Past Exhibitions
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Don’t Forget About Art: Sesnon Underground Group Portfolio
Dates: Tue, May 24, 2022 Don’t Forget About Art is a group portfolio featuring art by UC Santa Cruz students inspired by the Shit Must Stop/S.M.S. portfolios (1968, Letter Edged in Black Press). Organized by the Sesnon…
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Irwin 2022: Amelia Smyth
Dates: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 Amelia Smyth was born in San Francisco and raised in Berkeley, California, and has always had a strong connection with nature in all of its forms. Studying both Fine Arts and Chemistry as…
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Irwin 2022: Valerie Jackson
Dates: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 Valerie Jackson is a photography/mixed media artist finishing her senior year at UCSC. Inspired by her mother, she started photographing her life from a young age, but didn’t decide to pursue a degree…
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Glenn Ligon: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Dates: Thu, Apr 14, 2022 to Sun, Aug 14, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery Glenn Ligon: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation brings together works on paper by the influential artist, which explore how constructions of Blackness…
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Just Futures: Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms
Dates: Tue, Feb 1, 2022 to Sat, Mar 19, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery UC Santa Cruz continues to monitor COVID-19 developments and remains prepared to act quickly and appropriately in response. Additional mitigations and protocols may be announced to ensure…
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10 x 10: Ten Women / Ten Prints
Dates: Tue, Feb 1, 2022 to Sat, Apr 30, 2022 Location: Porter Faculty Gallery 10 x 10: Ten Women / 10 Prints is a portfolio of ten screenprints compiled and published by the Berkeley Art Center and Jos Sances of Alliance…
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PLANETARY INDIGESTION: public conversation series (online)
Dates: Fri, Nov 19, 2021 to Fri, Jun 3, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery PLANETARY INDIGESTION is a year-long series of conversations and performative lectures about food, ecology & biotechnology between the Center for Genomic Gastronomy (CGG), UC Santa Cruz faculty and…
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First Generation Arts Alumni Virtual Exhibition
Dates: Thu, Apr 22, 2021 to Tue, May 25, 2021 Location: Sesnon Gallery Sesnon Speak Up: Visibilizing Possibilities, a panel discussion with First Generation Arts Alumni April 22, 3:30-5:00pm during Alumni Week 2021 The Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery Art Gallery is proud…
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UC Santa Cruz Solitary Garden
Solitary Garden, the participatory public sculpture and garden project by jackie sumell, is on view at UC Santa Cruz Baskin Art Studios. Perched on a slope at UC Santa Cruz overlooking Monterey Bay, Solitary Garden is…
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Eduardo Carrillo: Comunidad de Califas
Dates: Wed, Feb 3, 2021 to Sun, Apr 11, 2021 Location: Sesnon Gallery Eduardo Carrillo: Comunidad de Califas Virtual Exhibition Dates: February 3–December 31, 2021 (virtually ongoing)This virtual exhibition will showcase the breadth of Eduardo Carrillo’s work spanning from his early…
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Eduardo Carrillo: Comunidad de Califas exhibition
Dates: Wed, Feb 3, 2021 to Fri, Apr 30, 2021 All images of Eduardo Carrillo’s work courtesy of Museo Eduardo Carrillo unless otherwise noted. Eduardo Carrillo, Three Women of Tepeyac, 1993. Oil on linen, 48″x54″Collection of the Art Museum…
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1982 Califas Conference
Dates: Mon, Feb 1, 2021 to Fri, Apr 30, 2021 In 1982, UC Santa Cruz Art Professor Eduardo Carrillo conceived of the “Califas: Chicano Art and Culture in California” conference to bring together artists, scholars, and creative social instigators…