A Conversation on Race, Justice, and Reparations in Response to Police Violence —with members of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials
February 3 & 4, 2017
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM) is a collective of artists, activists, and attorneys that organized for, and won—in alliance with We Charge Genocide, Project NIA, Amnesty International, and Black Youth Project—historic Reparations legislation for African Americans tortured by Chicago police.
Learn more at http://sparc.ucsc.edu/ctjm.html
a lecture and informal discussion with artist and organizer Federico Cuatlacuatl
Please join the UCSC Art Department and SPARC in welcoming Federico Cuatlacuatl for a discussion about his socially engaged projects and the Rasquache Artist Residency which he initiated in Cholula Mexico in 2016. Lecture and informal discussion, 12:30-2pm, Wednesday October 12th, 2016 in the Semiar Room, Baskin Visual Arts, UCSC.
Learn more at http://sparc.ucsc.edu/Federico_Cuatlacuatl_lecture_10_12_16.pdf
SPARC fellow and Art Dept Visiting Artist Michaela Leslie-Rule will present a public talk and workshop on Feb. 25 and Feb. 26, 2016.
Michaela Leslie-Rule designs research and cultural documentation projects that use storytelling, photography and videography to elevate marginalized voices and stories. Over the past decade she has used her ethnographic media-based approach to examine issues of racial and cultural equity, public health, women and girls’ economic advancement and empowerment and masculinity.
Learn more at http://sparc.ucsc.edu/michaela_leslie_rule.html
SPARC fellows Ultra-red host "Against Participation: SOCIAL ACTION AND THE CONDITIONS OF NEOLIBERALISM" Nov. 11-13, 2015
The sound art collective, Ultra-red has engaged communities for twenty years as artists, organizers, and social researchers. Ultra-red’s strategies focus on what and how we hear and are heard. We invite members of the community as active social agents to join in a dynamic series of events of participatory political listening and conversation.
SPARC fellow Barbara Benish featured in ArtMargins
A recent article by Janeil Engelstad for ArtMargins explores the international impact of Art Dialogue and ArtMill, the arts organization and farm / residency programs that Benish founded in the Czech Republic beginning in 2004. Full article at http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/artmill-global-change-inspired-from-a-seed-planted-in-the-czech-countryside
SS Palo Alto Project at Monterey Bay Sanctuary Celebration
SPARC Fellow Barbara Benish and the SS Palo Alto Project will be part of a celebration honoring the Monterey Bay Sanctuary on May 17th, 2014. More info at www.sspaloalto.orgor www.santacruzwharf.com
Public Doors & Windows Lecture
SPARC and UCSC's Institute of Art and Science host Harrell Fletcher, Molly Sherman, and Nolan Calisch, members of Public Doors & Windows, for a lecture about their recent projects and an upcoming collaboration with the Center for Agroecology at UCSC. Thursday, January 16th, 5-6:30pm, DARC 230.
Nathalie Blanc Brown Bag Lecture
join SPARC in welcoming Dr. Nathalie Blanc, the director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research, for a off-campus lecture at the home of SPARC Fellow Barbara Benish. Dr. Blanc will deliver a lecture titled "Aesthetics and Environments: Interdisciplinary Issues" followed by a discussion facilitated by Barbara Benish about her project the SS Palo Alto art park, which seeks to teach visitors to Seacliff State Beach about ocean sustainability. Ms's. Blanc and Benish are currently co-authoring a book on Art and the Environment.
Beehive Collective Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Members of the Beehive Design Collective present their most recent banners and discuss their long-standing strategies to work as "translators of complex global stories" throughout the Americas and beyond. November 13th, 2013, 1-3pm, DARC 108.
Ultra-red Brown Bag Lecture
Ultra-red members Dont Rhine and Leonardo Vilchis kick off their 2013-2014 SPARC Fellowship with a Brown Bag Lunch Lecture and Listening Session. Noon-2pm, Wednesday March 6th, DARC 206.
Dawn Weleski Brown Bag Lecture
SPARC presents Dawn Weleski of Conflict Kitchen, Wednesday February 20th at Noon in Baskin Visual Arts D-101.
SS Palo Alto
Working group discussion about proposals for the SS Palo Alto-- a concrete ship that, anchored at Seacliff State Park, forms a pier.
Your Turn
A participatory art work and symposium on ethics happening at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History with Artist Fellow Kristaps Gulbis, UCSC students, the Social Practice Arts Research Center & the University Of New Mexico’s ISP Program. May 11th, 2012.
