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Mellon Foundation award to support Visualizing Abolition

Director of the Institute of the Arts and Science Rachel Nelson (left), Associate Professor Gina Dent (center), Distinguished Professor Emerita Angela Davis (right).
October 18, 2021

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1,977,000 grant to support Visualizing Abolition, the art and prison abolition initiative led by UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Associate Professor Gina Dent, and Rachel Nelson, Director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. The funding provides three years of support for the development of new work by artists, musicians, humanists, and other researchers. 

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