The Sesnon Gallery Speak Up Series aims to provide a safe space for students and the UC Santa Cruz community to engage with ideas generated from the exhibition Barring Freedom. Sesnon Gallery Speak Up presents Revolutionary Greetings!, a series of events focused on letter writing and open discussion about connecting with people who are incarcerated.
Visualizing Abolition continues with artist Maria Gaspar, professor of American Indian Studies Joanne Barker (Lenape, citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians), and professor and historian of race, policing, immigration, and incarceration Kelly Lytle Hernández.
Sanford Biggers is a Harlem-based artist whose work speaks to current social, political and economic happenings. For this Visualizing Abolition event, Biggers will be joined by visual culture theorist Leigh Raiford for a conversation about art, materiality, violence, and possibility.
Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, and Sonya Clark, Amherst College, Western Massachusetts, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event.
