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DESCRIPTION:Visualizing Abolition: Art, Abolition, and the University\n\nJoin the 
 Institute of Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz and partners for artist 
 Ashley Hunt \nin conversation with MJ Hart, Joshua Solis, Alberto Lule, 
 Ryan Flaco Rising, and \nRodrigo Vazquez of the Underground Scholars 
 Initiative, for our next event of \nVisualizing Abolition, an event series 
 coupled with art installations on the vital struggle for prison abolition. 
 \n\nThe Underground Scholars Initiative supports formerly incarcerated 
 students at UC Santa Cruz and system impacted students in the transition 
 experience and beyond. \n\nPANEL: Ashley Hunt, MJ Hart, Joshua Solis, 
 Alberto Lule, Ryan Flaco Rising, \nand Rodrigo Vazquez\n\nFeatured Music 
 Performance - Dianne Reeves and Camilla Cortina Bello\n\nMarch 2, 2021, 4 
 PM - 5:30 PM PT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://ias.ucsc.edu/events/2021/art-abolition-and-university-ashley-hunt-and-underground-scholars-march-2-2021\n\n\nUnderground 
 Scholars is a statewide initiative that supports formerly incarcerated and 
 system impacted students in the transition experience and beyond. With a 
 focus on recruitment, retention, advocacy and policy. We aim to bridge the 
 popular academic theoretical discourse of mass incarceration with one that 
 is grounded in the lived experiences of UCSC students and students from 
 surrounding communities. Together we are building the prison to school 
 pipeline.\n\nAshley Hunt uses images, objects, maps, writing and 
 performance to engage social ideas and actions. He approaches art and 
 activism as complimentary spheres of practice — drawing upon the ideas 
 and aesthetics of social movements, cultural theory and art alike. Hunt has 
 exhibited work in galleries internationally and correctional institutions, 
 such as the 2012 Made in L.A. Biennial of the Hammer Museum, the Tate 
 Modern in London and the Putnamville Correctional Institution in 
 Indiana.\n\nMissy “MJ” Hart is an artist, abolitionist, and gang member 
 turned activist after surviving the horrors of the criminal injustice 
 system. MJ is a Workshop Facilitator and Creator of “Rozes Among 
 Thorns” with the org The Beat Within. MJ is helping to establish the 
 Underground Scholars Initiative at UCSC while completing their BA in 
 Psychology with a minor in History of Consciousness. MJ strives to put 
 their knowledge into action organizing with grassroots movements in their 
 hometown and beyond. \n\nJoshua Solis is a first generation formerly 
 incarcerated alumnus from UCSC. After spending over 11 years incarcerated 
 he is now a leader and advocate for formerly incarcerated and system 
 impacted students in California. He earned a BA in Sociology at UCSC, and 
 is currently pursuing his Masters. Joshua is now the Program Coordinator 
 for the Underground Scholars Initiative at UC Santa Cruz. Through 
 comprehensive collaboration, program coordination, and outreach his efforts 
 serve to continue the prison to school pipeline.\n\nAlberto Lule became an 
 artist while serving a thirteen year prison sentence. Art made the prison 
 walls disappear, allowing Alberto to overcome both a physical and mental 
 prison. Using mixed media installation, Lule critiques mass incarceration 
 and particularly the California prison system. Alberto connects the 
 similarities between institutions, from institutions of higher learning to 
 correctional institutions, to expose and learn from a scientific and 
 sociological perspective, but even more thoroughly through art and 
 activism. \n\nRyan Flaco Rising has experienced drug addiction, gang 
 banging, physical and mental abuse, incarceration as a juvenile, seven 
 years in prison, and brutal prison riots which almost cost their life. 
 While in prison, education became an outlet to address past trauma and 
 writing helped Ryan grow a passion for learning. Through the Underground 
 Scholars Initiative Ryan developed leadership skills and is engaged in 
 finding solutions to end mass incarceration through collective first-hand 
 experiences while thriving at UC Santa Barbara.\n\n\nABOUT: Visualizing 
 Abolition\n\nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute 
 of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and 
 Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery.\n\nVisualizing Abolition is a series of 
 online events organized by Professor Gina Dent, Feminist Studies and Dr. 
 Rachel Nelson, Director, Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The events 
 feature artists, activists, and scholars united by their commitment to the 
 vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally, Visualizing Abolition was 
 being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 
 panels, artist talks, film screenings, and other events will instead take 
 place online.\n\nThe events accompany Barring Freedom, an exhibition of 
 contemporary art on view at\nSan José Museum of Art October 30, 2020-April 
 25, 2021. To accompany the exhibition, Solitary Garden, a public art 
 project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC 
 Santa 
 Cruz.\n____________________________________________________________\n\nBELOW: 
 "Solitary Garden" public art installation project at UC Santa Cruz, 
 directed by \nJackie Sumell as part of the Visualizing Abolition series. 
 \n\nhttps://ias.ucsc.edu/content/2020/solitary-garden-jackie-sumell\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/12/18840010.php
SUMMARY:Art, Abolition, & the University: Artist Ashley Hunt & the Underground Scholars Initiative
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/02/12/18840010.php
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