October 2020
Founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Bryan Stevenson joins Gina Dent for a conversation about art, culture, and activism. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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November 2020
A one-night, artist-driven screening at West-Wind Capitol Drive-In. Presented by the Exploratorium, Institute of Contemporary Art San José, KADIST, and San José Museum of Art.
Explore our newest exhibitions, Barring Freedom and South East North West, and the new installation Pae White’s Noisy Blushes.
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Indexical presents the premiere of Philadelphia artist Moor Mother's new video followed by a discussion of Black Quantum Futurism theory and practice with her collaborator Rasheedah Phillips. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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Live Online
Children’s author and illustrator Kathryn Otoshi reads her character-building books, followed by a family art activity workshop.
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Visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, and Nicholas Mirzoeff discuss the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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In collaboration with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, SJMA and UC Santa Cruz Institute of Arts and Sciences presents a limited online screening of Isaac Julien's Lessons of the Hour. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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December 2020
Robin Kelley, Professor in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA and Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, and Isaac Julien, Distinguished Professor of the Arts at UCSC, in conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and current abolitionist uprisings against racist police brutality and the prison industrial complex. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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Explore the elements of writing and experience works of art through a different lens, led by Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Janice Lobo Sapigao and Michael Sagum.
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January 2021
Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar, and Kelly Lytle Hernández discuss the histories and present struggles that disappear within the labyrinthian network of prisons, jails, and detention centers in the United States Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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A poetry reading and conversation with award-winning American poet, memoirist, and educator Reginald Dwayne Betts. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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February 2021
A discussion about surveillance and cinematics with American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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Harlem-based artist Sanford Biggers will be joined by visual culture theorist Leigh Raiford for a conversation about art, materiality, violence, and possibility. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, and Soyna Clark, Amherst College, Western Massachusetts, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color— organizing and abolition. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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April 2021
Dread Scott's recent large-scale art project, Slave Rebellion Reenactment, was a community-engaged performance reenacting the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. Professor Erin Gray, UC Davis, will join him in conversation about art, revolution, and reenactments. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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May 2021
Dee Hibbert-Jones, Professor of Art at UC Santa Cruz, and filmmaker Nomi Talisman present a curated selection of films. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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A conversation on strategies, activism, and liberatory futures with Sora Han, adrienne maree brown, and Savannah Shange. Presented as part of the exhibition Barring Freedom.
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