While the Manetti Shrem Museum is dark for the summer, other museums and exhibitions on campus are on view. Enjoy some air conditioning and view the art.

The Gorman Museum of Native American Art showcases art from Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians

On display until Aug. 31 at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art

Above art, Coyote dancer with flute #III, 1983, Acrylic wash/paper. (Courtesy/Gorman Museum of Native American Art).

The solo-exhibition Olé Ham Nees: We Call Him Coyote features the artwork of Harry Fonseca drawn from the Shingle Springs Band Collection. Harry (1946-2006) was born in Sacramento of Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, and Portuguese heritage, and was an enrolled citizen of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

The exhibition, running from Feb. 12 through Aug. 31, considers multiple series and stylistic shifts from Fonseca’s earliest pieces reflecting his Nisenan Maidu heritage, the Coyote series for which he is most recognized, the influences of rock art in Stone Poems, the political views of Discovery of Gold and Souls in California, to the abstraction and examination of painting in the Stripes and Seasons series.

The museum is located at 181 Old Davis Road, Davis, on the UC Davis campus. This exhibition is sponsored by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Futures Fund and the UC Davis College of Letters and Science.

Read more about the exhibit and artist in this article: Gorman Museum Features 'Olé Ham Nees: We Call Him Coyote' | UC Davis

The Gorman Collections Gallery

On view until Sept. 1 at The Gorman Museum of Native American Art

D.Y. Begay, Arapaho Style, 2014. Gift of Patrick V. and Mary Beth Musick. (Courtesy/ The Gorman Museum of Native American Art)

The Collections Gallery features a selection of artworks from the Gorman Museum Collections on a rotational basis. The current exhibition is a survey spanning across the collection.

Display cases in the Collections Gallery serve as visible storage, housing much of the museum's ceramic and basketry collection.  By moving museum collections from storage into prominent long-term exhibits in the main public galleries, the Collections Gallery provides enhanced visibility, access, and engagement to collections for visitors while also furthering university teaching and research.

Read about the exhibit here: The Collections Gallery | Gorman Museum

Shields Library presents 'Queer Visual' Art and Arboretum history

Gender Passport, by Kitty Koppelman, 2024, Fine Press and Book Arts Collection, FPBAC 93:6. (Courtesy/ Shields Library)

With candor and veracity, the Making Our Mark: Queer Visual Art and Culture in the Modern Era displays how queer communities across the United States are using visual art and poetry to render themselves larger than life, resist erasure, and make their indelible mark on history. The exhibit also features over two dozen queer works and draws primarily from Archives and Special Collections’ LGBTQIA+ History and Culture Collection, and Fine Press and Book Arts Collection. One piece is from our Avant Garde Poetry Collection.

Making Our Mark is located in the main lobby to the left of the grand staircase, and is running until Aug. 1.

The UC Davis Arboretum serves as an outdoor museum and living laboratory for the university, a public resource for sustainable landscape practices and a treasured, contemplative space for all who visit. It occupies 100 acres along the banks of the north channel of Putah Creek and features demonstration gardens and a collection of 22,000 trees and plants. Education and outreach programs offer guided tours, classes, workshops, family nature programs, and talks by artists, scholars, and scientists. The exhibit Community in Bloom: A history of the UC Davis Arboretum includes more than a dozen photos and documents from the University Archives Photographs Collection, Stumpf (Paul K.) Slides of the University of California, Davis and Davis, California, The California Aggie, and the University of California, Davis Arboretum Records.

Community in Bloom is running until Aug. 29, and is located in the main lobby to the left of the grand staircase.

Students in the Arboretum, circa 1970-1979. (Courtesy/ Shields Library)