Borders of Belonging
Marsa Greenspan
Disassembled American flag, cotton fabrics, acrylic paint, embroidery thread, Australian crystals. A participatory artwork commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
Make the MAH your first stop this weekend with FREE First Friday.
Explore all three floors of the museum and see our latest exhibitions, check out our giftshop, and hangout among art and history! Then stay into the night dancing to live music out in Abbott Square.
First Friday hours are 12-8pm. See you then!
October 2, 2026 – Join the Santa Cruz Museum for a free public Zine-Making activity!
Presented in connection with a pop-up project on Oaxacan Languages of the Transnational Central Coast with the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute, this interactive activity will invite museum visitors to share personal stories or reflections on language, identity, and belonging.
*More information on the Oaxacan Languages Pop-Up will be available soon
Exhibition Spotlight: Borders of Belongingby Marsa Greenspan
This artwork is an appeal to orient toward wholeness amidst the fracture, laboring a paradigm of interdependence through the pain of presence. While we contend with social and ecological injustices of our past and present, is there wholeness in the justice we seek? Who and what do we exclude, and how does that impact our shared futures?
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