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Ashley Hunt: Artist’s Talk

Join Ashley Hunt, artist and professor at CalArts, for an artist's talk about his long-standing practices of anti-carceral activism and photography. What does it mean to use art as the medium through which we see the building of the prison system; and its unbuilding? We invite the community to take up these questions in the […]

Worlds Without Boundaries: A Conversation with Sky Hopinka and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

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

Join us for a public conversation between artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) and Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. This event is presented in conjunction with the multi-sited exhibition Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen, on display at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries and the San José Museum […]

Creating Art in/with Community: A Conversation with Josué Rojas and John Jota Leaños

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

Attendance is free and by RSVP. Artist and muralist Josué Rojas, currently artist-in-residence at UC Santa Cruz’s Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, will be in conversation with award-winning artist John Jota Leaños, professor, film and digital media, on May 11, 2023 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences galleries in the Westside […]