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Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen Opens at IAS

Open ocean with a poem in white subtitles on the top.

 Sky Hopinka, Cloudless Egress of Summer (still), 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

12–5pm · Offsite at IAS
Free

The artworks of Sky Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, traverse the legacies of colonial oppression and Native resistance through meditations on the continuities between past and present.

Visitors can experience additional works by the artist as part of Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen, a multi-sited exhibition, at the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries (IAS). Opens on Sunday, February 5, 12–5pm as part of the Grand Opening. Organized by Gina Dent, Lauren Schell Dickens, and Rachel Nelson as part of Visualizing Abolition, a multi-year initiative exploring art, prisons, and justice.

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Location

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

 

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Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen

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The artworks of Sky Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, traverse the legacies of colonial oppression and Native resistance through meditations on the continuities between past and present. A new film by Hopinka was commissioned as part of Visualizing Abolition, an art initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz and San José Museum of Art.