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Visualizing Abolition with Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent

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

Join Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent, noted antiprison activists, scholars, and educators, for an online conversation about critical issues in the arts, visual culture, and abolition. This is the first in a series of events that questions what it means to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote.

Free

Moor Mother + Rasheedah Phillips: Black Quantum Futurism

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

Indexical presents: Moor Mother—a Philadelphia artist praised as part of “a new generation of visionary black storytellers” (NYTimes)—premieres a new video followed by a discussion of Black Quantum Futurism theory and practice with her collaborator Rasheedah Phillips.

Free
Event Series Visualizing Abolition

Visualizing and Carceral Formations with Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, Nicholas Mirzoeff

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

The third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America.

Free

Sesnon Gallery Speak Up: Planting Abolition

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

The Sesnon Gallery Speak Up Series aims to provide a safe space for students and the UCSC community to engage with ideas generated from the exhibition Barring Freedom and beyond. The Sesnon Gallery at UC Santa Cruz encourages interdisciplinary discourse through the lens of the arts.

Free