The Nelson Gallery is holding over part of its summer exhibition, even while installation of the fall exhibition is under way.

Selections from the Fine Arts Collection, paintings and prints, had accompanied Nathan Cordero's installation art exhibition Are You Destined to Become Your Mother? It closed last weekend, and the Nelson Gallery decided to keep showing Selections from the Fine Arts Collection, with some changes, through Sept. 29. (That same day will bring the opening of Chico MacMurtrie's Birds: A Kinetic Installation, featuring a dozen pairs of plastic bird wings that inflate, flap and deinflate in eerie grace and silence.)

The gallery is in Nelson Hall (formerly the University Club). Hours for the remainder of the summer: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and by appointment on Fridays.

RECEPTION NEXT WEEK

A closing reception is scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2, at the Craft Center Gallery, for Me and My Flame, in which husband-and-wife Craft Center volunteers Jeff and Lisa Geren are presenting new works in glass, bronze, wood, leather, ceramic and felted wool. The gallery is in the South Silo. Regular hours: 12:30-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 12:30-7 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. 

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

• More Than Just a Picture: A Garden of Graphics in Special Collections — University Archivist John Skarstad presents a selection of botanical engravings, line drawings and watercolors from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The early illustrations, made for growers and scientists, show plants in ways that would not be duplicated until the advent of color photography. Through summer, lobby, Shields Library. Summer hours (through Sept. 9): 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday and 1-7 p.m. Sunday. Exceptions: closed Monday, Sept. 5 (Labor Day). Intersession (Sept. 10-21): 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, closed Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

• Nuevo Latino Cuisine — Presenting the academic side of nuevo Latin or Pan-Latin cuisine, the exhibition draws on the University Library’s collections on native foods, agricultural sustainability, and the impact of historical events on the definitions of national cuisines and the cultural representation of these varied cuisines. The scholarship comes from several disciplines: history, agricultural economics, anthropology and the life sciences. Exhibition prepared by Myra Appel, head of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services Department, and bibliographer for Latin American Studies. Through summer, Shields Library. Summer hours (through Sept. 9): 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday and 1-7 p.m. Sunday. Exceptions: closed Monday, Sept. 5 (Labor Day). Intersession (Sept. 10-21): 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, closed Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

• Seasons — Clyde Elmore, a retired UC Davis weed scientist, presents another collection of landscape and wildlife images from North America. Through Aug. 30, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center. Regular hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.Monday-Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

• Visual Transparencies — Showcasing prints as "an effective form of communication beyond e-mail," states the exhibition's organizer, Melanie Yazzie. The prints are from an international collective of printmakers, a group that calls itself Visual Transparencies — and which has donated a three-volume collection to the C.N. Gorman Museum, where this exhibition runs through Sept. 9. "The end result is a strong voice that tells us what is on the mind of these artists from many different parts of the world," said Yazzie, a sculptor, painter and printmaker, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "The collection is wide and demonstrates to the public that printmaking is alive and is an art form that lets artists reach out across many countries." The museum is in 1316 Hart Hall. Summer hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

OFF-CAMPUS

• Wayne Thiebaud, professor emeritus of art — Five of his paintings are on display at the California Museum in Sacramento, in conjunction with his induction Dec. 14 into the California Hall of Fame. See separate stories on Thiebaud, "Painter, teacher, visionary" and his induction 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.