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Ni De Aquí Ni De Allá Santa Cruz!

Photo: credit 📸 @herbert_victoria_fca
@streettheorystudio @santa_cruz_barrios_unidos

It was an overwhelming night of joy and support from so many people, family and friends! During these challenging times we must remember to stay grounded, grateful and motivated to create awareness through our respective creative practices.

A major thank you to my better half @gem_in_eye and our family for holding me down.

Special thanks to:
@ucscias
@centerforartandadvocacy
@santa_cruz_barrios_unidos
@streettheorystudio
@buartgalleries
@kate.fowle
@theshedny

They tried to censor and cancel the message but you all came together and made it louder, and stronger!💪🏽💥

Make sure to see Ni De Aquí Ni De Allá at UCSC IAS Gallery now showing from October 2nd through March 7th.#marka27 #mexicanartist #streetartandgraffiti #abolishice #neoindigenous

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🥁✨ SambaDÁ is bringing the rhythms of Brazil to UCSC this Saturday!

Join us for music, dancing, and joyful energy for ALL AGES! Bring your family, invite your friends, and come celebrate with us! 💃🏾🕺🏽🇧🇷

📍 UCSC, Santa Cruz
📅 Saturday, October 17
⏰ 11:00 AM–3:00 PM
🎶 All ages welcome!

Let’s make it a Saturday full of rhythm and community! ❤️

#SambaDÁ #UCSC #SantaCruz #BrazilianMusic #LiveMusic AllAges

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Ni De Aquí Ni De Allá Santa Cruz!

Photo: credit 📸 @herbert_victoria_fca
@streettheorystudio @santa_cruz_barrios_unidos

It was an overwhelming night of joy and support from so many people, family and friends! During these challenging times we must remember to stay grounded, grateful and motivated to create awareness through our respective creative practices.

A major thank you to my better half @gem_in_eye and our family for holding me down.

Special thanks to:
@ucscias
@centerforartandadvocacy
@santa_cruz_barrios_unidos
@streettheorystudio
@buartgalleries
@kate.fowle
@theshedny

They tried to censor and cancel the message but you all came together and made it louder, and stronger!💪🏽💥

Make sure to see Ni De Aquí Ni De Allá at UCSC IAS Gallery now showing from October 2nd through March 7th.#marka27 #mexicanartist #streetartandgraffiti #abolishice #neoindigenous

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Samba Soul is performing tonight @afrobeats_nite_santa_cruz @ucscias beautiful location for a party on the west side of Santa Cruz
Come catch the vibe 🇧🇷✨

Photo by @cavixuxu

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The Top 5 have made it to the final round! 🏆

Now we want to know: who gets your vote?

Explore 100+ Lookout List categories and make your picks.

Vote at the link in our bio! Voting is open through Oct. 18.

Lookout List is proudly supported by @bayfed and @newleafcmarket

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Goodtimes Goodthings Goodpeeps
#santacruz #brriosunidos #bigmantings #marka27 #streetart

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NEW SEASON. FINAL PODCAST EPISODE.

Which radical patterns already need breaking?

In the final live recording from Carceral Media Ecologies—and How to Break Them at UC Santa Cruz, Visualizing Abolition co-director Gina Dent offers an expansive, unscripted reflection on abolitionist media practice, strategy, collaboration, and revolutionary imagination.

A fitting place to pause. For now.

Listen to the final episode of Unmaking the Prison Image—available now wherever you get your podcasts. #visualizingabolition #unmakingtheprisonimage #prisonabolition #documentary #abolitionnow

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Get coastal with @firstfridaysantacruz for their monthly Art Tour, featuring exhibits and art events at galleries, studios, and neighborhood spaces across the county.

This Friday, October 2, 2026 ~5-9p~

October First Friday in Santa Cruz features over 30 local galleries and venues showcasing work from area creatives.

Check out all the event listings at:
firstfridaysantacruz.com

Enjoy exhibitions such as:

The Mug
Hosted at @radiusgallery
Image 1: Lucia Znamirowski, @luciastudio | “_l1e9n8or3e_,” Silkscreen and color pencil on cotton twill mounted on panel, 2022, 32”x48”

Open Studios Tour Preview: Visionary Art Group Showing
Hosted at @thevisionsanctuary
Image 2: Joel Smith, @joelmichaelsmith | Pine panels with oil stain and wood-burner

Performance by Samita Sinha and IAS Fall Exhibitions Openings
Hosted at @ucscias
Image 3: Victor “MARKA27” Quinonez, @marka_27 | Mass Moca Residency

A Creative Finale
Hosted at @thegreenspotsantacruz
Image 4: Zardi Creations, @zardi.creations

Arts, Clothings, Music and Bubbles/Wines
Hosted at @oxyhairsantacruz
Image 5: Megan Kellie, @imdrawinghere | “Important Cow in Decorative Coat”

And many more!

#FirstFridaySantaCruz #SantaCruzArt #SantaCruzEvents #ArtWalk #SupportLocalArtistsSupportLocalArtists

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NI DE AQUÍ NI DE ALLÁ opening tonight!
@ucscias 100 Panetta Ave Santa Cruz 6-8pm

Please join us and celebrate this monumental event at @ucscias 100 Panetta Ave Santa Cruz

• Artist: Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez
• Curator: Kate Fowle
• Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Closed Monday–Tuesday)

Through original paintings, immersive installations, 3D sculptural works, and a curated soundscape, Marka27 invites audiences into a vibrant, layered world where street culture meets Indigenous tradition, and personal memory collides with collective truth.

We look forward to seeing you!

#marka27 #nideaquinidealla #mexicanartist

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NI DE AQUÍ NI DE ALLÁ opening tonight!
@ucscias 100 Panetta Ave Santa Cruz 6-8pm

Please join us and celebrate this monumental event at @ucscias 100 Panetta Ave Santa Cruz

• Artist: Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez
• Curator: Kate Fowle
• Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Closed Monday–Tuesday)

Through original paintings, immersive installations, 3D sculptural works, and a curated soundscape, Marka27 invites audiences into a vibrant, layered world where street culture meets Indigenous tradition, and personal memory collides with collective truth.

We look forward to seeing you!

#marka27 #nideaquinidealla #mexicanartist

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Over the past year, I had the tremendous opportunity to collaborate with Samita Sinha, a gifted singer with the infinite desire to experiment.

We produced a short video titled Song to the Siren, which pays homage to Sinéad O’Connor and how her artistry and politics influenced both of our lives. In it, Samita re-interprets Song to the Siren in such a way that her voice ominously invokes the perils of the ocean both metaphorically and literally in this moment in time.

Commissioned by @pioneerworks and coproduced with @ucscias the piece premiers tomorrow 10/2 in the context of my exhibition When Time Stands Still.

Samita will perform her piece Tremor at 5pm tomorrow, please come by if you’re in the area!

Thank you to @rachelnelson19 curator of the exhibition, whose support means the world to me, and to @davideveritthowe and @gabriel_florenz with whom we’re planning a presentation of this and other works in 2028 at Pioneer Works.

Director of Photography
@berriosbryan

Sound Design, Soundtrack, Mix and Master
@neumann.fragments

Producer
@robbievicencio @tabufilms

Camera Operators
Emerson Mahoney @emahoney_97
Christina Jara

Images of the ocean
@lensfirefilms

Sound Recording
@dovelectronics

Ocean Recordings
Felix Blume

Gaffer
Adriana Cuevas

Post-Production
Marika Litz @marikalitzcolorist

Make Up
Misa Akamatsu @blanc_misa

Hair Stylist
Pascale Poma @ppmakeup1

Research
Maxime Cavajani @maximecavajani

Graphic Design
Lauren Siegel @flockofsiegel

Research Assistance
Camila Higuera @camilahigueracaldas

🌊 🌊 🌊

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Next Friday, October 2, @Carlosalejandromotta unveils his second solo exhibition with @ucscias, “When Time Stands Still.”

Featuring new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical, aesthetic, and representational productions of difference and marginalization that shape the present. Harkening to the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Albrecht Dürer, the artist finds prescience in their social critique, materializing time through his sculptures as the past regulates the present.

The exhibition is on view October 2, 2026 – March 27, 2027 at The Institute of Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, CA.

📷 1: Carlos Motta, The Ship of Fools #5, 2026
2: Carlos Motta, When Falling Feels Like Flying, 2025
3: Carlos Motta, No One (still), 2025

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