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# MASS MoCA

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

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- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA’s <em>Technologies of Relation</em> brings together twelve artists who reframe how we relate to each other, to digital devices, and to our future](https://massmoca.org/technologies-of-relation-103025/)
- [2025 Holiday Gift Guide](https://massmoca.org/2025-holiday-gift-guide/) - Our staff have hand-selected unique & inspiring picks for all price points this season.
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces Winter/Spring 2026 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-winter-spring-2026-programming/) - Featuring new exhibitions Technologies of Relation and a mediation with trees in Homecoming, Black Belt Eagle Scout and Mato Wayuhi with Ailani perform as part of Jeffrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT, concerts by Cochemea and Yaya Bey, and Community Free Day to welcome all in the new year Press Images Download the Full
- [Membership](https://massmoca.org/membership/) - Members make MASS MoCA. Join our community to receive annual membership benefits and access all there is to offer at the country's largest center for contemporary art and performance. As a member-supported organization, MASS MoCA relies on your philanthropic contributions to fulfill its mission. Whether you’re new to MASS MoCA or visit regularly, our membership
- [Host Event / Rent Space](https://massmoca.org/host-event-rent-space/) - MASS MoCA has among the most dramatic and creative spaces in all of New England available for your special event. This former-factory campus holds 250,000 sq. feet of gallery spaces filled with contemporary art—the perfect backdrop for your next gathering. MASS MoCA is also home to a thriving community of entrepreneurs, artists, and businesses located throughout
- [Announcing MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Records](https://massmoca.org/announcing-mass-moca-records/)
- [Jimena Sarno’s <em>Rhapsody</em> to be Presented at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/jimena-sarnos-rhapsody-pr/)
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces Curatorial Exchange Initiative](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-curatorial-exchange-initiative/) - MASS MoCA brings six curatorial leaders of diverse practice to North Adams in an innovative pilot program. MASS MoCA's Curatorial Exchange Initiative (CEI) is a 3-year pilot fellowship uniquely designed to incubate and amplify collaboration among diverse curatorial leaders whose experienced practices, knowledge, and project development with contemporary artists are at the forefront of professional
- [Zora J Murff’s <em>RACE/HUSTLE</em> illuminates difficult truths in the pursuit of raising consciousness using photographs, collages and for the first time, installation works](https://massmoca.org/zora-j-murff/) - 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 CEI.
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces Fall 2025 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-fall-2025-programming/) - Featuring the opening of two new exhibitions: Jimena Sarno’s Rhapsody and Zora J Murff’s RACE/HUSTLE, opportunities to experience multidisciplinary, work in progress performances including the return of The Plastic Bag Store creator Robin Frohardt, new work by the groundbreaking choreographer Deborah Hay, a historic restaging of Richard Foreman’s rock-opera What to wear, gallery visits with
- [MASS MoCA Celebrates Assets for Artists’ Next Chapter](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-celebrates-assets-for-artists-next-chapter/) - The Studios residency program to remain at MASS MoCAwhile Assets for Artists transitions to being an independent, 501(c)(3) to continue to deliver on its mission region-wide North Adams, MA, June 25, 2025 — MASS MoCA is proud to announce that as of October 1, 2025, its foundational, long-running program Assets for Artists (A4A) will begin
- [Vincent Valdez: <em>Just a Dream…</em> to be presented at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/vincent-valdez-emjust-a-dreamem-to-be-presented-at-mass-moca/)
- [Inaugural Limited Edition Print Portfolio Honors MASS MoCA’s 25th Anniversary](https://massmoca.org/inaugural-limited-edition-print-portfolio-honors-mass-mocas-25th-anniversary/) - North Adams, MA, May 21, 2025 — In honor of MASS MoCA’s 25th anniversary, the museum has published a limited edition print portfolio, in collaboration with Gary Lichtenstein Editions, entitled, 42°42’1” N/73°6’51” W (Coordinates Vol. 1). There are eleven silkscreen prints created by eleven artists who have each made an indelible impact on MASS MoCA
- [A Statement From Director Kristy Edmunds](https://massmoca.org/a-statement-from-director-kristy-edmunds/) - TUESDAY, MAY 6 On Friday night, the National Endowment for the Arts sent MASS MoCA an email notification of the termination of our awarded grant for the support of Jeffrey Gibson’s commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT. The NEA grant for this exhibition was awarded last year under the prior federal administration in accordance with
- [Coordinates](https://massmoca.org/coordinates/)
- [Ways to Give](https://massmoca.org/ways-of-giving/) - Thank you for considering making a gift to MASS MoCA. Dedicated to helping artists and their supporters create and show important new work, MASS MoCA brings bold visual and performing art in all stages of production to our visitors, while creating a center of creativity and commerce that brings life and economic vibrancy to North
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces Summer 2025 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-summer-2025-programming/) - North Adams, MA, April 16, 2025 — MASS MoCA today announces its full lineup of summer programming. Following the celebratory opening weekend of Vincent Valdez: Just A Dream…, this summer’s concerts, workshops, and events include SNACKTIME (July 12), Guster & The Mountain Goats (July 26), and many others live in concert; the final Like Magic:
- [Jeffrey Gibson: <em>POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT </em>| Opening Nov 3, 2024](https://massmoca.org/jeffrey-gibson-power-full-because-were-different-opening-nov-3-2024/) - Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT is a newly commissioned immersive installation that will inhabit MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery and follows Gibson’s highly celebrated United States representation at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. Gibson is known for creating installations, performances, paintings, and sculpture that elevate and provide visibility to
- [LOUD Weekend | July 31– August 2, 2025](https://massmoca.org/loud-weekend-july-31-august-2-2025/) - MASS MoCA and Bang on a Can announce the 2025 edition of their multi-day music festival LOUD Weekend, presented on Thursday, July 31 through Saturday, August 2, 2025, at MASS MoCA in North Adams, located in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts (1040 MASS MoCA Way). LOUD Weekend features three days of ear-bending music and
- [LOUD Weekend | August 1–3, 2024](https://massmoca.org/loud-weekend-august-1-3-2024/) - Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA announce the 2024 edition of their multi-day music festival LOUD Weekend, presented on Thursday, August 1 through Saturday, August 3, 2024, at MASS MoCA in North Adams, located in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts (1040 MASS MoCA Way). LOUD Weekend features three days of ear-bending music and
- [FreshGrass | North Adams Announces Initial Lineup for Annual Bluegrass and Roots Festival at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA, September 19–21, 2025](https://massmoca.org/freshgrass-north-adams-announces-initial-lineup-for-annual-bluegrass-and-roots-festival-at-mass-moca-september-19-21-2025/)
- [36 hours at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA</br>and in the Berkshires](https://massmoca.org/joes-three-day-mass-moca-tour/) - Three days of mountains, museums, and main streets of western Massachusetts.
- [Steve Locke: <em>the fire next time </em>| Opening Aug 3, 2024](https://massmoca.org/steve-locke/) - MASS MoCA presents the first exhibition from the Curatorial Exchange Initiative (CEI) by New York-based artist Steve Locke. Curated by CEI Fellow Evan Garza, the fire next time is a meditation on uniquely American forms of violence directed at Black and queer people. Locke’s interdisciplinary practice engages issues of identity, desire, race, violence, spectacle, and
- [2025 Valentine's Day Gift Guide](https://massmoca.org/2025-valentines-day-gift-guide/) - Our staff have hand-selected unique & inspiring Valentines Day picks for all price points.
- [MASS MoCA Benefit Dinner & Celebration](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-benefit-dinner-celebration/)
- [Alison Pebworth: <i>Cultural Apothecary</i> brings an antidote to loneliness and isolation to MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/alison-pebworth-cultural-apothecary-brings-an-antidote-to-loneliness-and-isolation-to-mass-moca/)
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces Memorial Day Weekend Summer 2025 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-memorial-day-weekend-summer-2025-programming/) - As a capstone to its 25th Anniversary Season, MASS MoCA announces its Memorial Day Weekend programming accompanying the opening of Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… in addition to other not-to-be-missed Summer 2025 events including activations of Jeﬀrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT by Indigenous artists Martha Redbone and MX Oops, and open enrollment for
- [Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival Returns June 28–30, 2024 to MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA in North Adams, MA](https://massmoca.org/wilcos-solid-sound-festival-returns-june-28-30-2024-to-mass-moca-in-north-adams-ma/) - There are few festivals that measure up to the diverse and surprising programming that is typical of Wilco’s Solid Sound. The beloved music and arts festival returns to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts from June 28–30, 2024. Conceived by Wilco and co-produced by Higher Ground Presents, Solid Sound was inaugurated in 2010. The 2024
- [Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier to be presented at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/ohan-breidingbelly-of-a-glacier-to-be-presented-at-mass-moca/)
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Appoints Nora Trebbe Maroulis as Chief Advancement Officer](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-appoints-nora-trebbe-maroulis-as-chief-advancement-officer/) - MASS MoCA has announced the appointment of Nora Trebbe Maroulis as Chief Advancement Officer after a national search and selection process. In this newly created position, Maroulis will lead MASS MoCA’s advancement team in the development and implementation of strategies for contributed revenue across all channels, including playing the lead role in designing, planning, and
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Appoints Evan Garza as Curator](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-appoints-evan-garza-as-curator/) - MASS MoCA has announced the appointment of Evan Garza as Curator after a national search and selection process. Garza is currently one of the six Curatorial Fellows through the museum’s new Curatorial Exchange Initiative (CEI). As part of CEI, they will be mounting the exhibition Steve Locke: the fire next time, opening on August 3,
- [$17.3 Million Raise Grant Will Prepare a 9.3-Mile Shared-Use Path Connecting Northern Berkshire Communities for Construction](https://massmoca.org/9-3-mile-shared-use-path/)
- [2024 Holiday Gift Guide](https://massmoca.org/2024-holiday-gift-guide/) - Our staff have hand-selected unique & inspiring picks for all price points this season.
- [Annual Fund](https://massmoca.org/annual-fund/) - Become an advocate for MASS MoCA and support the future of artmaking and creativity in all forms. Please consider making a gift to support MASS MoCA’s mission to advance artmaking and acts of creativity in whatever form they may take. Every dollar of your tax-deductible annual fund gift represents a shared optimism for an unknown
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces 25th Anniversary Season Winter/Spring 2025 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-25th-anniversary-season-winter-spring-2025-programming/) - Featuring performance activations of Jeffrey Gibson’s MASS MoCA commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT, a 25-year survey of work by Vincent Valdez, an evening with vanguard cultural critic Fran Lebowitz, concerts by Ani DiFranco, slowdive, Dave Guy, and Angélica Garcia, and a community Free Day featuring immersive art encounters and conversations with local and visiting
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces 25th Anniversary Season Summer 2024 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-25th-anniversary-season-summer-2024-programming/) - Featuring a 25th Anniversary Community Celebration including a performance by Academy Award®-nominated Son Lux; upcoming exhibitions by Osman Khan, Chris Doyle and Steve Locke; comedy by Dulcé Sloan; and North Adams mainstays Wilco’s Solid Sound, FreshGrass, and The Chalet. Press Release Images
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CAAnnounces Landmark, 5-year Investment by MountainOne as its Lead Community Sponsor](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-landmark-5-year-investment-by-mountainone/) - MASS MoCA is proud to announce MountainOne as its Lead Community Sponsor for the next five years – a landmark commitment of $350,000 that provides broad support for MASS MoCA’s public and educational programming during a critical time of institutional growth and change. This extraordinary partnership commenced with MASS MoCA’s 25th Anniversary Community Celebration on
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces 25th Anniversary Season Fall 2024 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-fall-2024-programming/) - Featuring a new immersive exhibition by Jeffrey Gibson, a live performance set to the film Koyaanisqatsi by globally renowned The Philip Glass Ensemble; and electrifying dance events by Afro-Brazilian-inspired Music From The Sole, and the all-woman salsa band Lulada Club. Press Release Images
- [Immersive experience <em>The Plastic Bag Store</em> melds installation art, theater, film, and fun for its museum debut at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/immersive-experience-the-plastic-bag-store-melds-installation-art-theater-film-and-fun-for-its-museum-debut-at-mass-moca/) - MASS MoCA, in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival, is thrilled to announce The Plastic Bag Store as part of its 25th Anniversary Season. Created by artist Robin Frohardt and produced by Pomegranate Arts, this guided and immersive, multimedia experience will be open from May 9 through November 3, 2024, in MASS MoCA’s Building 1 and
- [Revised 2024 Spring / Summer Exhibition Schedule](https://massmoca.org/revised-2024-spring-summer-exhibition-schedule/) - MASS MoCA is pleased to announce some updates to its 25th Anniversary programming. Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad will now open August 24, 2024 to allow additional time for MASS MoCA’s creative team to build and prepare elements of this major, new commission in collaboration with the artist. Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other
- [LOUD Weekend | July 28-30, 2022](https://massmoca.org/loud-weekend-july-28-30-2022/) - Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA announce the 2022 edition of their multi-day music festival called LOUD Weekend, presented on Thursday, July 28 through Saturday, July 30, 2022, at MASS MoCA. LOUD Weekend features three days of ear-bending music and mind-blowing art exhibitions taking place throughout the museum’s vast galleries and its stunning collection
- [FreshGrass | North Adams Announces Initial Lineup for Annual Bluegrass and Roots Festival at MASS MoCA, September 20-22, 2024](https://massmoca.org/freshgrass-north-adams-announcesinitial-lineup-for-annual-bluegrass-and-roots-festival-at-mass-moca-september20-22-2024/) - FreshGrass, MASS MoCA’s annual three-day festival of bluegrass and roots music, announces the initial 2024 lineup, featuring Shakey Graves, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, The Devil Makes Three, Drive-By Truckers Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sanchez Trio, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Adia Victoria, Alison Brown, PACHYMAN, New Dangerfield, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands,
- [Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad | Opening August 24, 2024](https://massmoca.org/osman-khan-road-to-hybridabad-opening-may-25-2024/) - In Road to Hybridabad–his first solo museum exhibition–Detroit-based artist Osman Khan re-reads the magical and fantastical figures found in folktales and lore, with a particular focus on those from South Asia, the Middle East, and other Muslim and immigrant traditions. Khan interprets these figures through contemporary technologies through a new body of multimedia work that
- [MASS MoCA Appoints Lisa Dent as Director of Public Programs](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-appoints-lisa-dent-as-director-of-public-programs/) - MASS MoCA has appointed Lisa Dent as its new Director of Public Programs, the first in MASS MoCA’s nearly 25-year history. Dent comes to MASS MoCA from Artspace New Haven, where she has been Executive Director since 2020. Previously, she led public programs and business development at Powerhouse Arts, led the Artist Services department at
- [Pixies & Modest Mouse with Special Guest Cat Power | August 26, 2023](https://massmoca.org/pixies-modest-mouse-with-special-guest-cat-power-august-26-2023/) - Indie rock kingpins Pixies and Modest Mouse announce they will be joining forces for the third and final leg of Pixies’ 2023 North American tour. With Special Guest Cat Power, the third leg kicks off August 20 and includes an August 26 show at MASS MoCA’s Joe’s Field on August 26. Press Release Images
- [Jason Moran | Opening December 17, 2022](https://massmoca.org/jason-moran-opening-december-17-2022/) - MASS MoCA announces the upcoming opening of Black Stars: Writing in the Dark, an installation bringing together works on paper and mixed-media STAGED sculptures by pianist, composer, and artist Jason Moran. On view in B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building through 2024, the exhibition – curated by Alexandra Foradas – visualizes the embodied experiences of
- [$25.4M state grant to fuel MASS MoCA’s final phase, doubling gallery space <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/state-grant-to-fuel-mass-mocas-final-phase-doubling-gallery-space-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [Joseph Grigely | Opening May 28, 2023](https://massmoca.org/joseph-grigely-opening-may-28-2023/) - MASS MoCA announces Joseph Grigely's exhibition In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996-2023), opening May 28, 2023. The exhibition will occupy MASS MoCA's ground-floor galleries and will debut a new, monumental, installation consisting of two intersecting oval rooms that surround the viewer with thousands of handwritten conversation papers passed between the artist
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA United Auto Workers Negotiations Update](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-united-auto-workers-negotiations-update/) - TUESDAY, MARCH 26 MASS MoCA has reached a contract agreement with the United Auto Workers Union Local 2110, bringing an end to wage negotiations that began October 1, 2023. Message from Director Kristy Edmunds Equity and wage increases for MASS MoCA's staff have never been a matter of if, but a matter of how fast.
