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Strange Weather Exhibition UCSC Alumni Reception

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation features contemporary art works which illuminate and reframe the boundaries of bodies and the environment. The artworks included in the exhibition span five decades, from 1970-2020, and are drawn together for how they creatively call attention to the impact and history of forced migrations, industrialization, global capitalism, and trauma on humans and the contemporary landscape.

Free

 Visualizing Abolition with Rhodessa Jones and Sarah Crowell

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

Visualizing Abolition is organized by Professor Gina Dent, Feminist Studies and Dr. Rachel Nelson, Director, IAS, with support from the Mellon Foundation. The events feature artists, activists, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. 

Free

Surge Afrofuturism: Multimedia Music Performance with Hesterian Musicism

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged, but not required for entry.Parking is available in the Arts Lot #126. Purchase a permit or use ParkMobile.  Hesterian Musicism is the creative process through which Karlton Hester, composer, flautist and saxophonist, brings together musicians, visual artists and poets in collaborative synergy to create a sonically riveting and […]

Free

Surge Afrofuturism: “Not About Race Dance” Performance by GeraldCaselDance

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

Dance artist and equity activator Gerald Casel will present Not About Race Dance, a collaborative, choreographic response to the racial politics of U.S. postmodern dance. Despite postmodernism’s popularity, its racial dynamics have gone largely unacknowledged. In Not About Race Dance, Casel and his collaborators occupy a space that has been historically defined by white artists to present a contrasting vision of where Black and Brown bodies belong.

Free