Music is in multi-instrumentalist and composer Cochemea Gastelum’s blood. For over 25 years, Cochemea has built a distinct career as a soloist, section player, and composer/arranger, collaborating with artists across genres — from his long tenure with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings to work with Kevin Morby, Run The Jewels, Jon Batiste, Amy Winehouse, The […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
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
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
Amanda Lovelee creates immersive artworks around the U.S. to influence government at the local and national levels to focus on climate justice. Her newest iteration of Homecoming envisions a symbolic micro field station for two trees in residence participating in assisted plant migration. Join us in welcoming these two trees to their residency and help […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, Family Friendly, Outdoor Event
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
Hear why Rolling Stone calls The Head and the Heart’s latest release, Aperture, their best album yet when the acclaimed indie band takes to the Hunter Center stage as part of their 15th Anniversary Tour!
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Solid Sound returns to MASS MoCA for 2026! This year’s musical lineup features The Breeders, Gang of Four, Billy Bragg, S.G. Goodman, L’Rain, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Sharp Pins, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, Hannah Cohen, and much more. As in festivals past, it would not be Solid Sound if it didn’t […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Solid Sound returns to MASS MoCA for 2026! This year’s musical lineup features The Breeders, Gang of Four, Billy Bragg, S.G. Goodman, L’Rain, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Sharp Pins, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, Hannah Cohen, and much more. As in festivals past, it would not be Solid Sound if it didn’t […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment