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EXHIBITIONS: TANA, Bugs and Design, and More

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Moving Out: Design by Design Undergraduate Senior Showcase, at the Design Museum.

Off campus, Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer, or TANA, has two new exhibitions opening over the next two weeks.

On campus, a student exhibition combining entomology and design will be presented Wednesday night (June 6). The Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition and three other art shows are still open — but you have only until around mid-month to see them.

The TANA exhibitions join one other 51ԹϺ Davis exhibition off campus: Notebooks of a Body, works by first-year Master of Fine Arts students, running through Aug. 12 in Sacramento.

For all exhibitions, admission is free and open to the public.

TANA

is Spanish for Art Workshop of the New Dawn, founded and run by the Department of Chicana/o Studies in 2009. The art center, in Woodland, encourages the community to explore and represent Chicano culture through silk-screening, mural painting and other classes.

  • New Seeds/Semillas Nuevas — Recent posters by TANA interns and workshop participants. Opening 5-7 p.m. Friday, June 8, TANA, .
  • Arte Cura: Silkscreen Prints From Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer — Opening 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, June 15, Communicare/Davis Community Gallery, .

On campus

  • Gale Okamura, lecturer in the Department of Design, said students will present branding and packaging for edible-insect products. “The packaging had be appealing to the consumer, and, in some sense, change behavior of the audience to buy edible insects by having appealing graphics,” she said. 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, courtyard of the Environmental Horticulture building.
  • Through June 15, C.N. Gorman Museum, 1316 .
  • Large, multimedia installations, music listening posts, paintings, video, an outdoor sound installation, and performances and presentations by students in art, design, art history, music, theater, creative writing and French. Through June 17, .
  • Curated by Susette Min, associate professor of Asian American Studies, this exhibition explores the competing meanings of hospitality and the different ways it can be seen as a form of welcome or hostility, driven by necessity and greed, fear and desires and subject to conventional demands of etiquette and the law. Through June 17, .
  • Seniors present their work in this annual juried exhibition. Through June 18, Design Museum, 124 .

More off campus

  • Works by first-year MFA students. Through Aug. 12, Verge Center for the Arts, .

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