Oct 18, 2024 – Mar 2, 2025
Re:Collect: Remember Your Cosmic Roots
An immersive Afrospeculative experience that focuses on the exploration and preservation of indigenous cosmic roots.
Past Exhibitions
Aug 23, 2024 – Dec 29, 2024
Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
A traveling exhibition that champions an emerging generation of artists of African descent who are exploring identity, politics, and art history as they engage with the work of their predecessors across various media.
Dec 6, 2024 – Dec 8, 2024
Feasting on the World: Paintings by Gene Holtan and Poems by Gary Young
A pop up exhibit of local artist Gene Holtan's work with poems by Gary Young in collaboration with M.K Contemporary Art Gallery.
May 24, 2024 – Sep 29, 2024
Of Love and Revelation: Learning Photography from the Land
An exhibition of contemporary photographic experiments reveal our entanglements with landscape, the power of arts pedagogy, and the trouble of settler colonialism.
Sep 13, 2024 – Sep 22, 2024
CommonGround: A Festival of Place-Inspired, Outdoor ArtWorks
Explore the adventurous terrain of the MAH's biennial arts festival.
May 10, 2024 – Sep 22, 2024
Watermarks of the Last Chinatown
An interactive public memorial and augmented reality experience focused on Santa Cruz's Chinatown by Huy Truong, Susana Ruiz, and Karen Tei Yamashita.
Apr 12, 2024 – Aug 4, 2024
Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley
A community-driven exhibition that preserves and uplifts stories of Filipino migration and labor in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley of Central California.
Jun 1, 2024 – Jun 2, 2024
Is Gender Working For You?: Portraits of Gender-Deviant People Throughout History
Local artist Shani Fable's pop up exhibit in honor of Pride.
Feb 1, 2024 – May 12, 2024
Richard Mayhew: Inner Terrain
A rare and timely exhibition of the artwork of Richard Mayhew (b. 1924), featuring paintings that speak to American arts, culture, and history.
May 3, 2024 – May 5, 2024
Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls MMIWG
This pop up exhibit will raise awareness of the internationally recognized Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) movement.
May 3, 2024 – May 3, 2024
Look Me in the Eyes
Housing Matters' Artist-In-Residence, Abi Mustapha, curates a collaboration between people with lived experience of homelessness and local artists.
Jan 19, 2024 – Mar 24, 2024
Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition
Honor the legacy of Roy and Frances Rydell and the creativity of Santa Cruz County in an exhibition featuring the 2022-2023 Rydell Visual Arts Fund recipients, Kajahl Benes-Trapp, Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan, Anna Friz, and Janette Gross.
Feb 2, 2024 – Feb 4, 2024
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month Art Show
A pop up exhibit that raises awareness about teen dating violence and amplify the voices of those most impacted by it: teenagers.
Oct 13, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024
Werewolf Hunters, Jungle Queens, and Space Commandos: The Lost Worlds of Women Comic Artists
An exhibition on pioneering women comic book artists and how they drew themselves into the histories, politics, and futures from which the real world often excluded them.
Jan 4, 2024 – Jan 14, 2024
Fruiting Bodies
A photograph display based on local and regional ecosystems and environmental histories.