Barring Freedom: Conversation with the Curators
Join us for a conversation with Rachel Nelson and Alexandra Moore, co-curators of Barring Freedom, a contemporary art exhibition engaging issues of prisons, policing, and justice, on view at San José Museum of Art October 30-May 9, 2021. Attendees will be encouraged to participate in the discussion.
Barring Freedom is part of an arts-based initiative organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. See ias.ucsc.edu/barringfreedom to learn more about the initiative, which includes the exhibition, a participatory public art project, and online events and programming on the theme of Visualizing Abolition.
This event is open to the public with students encouraged to attend and participate in conversation.
Rachel Nelson, PhD, is interim director of UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS).
Alexandra Moore is a Visual Studies Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a curatorial fellow with the IAS.