Events
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Future Ancestral Technologies Exhibition Opening
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryFuture Ancestral Technologies is an exhibition by Cannupa Hanska Luger with mixed-media sculpture, regalia, and video, all based in myth, science fiction, and Indigenous futurism. Science fiction has the power to shape collective thinking and serves as a vehicle to imagine the future on a global scale. Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies is Indigenous […]
Persian New Year Celebration
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryJoin us for a Persian New Year Celebration, the rebirth of nature at the beginning of Spring, when Iranian people are combatting with darkness for a new day (Nowruz) with the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom, Zan, Zendegee, Azadee." This Nowruz celebration is free! Presentations will be made by elected officials and Iranian speakers alongside music […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Resettlement: Chicago Story
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryWhat is it like to be forced to leave your home, deny your heritage, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story, a new short fictional film and educational website, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War […]
Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryBay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea, energized by the sun, shaped by the forces of fog […]
The Land of Milk and Honey Exhibition Opening
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryThe Land of Milk and Honey is a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program focused on the ideological concept of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Drawing inspiration from John Steinbeck’s portrayal of the region as a corrupted Eden, the biennial presents works that question ethical, cultural and regional practices related to foodways, […]
Frequency: A Festival of Light, Sound & Digital Culture
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryFrequency is a new biennial festival of light, sound, and digital culture hosted in and around the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This 4-night downtown takeover activates the museum, neighboring gardens and plazas with installations of site-responsive work, live performances, interactive technologies, and immersive experiences from local and international artists. Frequency is a […]
Opening today – Do You Know My Name?
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryInspired by the MAH publication of the same name, uncover inspiring stories about Santa Cruz County residents from the early 20th century to the present. Get to know the overlooked, hidden, and relatable histories of the people of Santa Cruz County from the 19th century to today. Popping-up in a breakout history pod inside our […]
A Year Ago Today: Communities Reflect on the CZU Lightening Complex Fires
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History“As a way to begin talking about the disaster, we invited people to bring in objects found in the ashes of their homes to be photographed and to tell us the stories these objects conjure. The objects salvaged from the ashes and the stories that emerge, build, one to the next, revealing details of daily […]
CANCELLED: California Humanities Listening Session – Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryCalifornia Humanities wants to hear from you. We are embarking on a listening tour throughout California over the next few months to find out who is producing humanities content and programming in our regions and across California. Our goal is to sit down and talk with organizations and individuals focused on telling California stories through […]
Beyond the World’s End Exhibition at Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryIn our current moment, apocalyptic narratives are all around us. They tempt us with their catastrophic fatalism and seemingly inescapable dystopias. Against that danger, it’s crucial to ask how we might imagine a more socially just and ecologically sustainable future? But is the disaster ahead of us or behind us? Many people around the world--including […]