Institute of the Arts and Sciences: Levester Williams – Our Bedrock

January 31 – April 20, 2025 • Tues – Sun • 12 – 5 • FREE100 Panetta Ave • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible  First West Coast Solo Exhibit  Our Bedrock includes sculpture, installation, performance and video, as well as photographs by legendary jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton, the exhibition traces the foundational nature of BlackContinue reading “Institute of the Arts and Sciences: Levester Williams – Our Bedrock”

Institute of the Arts and Sciences: Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte – EDELO

January 31 – April 20, 2025 • Tues – Sun • 12 – 5 • FREE100 Panetta Ave • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible  First Survey Exhibition of these artists  EDELO brings together new and existing works emerging from their collaborative and individual 15-year explorations into the roles art can play in radical modes ofContinue reading “Institute of the Arts and Sciences: Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte – EDELO”

Native American Heritage Month

Native Stories by and for Native PeopleMondays • Nov 11 & 25 • 7:00 PM x • FREESubrosa Community Space  • 703 Pacific Ave • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Subrosa! Watch films written and/or directed by Native American creatives. Popcorn and refreshments will be offered for $2+ donations. All proceeds will be donated toContinue reading “Native American Heritage Month”

Young, Gifted and Black

from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary ArtSolari GalleryAug 22 – Dec 29, 2024 • Thurs – Suns • 12 – 6 PM • $10 or FREE on First Fridays705 Front St • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible (Picture credit: Image: A Mother Who Had No Mother. Chiffon Thomas) Young, Gifted and Black showcases works by emerging artists of AfricanContinue reading “Young, Gifted and Black”

MAH x Indexical

Zekarias Musele Thompson – spatial facilitation #10Presented in Partnership with IndexicalSaturday • Nov 9 • 7:30 – 8:30 PM • $20 General, $15 MAH Member705 Front St • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible (Picture credit: Portrait of the Artist Just in Front of their Favorite Place, Photo credit: Ástríður Jónsdóttir) Spatial facilitation, a term of art in physiology, refersContinue reading “MAH x Indexical”

Amah Mutsun Speakers Series: We Will Protect Juristac

Saturday • Nov 9 • 1:30 – 3:30 PM  • FREEMerrill Cultural Center • UCSC • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Costanoan/Ohlone Indians and the University of California-Santa Cruz’s American Indian Resource Center and other distinct departments invite our UCSC affiliates and the greater community to the Amah Mutsun Speaker SeriesContinue reading “Amah Mutsun Speakers Series: We Will Protect Juristac”