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DESCRIPTION:Join Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar to celebrate the opening of her 
 first solo exhibition on the West Coast, Compositions, at the Institute of 
 the Arts and Sciences.\n\nMaria Gaspar: Compositions features newly 
 commissioned and existing works from the award-winning artist that ask the 
 crucial question: how do we build a future from the ruins of the carceral 
 present? Grounded in community partnerships and forms of artistic activism, 
 Gaspar’s multidisciplinary practice helps us imagine new ways to 
 transform existing structures of incarceration while simultaneously making 
 present the histories of those kept out of sight. New works on display at 
 the IAS include bars cast from a recently demolished wing of a sprawling 
 urban jail, to be activated in musical performances, and sculptural 
 renderings of the tools used to materially and metaphorically unbuild 
 spaces of punishment. The exhibition includes a selection of films by the 
 artist in the Institute’s purpose-built screening room.\n\nThe Institute 
 of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First 
 Friday Art Tour; join us on October 6 for an after-hours viewing of the 
 exhibition with artist remarks at 7PM. Enjoy a live musical performance by 
 Afro-Samba-Funk group SambaDá and arepas from local food truck, Pana. This 
 event is free and open to the public. \n\nMaria Gaspar: Compositions is on 
 view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences September 26, 2023 – March 
 3, 2024. In addition to Compositions, we invite you to enjoy the ongoing 
 exhibition Sadie Barnette: Family Business, on view at the IAS until 
 December 3, 2023.\n\nWe are also excited for artist Ashley Hunt’s 
 official release of his most recent free newspaper, “Close California 
 Prisons,” a collaboration with Critical Resistance (CR) and Californians 
 United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) at this event. “Close California 
 Prisons” features conversations with CR members, Nick DeRenzi, Lily 
 Fahsi-Haskell, Alex Ludington, Viju Mathew, and contributions by Steve 
 Brooke and Jo’an Dunn, and it is created in dialogue with CURB. The 
 newspaper serves as a companion to Hunt’s work, “Degrees of 
 Visibility,” a ten-year investigation of carceral systems through 
 landscape photographs, text, and community conversations made in locations 
 throughout all fifty U.S. states and territories, seeking to confront how 
 prisons are presented and camouflaged, contributing to aesthetics of mass 
 incarceration. Works from “Degrees of Visibility” were exhibited at the 
 IAS from February 5 – April 16, 2023. “Close California Prisons” also 
 begins the work of Hunt’s new documentary, following CURB’s Close 
 California Prisons Campaign and prison closures throughout the U.S. \n\nThe 
 free newspaper introduces the campaign, its principles and histories, 
 including actionable tasks for readers to become involved. You are invited 
 to take a newspaper and speak to members of CR who will be tabling at the 
 Opening Celebration.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/05/18859363.php
SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening Celebration: Maria Gaspar: Compositions
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/05/18859363.php
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