Public Programs

The Abolitionist’s Tea Party asks, “How does the natural world endorse abolition as a strategy for liberation?” For this second installment, join tam welch and Kellee Matsushita-Tseng, co-founders of Bitter Cotyledons, for a community conversation and art-marking practice exploring how our experiences and relationships with our plant friends can offer guidance for incorporating abolition in […]

Join us on November 13 for a screening of Paint Me a Road Out of Here at the Del Mar Theater, followed by a conversation with film director Catherine Gund and Professor Gina Dent. Featuring artists Faith Ringgold and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Paint Me a Road Out of Here uncovers the whitewashed history of […]

Join us at San José Museum of Art for an evening celebrating the launch of the Seeing through Stone catalog, edited by curators Gina Dent, Lauren Dickens, and Rachel Nelson. Experience the creative abolitionist imaginary and world-building underway by people directly impacted by incarceration through a conversation featuring Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos Founder Nane Alejandrez […]

Abdias Nascimento is one of the leading figures in the anti-racist and abolitionist struggle in contemporary Brazilian history. His contribution to the social and political sphere and the arts, theater, and human rights activism is invaluable. His life was marked by exile in the United States during the military dictatorship established in Brazil from the […]