Call for Proposals: Faculty Spotlight Exhibitions at the IAS
May 29, 2025UC Santa Cruz faculty across the divisions are invited to submit a proposal for an exhibition of their artwork at the Institute...
Galleries will be closed for facilities maintenance until April 22. We will be open on Friday April 17th 5pm-9pm for Night of Ideas.

November 1, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, CA) and enjoy an after-hours viewing of Seeing through Stone with student-led exhibition tours at 5:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.
Admission is always free.
Seeing through Stone invites viewers to see beyond the current global realities of the prison complex, drawing attention to already existing practices of imagining the world otherwise. The exhibition includes more than eighty national and international artists and collectives, sixteen newly commissioned projects, as well as works of video, painting, sculpture, installation, sound and performance. Seeing through Stone is a collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz, San José Museum of Art, and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, and works are on view at all three sites.
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour.
Image by Mickey Ta.