- [Art Detox will Put Some Spring in Your Step](https://massmoca.org/art-detox-will-put-some-spring-in-your-step/) - During the April school vacation week, MASS MoCAs Education Department will offer a Spring Break Art Detox, a series of three workshops for children ages 5 to 12 (parents are welcome to accompany them). Workshops will run from 9-11am, and each session will offer two art projects and healthy snacks. The workshops will focus on themes
- [Not Your Typical Book Club](https://massmoca.org/not-your-typical-book-club/) - What if your Book Club was led by the very people who created the books you were reading? MASS MoCA has invited Johnny Carrera and Tom Phillips, exhibiting artists of "Life's Work," to lead discussion and join audiences for refreshments in our second adult-oriented Book Club educational program. At 6pm on Wednesday, April 3rd, you'll
- [Good-bye Jello :(](https://massmoca.org/good-bye-jello/) - You Art What You Eat had a good run, but it's time for Kidspace to go sugar-free again. Good-bye candy... Good-bye broccoli dog... Good-bye wrapper curtains that sparkled in the sun... Good-bye jello... We'll miss you :( *Please note: Kidspace will be CLOSED for installation from 9/7-10/1 Come join us for the opening of our
- [Kidspace to offer Spring Break Art Detox this April](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-to-offer-spring-break-art-detox-this-april/) - Kidspace at MASS MoCA presents Spring Break Art Detox For 5- to 12-year-olds Join us over spring break for a series of creative workshops to celebrate the planet and yourself just in time for Earth Day 2012. Plant, nourish, and get inspired. Parents are encouraged to join in on the fun; children may also be
- [Knee-deep in Pipe Cleaners](https://massmoca.org/knee-deep-in-pipe-cleaners/) - Artist Ginger Ertz helping students with their pipe cleaner sea creatures Our second artist-in-residency is well under way! This week Ginger Ertz, of Schenectady, NY, is working with K-4 students in our six partner schools. These lucky kids will have their own chenille stem (aka pipe cleaner) artwork, created with Ertz's guidance, displayed in Kidspace!
- [Registration for our Active Art Camp during February Break is now OPEN!](https://massmoca.org/registration-for-our-active-art-camp-during-february-break-is-now-open/) - Dive in to a week of sea-inspired art and fun activities at Kidspace! Inspired by the current Under the Sea exhibition, we will explore the human impact on the environment and our relationship to nature through morning art projects and afternoon bookmaking. Each day will include: Art Projects: Sand Mandalas, Treasure Chests, Windsock Printmaking, Watercolor
- [Kidspace Birthday Parties are Back!](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-birthday-parties-are-back/) - Have a whale of a time at your very own Kidspace Birthday Party! Rent out the Kidspace gallery for your exclusive use; invite your friends, get up close and personal with the artwork, play games and create your own masterpieces to bring home. Choose one of three birthday party packages to make your child's birthday
- [Presenting: Kids at Work!](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-mass-moca-presents-kids-at-work/) - Here at MASS MoCA, Take Your Child to Work Day means more than just bringing our kids to work we put em to work, too! This December, four creative kids and their MoCA staff parents will be leading fabulous hands-on art workshops. So kids, grab your parents and join us over December Break to get
- [Materials Needed](https://massmoca.org/materials-needed/) - WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE FOLLOWING ITEMS: * colorful bottle caps (soda, juice, milk, food jars) * solid or multi-colored cardboard boxes * cardboard tubes or plastic colorful tubes or straws * plastic forks, knives, spoons * paper plates and cups If you have any of these items, please send us an e-mail, we will
- [Helping Hands](https://massmoca.org/helping-hands/) - We love being part of such a generous and tight community. It is really inspiring to see how people mobilize to help each other during a tragedy. Two local couples lost everything to a fire on Monday, and per usual the community is rallying to support them and help out. The Christmas spirit is alive
- [Joan Steiner](https://massmoca.org/joan-steiner/) - It's not often that we receive bad news here @ Kidspace, but today we were sad to learn of the passing of one of our recent artists JOAN STEINER. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesunion-albany/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=145196419 Joan, we thank you for sharing your imagination and creativity with the world. You've inspired us to see details in the mundane, seek wonder in
- [Artist Residencies Have Begun!](https://massmoca.org/artist-residencies-have-begun/) - 5th and 6th graders from Gabriel Abbot Memorial School in Florida, MA with their under-the-sea menagerie We kicked off this year's artist residency program today with artist James Grashow, whose Under the Corrugated Sea installation has been a huge hit in our current exhibition! During the residency, Grashow is working with 5th-7th graders at five
- [MASS MoCA receives $1M Barr Foundation Grant Supporting Creative Placemaking Efforts](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-receives-1m-barr-foundation-grant-supporting-creative-placemaking-efforts/) - On the heels of its annual Community Day which welcomed over 2,650 people through its doors for free, MASS MoCA will continue to amplify its commitment to North Adams by piloting several creative placemaking and civic partnership efforts over the next year, which intersect with immediate and long term community needs in housing, civic infrastructure,
- [Corporate Membership](https://massmoca.org/corporate-membership/) - Since opening in 1999, MASS MoCA has helped spark the growth of a vibrant creative economy in Berkshire County. Demonstrate your company’s commitment to the arts while supporting regional economic development by becoming a corporate member. Corporate contributions allow us to create an active workshop to support budding artists and new art. In return for
- [Help us build a skatepark!](https://massmoca.org/help-us-build-a-skatepark/) - North Adams is in the running for a grant from Pepsi that would give us the resources to build a skate park! We are really excited to be part of this project, but we need your help. From September 1st to 30th we need you to vote for the project. You can vote up to
- [Not just Kidspace](https://massmoca.org/not-just-kidspace/) - Explore MASS MoCA with kids.
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces 2024 Winter/Spring Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-2024-winter-spring-programming/) - A dynamic season features immersions in Like Magic, multimedia artist collective Touki Delphine’s FIREBIRD “orchestra” of light, Flamenco dance, Antonio Sánchez’s Grammy Award-winning film score of Birdman performed live, and more. Press Release Images
- [Like Magic | Opening October 28, 2023](https://massmoca.org/like-magic-opening-october-28-2023/) - MASS MoCA is pleased to announce the group exhibition Like Magic, opening October 28, 2023. Like Magic addresses contemporary artists’ relationships to technologies associated with magic—including devices, talismans, rituals, incantations—and invites visitors to explore the points where technology and magic converge. Press Release Images Installation view of Like Magic at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
- [MASS MoCA Announces Fall 2023 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-fall-2023-programming/) - MASS MoCA is pleased to announce its Fall 2023 programming. Programs include events related to MASS MoCA's newest exhibition — Like Magic, which opens on October 29 (with a member preview October 28) — as well as concerts, community events, and so much more, the fall season has something for everyone. Press Release Images
- [Elle Perez | Opening July 22, 2023](https://massmoca.org/elle-perez-opening-july-22-2023/) - Beginning July 22, 2023, MASS MoCA will present Elle Pérez: Intimacies, an exhibition of photographs by the acclaimed Bronx-born, Puerto Rican photographer. The show will be on view in B6: The Robert Wilson Building, through June 2024. This selection of works is an expanded presentation of a body of work titled Devotions shown in part
- [MASS MoCA receives $650,000 Leadership in Art Museums grant](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-receives-650000-leadership-in-art-museums-grant/) - MASS MoCA has received a Leadership in Art Museums (LAM) grant for $650,000 over five years from a consortium of philanthropic partners that will support the creation of two new leadership positions within MASS MoCA: a Director of Public Programs & Engagement — the first in MASS MoCA’s nearly 25-year history — and an additional
- [Carrie Schneider | Opening March 11, 2023](https://massmoca.org/carrie-schneider-opening-march-11-2023/) - Beginning March 11, MASS MoCA will present a suite of new works made by artist Carrie Schneider. Three series of photographs and a 16mm film—all made over the past 2½ years––play with the camera’s imaginative potential and the image's fraught relationship to power, authorship, and the feminine. Press Release Images
- [MASS MoCA and UAW Reach Inaugural Contract](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-and-uaw-reach-inaugural-contract/) - Agreement clears the way for a broad range of policy changes and equity adjustments MASS MoCA employees represented by UAW Local 2110 voted on November 23 to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement, after a 14-month negotiation process. The agreement includes substantive wage increases, as well as a range of new institution-wide benefits. Also included
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces Summer 2023 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-summer-2023-programming/) - MASS MoCA announces Summer 2023 programming featuring the exhibitions Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham?, Anne Samat: Love, and Elle Pérez: Intimacies; performances by Rina Sawayama, Phony Ppl, Danielle Ponder, and more; and the opening of the brand new Research & Development Store Press Release Images
- [Rina Sawayama | June 9, 2023](https://massmoca.org/rina-sawayama-june-9/) - Japanese-British pop savant Rina Sawayama will grace MASS MoCA this June with an outdoor show to kick off the first leg of her summer tour. Press Release Images
- [Sponsorship](https://massmoca.org/sponsorship/) - With annual attendance of 160,000, MASS MoCA ranks among the most visited institutions in the United States dedicated to new art, yet ticket sales and other earned revenue support only a small fraction of our total operating costs. From exhibitions and events to more custom-tailored packages, there are many opportunities for restricted giving and sponsorship
- [LOUD Weekend | July 27-29, 2023](https://massmoca.org/loud-weekend-july-27-29-2023/) - Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA announce the 2023 edition of their multi-day music festival called LOUD Weekend, presented on Thursday, July 27 through Saturday, July 29, 2023, at MASS MoCA in North Adams, located in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts. LOUD Weekend features three days of ear-bending music and mind-blowing art exhibitions
- [to see oneself at a distance | Opening March 25, 2023](https://massmoca.org/to-see-oneself-at-a-distance-opening-march-25-2023/) - MASS MoCA presents to see oneself at a distance, on view beginning March 25, 2023. This exhibition highlights the works of four contemporary artist-researchers who employ rigorous, long-term archival investigations to create their work. Together, they explore decolonization and national liberation not as event horizons, but as a series of gestures, ruptures, and fragments that
- [EJ Hill: Brake Run Helix | Opening October 29, 2022](https://massmoca.org/ej-hill-brake-run-helix-opening-october-29-2022/) - MASS MoCA presents EJ Hill: Brake Run Helix, on view beginning October 29. For Brake Run Helix, EJ Hill will create a sprawling exhibition that incorporates freestanding sculptures, paintings, a stage for performances, and a rideable sculptural installation inspired by the form and function of roller coasters. Filling MASS MoCA’s famed 100-yard-long Building 5 gallery,
- [MASS MoCA Promotes Denise Markonish To Chief Curator](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-promotes-denise-markonish-to-chief-curator/) - MASS MoCA has promoted veteran curator Denise Markonish as its new Chief Curator, the first in MASS MoCA’s nearly 25-year history. Markonish joined MASS MoCA in 2007, and has over twenty years of experience producing and commissioning large-scale and experiential exhibitions and publishing catalogues, previously at the Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA and Artspace, New Haven,
