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We’re excited to announce our exhibition for the 2027 #FurtherTriennial! An Architecture of Disappearance by Sofia Karim. An Architecture of Disappearance explores the stories of women in California prisons through the language of architecture and letters they exchange. This is a continuation of Karim’s 7-year enquiry into architecture as a language of struggle and resistance, and the hidden worlds of prisoners she works with, whose lives intertwined with her own. From March 10-June 10, 2027 Further Triennial will celebrate Northern California’s creative and cultural life, bringing together more than 80 arts organizations across the Greater Bay Area. The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is thrilled to participate in the first edition, “Around Here”. We look forward to celebrating Northern California’s vibrant art historical past and present with you! @furthertriennial #FurtherTriennial #FurtherTriennial2027 #NorCalArts #BayAreaArts CaliforniaArt ArtsEcosystem by @ucscias
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Introducing Our Fall 2026 Visualizing Abolition Visiting Scholar, Denise Carrascosa! Denise Carrascosa, is the director/founder of the abolitionist project Corpos Indóceis e Mentes Livres (indocile Bodies and Free Minds), an art-education program for literacy writing at the Women’s Prison complex in Bahia, where she established, together with women incarcerated in Bahia, Corpos Indóceis e Mentes Livres, which enables Sisters inside to access sentence remission through reading. Professor Carrascosa will develop conversations on how abolition feminism in Brazil has historical, political, and spiritual roots in Afro-Ancestral forms of cosmology and alliance. Conversations will be had with professor Gina Dent, documentary filmmaker Patrícia Freitas, and author Luciany Aparecida. Join us this month of October at the IAS gallery for screenings, poetry, and discussions surrounding Afro-Ancestrality and Freedom: Visualizing Abolition in Brazil.  October 7, 6:00 - 7:30pm: Sob o Manto de um Sonhario Indocil (Under the Mantle of an Indocile Dream) with Denise Carrascosa October 15, 6:00 - 7:30 pm: Poetry and the Visual Slavery Archive in Brazil with Luciany Aparecida  October 22nd, 6:00 - 7:30pm: Desordeiras(Rioters): Unruly Images and Freedom Experiments with Patrícia Freitas All events are free and open to the public! taken in Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz by @ucscias
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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 by @ucscias
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This Friday, October 2nd join us for a special performance by vocal artist Samita Sinha from 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sinha will be performing “Tremor” in response to new and recent artworks by Colombian-born artist Carlos Motta on view in When Time Stands Still, including a video in which the vocalist is featured. Samita Sinha is an internationally renowned artist whose performances and compositions have been commissioned by Asia Society, Performance Space, Danspace, Rubin Museum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and many more. This performance will then be followed by the opening celebration for our fall 2026 exhibitions; @carlosalejandromotta Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still and @marka_27 Victor Quiñonez’s Ní de Aquí, Ní de Allá. 📍Where: Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Avenue 🗓️When: October 2nd, 2026 ⏱️Time: Performance 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Celebration 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. taken in Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz by @ucscias
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We are pleased to announce Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez: Ni de aquí, Ni de allá on view at the IAS from October 2, 2026 - March 7, 2026. Ni de aquí, Ni de allá (translating to “Not From Here, Not From There”) is a bold declaration of dual belonging. Featuring a wide range of artworks, Quiñonez highlights the experience many bicultural communities face of living between worlds even as violent notions of nationalism and identity pervade.  Ni de aquí, Ni de allá, organized in partnership with the Center for the Art and Advocacy (located in New York), is a part of Visualizing Abolition, an arts-based initiative that reaches across prison borders to create a future free of prisons.  Image #1: NI DE AQUI NI DE ALLA PALETA, 2024 by Marka27 Image#2: THEY DON’T SEE US, 2024 by Marka27 Image#3: ECHALE GANAS, 2024 by Marka27 📍Where: Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Avenue 🗓️On View: October 2nd, 2026 - March 7th, 2027 taken in Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz by @ucscias
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We are thrilled to announce Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still, on view at the IAS October 2, 2026- March 7, 2027 When Time Stands Still features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting Motta’s preoccupation with the historical, aesthetic, and representational productions of difference and marginalization that shape the present. As part of the When Time Stands Still, Motta and Rachel Nelson, IAS director, are organizing a performance series with renowned artists Regina Jose Galindo, Okwui Okpokwasili, Samita Sinha, and Alexandra Tatarsky. Vocal artist Samita Sinha will launch the series on October 2, 5–6 p.m. When Time Stands Still and the performance series are organized as part of Visualizing Abolition, an arts-based initiative that reaches across prison borders to create a future free of prisons. Image 1: The Ship of Fools #5, 2026 Image 2: When Falling Feels Like Flying, 2025 Image 3: No One (still), 2025 📍Where: Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Avenue 🗓️On View: October 2nd, 2026 - March 7th, 2027 taken in Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz by @ucscias
