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 […]
Join Laurie Palmer, artist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for a walk that invites us to look closely at lichens. How can a tiny organism transform our understanding of big structural problems and human relations? How can the act of looking at lichen help undo the scopic violence that we have […]
Join Luke A. Fidler, Curator, for a walkthrough of the two exhibitions, Ashley Hunt: Degrees of Visibility/Ashes Ashes and Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen, currently on view at the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries on the westside of Santa Cruz. Dr. Fidler will guide visitors through the work of Ashley Hunt and […]
“This ethereal experimental documentary by Sky Hopinka is an essential portrait of contemporary Indigenous life.” - New York Times maɬni (pronounced moth-nee) - towards the ocean, towards the shore is […]