- [Daniel Giordano | Opening February 4, 2023](https://massmoca.org/daniel-giordano-opening-february-4-2023/) - This February, MASS MoCA is delighted to present Daniel Giordano’s first solo museum exhibition, Love From Vicki Island, which will fill one of the museum’s third floor gallery spaces beginning February 4, 2023. Grappling with a culture in transition, the works in this exhibition speak simultaneously to a family, a city, and a country trying
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces Winter/Spring 2023 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-winter-spring-2023-programming/) - MASS MoCA announces Winter/Spring 2023 programming featuring exhibitions from Daniel Giordano and Carrie Schneider, performances by Jlin and Urban Bush Women, conversations with Laura Mulvey and Maggie Nelson, and more. Press Release Images
- [MASS MoCA Announces Fall 2022 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-fall-2022-programming/) - MASS MoCA announces Fall 2022 programming featuring exhibitions from EJ Hill and Jason Moran, a world premiere from Shamel Pitts | TRIBE and performances by Jack Ferver, Soccer Mommy, Taylor Mac, and more. Press Release Images
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Completes First of Two-Year Grant From Wells Fargo Foundation](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-completes-first-of-two-year-grant-from-wells-fargo-foundation/) - One year ago, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art was honored to receive a $300,000 award from the Wells Fargo Foundation to support its rapidly expanding Assets for Artists program. The two-year grant supports a broad spectrum of the Assets for Artists program activities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut needed to meet more-than-doubled demand
- [Defining Moments | Opening June 26, 2022](https://massmoca.org/defining-moments-opening-june-26-2022/) - MASS MoCA has announced Defining Moments, featuring the work of Shaun Leonardo and Bruno Miguel, on view in Kidspace, the museum’s child-centered gallery, and hands-on studio, beginning June 26. The exhibition explores how memories are formed, recalled, and visualized. Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Shaun Leonardo and Brazilian pop artist Bruno Miguel share their individual and cultural
- [Amy Yoes: Hot Corners | Opening May 28, 2022](https://massmoca.org/amy-yoes-hot-corners-opening-may-2022/) - MASS MoCA announces Amy Yoes: Hot Corners, a site-specific installation that will transform a 142-foot hall space in Building 6 into a multi-room, immersive complex with thematic forms and functions. Hot Corners, on view May 28, 2022, combines Yoes’ passion for architecture, period rooms, interior design, and decorative arts in a dynamic environment that will
- [Choreopolitics: Brendan Fernandes and nibia pastrana santiago | Opening April 9, 2022](https://massmoca.org/choreopolitics-brendan-fernandes-and-nibia-pastrana-santiago-opening-april-9-2022/) - MASS MoCA presents Choreopolitics: Brendan Fernandes and nibia pastrana santiago, on view beginning April 9. The exhibition juxtaposes the work of the two multidisciplinary artists, who use dance to resist, heal, and connect. Choreopolitics is curated by McClain Groff, a graduate curatorial fellow in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. Press
- [MASS MoCA Announces Summer 2022 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-summer-2022-programming/) - MASS MoCA announces Summer 2022 programming featuring exhibitions from Amy Yoes, Bruno Miguel, and Shaun Leonardo, and performances by John Cameron Mitchell & Amber Martin, Terrence Simien, Cirque Kalabante, Brooke Annibale, and more Press Release Images
- [FreshGrass North Adams  | September 23-25, 2022](https://massmoca.org/freshgrass-north-adams-september-23-25-2022/) - FreshGrass, MASS MoCA’s annual three-day festival of bluegrass and progressive roots music, announces the initial 2022 lineup, featuring Gary Clark Jr., Old Crow Medicine Show, Trampled by Turtles, Yola, The Jerry Douglas Band, Aoife O’Donovan, Sierra Ferrell, Alison Brown, The Lil Smokies, Sierra Hull, Willie Watson, Luca Ciarla, Never Come Down, Misty Blues, California Bluegrass
- [Marc Swanson: A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco | Opening March 12, 2022](https://massmoca.org/marc-swanson-a-memorial-to-ice-at-the-dead-deer-disco-opening-march-12-2022/) - MASS MoCA has announced the artist Marc Swanson’s most ambitious installation to date. A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco addresses the impending losses resulting from climate change, and the frustrating inability to change or control this outcome. Through the use of theatricality, taxidermy mounts, video, light animations, and shrouded sculptures, A Memorial
- [Amy Hauft: 700,000:1 | Terra + Luna + Sol | Opening March 12, 2022](https://massmoca.org/amy-hauft-7000001-terra-luna-sol-opening-march-12-2022/) - MASS MoCA has announced an exhibition of large-scale architectural installations by sculptor Amy Hauft. By playing with scale and perception, Hauft proposes ways of experiencing the vastness and mystery of our universe while complicating our understanding of our physical circumstance on Earth. Experienced together, the three sculptural works that comprise the exhibition invite viewers to
- [Lily Cox-Richard: Weep Holes | Opening March 12, 2022](https://massmoca.org/lily-cox-richard-weep-holes-opening-march-12-2022/) - MASS MoCA has announced artist Lily Cox-Richard’s Weep Holes, an exhibition of all new work that addresses ideas of stewardship, beauty and threat, collective action, and building and dismantling. Weep Holes is curated by MASS MoCA senior curator and director of exhibitions Denise Markonish and will be on view from March 12, 2022 through December
- [MASS MoCA Announces New Winter/Spring 2022 Programming](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-new-winter-spring-2022-programming/) - MASS MoCA announces new Winter/Spring programming including the exhibition Choreopolitics: Brendan Fernandes & nibia pastrana santiago—on view beginning April 9—which examines the work of multidisciplinary artists Brendan Fernandes and nibia pastrana santiago, who use dance to resist, heal, and connect. Glenn Kaino, whose exhibition In the Light of a Shadow explores the connections between global
- [Yemandja | March 4 & 5, 2022](https://massmoca.org/yemandja-march-4-5-2022/) - Yemandja, a new music theater work conceived by and starring global music songstress and four-time Grammy award winner, Angélique Kidjo will be the centerpiece of MASS MoCA’s annual benefit on Saturday March 5, 2022 at 4:00pm. A post-performance cocktail hour will be followed by dinner with the cast and an art auction in MASS MoCA's
- [Kraftwerk | June 10, 2022](https://massmoca.org/kraftwerk-june-10-2022/) - Coming off of their history-making induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this past weekend (October 30), electronic pioneers Kraftwerk announce their 2022 North American 3-D concert tour. The summer run will not only build on their concert tours worldwide 3-D of the last ten years, but also mark the tour’s long-awaited launch
- [Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind | Opening November 20, 2021](https://massmoca.org/yto-barrada-ways-to-baffle-the-wind-opening-november-20-2021/) - MASS MoCA presents Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind, on view beginning November 20. The exhibition of new and recent work—including sculpture, drawings, textiles, films, and works on paper—is assembled to model, parody, and learn from attempts to regulate and organize nature. Ways to Baffle the Wind is a collaboration between MASS MoCA and
- [MASS MoCA Announces Upcoming 2022 Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-upcoming-2022-exhibitions/) - MASS MoCA announces its upcoming exhibitions through March 2022, featuring solo shows of work by Lily Cox-Richard, Amy Hauft, and Marc Swanson. Press Release Images
- [MASS MoCA Announces Kristy Edmunds as Next Director](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-kristy-edmunds-as-next-director/) - The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announced today that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its new Director, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board. Edmunds comes to MASS MoCA from UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), where she has
- [October & November 2021 Programming](https://massmoca.org/october-november-2021-programming/) - MASS MoCA announces October and November programming featuring performances, artist talks, and two exhibitions—Ceramics in the Expanded Field and Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind—on view beginning October 16 and November 20, respectively. Artist talks and performances include a conversation with exhibiting artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE on transnationality and the rich culture of the
- [LOUD Weekend| July 30-31, 2021](https://massmoca.org/loud-weekend-july-30-31-2021/) - Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA announce the return of their multi-day music festival LOUD Weekend, presented on Friday, July 30 and Saturday, July 31, 2021. LOUD Weekend features two days of minimal, experimental, and electronic music taking place throughout the museum’s vast galleries and indoor and outdoor performing arts venues. Press Release
- [Taryn Simon: The Pipes | Opening June 26, 2021](https://massmoca.org/the-pipes/) - MASS MoCA announces the installation of Taryn Simon's large-scale outdoor sculpture, The Pipes, which will be on long-term view on the museum’s campus starting June 26, 2021. What began as an oversized concrete instrument for a cacophony of global mourning in Simon’s work An Occupation of Loss (Park Avenue Armory, 2016) will be populated by
- [James Turrell: C.A.V.U. | Opening May 29, 2021](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-to-open-a-skyspace-by-james-turrell/) - MASS MoCA and James Turrell announce that a new Skyspace – titled C.A.V.U. – will open on the museum’s campus on May 29, 2021. C.A.V.U. will augment one of the world’s most comprehensive experiences of installations by the artist while realizing a vision the artist had when visiting the museum’s campus in 1987. The installation
- [Glenn Kaino: In The Light of a Shadow | April 4, 2021 - September 4, 2022](https://massmoca.org/glenn-kaino-in-the-light-of-a-shadow/) - The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) presents Glenn Kaino: In The Light of a Shadow from April 4, 2021 through September 4, 2022. Curated by Denise Markonish, the show will take over MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 galleries, with a series of immersive installations inspired by the connection between protest movements across the
- [2021 Summer Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/2021-summer-season-announce/) - MASS MoCA announces its 2021 Summer Season with the opening of two new installations on May 29 – Shaun Leonardo’s You walk… and James Turrell’s Skyspace C.A.V.U. – and a kickoff concert featuring vocalist Julianna Barwick and harpist Mary Lattimore. Time of Now returns on June 26, with a full day of in-person and virtual
- [Shaun Leonardo: You walk... | Opening May 29, 2021](https://massmoca.org/you-walk-opening-may-29-2021/) - MASS MoCA announces Shaun Leonardo’s You walk… as the inaugural exhibition in its newly established community engagement space. Located within the Hunter Mezzanine, the project space was established with two-year funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and will serve as a convening area for individual visitors, groups, staff, and artists. You walk…
- [FreshGrass North Adams | September 24-26, 2021](https://massmoca.org/freshgrass-north-adams-september-24-26-2021/) - FreshGrass, MASS MoCA’s annual three-day festival of bluegrass and progressive roots music, announces the lineup for its 10th anniversary, featuring: Dispatch (acoustic), Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart (featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, and Bryan Sutton), Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), Sam Bush, Steep Canyon Rangers (FreshGrass Artist-in-Residence), Sarah
- [Still I Rise](https://massmoca.org/still-i-rise/) - For Immediate Release15 November 2018Contact: Jodi JosephDirector of Communications413.664.4481 x8113jjoseph@massmoca.org Kidspace opens Still I Rise Featuring artists Gustave Blache III, E2 - Kleinveld & Julien, Genevieve Gaignard, Tim Okamura, and Deborah Roberts You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted liesYou may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise Maya
- [MASS MoCA and the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center at MCLA Present Panel Series on Anti-Racism and the Arts](https://massmoca.org/press-release-mass-moca-and-the-berkshire-cultural-resource-center-at-mcla-present-in-session-panel-series-on-anti-racism-and-the-arts/) - For Immediate Release MASS MoCA 1040 MASS MoCA Way North Adams, MA 01247 Contact: Jenny Wright press@massmoca.org MASS MoCA and the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center at MCLA Present Panel Series on Anti-Racism and the Arts First Panel on December 10 to feature artists Nick Cave, Shaun Leonardo, Steve Locke, and Xaviera Simmons, moderated by M.
- [Summer 2018 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/summer-2018-season-announce/) - For Immediate Release 18 April 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Concerts with The Decemberists, Grizzly Bear, Ray LaMontagne, Neko Case, Courtney Barnett, and Blondie anchor MASS MoCA’s big summer of music, dance, comedy, and film Major new exhibition by Taryn Simon featuring two new installation-based commissions fills first-floor galleries
- [Annie Lennox: <span class="title-light">'Now I Let You Go...'</span>](https://massmoca.org/annie-lennox-now-i-let-you-go-press/) - For Immediate Release 20 February 2019 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Annie Lennox: 'Now I Let You Go...' Singer-songwriter’s most personal museum exhibition to date May 25 benefit concert planned to launch exhibition NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Across and within a massive earthen mound wending through two galleries, renowned performer and
- [Winter/Spring 2018 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/sp-18-season-announce/) - For Immediate Release 13 December 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Bon Iver scores TU Dance, concerts with Sylvan Esso, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and POLIÇA / s t a r g a z e headline winter/spring season packed with new art, live music, dance, theater, and the return of the
- [Fall 2018 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/30596-2/) - For Immediate Release 15 August 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org FreshGrass Festival returns with Flogging Molly, Indigo Girls, Trampled by Turtles, Béla Fleck, Rhiannon Giddens, and local heroes The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow — more than 50 bands in all Angel Olsen, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Decemberists, and Tune-Yards with
- [Winter/Spring 2019 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/winter-spring-2019-season-announce/) - For Immediate Release 12 December 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Punch Brothers, Car Seat Headrest, and Mitski headline a winter/spring lineup packed with new art, live music, dance, and the return of the High Mud Comedy Festival Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock transforms Building
- [Summer 2019 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/summer-2019-season-announce/) - For Immediate Release24 April 2019Contact: Jodi JosephDirector of Communications413.664.4481 x8113jjoseph@massmoca.org JUST ADDED: The Pretenders headline MASS MoCA’s summer season in their only North American appearance of Summer 2019 Annie Lennox, Laurie Anderson, Maggie Rogers, Tank and the Bangas, Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend, and the FreshGrass Festival pack a summer bursting with new art,
- [Fall 2019 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/fall-2019-season-announce/) - For Immediate Release14 August 2019Contact: Jodi JosephDirector of Communications413.664.4481 x8113jjoseph@massmoca.org Time of Now: A weekend of thought and performance features Kimbra in concert with Emily Wells, and events with exhibiting artists Cauleen Smith, ERRE, MPA, Rafa Esparza, Gustave Blache III, and more (including a parade!) FreshGrass Festival
- [Winter/Spring 2020 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/winter-spring-2020-season-announce/) - For Immediate Release4 December 2019Contact: Jodi JosephDirector of Communications413.664.4481 x8113jjoseph@massmoca.org Bill T. Jones, Car Seat Headrest, and High Mud Comedy Festival with John Early return along with live music from Liz Phair for a winter/spring lineup packed with new art, live music, dance, comedy, and film All-new virtual reality from Laurie Anderson, contemporary artists
- [MASS MoCA Awarded Grant From the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-awarded-grant-from-the-andrew-w-mellon-foundation/) - $500K Grant Will Support Expansion of Artist Residencies at MASS MoCA NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — December 16, 2020 — The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of expanding performing and visual arts residencies at
- [Artist Talk with Nick Cave](https://massmoca.org/artist-talk-nick-cave/) - For Immediate Release 11 March 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Until Artist Talk with Nick Cave Creator of major Building 5 spectacle in conversation with MASS MoCA curator Denise Markonish NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In October 2016, artist Nick Cave will transform MASS MoCA’s Building 5 with Until, his most
- [Come to Your Senses <span class="title-light">Art to See, Smell, Hear, Taste, and Touch: A Consenses Project</span>](https://massmoca.org/consenses-a-journey-through-the-senses/) - For Immediate Release 31 January 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Artist and musician Sally Taylor curates Come to Your Senses: Art to See, Smell, Hear, Taste, and Touch, A Consenses Project, at Kidspace Featuring local grade 5 students whose art inspires the music of Carly Simon, Natasha Bedingfield, James Taylor,
- [Free Day 2019](https://massmoca.org/free-day-2019-press/) - For Immediate Release 22 January 2019 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org MASS MoCA Is Free for All on January 26 History Harvest, art projects, live music, performances, and gallery tours NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Amplify your MASS MoCA experience when we throw open our doors for free and fill the
- [Close To You | April 3, 2021 - January 2022](https://massmoca.org/close-to-you/) - MASS MoCA presents Close to You, a group exhibition that gathers the work of artists who probe the capacity of the visual arts to conjure feelings of closeness — both to others and to ourselves. On view from Saturday, April 3, through January 2022, in the Michael & Agnese Meehan Gallery, the exhibition features the
- [Ai Weiwei taps MASS MoCA as Lego Collection Point](https://massmoca.org/ai-weiwei-taps-mass-moca-as-lego-collection-point/) - For Immediate Release 17 November 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Ai Weiwei taps MASS MoCA as Lego Collection Point Ai Weiwei’s Lego Collection Point at MASS MoCA Beginning November 16, 2015 massmoca.org NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — MASS MoCA becomes the next cultural institution to participate in Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s
- [Building Six Grand Opening](https://massmoca.org/building-six-grand-opening/) - For Immediate Release 19 May 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org MASS MoCA to Open Newly Renovated Building 6 on May 28, 2017, Doubling Gallery Footprint, Adding New Services and Amenities for Performing Artists and their Audiences Long-term Installations with Laurie Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Gunnar Schonbeck, and James
- [Regional Cultural and Educational Institutions Launch Berkshire Activation of Carrie Mae Weems’ Resist COVID / Take 6! Campaign](https://massmoca.org/regional-cultural-and-educational-institutions-launch-berkshire-activation-of-carrie-mae-weems-resist-covid-take-6-campaign/) - For Immediate Release Regional Cultural and Educational Institutions Launch Berkshire Activation of Carrie Mae Weems’ Resist COVID / Take 6! Campaign Acclaimed Artist-Driven Public Awareness Initiative Comes to the Region as Part of Weems’ Effort to Expand it to All 50 States (Tuesday, February 9, 2021) — A consortium of regional cultural institutions and colleges
- [At MASS MoCA, finding hope amid the ruins of Ledelle Moe’s ‘When’ <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/at-mass-moca-finding-hope-amid-the-ruins-of-ledelle-moes-when-the-boston-globe/)
- [Director of Mass MoCA, Playground for Artists, Moves On <span class="title-light">The New York Tim</span>](https://massmoca.org/director-of-mass-moca-playground-for-artists-moves-on-the-new-york-tim/)
- [In the Berkshires, museums are a salve for the socially distanced soul <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/in-the-berkshires-museums-are-a-salve-for-the-socially-distanced-soul-2/) - By Murray Whyte, Globe Staff NORTH ADAMS — For me, it started in the parking lot at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a bleak expanse of asphalt left more or less empty these many months. There I saw signs, finally, of life, though not a life unchanged. A masked museum worker painted arrows, six
- [Science + social justice + magic. The spellbinding formula of artist Glenn Kaino <span class="title-light">Los Angeles Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/science-social-justice-magic-the-spellbinding-formula-of-artist-glenn-kaino-los-angeles-times/)
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Announces Cutbacks](https://massmoca.org/37045-2/) - For Immediate Release25 March 2020Contact: Jodi JosephDirector of Communications413.664.4481 x8113jjoseph@massmoca.org MASS MoCA Announces Cutbacks in Response to COVID-19 Disruptions NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — MASS MoCA announced today that in response to business interruptions caused by COVID-19 and related government mandates, it will lay off 120 of its 165 employees, effective April 11. The workforce reduction affected
- [MASS MoCA Summer 2020 Programs](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-summer-2020-programs/) - For Immediate Release MASS MoCA 1040 MASS MoCA Way North Adams, Massachusetts 01240 Contact: Jodi Joseph jjoseph@massmoca.org / 413.884.4633 Open beginning July 11 / Wednesdays - Mondays, 10am - 6pm (closed Tuesdays) Advance Reservations Required / available July 2 Reserved Admission for Vulnerable Individuals / Wednesdays + Sundays, 10-11am Images: Summer 2020 programs New Exhibitions
- [Clark Art Institute, MASS MoCA, and Norman Rockwell Museum to Reopen on July 11 and 12](https://massmoca.org/clark-art-institute-mass-moca-and-norman-rockwell-museum-to-reopen-on-july-11-and-12/) - Art museums join forces as cultural activity resumes in the Berkshires (July 2, 2020)—The three largest museums in the Berkshires plan to reopen to visitors over the July 11–12 weekend, following Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s announcement permitting museums and other cultural organizations to resume operations. The reopening schedule is as follows: MASS MoCA will reopen
- [MASS MoCA Announces Leadership Succession Plan](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-announces-leadership-succession-plan/) - Director Joseph Thompson Announces Plans to Step DownDeputy Director Tracy Moore to Be Appointed Interim Director Following TransitionThompson will Stay on as Special Counsel for Next 12 Months (August 21, 2020) – North Adams, Massachusetts. Joseph Thompson, who has led MASS MoCA since its founding in 1988, announced today his plans to step down as
- [Shaun Leonardo: The Breath of Empty Space](https://massmoca.org/shaun-leonardo-the-breath-of-empty-space/) - SHAUN LEONARDO: THE BREATH OF EMPTY SPACE TO OPEN AT MASS MOCA ON AUGUST 26 The Exhibition, which Reframes the Visual Narrative of Systemic Violence Against Black Men in the United States, will also travel to the Bronx Museum North Adams, Massachusetts – August 24, 2020 – The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
- [At MASS MoCA, art built for a planet on the edge <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/at-mass-moca-art-built-for-a-planet-on-the-edge/)
- [Trenton Doyle Hancock <span class="title-light">4Columns</span>](https://massmoca.org/trenton-doyle-hancock-4columns/)
- [Northern Berkshire Art Outside](https://massmoca.org/northern-berkshire-art-outside/) - An initiative of the Clark Art Institute, MASS MoCA and the Williams College Museum of Art, Northern Berkshire Art Outside is an online walking and biking tour showcasing outdoor art in Williamstown and North Adams. Available on Google Maps at this link, the tour includes some 30 works of art stretching across 10 miles of
- [In the Berkshires, museums are a salve for the socially distanced soul - The Boston Globe](https://massmoca.org/in-the-berkshires-museums-are-a-salve-for-the-socially-distanced-soul-1/) - By Murray Whyte, Globe Staff NORTH ADAMS — For me, it started in the parking lot at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a bleak expanse of asphalt left more or less empty these many months. There I saw signs, finally, of life, though not a life unchanged. A masked museum worker painted arrows, six
- [We Need You. <span class="title-light">Consider a donation to MASS MoCA's COVID-19 Relief Fund </span>](https://massmoca.org/we-need-you-more-from-joe/)
- [Annual Fund](https://massmoca.org/annual-fund-2018/) - Donate Today! At MASS MoCA our museum admissions and tickets sales only cover a small part of our operating expenses. Your annual tax-deductible donation to our Annual Fund does two things: 1) It helps create a space for fiercely talented artists, and 2) Makes you part of that generative process. We absolutely could not do
- [MASS MoCA, the museum that almost wasn't, celebrates 20 years <span class="title-light">The Art Newspaper</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-the-museum-that-almost-wasnt-celebrates-20-years-the-art-newspaper/)
- [Annie Lennox Cleans House <span class="title-light">The New York Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/annie-lennox-cleans-house-the-new-york-times/)
- [Annie Lennox makes art from the artifacts of her own sweet dreams <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/annie-lennox-makes-art-from-the-artifacts-of-her-own-sweet-dreams-the-boston-globe/)
- [A hero’s tale, freshly told at Mass MoCA <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/a-heros-tale-freshly-told-at-mass-moca-the-boston-globe/)
- [Interviews 1000 Words: Trenton Doyle Hancock <span class="title-light">ArtForum</span>](https://massmoca.org/interviews-1000-words-trenton-doyle-hancock-artforum/)
- [How MASS MoCA Transformed a Struggling Mill Town Into an Art Hub <span class="title-light">Hyperallergic</span>](https://massmoca.org/how-mass-moca-transformed-a-struggling-mill-town-into-an-art-hub-hyperallergic/)
- [At MASS MoCA, crumbling with purpose <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/at-mass-moca-crumbling-with-purpose-the-boston-globe/)
- [Annie Lennox Releases Surprise Piano EP Lepidoptera as New MASS MoCA Exhibition Opens <span class="title-light">People</span>](https://massmoca.org/annie-lennox-releases-surprise-piano-ep-lepidoptera-as-new-mass-moca-exhibition-opens-people/)
- [FreshGrass 2019](https://massmoca.org/freshgrass-2019/) - For Immediate Release24 April 2019Contact: Jodi JosephDirector of Communications413.664.4481 x8113jjoseph@massmoca.org Greensky Bluegrass, Andrew Bird, Mavis Staples, Kronos Quartet’s Music for Change: Pete Seeger @ 100, Aoife O’Donovan: Freshgrass Artist-in-Residence, Tinariwen, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Travelin’ McCourys, Jade Bird, and Alison Brown Lead First Wave of 2019 FreshGrass Festival Lineup NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — FreshGrass, MASS
- [Tom Slaughter <span class="title-light">Icon Alphabet</span>](https://massmoca.org/tom-slaughter-icon-alphabet/) - For Immediate Release 26 December 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Tom Slaughter: Icon Alphabet Artist’s joyful imagery to fill MASS MoCA’s Hunter Theater Mezzanine Gallery NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Covering an interior wall visible to visitors approaching MASS MoCA's postindustrial museum lobby (as well as to those in its
- [<span class="title-light">FreshGrass Presents </span>Punch Brothers <span class="title-light">with special guest Gabriel Kahane</span>](https://massmoca.org/freshgrass-presents-punch-brothers-with-special-guest-gabriel-kahane/) - For Immediate Release 12 November 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org ***Media Advisory*** FreshGrass presents Punch Brothers with special guest Gabriel Kahane, March 16 FreshGrass Presents Punch Brothers with special guest Gabriel Kahane Saturday, March 16, 8pm VIP Tickets on sale: Tuesday, November 13, 10am MASS MoCA Member Tickets on
- [An Afternoon with Sally and James Taylor <span class="title-light">to Benefit Arts Education at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA</span>](https://massmoca.org/an-afternoon-with-sally-and-james-taylor-to-benefit-arts-education-at-mass-moca/) - For Immediate Release 6 November 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org ***Media Advisory*** An Afternoon with Sally and James Taylor to Benefit Arts Education at MASS MoCA An Afternoon with Sally and James Taylor to Benefit Arts Education at MASS MoCA Sunday, December 9, 3pm The Hunter Center for the
- [Car Seat Headrest](https://massmoca.org/31053-2/) - For Immediate Release 9 October 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org ***Media Advisory*** Car Seat Headrest with Naked Giants at MASS MoCA, February 15 Car Seat Headrest with Naked Giants Friday, February 15, 8pm Hunter Center at MASS MoCA Member Tickets on sale beginning Thursday, October 11, at 10am Tickets on sale
- [Rafa Esparza <span class="title-light">staring at the sun</span>](https://massmoca.org/rafa-esparza/) - For Immediate Release 15 November 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Rafa Esparza: staring at the sun Artist to work with community as he covers the gallery with handmade adobe bricks and paintings NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Rafa Esparza first used the labor-intensive process of hand-making adobe bricks in 2014.
- [Jarvis Rockwell <span class="title-light">Us</span>](https://massmoca.org/jarvis-rockwell-us/) - For Immediate Release 16 October 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Jarvis Rockwell: Us At MASS MoCA, on view November 2018 NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Artist Jarvis Rockwell’s massive 2002 installation Maya introduced MASS MoCA visitors to Rockwell, whose detailed wall-drawing continues to delight museum-goers and concert audiences just outside of the
- [Wilco's Solid Sound Festival Returns June 28-30, 2019](https://massmoca.org/wilcos-solid-sound-festival-returns-june-28-30-2019/) - For Immediate Release 16 October 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Wilco's Solid Sound Festival Returns June 28-30, 2019 to MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA Early Bird Tickets, "Friends of the Festival" Packages Available Solid Sound, Wilco's Music and Arts Festival, returns to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts June 28-30,
- [Shareef Keyes & The Groove](https://massmoca.org/shareef-keyes-the-groove/) - For Immediate Release 15 October 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Shareef Keyes & The Groove Funk dance party, up in the Club NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS —Brooklyn-bred artist Shareef Keyes draws equal inspiration from James Brown and Wu-Tang. Together with his band The Groove, he is earning a reputation for high-energy live
- [Tune-Yards + U.S. Girls](https://massmoca.org/29657-2/) - For Immediate Release 25 May 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org 4AD Presents Tune-Yards + U.S. Girls at MASS MoCA Tune-Yards + U.S. Girls Tuesday, October 30, 8pm Hunter Center at MASS MoCA Tickets on sale beginning Friday, June 15, at 10am NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Since 1980 independent record
- [Artist Taryn Simon Invites You to Take a Cold Water Plunge Inside a Museum <span class="title-light"> Wall Street Journal Magazine</span>](https://massmoca.org/artist-taryn-simon-invites-you-to-take-a-cold-water-plunge-inside-a-museum-wall-street-journal-magazine/)
- [At MASS MoCA, the richness of ritual, the magic of masks <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/at-mass-moca-the-richness-of-ritual-the-magic-of-masks-the-boston-globe/)
- [Josh Sharp Sings! Live!](https://massmoca.org/josh-sharp-sings-live/) - For Immediate Release 6 July 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Josh Sharp Sings! Live! D’Angelo detour NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Josh Sharp is a NYC-based comedian best known for his role as a citizen journalist in Comedy Central’s “The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper.” His delightfully lewd musical “F*cking Identical
- [Roomful of Teeth](https://massmoca.org/roomful-of-teeth-2/) - For Immediate Release 10 August 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Roomful of Teeth Music to sink your teeth into NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – Roomful of Teeth, the ensemble of Grammy Award-winning vocal titans led by Williams College professor Brad Wells, returns to its summer home at MASS MoCA creating
- [Jaimeo Brown Transcendence](https://massmoca.org/jaimeo-brown-transcendence/) - For Immediate Release 9 August 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Jaimeo Brown Transcendence featuring Chris Sholar and Jaleel Shaw NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Musician Jaimeo Brown, performing with his ensemble, Transcendence, fuses jazz, hip-hop, and blues. Presented in confluence with Allison Janae Hamilton’s exhibition, Pitch, the evening will include Brown’s
- [Transition <span class="title-light">Decade of Decision, 1989-1999 </br>Sprague Electric >> MASS MoCA</span>](https://massmoca.org/transition-decade-of-decision-1989-1999-sprague-electric-mass-moca/) - For Immediate Release 17 July 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Transition Decade of Decision, 1989-1999 Sprague Electric >> MASS MoCA MASS MoCA will host a temporary exhibition of the photographs, found objects, and archival materials gathered from its Marshall Street mill complex by local artist, firefighter, and community volunteer
- [Alloy Orchestra: The Son of the Sheik](https://massmoca.org/alloy-orchestra-the-son-of-the-sheik/) - For Immediate Release 21 June 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Alloy Orchestra: The Son of the Sheik Passion! Betrayal! Redemption! Junk Rock! NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS —Starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky, this last and finest of Valentino’s films (he died suddenly just as it was released in 1926) solidified
- [LADAMA](https://massmoca.org/ladama/) - For Immediate Release 21 June 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org LADAMA Music for Everyone NORTH ANORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — An ensemble of women who hail from every corner of the Americas, LADAMA performs a Pan-Latin blend of original music and traditional songs. The group formed at OneBeat, a fellowship that promotes
- [Family Adventure in the Northern Berkshires](https://massmoca.org/family-adventure-in-the-northern-berkshires/) - Baby animals and ice cream included
- [The Decemberists](https://massmoca.org/the-decemberists/) - For Immediate Release 17 January 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The Decemberists explore a new sound in MASS MoCA performance on June 15 Acclaimed Portland band tours in support of new album, which embraces influences like Roxy Music & New Order to spark a new creative path, due March
- [Angel Olsen](https://massmoca.org/angel-olsen/) - For Immediate Release 1 May 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org ***Media Advisory*** Angel Olsen at MASS MoCA on September 29 Angel Olsen with Julianna Barwick Saturday, September 29, 8pm Hunter Center at MASS MoCA Tickets on sale beginning Friday, May 4, at 10am NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — On the heels
- [An Evening with Sally Taylor & Friends](https://massmoca.org/an-evening-with-sally-taylor-friends/) - For Immediate Release 25 May 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org An Evening with Sally Taylor & Friends Come to Your Senses On Stage: Performances from musical greats including Carly Simon, Ben Taylor, and John Forte NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Celebrate the opening of the Kidspace exhibition Come to Your
- [Allison Janae Hamilton <span class="title-light">Pitch</span>](https://massmoca.org/allison-janae-hamilton-pitch/) - For Immediate Release 31 January 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Allison Janae Hamilton: Pitch Towering pines and taxidermied alligators transport us south in artist’s first solo museum exhibition in March 2018 NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Allison Janae Hamilton’s evocative work is influenced by the sights and sounds of the
- [Natasha Bowdoin <span class="title-light">Maneater</span>](https://massmoca.org/natasha-bowdoin-maneater/) - For Immediate Release 5 February 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Natasha Bowdoin: Maneater Artist’s largest-ever cut paper and collage installation is on view now at MASS MoCA NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In Maneater, Houston, Texas-based artist Natasha Bowdoin creates her largest-ever cut paper and collage installation, which investigates the
- [Courtney Barnett <span class="title light">with Vagabon</span>](https://massmoca.org/courtney-barnett-with-vagabon/) - For Immediate Release 22 February 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Courtney Barnett with Vagabon Acclaimed musician tours in support of new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, due May 18 NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Courtney Barnett broke into the music scene with an upper-cut punch — her sardonic lyrics
- [Ray LaMontagne <span class="title-light">with very special guest Neko Case</span>](https://massmoca.org/ray-lamontagne-with-very-special-guest-neko-case/) - For Immediate Release 1 March 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org ***Media Advisory*** Ray LaMontagne with very special guest Neko Case at MASS MoCA on June 29 Ray LaMontagne with very special guest Neko Case Friday, June 29, 7pm Joe's Field at MASS MoCA Tickets on sale beginning on March
- [The Lure of the Dark <span class="title-light">Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-lure-of-the-dark-contemporary-painters-conjure-the-night/) - For Immediate Release 2 March 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night Featuring paintings — including new commissions — by a diverse group of over a dozen contemporary artists NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — From Rembrandt and The Night Watch to Georges
- [Blondie <span class="title-light">with And The Kids</span>](https://massmoca.org/blondie-with-and-the-kids/) - For Immediate Release 29 March 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org ***Media Advisory*** Blondie at MASS MoCA, August 3 Blondie with And The Kids Friday, August 3, at 7pm Joe’s Field at MASS MoCA Tickets on sale beginning Friday, March 30, at 10am NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Pop-punk icon Blondie joins a packed
- [John Stirratt on North Adams, Wilco, and fried clams](https://massmoca.org/john-stirratt-on-north-adams-wilco-and-fried-clams/) - Wilco's bassist shares a few must-dos.
- [Etel Adnan <span class="title-light">4Columns</span>](https://massmoca.org/etel-adnan-4columns/) - The storm beneath the calm: MASS MoCA hosts the Lebanese painter’s deceptively tranquil art.
- [First Look: Allison Janae Hamilton <span class="title-light">Art in America</span>](https://massmoca.org/first-look-allison-janae-hamilton-art-in-america/)
- [TARYN SIMON <br> A COLD HOLE<br> ASSEMBLED AUDIENCE](https://massmoca.org/taryn-simon-assembled-audience-a-cold-hole/) - For Immediate Release 8 February 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org TARYN SIMON: ASSEMBLED AUDIENCE + A COLD HOLE World premiere of two new large-scale installations NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In an ambitious exhibition featuring two new installation-based commissions, artist Taryn Simon activates the rituals of applause and the cold water
- [A history of North Adams through food, walk, and shop](https://massmoca.org/a-history-of-north-adams-through-food-walk-and-shop/) - Walk through history and get a haircut.
- [Grizzly Bear](https://massmoca.org/grizzly-bear/) - For Immediate Release 5 March 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org ***Media Advisory*** Grizzly Bear at MASS MoCA on June 16 Grizzly Bear Saturday, June 16, 8pm Hunter Center at MASS MoCA Tickets on sale beginning March 9, at 10am NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — One of the most celebrated indie rock acts of the last
- [Sinkane](https://massmoca.org/sinkane/) - For Immediate Release 23 January 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Sinkane Full force fun NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Ahmed Gallab makes music that is joyful and generous, with a razor-sharp message about community and social justice. He led the 15-piece Atomic Bomb Band with collaborators that included David Byrne, Damon
- [True Convictions](https://massmoca.org/true-convictions/) - For Immediate Release 13 February 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org True Convictions A documentary film series about true convictions — and those who seek them NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — A sex advice columnist in India champions comprehensive sex education; female fighters in Kurdistan defend their territory against ISIS; immigrants
- [CJ Field](https://massmoca.org/cj-field/) - For Immediate Release 12 February 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org CJ Field Rock-and-roots, NAMA-style NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — North Adams native CJ Field wasn’t born with a guitar in his hand — but he could have been. He carved out a place for himself on the Nashville scene as
- [At Mass MoCA, a dark look at a possible future <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/at-mass-moca-a-dark-look-at-a-possible-future-the-boston-globe/)
- [A Laurie Anderson pilgrimage? Just don’t tell her you’re calling it that. <span class="title-light">The Washington Post</span>](https://massmoca.org/a-laurie-anderson-pilgrimage-just-dont-tell-her-youre-calling-it-that-the-washington-post/)
- [MASS MoCA: It’s a Site for All Eyes <span class="title-light">The New York Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-its-a-site-for-all-eyes-the-new-york-times/)
- [SP 17 Season](https://massmoca.org/sp-17-season/) - For Immediate Release 7 December 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Music Legend Mavis Staples, Dance Icon Bill T. Jones, and Hilarious Comedian Phoebe Robinson Headline Winter/Spring Season Packed with New Art, Live Music, Documentary Film, and the Return of the High Mud Comedy Festival Major new exhibitions by Steffani Jemison,
- [Free Day 2017](https://massmoca.org/free-day-2017/) - For Immediate Release 10 January 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org MASS MoCA is free for all on February 4 Community art projects, live music, dance, and gallery tours NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — The 2017 edition of MASS MoCA’s for all visitors lands on Saturday, February 4, from 11am to 7pm.
- [Etel Adnan <span class="title-light">A yellow sun A green sun a yellow sun A red sun A blue sun</span>](https://massmoca.org/etel-adnan-a-yellow-sun-a-green-sun-a-yellow-sun-a-red-sun-a-blue-sun/) - For Immediate Release 1 February 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Etel Adnan: A yellow sun A green sun a yellow sun A red sun A blue sun Arab-American artist debuts recent works in first-ever solo exhibition in U.S. museum NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In her first ever solo U.S.
- [Rachel Howard <span class="title-light">Paintings of Violence (Why I am not a mere Christian)</span>](https://massmoca.org/rachel-howard-paintings-of-violence-why-i-am-not-a-mere-christian/) - For Immediate Release 26 January 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Rachel Howard: Paintings of Violence (Why I am not a mere Christian) Eleven works mark artist’s first U.S. solo museum show NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In her first U.S. solo museum show, London-based painter Rachel Howard brings her Paintings
- [Alicia Hall Moran](https://massmoca.org/alicia-hall-moran/) - For Immediate Release 18 January 2018 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Alicia Hall Moran Opera, axels, and jazz NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics two figure skaters representing America and East Germany battled for Olympic gold, both accompanied by music from Carmen. On Saturday, January 27 at
- [The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2018<span class="title-light">Travel+Leisure</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-50-best-places-to-travel-in-2018travelleisure/)
- [Liz Glynn Questions the Direction of American Progress at Mass MoCA <span class="title-light">Observer</span>](https://massmoca.org/liz-glynn-questions-the-direction-of-american-progress-at-mass-moca-observer/)
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA a colossal hub of regional art scene <span class="title-light">Times Union</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-a-colossal-hub-of-regional-art-scene-times-union/)
- [Sam Green & Kronos Quartet](https://massmoca.org/kronos-quartet/) - For Immediate Release 24 October 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Sam Green & Kronos Quartet Chamber music memoir NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Documentarian Sam Green pairs up with the legendary Kronos Quartet for this work-in-progress film-and-live-music meeting of the minds. Green’s doc, A Thousand Thoughts: A Live Documentary by Sam
- [Godspeed You! Black Emperor](https://massmoca.org/godspeed-you-black-emperor/) - For Immediate Release 7 November 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Godspeed You! Black Emperor Ecstatic Collective NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Godspeed You! Black Emperor began in Montreal in the early 1990's, and during five years it swelled from a bedroom trio to an earth-rattling, wall-of-sound experience with as many
- [Lonnie Holley](https://massmoca.org/lonnie-holley/) - For Immediate Release 14 November 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Lonnie Holley A voice from another time NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Artist and musician Lonnie Holley recorded his first album in 2012 at age 62 after making home recordings for more than two decades. Holley’s music, like his art, defies
- [Sylvan Esso](https://massmoca.org/sylvan-esso/) - For Immediate Release 14 November 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Sylvan Esso “Endlessly ecstatic and three-dimensional” — NPR NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Singer Amelia Meath of the legendary Bennington band Mountain Man, and producer Nick Sanborn of psychedelic folksters Megafaun, create effortless, wonderful electronic pop music that twists, turns, and
- [POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e](https://massmoca.org/polica-and-s-t-a-r-g-a-z-e/) - For Immediate Release 16 November 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e Pop music disassembled NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — s t a r g a z e, Berlin’s new music mavericks, joins forces with the brooding pop of Poliça to create a
- [Quindar](https://massmoca.org/quindar/) - For Immediate Release 13 December 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Quindar Ground control to Major Tom NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Take a trip to outer space on Saturday, January 20, at 8pm, with Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen and his art and music collaborator, James Merle Thomas, performing as Quindar. The multimedia
- [Bon Iver & TU Dance](https://massmoca.org/bon-iver-tu-dance/) - For Immediate Release 13 December 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Bon Iver & TU Dance “Endlessly ecstatic and three-dimensional” — NPR NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Repeat Grammy Award-winner and endlessly influential balladeer Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, visits MASS MoCA to perform a work-in-progress score alongside dance company TU Dance.
- [Testing Human Perception with Uncannily Kinetic Body Parts <span class="title-light">Hyperallergic</span>](https://massmoca.org/testing-human-perception-with-uncannily-kinetic-body-parts-hyperallergic/)
- [Here are the winners of the 2017 AN Best of Design Awards <span class="title-light">The Architect's Newspaper</span>](https://massmoca.org/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2017-an-best-of-design-awards-the-architects-newspaper/)
- [The World's Largest Watercolor Goes on Display at MASS MoCA <span class="title-light">VICE Creators</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-worlds-largest-watercolor-goes-on-display-at-mass-moca-vice-creators/)
- [The Story Behind the World’s Largest Watercolor Painting <span class="title-light">Smithsonian</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-story-behind-the-worlds-largest-watercolor-painting-smithsonian/)
- [Gabriel Kahane: <span class="title-light">Book of Travelers</span>](https://massmoca.org/gabriel-kahane-book-of-travelers/) - For Immediate Release 12 October 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Gabriel Kahane: Book of Travelers Freight Train, Freight Train NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Brooklyn composer Gabriel Kahane visited MASS MoCA in 2013, on the eve of his major label debut The Ambassador. Now he returns on Friday, October 20, at
- [The Weepies](https://massmoca.org/the-weepies/) - For Immediate Release 27 September 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The Weepies Completely acoustic and alone NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – Husband-wife duo The Weepies emerged from the Boston folk scene in the early 2000’s and has since built a deep catalog of hook-laden, irresistible folk-pop. NPR writes, “A synthesis
- [Nick Cave Community Events](https://massmoca.org/nick-cave-community-events/) - For Immediate Release 27 February 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Nick Cave: Until Monumental Exhibition is Home to Performance Art and Community Events “An enchanted but menacing landscape.” — The New York Times “Cave is using [the exhibition] to convene prominent performers in other fields and inspire them to craft
- [Sam Cohen](https://massmoca.org/sam-cohen/) - For Immediate Release 14 February 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Sam Cohen “Vintage, sunny psychedelia.” — Pitchfork NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — The former Apollo Sunshine and Yellowbirds frontman Sam Cohen is a dazzling guitarist (he’s lent his talents to the likes of Bob Weir and CeeLo) and a songwriter of
- [LAVA](https://massmoca.org/lava/) - For Immediate Release 4 April 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org LAVA A Goddessey NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — LAVA’s language of feminist dance includes towering human pyramids, acrobatic wrestling, and subtle physicality. The company’s new piece, developed in part at MASS MoCA, is a survival story that vaults the audience from
- [Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang](https://massmoca.org/janka-nabay-and-the-bubu-gang/) - For Immediate Release 15 February 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang Ancient rhythm, good vibes bash NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Claiming the holy trinity of Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, and God as his primary inspirations, Sierra Leonean singer Janka Nabay has almost single-handedly revived
- [Sameer Gupta](https://massmoca.org/sameer-gupta/) - For Immediate Release 21 September 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Sameer Gupta Brooklyn Raga Massive NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – Sameer Gupta is a “kinetic, bass-heavy, and tender” percussionist (The Jazz Observer), with roots in the Indian Classical tradition. He’s at MASS MoCA on Saturday, September 30, at 8pm, with a
- [Ani Cordero](https://massmoca.org/ani-cordero/) - For Immediate Release 27 September 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Ani Cordero “Profound ruminations on love and the state of the world” — NPR NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – Brooklyn-based Puerto Rican songstress Ani Cordero is a storyteller of the first order, winding through topics from feminism to immigration to friendships
- [The Bitter Game](https://massmoca.org/the-bitter-game/) - For Immediate Release 11 October 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The Bitter Game Black Lives Matter NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – Basketball, block parties, traffic stops — on Saturday, October 14, at 8pm, Keith A. Wallace takes us on a ride through North Philly on a night he won’t forget. A
- [Elizabeth King: <span class="title-light">Radical Small</span>](https://massmoca.org/elizabeth-king/) - For Immediate Release 12 October 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Elizabeth King: Radical Small The artist’s largest-ever museum show takes on a two-story gallery space with micro-scaled works Values become engulfed in miniature, and miniature causes men to dream. Gaston Bachelard, "The Poetics of Space". … if there is no
- [Steffani Jemison: <span class="title-light">Plant You Now, Dig You Later</span>](https://massmoca.org/steffani-jemison-plant-you-now-dig-you-later/) - For Immediate Release 7 November 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Steffani Jemison: Plant You Now, Dig You Later Artist’s largest-ever solo exhibition examines language as power and resistance NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In her largest solo exhibition to date, New York-based artist Steffani Jemison uses the complicated role of language
- [Tanja Hollander: <span class="title-light">Are you really my friend?</span>](https://massmoca.org/tanja-hollander-are-you-really-my-friend/) - For Immediate Release 14 December 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Tanja Hollander: Are you really my friend? A document of friendship in the age of social media is the artist’s largest-ever solo museum show NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In February 2011, Maine-based artist Tanja Hollander set out to photograph 626
- [Cavernous: <span class="title-light">The Inner Life of Courage</span>](https://massmoca.org/cavernous/) - For Immediate Release 28 February 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Cavernous: The Inner Life of Courage Kidspace exhibition features artist Wes Sam-Bruce NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — On June 17, 2017, Kidspace opens Cavernous: The Inner Life of Courage, Colorado-based artist Wes Sam-Bruce’s lively installation that uses the Hoosac Tunnel as
- [In the Abstract](https://massmoca.org/in-the-abstract/) - For Immediate Release 12 April 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org In the Abstract 11 artists tackle sociopolitical realities through new works of contemporary abstractions NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In the Abstract brings together a mix of multi-generational artists whose works represent a potent and muscular approach to contemporary abstraction that
- [Liz Glynn <span class="title-light">The Archaeology of Another Possible Future</span>](https://massmoca.org/liz-glynn-the-archaeology-of-another-possible-future/) - For Immediate Release 21 August 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Liz Glynn: The Archaeology of Another Possible Future NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Los Angeles-based Liz Glynn will present her largest and most ambitious project to date in Building 5, MASS MoCA’s largest gallery — a sprawling multi-sensory sculptural experience
- [Roomful of Teeth](https://massmoca.org/roomful-of-teeth/) - For Immediate Release 15 August 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Roomful of Teeth Music to sink your teeth into NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Roomful of Teeth, the ensemble of Grammy-winning vocal titans led by Williams College faculty member Brad Wells, returns to its summer home at MASS MoCA to create
- [My Morning Jacket](https://massmoca.org/my-morning-jacket/) - For Immediate Release 13 March 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org My Morning Jacket Critically acclaimed rockers in North Adams, Mass. on August 12 With Pennsylvania rockers The Districts NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — My Morning Jacket has built a reputation as a group who consistently challenges the paradigms in which they
- [Mil's Trills](https://massmoca.org/mils-trills/) - For Immediate Release 17 May 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Mil’s Trills Instruments Galore NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Mil’s Trills is voice and bass and brass and drums — a cornucopia of kid-friendly music. Led by Amelia Robinson, the band’s 2014 debut Everyone Together Now! was praised for its “boundless
- [RISK! Podcast Live](https://massmoca.org/risk-podcast-live/) - For Immediate Release 1 July 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org RISK! Podcast Live Like an X-rated Modern Love, told live NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – Tune in as host Kevin Allison leads a cathartic, laugh-out-loud, anything-goes kind of storytelling smorgasbord uncovering and recording the daring truths of RISK! “Jaw-dropping, hysterically funny,
- [Mad Max with Live Score by Morricone Youth](https://massmoca.org/mad-max-with-live-score-by-morricone-youth/) - For Immediate Release 7 July 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Mad Max with Live Score by Morricone Youth Soundtrack for the apocalypse NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – The 1979 cult classic, Mad Max, shaped the way we think about our dystopian future, in which desolate, post-apocalyptic landscapes are the backdrop for
- [Movie at the Airport](https://massmoca.org/movie-at-the-airport/) - For Immediate Release 4 August 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Meet us at the Airport The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Submarines crash, station wagons run out of gas, and a human pyramid saves the day in this 1966 screwball comedy about the
- [Underground System](https://massmoca.org/underground-system/) - For Immediate Release 22 August 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Underground System with Underground Horns NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Underground System is a collective of Fela Kuti-worshipping rabble-rousers and rhythm-makers. Based in Brooklyn and fronted by flautist and chanteuse Domenica Fossati, they descend on Courtyard C for a dance party
- [Nona Hendryx & Nick Cave](https://massmoca.org/nona-hendryx-nick-cave/) - For Immediate Release 11 August 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Nona Hendryx & Nick Cave Turn up the volume NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Exhibiting artist Nick Cave teams up with legendary soul singer Nona Hendryx for an evening of music and art in the galleries and on stage. Hendryx rose
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- [MASS MoCA’s Latest Addition Gives Transformative Re-Use an Epic Stage <span class="title-light">Metropolis</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-mocas-latest-addition-gives-transformative-re-use-an-epic-stage-metropolis/)
- [WHMT AHA! A HOUSE FOR THE ARTS <span class="title-light">MASS MoCA</span>](https://massmoca.org/whmt-aha-a-house-for-the-arts-mass-moca/)
- [MASS MoCA: What Dallas can learn from a museum in rural Massachusetts <span class="title-light">Dallas News</span>](https://massmoca.org/massmoca-what-dallas-can-learn-from-a-museum-in-rural-massachusetts-dallas-news/)
- [This Small Town Is Your East Coast Art Destination <span class="title-light">Huffington Post</span>](https://massmoca.org/this-small-town-is-your-east-coast-art-destination-huffington-post/)
- [Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital <span class="title-light">The New York Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/berkshire-tour-formalism-relaxes-handcraft-goes-digital-the-new-york-times/)
- [The Berkshires Are Serious Fun This Weekend, From MASS MoCA To Sondheim And Shakespeare <span class="title-light">WBUR</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-berkshires-are-serious-fun-this-weekend-from-mass-moca-to-sondheim-and-shakespeare-wbur/)
- [This photographer took pictures of every one of her Facebook friends to understand friendship in the digital age <span class="title-light">PBS Newshour</span>](https://massmoca.org/this-photographer-took-pictures-of-every-one-of-her-facebook-friends-to-understand-friendship-in-the-digital-age-pbs-newshour/)
- [Can a contemporary art mecca anchor this once-industrial town? <span class="title-light">PBS Newshour</span>](https://massmoca.org/can-a-contemporary-art-mecca-anchor-this-once-industrial-town-pbs-newshour/)
- [Gunnar Schonbeck's Giant Instruments Find A Home At MASS MoCA <span class="title-light">WBUR</span>](https://massmoca.org/gunnar-schonbecks-giant-instruments-find-a-home-at-mass-moca-wbur/)
- [MASS MoCA doubles in size <span class="title-light">The Daily Gazette</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-doubles-in-size-the-daily-gazette/)
- [MASS MoCA — a revelation round every corner <span class="title-light">Financial Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-a-revelation-round-every-corner-financial-times/)
- [How modern was Grandma Moses? <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/how-modern-was-grandma-moses-the-boston-globe/)
- [A Journey Through James Turrell’s Disorienting World at the Newly Expanded MASS MoCA <span class="title-light">Hyperallergic</span>](https://massmoca.org/a-journey-through-james-turrells-disorienting-world-at-the-newly-expanded-mass-mocahyperallergic/)
- [Everything is an instrument and everyone a musician: Mark Stewart on Schonbeck at Mass MoCA <span class="title-light">WRSI</span>](https://massmoca.org/everything-is-an-instrument-and-everyone-a-musician-mark-stewart-on-schonbeck-at-mass-moca-wrsi/)
- [Where Art Has Space to Play <span class="title-light">The Wall Street Journal</span>](https://massmoca.org/where-art-has-space-to-play-the-wall-street-journal/)
- [Sneak peek at MASS MoCA’s latest expansion <span class="title-light">Times Union</span>](https://massmoca.org/sneak-peek-at-mass-mocas-latest-expansion-times-union/)
- [Big Art, Big Money, And Big Hopes Drive MASS MoCA’s New Building 6 <span class="title-light">WBUR</span>](https://massmoca.org/big-art-big-money-and-big-hopes-drive-mass-mocas-new-building-6-wbur/)
- [Jodi Joseph: If you’ve never visited MASS MoCA, now’s the time <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/jodi-joseph-if-youve-never-visited-mass-moca-nows-the-time-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [Massachusetts museum’s expansion enables artists to dream big <span class="title-light">The Art Newspaper</span>](https://massmoca.org/massachusetts-museums-expansion-enables-artists-to-dream-big-the-art-newspaper/)
- [MASS MoCA’s Final Stage <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-mocas-final-stage-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [MASS MoCA Plans To Double Its Size With $25.4 Million From State <span class="title-light">The Artery</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-plans-to-double-its-size-with-25-4-million-from-state-the-artery/)
- [State grant would fund MASS MoCA expansion <span class="title-light">Boston.com</span>](https://massmoca.org/state-grant-would-fund-mass-moca-expansion-boston-com/)
- [State Grants $25M for MASS MoCA’s Final Phase <span class="title-light">iBerkshires</span>](https://massmoca.org/state-grants-25m-for-mass-mocas-final-phase-iberkshires/)
- [Big Dreams at the Art Factory <span class="title-light">The New York Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/big-dreams-at-the-art-factory-the-new-york-times/)
- [Mass MoCA unveils expansive vision <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-unveils-expansive-vision-the-boston-globe/)
- [MASS MoCA to become country’s largest contemporary art museum <span class="title-light">The Washington Post</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-to-become-countrys-largest-contemporary-art-museum-the-washington-post/)
- [Vast Space and Art to Fill It <span class="title-light">The New York Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/vast-space-and-art-to-fill-it-the-new-york-times/)
- [MASS MoCA signs prominent artists for major expansion <span class="title-light">Los Angeles Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-signs-prominent-artists-for-major-expansion-los-angeles-times/)
- [MASS MoCA Doubles Size, Hosts Projects by Turrell, Holzer, Laurie Anderson <span class="title-light">Art in America</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-doubles-size-hosts-projects-by-turrell-holzer-laurie-anderson-art-in-america/)
- [MASS MoCA talks expansion <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-talks-expansion-the-boston-globe/)
- [Lifting the veil on MASS MoCA’s expansion <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/lifting-the-veil-on-mass-mocas-expansion-the-boston-globe/)
- [Bruner/Cott further expands MASS MoCA art museum in the Berkshires <span class="title-light">dezeen</span>](https://massmoca.org/brunercott-further-expands-mass-moca-art-museum-in-the-berkshires-dezeen/)
- [The Art Capital of New England is a Former Factory Town <span class="title-light">Architectural Digest</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-art-capital-of-new-england-is-a-former-factory-town-architectural-digest/)
- [James Turrell rooms, a 15-ton Louise Bourgeois sculpture, and many site-specific works feature in MASS MoCA expansion <span class="title-light">The Architects Newspaper</span>](https://massmoca.org/james-turrell-rooms-a-15-ton-louise-bourgeois-sculpture-and-many-site-specific-works-feature-in-mass-moca-expansion-the-architects-newspaper/)
- [Culture Calendar: 23 Things to do in May 2017 <span class="title-light">Departures</span>](https://massmoca.org/culture-calendar-23-things-to-do-in-may-2017-departures/)
- [MASS MoCA Hopes to Grow Economic Impact <span class="title-light">iBerkshires</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-hopes-to-grow-economic-impact-iberkshires/)
- [6 LAST-MINUTE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND GETAWAYS <span class="title-light">Elle Decor</span>](https://massmoca.org/6-last-minute-memorial-day-weekend-getaways-elle-decor/)
