Over 80 artists have contributed work to Seeing through Stone, an exhibition that explores the core tenets of abolitionist world-building and imagines a future free of prisons. As part of the UCSC’s ongoing Visualizing Abolition series, the art show includes 16 brand-new commissions and works by formerly and currently incarcerated artists. While the art spans many mediums, the pieces are united by poet Etheridge Knight’s 1986 words about a prisoner’s unique power of perception: “he has the secret eyes/he sees through stone.” The show’s opening reception is Friday evening, but the exhibit will be on display through early January 2025.
Fri, 6pm, $15
Museum of Art, San Jose
