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  • Music for Abolition

    Murphy, Pouros and Bartoletti 1802 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California, United States

    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.

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    Terri Lyne Carrington Presents Music for Abolition

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

    Created as part of Visualizing Abolition, Music for Abolition provides a soundtrack for–and heartbeat to–the shared struggle for a future in which prisons, policing, and racial violence are things of the past. Directed and curated by Terri Lyne Carrington, the project brings together artists, dancers, and musicians from a variety of genres to craft a […]

  • A drummer performs in a dark space.

    Terri Lyne Carrington Presents Visualizing Abolition

    Pacific Jazz Café Monterey County Fairgrounds, 2004 Fairground Road, Monterey, California, United States

    Created as part of Visualizing Abolition, a public scholarship initiative housed at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Music for Abolition provides a soundtrack for–and heartbeat to–the shared struggle for a future in which prisons, policing, and racial violence are things of the past. Directed and curated […]

  • Maria Gaspar Artist Talk and Performance with Special Guest James Gordon Williams

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

    In conjunction with Compositions, on view at the IAS, Maria Gaspar’s sculptural renderings of the jail’s fragments will be sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the exhibition. These events will periodically make present the histories of people so often occluded by carceral structures and suggest new modes of transforming the wreckage […]