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Maria Gaspar Artist Talk and Performance with Special Guest James Gordon Williams

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 will be sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the exhibition. These events will periodically make present the histories of people so often occluded by carceral structures and suggest new modes of transforming the wreckage […]

Monsters Ball Costume Party

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

Costumed creatures attend a dastardly dance party 8 p.m. Saturday, October 14 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The Monsters Ball Costume Party is part of the 2023 Festival of Monsters, presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies. The festival includes a free public day (Oct. 13) and a paid […]

Book Talk with Michelle Daniel Jones: “Who Would Believe a Prisoner?”

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

Join us on Monday October 23 at 7 p.m. for a book talk with historian and artist Michelle Daniel Jones. This program is brought to you in collaboration with Kresge College and Bookshop Santa Cruz.  Daniel Jones will be speaking about Who Would Believe a Prisoner? Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848 – 1920, a collection […]