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🖼️ Upcoming Fall Exhibitions 2026 On October 2nd join us for a performance by Samita Sinha from 5-6pm (details to be announced), followed by the opening celebration for both exhibitions 6-8pm. “Ni de aquí, Ni de allá” (“neither from here, nor there”), is a phrase commonly used by bilingual, bicultural communities. In the exhibition the phrase becomes a bold declaration of dual belonging against a violent notion of nationalism and identity. Through paintings, immersive installations, sculptural works, and a curated soundscape, Marka27 invites gallery goers into a vibrant, layered world where street culture meets Indigenous tradition, and personal memory collides with collective truth and activism. Curated by Kate Fowle, this exhibition is organized in partnership with The Center for Art & Advocacy and Visualizing Abolition. Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, @marka_27, is a renowned visual artist working at the intersections of contemporary art, graffiti, vinyl toys, fashion and design, and art activism. His work is inspired by the empowerment of marginalized communities and the fight for representation. When Time Stands Still, Carlos Motta’s second solo exhibition with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz—features new and recent artworks which explore the unsettling experience of living in a time that seems violently stuck on repeat. The selection of video works, sculptures, installations, and drawings form a critical aesthetic historiography into how the past, mired in imperialism, colonization, and displacement, shapes the present. More than an indictment of history, the works on view also ask how time can be at once a source of oppression and a potential horizon of liberation. The exhibition offers a moving proposal about how to reclaim time, with acts of care providing a different possible cadence—one of solidarity. Carlos Motta, @carlosalejandromotta, is a Colombian-born, New York-based, multidisciplinary artist whose practice documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic communities, challenging normative discourses through acts of self-representation. taken in Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz by @ucscias
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The Center for Art and Advocacy, in partnership with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz (@UCSCIAS) are pleased to present "Ni de aquí, ni de allá" (Not From Here, Not From There), a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez. The exhibition is part of the University’s Visualizing Abolition program, an arts-based initiative that reaches across prison borders to contribute to the unfolding collective story and alternative imagining underway to create a future free of prisons. Highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of @Marka_27’s practice, the exhibition invites viewers into a vibrant, layered world where street culture meets Indigenous tradition, and where personal memory collides with collective truth and activism. The exhibition will be on view at UCSCIAS in Santa Cruz from October 2 through March 7. Don't miss it if you're in the area! Learn more at the link in bio. #Nideaquínideallá #Marka27 #TheCenterforArtandAdvocacy by @ucscias
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CALL TO ACTION: #FingersCrossed4Freedom In July 2026, Tim sent a message from his cell “a concept just came to me. Fingers Crossed For Freedom. It conjures up a lot of images and commotions in my head.” #FingersCrossed4Freedom is a rallying cry against wrongful imprisonment, a sign and symbol for justice, liberation and freedom movements around the world. Visit the Solitary Garden, a collaboration with Tim Young and Jackie Sumell, on view at UCSC at the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center. Visit the Timothy J Young Library located at the IAS. Browse some of Tim’s favorite books and personal items. #FingersCrossed4Freedom #FC4F by @ucscias
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🚨LAST CHANCE! 2026 Spring Exhibitions Closing Come see the Spring 2026 exhibitions before they officially close! Exhibitions will be open until Sunday, August 16, 2026. Everything is Going Right by Libia Posada Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins and Disentanglements by Gina Athena Ulysse there are no words, but melodies by Ronaldo V. Wilson Ronaldo V. Wilson will be hosting a Closure/Enclosure celebration where new work will be screened Saturday August 15, 2026 from 12 noon - 5 p.m. For more information about each exhibition and Saturday’s event, please visit our website linked in our bio. 🗓️On view Wednesday - Sunday from 12 noon - 5 p.m. 📍Institute of Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue Santa Cruz, California 95060 by @ucscias
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We are so lucky to have this fabulous exhibition still on view in Santa Cruz through the summer 🍃 Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins and Disentanglements by Gina Athena Ulysse opened during Ripple Effect - and if you haven’t seen it yet, you still can. It’s a beautiful, powerful multisited public art project spanning the Institute for Arts and Sciences and sites across UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz. Rasanblaj is a term Gina Athena coined in 2014: assembly, gathering, regrouping - of ideas, things, people, and spirits. Where Western ideas like collage or assemblage stop, rasanblaj goes further, honoring the spiritual alongside the material to confront what colonialism fractured. This site-specific project regroups African diasporic resonances right here in the redwoods - pieces built from wrapped, tied, braided, and joined materials gathered, found, purchased, and donated by community members. It follows Gina Athena’s large-scale installation at the 2024 Dakar Biennale, and marks ten years since her original call for rasanblaj. On view at the IAS through August 16, with satellite installations at sites around town - check ias.ucsc.edu for locations and hours. Gina Athena Ulysse is an artist-scholar and Professor of Humanities at UCSC, and the inaugural recipient of the IAS Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. Her work has shown at the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, the Sydney Biennale, and Dakar Biennale, and she’s a 2025 MacDowell fellow. She’s also the author of A Call to Rasanblaj: Black Feminist Futures and Ethnographic Aesthetics and the forthcoming A Year and A Day: Leonore Mau and Haiti. Go find this one before it’s gone. 🐚 📸 Gina Athena Ulysse by @annemartinete Artist Gina Athena Ulysse by @annemartinete taken in Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz by @ucscias
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OUT NOW: Weather and the Whale Catalog Podcast Episode We are excited to announce a new episode of the University of Minnesota Press podcast, featuring a conversation between Institute of the Arts and Sciences Director and Chief Curator, Rachel Nelson and Director of the Friedlaender Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz, Ari Friedlaender. Listen as they discuss the Weather and the Whale exhibition and catalog. Listen to the rest of the podcast in our bio or wherever podcast streaming services are available Weather and the Whale catalog is available for purchasing at University of Minnesota Press taken in Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz by @ucscias
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