Friday • September 6 • 5 – 7 PM • Exhibition tour at 5:30
100 Panetta Ave • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible • FREE
This First Friday, visit UCSC Institute of Arts and Science for a special curator-led walk-through of Seeing through Stone with IAS Director and Chief Curator, Dr. Rachel Nelson. Dr. Nelson will reflect on this major Visualizing Abolition exhibition, which is the first of such scale to be displayed at a UCSC gallery.
Seeing through Stone highlights the works of artists, including those who are formerly and currently incarcerated, that offer a vision beyond carceral systems, drawing out the flourishing collective story and alternative imagining currently underway in creating a future free of prisons.
The multi-sited exhibition is not focused on prisons but rather is oriented towards artists who help provide a vision—and a model—of abolition in practice. It incudes sixteen newly commissioned projects, alongside other works of video, painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance, across three exhibition sites through January 5, 2025:
INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz • Hours: 12- 5 PM Daily (Closed Mondays)
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
110 S. Market St., San Jose • Hours: Thursday 4–9 PM, Friday 11 AM–9 PM, Saturday and Sunday 11 AM–6 PM (Closed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
SANTA CRUZ BARRIOS UNIDOS
1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz • Hours: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 12–5 PM (Closed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
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Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA 