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Visualizing Abolition
April 10- August 16, 2026
In Libia Posada’s first solo exhibition in the United States, Everything is Going Right, new and existing artworks from the Colombia-based…
Visualizing Abolition
Nov. 5, 2019 – Ongoing
VAST Faculty Exhibition
April 10 – August 16, 2026
VAST Faculty Exhibition
April 10 – August 16, 2026
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![ID: [A scanned document of a table of information pertaining to medical experiments conducted in a prison in 1963. The scan is an inverted image: white, type-written text on a black background speckled with white dots and a white margin on the left side of the frame. The information presented includes the dates of these experiments, the University of Pennsylvania doctors who facilitated them, the number of inmates who participated in the experiments, and the amount that inmates were paid, ranging from one to fifteen dollars per study. Brief descriptions of each test is listed, including “To obtain data on tolerance of Myagen,” “To determine effectiveness of drug, Grisactin” and “To determine toxicity of drug, Wy-713”. At the bottom of the frame is a yellow subtitle, “they classify people.”]](https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/2026/03/017–CLS_Pre-ExistingCondition_2019_02-e1774380409661-720x460.jpg.webp)