- [Expanded MASS MoCA Galleries <span class="title-light">Berkshire Fine Arts</span>](https://massmoca.org/expanded-mass-moca-galleries-berkshire-fine-arts/)
- [Welcome to Building 6: Mass MoCA’s 130K-square-foot expansion opens May 28 <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/welcome-to-building-6-mass-mocas-130k-square-foot-expansion-opens-may-28-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [North Adams a Canvas for MASS MoCA Art This Summer <span class="title-light">iBerkshires</span>](https://massmoca.org/north-adams-a-canvas-for-mass-moca-art-this-summer-iberkshires/)
- [MASS MoCA’s Building 6 Opens May 28 <span class="title-light">iBerkshires</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-mocas-building-6-opens-may-28-iberkshires/)
- [Art and about: MASS MoCA reaches critical mass <span class="title-light">IMBY</span>](https://massmoca.org/art-and-about-mass-moca-reaches-critical-mass-imby/)
- [MASS MoCA Just Became One of America’s Largest Museums <span class="title-light">artnet news</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-just-became-one-of-americas-largest-museums-artnet-news/)
- [MASS MoCA thinks big with latest expansion <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-thinks-big-with-latest-expansion-the-boston-globe/)
- [A More Massive MASS MoCA <span class="title-light">WRSI</span>](https://massmoca.org/a-more-massive-mass-moca-wrsi/)
- [The Berkshires Town That’s Becoming a Cultural Hub <span class="title-light">The Wall Street Journal<span>](https://massmoca.org/the-berkshires-town-thats-becoming-a-cultural-hub-the-wall-street-journal/)
- [As MASS MoCA Doubles Its Size, Unpredictability Is A Goal <span class="title-light">NEPR</span>](https://massmoca.org/as-mass-moca-doubles-its-size-nepr/)
- [Alexandra Foradas: A curator's perspective <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/alexandra-foradas-a-curators-perspective-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [Our Guide To The Art Inside MASS MoCA’s Gigantic New Building 6 <span class="title-light">WBUR</span>](https://massmoca.org/our-guide-to-the-art-inside-mass-mocas-gigantic-new-building-6-wbur/)
- [A Museum Where Giant Art Has Room to Breathe <span class="title-light">The New York Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/a-museum-where-giant-art-has-room-to-breathe-the-new-york-times/)
- [MASS MoCA expands — and mounts a standout set of new shows <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-expands-and-mounts-a-standout-set-of-new-shows-the-boston-globe/)
- [In his own words: Joseph Thompson <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/in-his-own-words-joseph-thompson-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [John Stirratt: Why I fell in love with North Adams <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/john-stirratt-why-i-fell-in-love-with-north-adams-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [Audio Tour Of MASS MoCA’s Building 6 – Opening Day Celebration 5/28 <span class="title-light">WAMC</span>](https://massmoca.org/audio-tour-of-mass-mocas-building-6-opening-day-celebration-528-wamc/)
- [Building 6: A sublime intersection of art, architecture and nature <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/building-6-a-sublime-intersection-of-art-architecture-and-nature-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [Denise Markonish: A curator’s perspective <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/denise-markonish-a-curators-perspective-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [MASS MoCA: The ‘miracle … in these hills’ comes to fruition <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-the-miracle-in-these-hills-comes-to-fruition-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [The genesis of MASS MoCA <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-genesis-of-mass-moca-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [From idea to reality | MASS MoCA: A timeline <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/from-idea-to-reality-mass-moca-a-timeline-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [Building 6’s big bang attracts thousands to MASS MoCA’s new expanded footprint <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/building-6s-big-bang-attracts-thousands-to-mass-mocas-new-expanded-footprint-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [John Seven: MASS MoCA is a world-class institution built on local energy <span class="title-light">The Berkshire Eagle</span>](https://massmoca.org/john-seven-mass-moca-is-a-world-class-institution-built-on-local-energy-the-berkshire-eagle/)
- [Can contemporary art help revitalize rural America? <span class="title-light">Curbed</span>](https://massmoca.org/can-contemporary-art-help-revitalize-rural-america-curbed/)
- [More Mass at MASS MoCA <span class="title-light">Berkshire Trade & Commerce</span>](https://massmoca.org/more-mass-at-mass-moca-berkshire-trade-commerce/)
- [Meandering Through MASS MoCA’s Vast Expansion <span class="title-light">Hyperallergic</span>](https://massmoca.org/meandering-through-mass-mocas-vast-expansion-hyperallergic/)
- [The mecca at MASS MoCA <span class="title-light">The Boston Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-mecca-at-mass-moca-the-boston-globe/)
- [Massachusetts’ artsiest enclave gives NYC a run for its money <span class="title-light">New York Post</span>](https://massmoca.org/massachusetts-artsiest-enclave-gives-nyc-a-run-for-its-money-new-york-post/)
- [James Turrell Makes Light Physical <span class="title-light">The New Yorker</span>](https://massmoca.org/james-turrell-makes-light-physical-the-new-yorker/)
- [Let's Slice Open The Biggest Contemporary Art Museum In The US <span class="title-light">Wired</span>](https://massmoca.org/lets-slice-open-the-biggest-contemporary-art-museum-in-the-us-wired/)
- [Life with Monte: MASS MoCA Expansion, Pt. 1 <span class="title-light">Connecting Point</span>](https://massmoca.org/life-with-monte-mass-moca-expansion-pt-1-connecting-point/)
- [Booker T. Jones](https://massmoca.org/booker-t-jones/) - For Immediate Release 18 April 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Booker T. Jones B3 for days NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — From his early days as a Stax Records session player and with the M.G.’s, to his resurgence, Booker T. Jones has remained an ambassador of Memphis soul music for nearly
- [Joan Osborne](https://massmoca.org/joan-osborne/) - For Immediate Release 18 April 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Joan Osborne Sings the songs of Bob Dylan NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — “Like Bonnie Raitt, a musician to whom she has often been compared, Ms. Osborne is a fiercely intelligent, no-nonsense singer-songwriter who is allergic to traditional pop sentimentality, though
- [In the News](https://massmoca.org/recent-news/) - Since opening in 1999, MASS MoCA has become one of the world's premier centers for making and showing the best art of our time. Here's what people are saying this season. Museum News Mass MoCA: The ‘miracle ... in these hills’ comes to fruition, The Berkshire Eagle The genesis of Mass MoCA, The Berkshire Eagle
- [High Mud Comedy Fest<br>with Phoebe Robinson](https://massmoca.org/high-mud-comedy-fest/) - For Immediate Release 7 December 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Phoebe Robinson Headlines High Mud Comedy Fest Dave Hill and local comedians perform March 31–April 1, with more acts to follow NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — MASS MoCA’s High Mud Comedy Festival, a two-day laugh fest featuring a pile of performers
- [Portraits of Power: Women Making an Impact](https://massmoca.org/portraits-of-power-women-making-an-impact/) - For Immediate Release 25 January 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Portraits of Power Women Making an Impact Documentary film series showcases tough and powerful women NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Female politicians fight for the future of Tunisia; an all-woman bike crew rides for social change; a female hospice unit delays death
- [Sō Percussion](https://massmoca.org/so-percussion/) - For Immediate Release 24 January 2017 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Sō Percussion: A Gun Show Second Amendment Soundtrack NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — The innovative ensemble Sō Percussion explores America’s fraught relationship with guns in this theatrically staged concert. Taking mallets to disassembled sniper rifles and assorted drums, the musicians serve
- [Mavis Staples](https://massmoca.org/mavis-staples/) - For Immediate Release 7 December 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Mavis Staples A living legend NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Mavis Staples is one of the great alchemists of American music, crossing genre lines like no musician since perhaps Ray Charles and weaving her voice into the very fabric of gospel,
- [Universal Melody Brass Band](https://massmoca.org/universal-melody-brass-band/) - For Immediate Release 7 December 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Steven Bernstein’s Universal Melody Brass Band Horns aplenty following MASS MoCA’s annual Free Day NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Presiding over consciousness-expanding arrangements of Sly and the Family Stone, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Allen Toussaint to The Band, and more—with
- [Dinosaur Jr.](https://massmoca.org/dinosaur-jr/) -  
- [Parsonsfield](https://massmoca.org/parsonsfield/) - For Immediate Release 7 December 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org FreshGrass Presents: Parsonsfield Nanook of the North NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Pioneer Valley-based indie-folk heroes Parsonsfield blew minds at MASS MoCA’s FreshGrass Festival, playing original live music to an excerpt of the iconic Richard Flaherty documentary Nanook of the North.
- [A Winter Visit in One Hour Flat](https://massmoca.org/joes-wintertime-mass-moca-tour-in-one-hour-flat/) - Possibly the best afternoon you can spend in North Adams.
- [Fall 2016 Season Announcement](https://massmoca.org/fall-2016-season-announcement/) -  
- [Eisa Davis](https://massmoca.org/eisa-davis/) -  
- [The Magnetic Fields <span class="title-light">50 Song Memoir</span>](https://massmoca.org/the-magnetic-fields-50-song-memoir/) -  
- [Benjamin Clementine](https://massmoca.org/benjamin-clementine/) -  
- [Helga Davis](https://massmoca.org/helga-davis/) -  
- [Big Thief](https://massmoca.org/big-thief/) -  
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- [Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 2016](https://massmoca.org/bang-on-a-can-summer-music-festival-2016-press/) - For Immediate Release 17 May 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org 15th Annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, July 13–30, 2016 Festival highlights include: Brian Eno’s ambient classic Music for Airports performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars John Cage’s ethereal Atlas Eclipticalis Performances of
- [Ghost Train Orchestra](https://massmoca.org/ghost-train-orchestra/) - For Immediate Release 26 May 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Ghost Train Orchestra Celebrate the music of the Roaring ‘20s NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Reimagine the wild jazz that came pouring out of speakeasies and cabarets of Chicago and New York City in the 1920s, forever changing the face of
- [Joe Pera](https://massmoca.org/joe-pera/) - For Immediate Release 1 June 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org High Mud Comedy Fest presents: Joe Pera Deadpan stand-up comedy NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Our favorite High Mud funny-man, Dave Hill, calls Joe Pera “a Dave-approved weirdo.” The Comic’s Comic calls this Buffalo-born, Brooklyn-based deadpan artist, “... more Twilight Zone
- [The Triplets of Belleville](https://massmoca.org/the-triplets-of-belleville/) - For Immediate Release 7 June 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The Triplets of Belleville Le Hot Jazz, Le Tour NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — This unclassifiable Oscar-nominated (Best Animated Feature, Best Song) film — a fantastical caper involving the Tour de France and the French Mafia — becomes a spectacular live
- [Mariachi Flor de Toloache](https://massmoca.org/mariachi-flor-de-toloache/) - For Immediate Release 28 June 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Mariachi Flor de Toloache New York’s first all-female mariachi band NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Trailblazing Latin Grammy nominee Mariachi Flor de Toloache is New York City’s first all-female mariachi band. The band infuses the classic ranchero sound with bursts of hip-hop,
- [<span class="title-light">Meet us at the Airport</span>Around the World in 80 Days](https://massmoca.org/meet-us-at-the-airportaround-the-world-in-80-days/) - For Immediate Release 26 May 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org MEET US AT THE AIRPORT Around the World in 80 Days NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Around the World in 80 Days as we screen this epic Academy Award-winning adventure film on the largest movie screen
- [The Suitcase Junket](https://massmoca.org/the-suitcase-junket/) - For Immediate Release 20 May 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org FreshGrass Presents The Suitcase Junket A rough and tumble one-man band NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Artist, tinkerer, tunesmith, Swamp Yankee — The Suitcase Junket is a one-man salvage specialist with an unorthodox approach to his craft: singing into the hollow
- [Nick Cave: <span class="title-light">Until</span>](https://massmoca.org/nick-cave-until/) - For Immediate Release 1 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Nick Cave: Until Largest-Ever Museum Exhibition Signals Next Phase of Artist’s Career NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — If you think you know Nick Cave, think again. The artist known for his wearable sculptures called Soundsuits turns expectations inside out at MASS
- [Sarah Crowner: <span class="title-light">Beetle in the Leaves</span>](https://massmoca.org/sarah-crowner-beetle-in-the-leaves/) - For Immediate Release 11 February 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Sarah Crowner: Beetle in the Leaves Artist’s first solo exhibition in a U.S. museum invites visitors to become part of the work NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Sarah Crowner’s first solo U.S. museum exhibition features paintings and a suite of major
- [Summer 2016 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/summer-2016-season-announce/) - For Immediate Release 13 April 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The National, Luna, Charles Bradley, Rubblebucket, FreshGrass Festival, and Bang on a Can to Headline Summer Season Bursting with Music, Film, and Comedy Twenty-three international artists probe the concept of wonder. Classic animated films come alive with live music under
- [Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom!](https://massmoca.org/allison-millers-boom-tic-boom/) - For Immediate Release 31 March 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom! A contemporary jazz adventure NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Allison Miller, “a drummer of fierce clarity and bold imagination” (London Guardian), who was here last summer with Toshi Reagon, returns with her smoking hot band —
- [Luna](https://massmoca.org/luna/) - For Immediate Release 13 April 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Luna Indie-rock favorite opens a summer of music at MASS MoCA NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Storied indie rock quartet Luna — led by Dean Wareham, seen most recently at MASS MoCA as one-half of Dean & Britta — returns after
- [The Space Between](https://massmoca.org/the-space-between/) - For Immediate Release 28 January 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The Space Between Installations highlight spaces around, below, and beyond the galleries NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Industrial stairwells, covered bridges, sunlit niches, and brick-lined courtyards: the nooks and crannies around, below, and between MASS MoCA’s galleries sometimes go unnoticed. These are
- [Debo Band](https://massmoca.org/debo-band/) - For Immediate Release 30 March 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Debo Band Ethio-pop to heat things up NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — The eleven-piece Debo Band expands upon the repertoire of Ethiopia’s golden era of Afro-pop. The band’s 2012 debut, released on Sub Pop to huge acclaim, offers some of the
- [Ruby Amanfu](https://massmoca.org/ruby-amanfu/) - For Immediate Release 3 March 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Ruby Amanfu Soulful superstar in the making NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Dubbed “Nashville’s Next Indie Star” by Billboard, astonishing soul-rock singer Ruby Amanfu is a force. Since her star turn on Jack White’s Love Interruption in 2012, she was nominated
- [The Trimbin Band: William Tyler, Quindar, Nick Hallett](https://massmoca.org/the-trimbin-band/) - For Immediate Release 17 February 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org William Tyler, Quindar, Nick Hallett Four musicians perform original music to a selection of lost 1960s counterculture films NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco teams up with art historian and curator James Merle Thomas (his partner in
- [M is Black Enough](https://massmoca.org/m-black-enough/) - For Immediate Release 23 February 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org M is Black Enough An extraordinary spoken-word-meets-new-music collaboration NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — M is Black Enough exercises spirited conversation and debate through steelpan, cello, text, and voice. Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, of Kronos Quartet, teams up with composer and percussionist
