Galleries closed for installation until April 10, 2026.
|
Monday
|
Tuesday
|
Wednesday
|
Thursday
|
Friday
|
Saturday
|
Sunday
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
0 events,
|
2 events,![ID: [A scanned document of a table of information pertaining to medical experiments conducted in a prison in 1963. The scan is an inverted image: white, type-written text on a black background speckled with white dots and a white margin on the left side of the frame. The information presented includes the dates of these experiments, the University of Pennsylvania doctors who facilitated them, the number of inmates who participated in the experiments, and the amount that inmates were paid, ranging from one to fifteen dollars per study. Brief descriptions of each test is listed, including “To obtain data on tolerance of Myagen,” “To determine effectiveness of drug, Grisactin” and “To determine toxicity of drug, Wy-713”. At the bottom of the frame is a yellow subtitle, “they classify people.”]](https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/017–CLS_Pre-ExistingCondition_2019_02-e1774380409661.jpg)
Curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Pooja Rangan Run time: 49 minutes Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program assembles a series of films, including works by filmmakers incarcerated in […]
Free
-
Join us for light refreshments and to celebrate the openings of our three new exhibitions. Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins and Disentanglements by Gina Athena Ulysse is a multisited public art project and […]
Free
|
||
2 events,
-
Enlightenment, Now! Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! Enlightenment, Now! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites us not to celebrate the Enlightenment, but to interrogate it. Long associated with democracy, progress, and universal reason, the Enlightenment’s legacy […]
Free
|
||||||
2 events,
-
Artist Federico Cuatlacuatl will join us to screen and discuss his short film QUEMAR LAS PATAS DEL IMPERIO (to burn the feet of the empire). Federico Cuatlacuatl (b. San Francisco Coapan, Cholula, Puebla -México) is Horace W. Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia and […]
Free
|
2 events,
-
Join us for a walk through of Everything is Going Right with artist Libia Posada. About the Artist:Libia Posada is a multidisciplinary artist, trained as a physician and surgeon at the University of Antioquia. Posada’s art is influenced by her medical training, going beyond a fascination with representations of the purely organic or biological to […]
Free
|
|||||
2 events,
Unmaking the Prison Image is a three-episode podcast series from Visualizing Abolition exploring the role documentary can play in imagining a world without prisons. Hosted by Pooja Rangan, author of Immediations and The Documentary Audit, and co-author with Brett Story of the forthcoming Why Look at Prisons?, the series brings together filmmakers, scholars, and system-impacted […] |
