Visualizing Abolition

INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

Film Screening: Since I Been Down
October 21-28, 2021
Upcoming Event: adrienne maree brown and Gilda Sheppard
October 26, 2021
On View: Solitary Garden
Upcoming Event: Cassils and rafa esparza
November 16, 2021

Visualizing Abolition features art programs aimed to shift the social attachment to prisons.

Event Archives

October 20, 2020

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Visualizing Abolition

Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent
October 27, 2020

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Images, Memory, and Justice

Bryan Stevenson
November 17, 2020

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Visuality and Carceral Formations

Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, and Nicholas Mirzoeff
December 1, 2020

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Abolition Then and Now

Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelly
January 19, 2021

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Prisons, Histories, and Erasures

Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar, and Kelly Lytle Hernández
February 2, 2021

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Surveillance and Cinematics

American Artist, Ruha Benjamin, and Simone Browne
February 9, 2021

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Material and Memory

Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
February 23, 2021

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Abolitionist Feminisms

Sonya Clark, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie
March 2, 2021

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Art, Abolition, and the University

Ashley Hunt, MJ Hart, Joshua Solis, Alberto Lule, Ryan Flaco Rising, and Rodrigo Vazquez
March 9, 2021

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Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary

Maxwell Addae and Patrisse Cullors
April 6, 2021

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Abolition Beyond the State

Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Zoé Samudzi, and Eric Stanley
April 13, 2021

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Abolition from the Inside Out

jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young
April 20, 2021

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(Re)Enacting Revolution

Dread Scott and Erin Gray
May 4, 2021

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Documenting Justice

Film screening and Q&A curated by Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
May 11, 2021

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Futures

adrienne maree brown, Savannah Shange, and Sora Han
May 18, 2021

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Music for Abolition

Artist Panel w/Curator Terri Lyne Carrington and guests

Exhibitions

Barring Freedom
San José Museum of Art
October 30, 2020- April 25, 2021

Solitary Garden
UC Santa Cruz
November 4, 2019- Ongoing

Music for Abolition