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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 […]

Visualizing Premodern Abolition

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

This symposium brings together specialists in a variety of cultures and disciplines to explore problems of abolition in relation to premodern literary, material, and visual culture. The aim is not simply to trace institutions of punishment, resistance, surveillance, and incarceration; but, rather, to see how abolitionist commitments to the unmaking of structures and remaking of […]

Curator Talk with Rachel Nelson & Luke A. Fidler, The Writing on the Wall

Join curators, Dr. Rachel Nelson, and Dr. Luke A. Fidler, as they discuss the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History's current exhibition, The Writing on the Wall. Emulating a prison cell, The Writing on the Wall at the MAH recreates these largely unseen spaces in a public sphere. The Writing on the Wall is organized by Rachel Nelson […]