take the pieces of environmental science that they learned in the introductory courses and apply them holistically to a watershed, so they see – usually for the first time — how they all fit together,” reads part of the description for Lessons from the Tuolumne. “The Center for Watershed Sciences dedicates this photo gallery to … Outdoor Adventures, one of the largest university-run mountain recreation programs in the country. The program’s whitewater rafting and kayaking trips and guide training have inspired many students to become scholars, researchers and professionals in water sciences.” Through mid-October, Buehler Alumni Center. Regular hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

• MAKE: A New Museum for UC Davis — Part exhibition, part forum: You’ll experience the ways that gallery lighting changes what you see, test chairs being considered for the new museum, discover highlights from the Fine Arts Collection at UC Davis, and add your story to a timeline moving toward the opening of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Oct. 12-May 10, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall. The gallery's fall quarter opening is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. Opening reception, 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12 (welcome remarks at 5:30 p.m.). Regular hours effective Oct. 13: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday.

• Te Ahikaroa/Home Fires Burning — Natalie Robertson (Ngati Porou/Clan Donnachaidh) presents recent photographic works that engage with indigenous relationships to customary food and water sources. Born in Kawerau, New Zealand, Robertson is an established exhibiting photographic and moving image artist. Her practice engages with conflicting settler and indigenous relationships to land and place, exploring Maori knowledge practices and cultural landscapes. Through Dec. 12, C.N. Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall. Artist talk and reception, 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14. Regular hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Catalog available. Also, in the Hart Hall lobby: a FLASH! exhibition, A Gathering of Printmakers, organized by artist and Professor Melanie Yazzie in 2006 and curated for this exhibition by students Isra Uz-Zaman and Evelyn Fredericks.

OFF CAMPUS

• Annabeth Rosen and Dean Smith — The former is a UC Davis professor who holds the Robert Arneson Chair in Ceramic Sculpture, the latter creates oil and wax paintings. Rosen’s works “take on fundamental principles of ceramics, addressing the rawest elements of its magic and alchemy, moving clay and minerals into shapes and heating the forms to transform into objects with a shiny crust,” according to Gallery Paule Anglim, 14 Geary St., San Francisco, where this show runs through Oct. 7.

• The Invitation and Hexagon/Pentagon — Presented by art studio, part of the Department of Art and Art History, and organized by Tim Hyde, assistant professor. Included in Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco, international contemporary and modern art show, Oct. 9-12. The exhibition juxtaposes two new large-scale projects designed to galvanize conversation and collaboration between artists, designers, scientists, writers, curators, academics, entrepreneurs and the art public during and after Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco, reads the description in the art show’s catalog. The Invitation comprises a series of photographs produced in 2014 as interdisciplinary collaborations among the UC Davis art community and outside professionals. Each work is produced from discussions, studio visits and correspondence between two researchers; separate and distinct fields of inquiry are crystallized into single photos. “The exchanges reveal a cross-section of investigations underway at UC Davis, interpreted visually,” the catalog states. “The picture is the conversation.” Accompanied by Hexagon/Pentagon, a sculpture produced by The Skull Sessions, an ongoing collaborative project by Hyde and Andrea Galvani. The modular system is alive and in flux, and can be continuously reconfigured to facilitate conversations in the space of the exhibition. Oct. 9 (VIP), and Oct. 10-12, Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco, San Mateo County Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo. Complimentary admission for two.

• Tel Aviv: Urban Landscapes — Bryce Vinokurov, lecturer in the art department, in a solo exhibition at the Alex Bult Gallery, 1114 21st St., Suite B, Sacramento. The show comprises paintings and collages that explore the beauty in the power lines, water heaters and satellite dishes as well as the Israeli city’s palm trees and parks. A major focus of the work is the Bauhaus buildings that comprise much of the older parts of the city. Oct. 9-Nov. 1. Preview and reception, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9; opening reception, 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11.

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