Public Programs

What role can the arts play in the movement to abolish prisons and the society that upholds them? How can art and culture elevate other ways of living together, without relying on fences, walls, and cages both imagined and practiced? Visualizing Abolition continues with Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Zoé Samudzi, and Eric Stanley’s discussion, Abolition Beyond the State.

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to partner with the Legal Studies Program at UC Santa Cruz for the next Visualizing Abolition event: 'Abolition from the Inside out', featuring jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young.

Artist Dread Scott's recent large-scale art project, Slave Rebellion Reenactment, 2019, is a community-engaged performance reenacting the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. Prof. Erin Gray, UC Davis, researches the production of racist and anti-racist epistemologies in a range of aesthetic practices from the nineteenth century to the present. For this Visualizing Abolition, join them for a far-reaching conversation about art, history, revolutions, and reenactments.