Exhibit Title: "Upon Neolithic Shoulders: Watercolors by Ellen Van Fleet" Date: Jan. 4 to Feb. 11 Where: C.N. Gorman Museum 1316 Hart Hall University of California, Davis Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and by appointment Artist's Lecture: 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 8 Artist's Reception: 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 8 Artist: Ellen Van Fleet Sacramento artist Ellen Van Fleet will display watercolors in a solo exhibition at the C.N. Gorman Museum. Through her work, Van Fleet illustrates her memories of and responses to her visits to rock art in North Africa, France, Baja California, Sacramento, Northern California and throughout the United States. Van Fleet creates spontaneous and layered depictions of petroglyphs and pictographs, using ancient symbols to assist and inspire her own journey through life. She describes her work in this way: "I don't know what I'm looking for or exactly what I'm after. But over and over I reflect what I experience and what I see, and I put it before you. Art has human roots which go back more than 27,000 years; I feel my job is to continue this tradition. "For four years I have been visiting rock sites. I slip my fingers into the groove of that human scratching and scraping, and I hear the unity and the wildness that hums there and I look for a way to utter that unity." Van Fleet will give a slide lecture on her work at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, with an artist's reception after her talk. The public is invited to bring light-colored T-shirts to be printed with a design by Van Fleet for a small donation. Van Fleet teaches art at American River College and is a UC Davis art department alumna. She has exhibited at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has received grants from the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. The C.N. Gorman Museum is part of the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis. The museum was named in honor of Carl Nelson Gorman, a former Native American Studies faculty member, artist and advocate of Native American issues. Gorman presently lives on a Navaho reservation.