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Exhibition—The Audacity to Create, works by BIPOC UC Santa Cruz alumni

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

The Audacity to Create is an alumni exhibition showcasing the work of UC Santa Cruz Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) alumni Alejandra Chavez, Jorge Gomez-Gonzalez , Katie Dorame, Seráb Serabia, Aleya Caballero, Edward Ramirez, Josselyne Morales, and Marceline Valentine. ADMISSION Attend in person at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at UC Santa […]

Free
Ongoing

Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still

Featured Visualizing Abolition
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of difference and marginalization that shape the present. The selection of artworks in the exhibition explore the unsettling experience of living in a time that seems […]

Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá

Featured Visualizing Abolition
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

Organized in partnership with the Center for Art and Advocacy, located in Brooklyn, New York, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There) by multidisciplinary artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez features a wide range of artworks  that issue a bold declaration of dual belonging, including altars, an elaborately immersive botanica, paintings referencing […]

Productive Struggle & Study Skills

Successful Slug Workshops
Academic Resources Center (ARC) 408 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz

In this workshop, you will: Learn study strategies and why making it hard for yourself supports durable learning. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you […]

Reckoning with Redress: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration

Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz

Forty-five years ago, survivors and descendants of the WWII Japanese American incarceration, testified before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) — helping set in motion what would become one of the largest reparations efforts in U.S. history. This year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture marks the 45th anniversary of the 1981 […]