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UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences is the Central Coast’s premier university art and research center. Through groundbreaking, national-caliber art exhibitions and social justice initiatives, the IAS creatively educates students and the public about urgent issues impacting our society with innovative approaches to art and equity. The IAS features state-of-the-art galleries, a screening room featuring curated programs of short, experimental films, and an event space for performances and lectures. The galleries are a vital hub for UC Santa Cruz and the region, bringing national and internationally acclaimed artists and projects to enliven the culture of our communities.

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Event Series They Are Shooting at Our Shadows

Art, Palestine, and Liberation: Introducing Al-Haq’s Forensic Architecture Investigation Unit

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

Members of Al-Haq's Forensic Architecture Investigation Unit will discuss their debut exhibition They Are Shooting at Our Shadows, currently on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The historic exhibition was planned over thirteen months ago to introduce Al-Haq FAI Unit's ground-breaking multi-media research and artworks amplifying Palestinian voices and experiences to U.S. […]

Free

A’ai: Screening and Conversation with Louise Miranda Ramirez, Kalie Granier, and Alexandria Casares

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

Join us on February 8th at 7pm for a screening and conversation with artist Kalie Granier and members of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation, Chairwoman Louise J. Miranda Ramirez and Alexandria Casares. The speakers will discuss the short film A’ai, which imagines the perspective of a pelican lamenting the recent kelp forest decline along the central California […]

Free
Event Series Visualizing Abolition

Samora Pinderhughes & Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes Performance – Maria Gaspar’s Compositions’ “We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat”

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 have been sonically and visually activated through performances over the course of the exhibition as part of Gaspar's work We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat. These events make present the histories of people so often occluded […]

Free
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 […]

Free