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Event Series Visualizing Abolition

Artist-led Workshop: Maria Gaspar’s Disappearance Jail

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

What does freedom mean to you? What are the ways you practice freedom? Join us this Saturday, December 2nd to discuss abolition in this free artist-led workshop with award-winning Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar. Be ready to make art together by participating in Gaspar’s Disappearance Jail (2021-Ongoing), an archive the artist has been building of more […]

Free

Race and Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine – Sherene Seikaly in Conversation with Gina Dent

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

How do we understand conflicting claims to land and its relationship to colonialism outside of constricted paradigms of exceptionalism and the structures of the nation-state?  What can be learned about the global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession through critical analysis of the historical and present struggles in Palestine? At this event, author and […]

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Event Series Aesthetics of Resilience

In Conversation: Rachel Nelson and Ari Friedlaender Introduce “An Aesthetics of Resilience”

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

Join us for a conversation between Dr. Rachel Nelson, Chief Curator and Director at the IAS, and Dr. Ari Friedlaender, Professor of Ocean Sciences, introducing An Aesthetics of Resilience, a new collaboration between the Friedlaender Lab, which focuses on using technology to study the impacts of environmental change on marine mammals, and the Institute of […]

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Event Series Visualizing Abolition

First Friday Craft Night & Artist-led Workshop: Maria Gaspar’s Disappearance Jail

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

Drop in from 5–7 p.m. for hands-on activities this First Friday, February 2, 2024! Award-winning Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar and collaborator Michael De Anda Muñiz will be leading a free workshop in conjunction with her exhibition, Compositions, currently on view at the IAS. Guests will be invited to participate in Gaspar’s work Disappearance Jail (2021-Ongoing), an archive the artist […]

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