• Visualizing Abolition Online Event Series

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

    What does it mean to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote?

  • Assuming the Ecosexual Position Book Celebration with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens

    Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In 2008, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens married the Earth, setting them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality. Assuming the Ecosexual Position describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators, how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory, their seven-year art and exhibition project with performance artists Linda M. Montano, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and feminist pornographer Madison Young. 

    Free
  • Afrofuturism Then and Now

    Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Conceptualized in the 1950s by cosmic philosopher and jazz giant Sun Ra, Afrofuturism is a wide-ranging social, political, and artistic movement intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. Join us for a discussion with musicians, artists, and dancers working in the Afrofuturist tradition about their creative endeavors aimed towards a better future.

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  • Seed Ball Making at the Solitary Garden

    Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Learn about the participatory garden project by award-winning artist jackie sumell in collaboration with Tim Young, an innocent man who is currently on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison. The sculpture follows the blueprint of a 6’x9’ U.S. solitary confinement cell similar to the one that Tim has been confined to for twenty-one years. The stark cell is surrounded by a garden which Tim designed via letters and drawings to students and volunteers, who cultivate it as his proxies.

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