About this event
UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with Gina Dent, associate professor, feminist studies, presents a series of online events featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition.
Visualizing Abolition is organized by Professor Gina Dent, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson, Director, Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust, Ford Foundation, Future Justice Fund, Wanda Kownacki, Peter Coha, James L. Gunderson, Rowland and Pat Rebele, Porter College, UCSC Foundation, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
Partners include: Howard University School of Law, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Jessica Silverman Gallery, Indexical, The Humanities Institute, University Library, University Relations, Institute for Social Transformation, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Porter College, the Center for Cultural Studies, the Center for Creative Ecologies, and Media and Society, Kresge College.
Angela Davis and Gina Dent | Featured Music Video – Terri Lyne Carrington and Lisa Fischer
Bryan Stevenson | Featured Music Video – Kris Davis, Val Jeanty and Lily Finnegan
Bryan Stevenson | Featured Music Video – Kris Davis, Val Jeanty and Lily Finnegan
Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley | Featured Music Video – Nicholas Payton
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar | Featured Music Video – Jason Moran and Kyle Abraham
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Craig Haney and Gina Dent | Featured Music Video – Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American Artist Simone Browne and Ruha Benjamin | Featured Music Video – Cécile McLorin Salvant
Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford | Featured Music Video – Nicole Mitchell
Beth Richie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark | Featured Music Video – Sarah Elizabeth Charles
Ashley Hunt, MJ Hart, Alberto Lule, Ryan Flaco Rising, and Rodrigo Vazquez | Featured Music Video – Orrin Evans and Eric Revis
Patrisse Cullors and Maxwell Addae | Featured Music Video – Chief Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Zoé Samudzi, and Eric Stanley | Featured Music Video – Elena and Samora Pinderhughes
jackie sumell Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young | Featured Music Video – José James
Dread Scott and Erin Gray | Featured Music Video – Dianne Reeves and Camila Cortina Bello
Sora Han, Adrienne Maree Brown, and Savannah Shange | Featured Music Video – Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science
Curator Terri Lyne Carrington and guests
Lisa Fischer, Maimouna Youssef aka “Mumu Fresh”, Queen Cora Coleman, Nicholas Payton, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Nicole Mitchell, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Orrin Evans, Eric Revis, Dianne Reeves, and Camila Cortina Bello
