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First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz

First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]

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 […]