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We are pleased to announce that Barring Freedom is on view at San José Museum of Art Friday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. until April 25, 2021.
Plan your visit now to see the exhibition, organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, which offers an in-depth look at innovative contemporary artworks grappling with the problems of prisons and policing in the United States.
Admission is free for all children and youth 17 years and under, college students, staff, and teachers.
Press:
A Critical View of the Criminal Justice System, Through Artists’ Eyes, Hyperallergic
November 18, 2020
Death row inmate designs garden installation by instructing university students through letters, The Art Newspaper
January 8, 2021
Exhibits convey incarcerated artists’ spirit: ‘No matter what I did … there’s beauty inside me', SF Chronicle Datebook
March 17, 2021
10 artists who shed light on mass incarceration, SF Chronicle Datebook
March 17, 2021
Visit barringfreedom.org for more information.
Barring Freedom is co-organized by the IAS with San José Museum of Art, and in collaboration with Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The exhibition and events are made possible with generous support from the Nion McEvoy Family Fund, Ford Foundation, Future Justice Fund, UC Santa Cruz Foundation, Wanda Kownacki, Peter Coha, James L. Gunderson, Rowland and Pat Rebele, UC Santa Cruz Porter College, The Humanities Institute, UC Davis Cultural Studies, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences.