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Black feminist theorist Tina Campt's newly released book, The Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See, 2021, published by MIT Press, examines "Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively... more
PLANETARY INDIGESTION is a year-long series of conversations and performative lectures about food, ecology & biotechnology between the Center for Genomic Gastronomy (CGG), UC Santa Cruz faculty and non-institutional expert guests.
Please join us for an outdoor film screening of Sun Ra's Space Is the Place, immediately followed by Janelle Monáe's visual album, Dirty Computer (Emotion Picture). The screening will take place in the Porter College Quad. Limited chair seating will be available.
Drop in to make wildflower seed balls at the Solitary Garden public art sculpture located at Elena Baskin Arts, UC Santa Cruz! No experience is necessary to join and materials such as soil, wildflower seeds, compost, and gloves, will be provided.
The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery is excited to introduce IRWIN 2021: Fabricating Solace, the 35th annual Irwin Scholarship exhibition, which showcases the work of a select group of UC Santa Cruz’s accomplished young artists: Abby McPhillips... more
Join the Sesnon Underground for an origami workshop! Bring your own materials and learn from Sesnon intern Claire Apana!
The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery and Institute of the Arts and Sciences are pleased to present the next "Sesnon Speak Up" featuring a panel discussion with members of the Underground Scholars, a self-organized UC-wide group of support and advocacy of and for formerly incarcerated students and... more