First Friday Curator-led Tour of Seeing through Stone with Dr. Rachel Nelson
For First Friday this September 6, Director and Chief Curator, Dr. Rachel Nelson will give a special curator-led walk-through of the major Visualizing Abolition exhibition, Seeing through Stone, at the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences Gallery on the Westside of Santa Cruz.
Dr. Nelson will reflect on this exhibition, which is the first of such scale to be displayed at a UCSC gallery, that brings together artwork by contemporary artists from around the globe whose work engages prisons, justice, and freedom.
Seeing through Stone is a multi-sited exhibition on view at Institute of the Arts and Sciences, San José Museum of Art, and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos.
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. This event is free and open to the public.
About Seeing through Stone
April 12, 2024 - January 5, 2025
Institute of the Arts and Sciences; San José Museum of Art; Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos
Curators: Gina Dent, Lauren Schell Dickens, Rachel Nelson
Seeing through Stone brings together artwork by contemporary artists from around the globe whose work engages prisons, justice, and freedom. Drawing its title from poet Etheridge Knight’s evocation of those who have “the secret eyes,” 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.
Seeing through Stone is co-organized by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and San José Museum of Art.
About the Institute of the Arts and Sciences:
As the keystone public galleries at UC Santa Cruz, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) presents a unique vision for the arts at the forefront of social transformation. Drawing on the resources of a leading research university, the world-class exhibitions at the IAS engage the most critical issues of our time, catalyzing meaningful encounters with the arts and ideas.
The IAS is located at 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA. Open Tuesday-Sunday, 12 p.m.-5 p.m., admission is free to the public. To learn more, visit www.ias.ucsc.edu.
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