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Traction: Art Talk with Leonardo Drew and Jordan D. Schnitzer

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

Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features contemporary art works which illuminate and reframe the boundaries of bodies and the environment. The artworks included in the exhibition span five decades, from 1970-2020, and are drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations, industrialization, global capitalism, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape. The exhibition is organized by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 

Free

 Visualizing Abolition with Rhodessa Jones and Sarah Crowell

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

Visualizing Abolition is organized by Professor Gina Dent, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson, Director, IAS, with support from the Mellon Foundation. The events feature artists, activists, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. 

Free

Surge Afrofuturism: Festac ’77 and Liberation w/ Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi and Ntone Edjabe

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

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi and Ntone Edjabe will discuss the recent publication of FESTAC ’77, an innovative book and mixtape which is the product of years of research helmed by Chimurenga—a magazine based in Cape Town, South Africa, and one of the most important cultural journals on the continent—in collaboration with Afterall, the London-based journal. Listen to the FESTAC '77 mixtape here.

Free

Traction: Art Talk with Edgar Heap of Birds

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

The artworks of Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds include multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, neuf series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass and […]

Free