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Event Series Visualizing Abolition

First Friday Craft Night & Artist-led Workshop: Maria Gaspar’s Disappearance Jail

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

Drop in from 5–7 p.m. for hands-on activities this First Friday, February 2, 2024! Award-winning Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar and collaborator Michael De Anda Muñiz will be leading a free workshop in conjunction with her exhibition, Compositions, currently on view at the IAS. Guests will be invited to participate in Gaspar’s work Disappearance Jail (2021-Ongoing), an archive the artist […]

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Event Series Visualizing Abolition

Samora Pinderhughes & Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes Performance – Maria Gaspar’s Compositions’ “We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat”

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 have been sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the exhibition as part of Gaspar's work We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat. These events make present the histories of people so often occluded […]

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Artist Talk: Favianna Rodriguez

Stevenson Event Center Stevenson College University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, California, United States

The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition Favianna Rodriguez: Power From The Roots. Rodriguez is an Oakland based activist and artist beloved for her work tied to social justice movements, such as her iconic image of a butterfly with the text “Migration is Beautiful” mobilized in support of migrant justice. […]

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