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Traction: Art Talk with Glenn Ligon

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

Glenn Ligon is one of the most celebrated American artists of his generation. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more recent conceptual art. He is best known for his landmark series of highly textured text-based paintings, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures such as Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman and Richard Pryor.

Free

Wandering Residency Pop Up Event with Futurefarmers

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

Futurefarmers is an internationally renowned artist collaborative group including Amy Franceschini, Lode Vranken, Marthe Van Dessel, and other partners and collaborators.

Free

Question Bridge: Black Males Exhibition Opening

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

Question Bridge: Black Males by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair, is an innovative, widely exhibited multimedia project that uses video to facilitate a conversation among Black men from twelve cities across the United States.

Free

Film Screening: Speak Up by Amandine Gay

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, California

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with Film and Digital Media, invites you to a screening of Ouvrir La Voix (Speak Up), 2017, by Montreal-based Afro-feminist filmmaker, activist and journalist Amandine Gay on February 19, 7:30 p.m., Communications 150.

Free