Closing Reception for Pictures and Progress: the Black Panther 1966-2016

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Closing Reception for Pictures and Progress: the Black Panther 1966-2016

Date:: Thursday, April 27, 2017
Time:: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:: McHenry 4211 (Library Administrative Suite)
Location:: McHenry Library

The reception marks the closing of an exhibit featuring the photography and ephemera of the Black Panther Party and the Black Panther comic book.

Pictures and Progress: the Black Panther 1966-2016

The closing reception will be a public program on the power of the visual and the radical tradition. We are happy to host a panel with Jeremy Love comic book creator and graphic novelist (Bayou), and UC alum and comic book writer, and organizer Juliana Smith (Hafrocentric). This panel will be moderated by UCSC professor of Literature,
Vilashini Cooppan.

This exhibit has been curated by crystal am nelson (Visual Studies), Cathy Thomas (Literature), and Kiran Garcha (History), Ph.D. students at UC Santa Cruz.

Land Acknowledgement

The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.

The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.