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Between Descendants and Ancestors: Indigenous Stories for a Future

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

Between Descendants and Ancestors: Indigenous Stories for a Future is a two-part series of contemporary short films and animation by Indigenous artists residing on Turtle Island. The stories in this series ponder Native time and Indigenous history in relation to land, settler colonialism, and futurity. While some of these films could be categorized as “science […]

Curator Walkthrough with Rachel Nelson

Join Rachel Nelson, Director and Chief 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. Nelson will guide visitors through the work of Ashley […]

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 […]

Abolitionist Looking at Lichen

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 […]