Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

Proud that Weather and the Whale is out with University of Minnesota Press. This lovely book shows the process of an unusual, years-long collaboration across the arts and sciences.

This Friday, join fellow Banana Stugs past and present on First Friday at the IAS. This alumni-focused event will feature immersive art and science exhibition tours led by current students as well as refreshments and other entertainment. Tours will take place at 5:30 and 6:30 pm of Weather and the Whale, the art and science exhibition organized with Professor Ari Friedlaender.

We are sending all love and peace to friends and family of Malcolm-Jamal Warner. May he rest in power. Remembering his contributions for the movement for abolition, we share this video and composition he made for Music for Abolition, a program curated by Terri Lyne Carrington in 2020.

Malcolm Jamal Warner- Comfort Food As a society we have been conditioned to be creatures of comfort. We artificially sweeten inconvenient truths to make us feel good. We hold onto lies to make us…

We are thrilled that Emile Suotonye DeWeaver will be speaking tonight at the IAS. Join us at 6 pm.

Emile DeWeaver’s Abolition Vision Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, cofounder of Prison Renaissance, will read from his book July 18 at the UCSC Institute of the Arts and Sciences.