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Exhibition Opening Celebration: Maria Gaspar: Compositions

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

Join Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar to celebrate the opening of her first solo exhibition on the West Coast, Compositions, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. Maria Gaspar: Compositions features newly commissioned […]

Maria Gaspar Artist Talk and Performance with Special Guest James Gordon Williams

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

In conjunction with Compositions, on view at the IAS, Maria Gaspar’s sculptural renderings of the jail’s fragments will be sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the exhibition. These events will periodically make present the histories of people so often occluded by carceral structures and suggest new modes of transforming the wreckage […]

Monsters Ball Costume Party

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

Costumed creatures attend a dastardly dance party 8 p.m. Saturday, October 14 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The Monsters Ball Costume Party is part of the 2023 Festival of Monsters, presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies. The festival includes a free public day (Oct. 13) and a paid […]