The Craft Center Gallery is first out of the gate with a new exhibition for spring: oil paintings by Erin Jackson, whose works are on doors, not canvas, and who calls her show Doors. It is scheduled to open Monday, March 28.

Then, on Thursday, March 31, the Nelson Gallery unveils its second round of exhibitions in its new, larger home, the former University Club — which now carries the name Nelson Hall. New for spring: Roberta Price’s Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture, comprising images of 1960s-era communes in the Southwest; and Least Favorite: Josh Greene, examining an artist’s relationship with his family.

The opening day schedule includes a midafternoon panel discussion focusing on Across the Great Divide (with Price among the panelists), and a reception in the early evening.

Extended Voices: Prints from Crow’s Shadow Press is set to open Monday, April 4, at the C.N. Gorman Museum. A lecture and reception are planned for the afternoon of April 5.

Here are the details:

CRAFT CENTER GALLERY

Doors
March 28-April 30

Reception: 6-7 p.m. Friday, April 8

Erin Jackson, ceramics instructor at the Craft Center, shows that she can paint, too.

The Craft Center and its gallery are in the South Silo. 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.

NELSON GALLERY

Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture
Least Favorite: Josh Greene
March 31-May 22

Panel discussion (Across the Great Divide): 3 p.m. Thursday, March 31
Opening reception (for both exhibitions): 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31

• Across the Great Divide — 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.

Simon Sadler, professor of architectural history in the Design Program, curated the Nelson’s exhibition.

“It can be argued that Libre and other communes mark the beginning of the end of America’s unquestioned embrace of the suburban ideal by the first generation to grow up in that environment,” Sadler said.

“That generation sought to reinvent community, and its struggles were parallel to the investigations that led to Davis’ own Baggins End and Village Homes.” The former is the name of the domes residential area on the Davis campus, the latter refers to the ecosubdivision in west Davis.

Sadler is among the people who are due to participate in the opening day panel, along with Price; Jesse Drew, filmmaker, associate professor in the Program in Technocultural Studies, and the program’s director; and Erin Elder, freelance curator. Renny Pritikin, gallery director, as the moderator.

• Least Favorite — Josh Greene, a 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.

The Nelson Gallery is in Nelson Hall (formerly the University Club). Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, and by appointment on Fridays.

C.N. GORMAN MUSEUM

Extended Voices: Prints from Crow’s Shadow Press
April 4-June 12

Talk by Frank Janzen, about the history and collections of Crow’s Shadow Press: 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, 3201 Hart Hall
Reception: 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 5

Crow’s Shadow Press is the publishing arm of the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts 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 C.N. Gorman Museum is in 1316 Hart Hall. Regular hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

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