Created as part of Visualizing Abolition, a public scholarship initiative housed at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Music for Abolition provides […]
Join Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar to celebrate the opening of her first solo exhibition on the West Coast, Compositions, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. Maria Gaspar: Compositions features newly commissioned […]
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 […]
Join us for a multimedia presentation by Ontario Alexander, the Visualizing Abolition Artist in the Archive graduate fellow. How does music connect us to our collective past and ground us in the present? Take a journey through the UCSC library archives as we unlock moments in abolition and protest movements. From the 1960s to the […]
