Practice drawing and engage with fellow visitors alongside the skillful artworks of Vincent Valdez. Stop into MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store to check out a drawing pad and graphite pencil (included in event registration) to use in the galleries of Vincent Valdez’s Just a Dream… exhibition.
With a streak of brazenness and her abrasive and likeable at the same time signature style, stand-up comedian Maddie Wiener made her Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon debut in fall 2024. Since then, she’s been recognized as a New Face at the Just for Laughs Festival and has filmed stand-up sets for Comedy Central and Don’t Tell […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Political philosopher Joy James speaks with Lucius Outlaw, a philosopher concerned with matters of social and political life. Together with Zora J Murff and Terence Washington, they inform and discuss Murff’s artistic examination of the overarching structures that shape Black Americans’ desires and aspirations for the things that only appear to be liberatory. This subject […]
Belong Berkshires, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibits, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
MASS MoCA is pleased to present Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE, curated by Terence Washington and the next exhibition to premiere as part of MASS MoCA’s Curatorial Exchange Initiative. RACE/HUSTLE aims to demonstrate, through photographs, collages, and, for the first time, installation works, that the pursuit of liberation is, in part, a struggle against a desire for what merely […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibits
Practice drawing and engage with fellow visitors alongside the skillful artworks of Vincent Valdez. Stop into MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store to check out a drawing pad and graphite pencil (included in event registration) to use in the galleries of Vincent Valdez’s Just a Dream… exhibition.
Join writer Anaїs Duplan for a multi-session, seminar-style series in our galleries to explore the concepts of privilege and power in contemporary art through reading short texts, writing in response to exhibitions, and discussion. This series focuses on exhibitions by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) identifying artists at MASS MoCA, who explore the […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Try your hand at Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing ceramic objects, in a special pop-up workshop in Jimena Sarno’s exhibition Rhapsody. While participants will work with modern materials for this short session, the class will be led by Gen Saratani, a master of traditional Kintsugi, who will share the history, philosophy, and authentic techniques […]
Arts and Culture, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Responding to the rapidly advancing technologies that are shaping our daily lives and social fabric, the artists in Technologies of Relation examine how we relate to each other, to machines, and to our future. These creators see the complexity of our relationships to the digital, avoiding the binary views that frame technology as good or bad, as […]
Contemporary Nature: Tending the Garden is a public symposium featuring a keynote by writer and philosopher Báyò Akómoláfé that poses questions for our ecological future. Artists, scholars, and students convene to share their experiences on what co-becoming means to them in their art, gardening, and land stewardship practices. In addition to Homecoming's Amanda Lovelee and […]
Arts and Culture, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Artist and programmer Amanda Lovelee presents Homecoming at MASS MoCA, an immersive, outdoor environmental art exhibition designed to remember a deeper connection between humans and nature while playfully addressing the urgency of climate change that is causing plants to migrate. The project envisions MASS MoCA as a symbolic micro field station for two trees in […]
Exhibits, Performing Arts & Entertainment