- [Ken Winokur’s Psychedelic Cinema](https://massmoca.org/psychedelic-cinema/) - For Immediate Release 29 January 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Ken Winokur’s Psychedelic Cinema A far-out journey back to the music of the 1960s NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Alloy Orchestra mastermind Ken Winokur visits MASS MoCA with his new film and live music project Psychedelic Cinema, which revitalizes cult
- [Taylor Mac](https://massmoca.org/taylor-mac/) - For Immediate Release 24 March 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: 1836-1896 A fierce history of American popular music NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — The New York Times says, “Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming each and
- [Teen Art Summit](https://massmoca.org/teen-art-summit/) - For Immediate Release 24 April 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Teen Art Summit Free Improv Theater, Yoga, Music-Making for Local Youth NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — MASS MoCA and MCLA seek northern Berkshire teens (ages 13-19) to participate in five hours of improv theater, studio art, collective music-making, yoga, and more,
- [Kidspace Offers Summer Camp Scholarships](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-offers-summer-camp-scholarships/) - For Immediate Release 20 June 2014 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Kidspace at MASS MoCA summer camps Scholarships available for North Adams Public Schools students NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — MASS MoCA’s week-long summer art camps offer fun, sun, and kid-centric projects and activities, from July 28 to August 29. And now they
- [Institute of Museum and Library Services awards over $100,000 to support educational programming at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-awards-over-100000-to-support-educational-programming-at-mass-moca/) - For immediate Release 22 October 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Institute of Museum and Library Services awards over $100,000 to support educational programming at MASS MoCA NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — The Institute of Museum And Library Services (IMLS) has selected MASS MoCA for one of its Museums for America awards, providing
- [Angelique Kidjo](https://massmoca.org/12645-2/) - For immediate Release 14 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Angelique Kidjo Musician, Activist, African Queen NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Beninese world music icon Angelique Kidjo descends for an intimate acoustic performance that will change your life. “The power of Kidjo’s unflappable voice, the range of her emotional expression, the stellar, genre-bending
- [Alex Da Corte: <span class="title-light">Free Roses</span>](https://massmoca.org/alex-da-corte-free-roses/) - For Immediate Release 23 June 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Alex Da Corte: Free Roses First museum survey of Philadelphia-based neo-pop artist NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Provocative, puzzling, and visually seductive, Alex Da Corte's exuberant works merge the languages of abstraction and modern design with banal, off-brand items, ranging from
- [Local High School Students Exhibit Artwork at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA in Teen Invitational](https://massmoca.org/local-high-school-students-exhibit-artwork-at-mass-moca-in-teen-invitational/) - For Immediate Release 3 March 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Local High School Students Exhibit Artwork at MASS MoCA in Teen Invitational Fifth annual exhibition opens on April 10 NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – This year’s Teen Invitational, the fifth annual exhibition featuring art by local high school students on view in
- [Art Ninjas Camp 2015](https://massmoca.org/art-ninjas-camps/) - For Immediate Release 4 February 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Art Ninjas Camp Art Camp for kids ages 5-12, this August NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Art Ninjas Camp at MASS MoCA returns for three weeks of stealthy fun in the sun, when kids come together to embark on daily missions
- [MASS MoCA Awarded Grant<br>from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-awarded-grant-f-rom-the-andrew-w-mellon-foundation/) - For Immediate Release 4 November 2014 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org MASS MoCA Awarded Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds support future artist residencies in the visual and performing arts NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — MASS MoCA announces a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the
- [Free on the 4s](https://massmoca.org/free-on-the-4s/) - For Immediate Release 12 August 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Free North Adams! MASS MoCA Expands Free Admission Program for 01247 residents North Adams neighbors admitted to galleries free of charge on the 4th day of each month, October 4, 2015 – June 4, 2016 NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — North Adams
- [MASS MoCA, MCLA, and The Clark Welcome 300 Art Educators to the Berkshires](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-mcla-and-the-clark-welcome-300-art-educators-to-the-berkshires/) - For Immediate Release 5 October 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org MASS MoCA, MCLA, and The Clark Welcome 300 Art Educators to the Berkshires Hosts of the 2015 MAEA Annual Conference: Curiosity, Inquiry, Wonder NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – The 2015 Massachusetts Art Education Association (MAEA) Annual Conference will be held in
- [Above and Beyond](https://massmoca.org/above-and-beyond/) - For Immediate Release 11 January 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Above and Beyond A group of ragtag American pilots creates Israel’s first air force NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In 1948, as Europe emerged from total war, a small group of Jewish-American fighter pilots returned to the battlefield for a new
- [Neutral Milk Hotel <span class="title-light">with the Dot Wiggin Band</span>](https://massmoca.org/neutral-milk-hotel-with-the-dot-wiggin-band/) - For Immediate Release 10 December 2014 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Neutral Milk Hotel Indie rock giants awaken NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — The return of Jeff Mangum and Neutral Milk Hotel — who influenced a generation of songwriters with a string of records in the ‘90s, culminating with In the Aeroplane
- [The National](https://massmoca.org/the-national/) - For Immediate Release 13 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The National Critically acclaimed alt-rockers in North Adams, Mass. in their only Northeast headline show in 2016 Concert to benefit MASS MoCA and Hawthorne Valley Association NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — We’ve been following The National since 1999, the same year
- [Winter/Spring 2016 Season Announce](https://massmoca.org/12682-2/) - For Immediate Release 14 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org The National, Angelique Kidjo, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog, Taylor Mac, and Star-Studded Works-in-Progress including one from Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen Headline MASS MoCA’s Winter/Spring 2016 Season Major exhibitions by Richard Nonas, Alex Da Corte, and Sarah Crowner feature
- [Steve Earle](https://massmoca.org/steve-earle/) - For Immediate Release 7 January 2014 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Steve Earle The father of alt-country, live in concert NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — A trailblazer of alt-country, a protest singer of fiery commitment, a songwriter of towering ability — Steve Earle is an artist of expansive talents. He’s here at
- [Laurie Anderson's<br> Heart of a Dog](https://massmoca.org/laurie-anderson-heart-of-a-dog-an-intimate-meditation-on-loss-and-love/) - For Immediate Release 14 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Laurie Anderson: Heart of a Dog An intimate meditation on loss and love NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Boundary-breaking 2017 exhibiting artist Laurie Anderson brings her renowned documentary Heart of a Dog — an autobiographical film about love and loss —
- [Chris Gethard](https://massmoca.org/chris-gethard/) - For Immediate Release 14 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Revolutionary Comedian, Chris Gethard Alt-punk comic brings his stand-up to MASS MoCA NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — You might recognize him from appearances on The Office, Parks and Recreation, Broad City, and Louie — but comedian Chris Gethard is most at
- [Big Dance Theater: <span class="title-light">This Page Left Intentionally Blank</span>](https://massmoca.org/big-dance-theater-this-page-left-intentionally-blank/) - For immediate Release 13 January 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Big Dance Theater: This Page Left Intentionally Blank See Sol LeWitt like never before NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — A work-in-progress, performance-based museum audio/docent tour created by Here Lies Love choreographer Annie-B Parson and creative partner Paul Lazar, this interactive event
- [Legs](https://massmoca.org/legs/) - For Immediate Release 12 January 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Legs Fall in love on the dance floor NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — If extroversion had a musical embodiment, it would be in the sounds and rhythms of Brooklyn’s Legs. Blending modern indie pop with Stax-worthy hooks, they are a mobile
- [Storyboard P and the Warriorz](https://massmoca.org/story-board-p-and-the-warriorz/) - For Immediate Release 27 January 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Storyboard P and the Warriorz “The Basquiat of Street Dance” NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Storyboard P, “a man whose dancing seems to belong less to the limitations of the human body and more to the magic of special effects,” (The
- [Birds of Chicago](https://massmoca.org/12660-2/) - For Immediate Release 14 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org FreshGrass Presents: Birds of Chicago Soulful Americana from a FreshGrass favorite NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Birds of Chicago takes a victory lap in Club B10 after blowing minds at this September’s FreshGrass Festival. Husband-wife duo JT Nero and Allison Russell
- [Free Day 2016](https://massmoca.org/free-day/) - For Immediate Release 28 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org MASS MoCA is free on January 30 Community art projects, live music, dance, and gallery tours NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Join us for MASS MoCA’s annual day of free admission for all visitors. Enjoy elevator music (played live), art-making, gallery
- [Daniel Wohl: Holographic](https://massmoca.org/12639-2/) - For Immediate Release 15 December 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Daniel Wohl: Holographic Musical labyrinths and lush visuals bring spellbinding multimedia work-in-progress to life NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Daniel Wohl's "boldly surreal" (The New York Times) music, synch audio, and visual content are in real time for this multi-sensory audience
- [Francesco Clemente: <span class="title-light">Encampment</span>](https://massmoca.org/francesco-clemente-encampment/) - For Immediate Release 19 March 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Francesco Clemente: Encampment NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — “I’m told I am a nomadic artist,” artist Francesco Clemente once dryly noted. In Encampment — a multi-part 30,000 square foot installation occupying MASS MoCA’s largest gallery — Clemente’s transitory experience of
- [Barbara Takenaga: <span class="title-light">Nebraska</span>](https://massmoca.org/13035-2/) - For Immediate Release 13 February 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Barbara Takenaga: Nebraska Painter translates exuberant work to large-scale mural installation NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Painter Barbara Takenaga creates a new work of an unprecedented scale for a 100’ wall in the Hunter Center lobby at MASS MoCA. Known for
- [Liz Deschenes: <span class="title-light">Gallery 4.1.1</span>](https://massmoca.org/liz-deschenes/) - For Immediate Release 16 January 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Liz Deschenes: Gallery 4.1.1 Prolific artist turns photography into a site-specific, sculptural, immersive, and interactive experience at MASS MoCA "There was a striking economy of means in this photographic cave. Deschenes found a seemingly simple way to make viewers active
- [Ran Hwang: <span class="title-light">Untethered</span>](https://massmoca.org/ran-hwang/) - For Immediate Release 12 February 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Ran Hwang: Untethered 140-foot sculpture in buttons and pins NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Using thousands upon thousands of buttons and pins, Korean artist Ran Hwang returns to MASS MoCA to install Untethered, a 140-foot-long sculpture featuring 14 birds, including six
- [Artists' Choice:<br> An Expanded Field of Photography](https://massmoca.org/artists-choice-an-expanded-field-of-photography/) - For Immediate Release April 8, 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Artists’ Choice: An Expanded Field of Photography Liz Deschenes curates group exhibition featuring six artists with wide-ranging approaches to the field of photography NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In conjunction with her solo exhibition at MASS MoCA, Liz Deschenes curates a
- [Jim Shaw: <span class="title-light">Entertaining Doubts</span>](https://massmoca.org/jim-shaw-entertaining-doubts/) - For Immediate Release 14 May 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Jim Shaw: Entertaining Doubts Largest U.S. exhibition of west-coast artist features large-scale works that focus on political, cultural, and religious fallibility “At the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Jim Shaw takes on faith — and doubt — in a body
- [Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder](https://massmoca.org/explode-every-day-an-inquiry-into-the-phenomena-of-wonder/) - For Immediate Release 22 September 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS – Visitors will stand in rapt awe when MASS MoCA launches the exhibition Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder on May 28, 2016.
- [Walk in My Shoes](https://massmoca.org/walk-in-my-shoes/) - For Immediate Release 3 March 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Walk in My Shoes Kidspace exhibition features Jamie Diamond, Jesse Fleming, and Aaron Johnson NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Beginning this June, Kidspace at MASS MoCA kicks off four years of related exhibitions, organized under a single narrative and developmental arc.
- [SuttonBeresCuller: <span class="title-light">Big Top Grand Stand</span>](https://massmoca.org/suttonberesculler-big-top-grand-stand/) - For Immediate Release 16 April 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org SuttonBeresCuller: Big Top Grand Stand The circus becomes sculptural NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Inspired by the dazzling color, breathtaking spectacle, bustling environment, and transitory landscapes synonymous with the circus, fairs, and festivals, Seattle-based collective SuttonBeresCuller brings Big Top Grand Stand,
- [Richard Nonas: <span class="title-light">The Man in the Empty Space</span>](https://massmoca.org/richard-nonas-the-man-in-the-empty-space/) - For Immediate Release 18 January 2016 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Richard Nonas: The Man in the Empty Space First large-scale East Coast museum exhibition since 1985 NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — The powerful sculpture of artist Richard Nonas transforms MASS MoCA’s largest gallery in a monumental exhibition that features both a
- [Clifford Ross: <span class="title-light">Landscape Seen & Imagined</span>](https://massmoca.org/clifford-ross-landscape-seen-imagined/) - For Immediate Release 18 February 2015 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Clifford Ross: Landscape Seen & Imagined Extreme scale, super high-resolution photography, augmented reality, immersive video, and music probe the junction of nature and abstraction NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In this major mid-career museum survey, Landscape Seen & Imagined documents Clifford
- [Bibliothecaphilia](https://massmoca.org/bibliothecaphilia/) - For Immediate Release 4 November 2014 Contact: Jodi Joseph Director of Communications 413.664.4481 x8113 jjoseph@massmoca.org Bibliothecaphilia Six artists wander through the stacks NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — For centuries, libraries have exerted a quiet sort of gravity, pulling us in with the promise that for a while, in the hushed, book-filled corridors, we can exceed ourselves.
- [Celebrating Lunar New Year in Kidspace](https://massmoca.org/happy-lunar-new-year-from-kidspace/) - It was a busy weekend -- Saturday was MASS MoCA's FREE DAY, which was a great success even in spite of some blustery weather. And Sunday was the Lunar New Year, so we've been offering some community and art-making projects to welcome in the Year of the Water Snake. First, we saluted the thousands of
- [Summit 4 Teens](https://massmoca.org/summit-4-teens/) - Only a few more days to sign up for the Summit 4 Teens, taking place at MASS MoCA this Friday, November 15, from 4:00-9:00pm! The Summit brings together artists, college students, museum staff, and teens for an action-packed event to envision youth arts programming. The MASS MoCA Education Department and MCLA arts management students host
- [Welcome!](https://massmoca.org/welcome/) - Welcome to Kidspace’s new website and blog. Look here for reflections, commentaries, and interesting (at least we think so) tidbids from Kidspace staff and interns. We invite visitors and program participants to also share their thoughts about Kidspace on our blog. Please send your entries, images, and/or links to kidspace@massmoca.org.
- [Reflections from an intern](https://massmoca.org/reflections-from-an-intern/) - As distinctive as the art that fills its galleries and performances that grace its stages, so is the population that visits MASS MoCA. As an intern at Kidspace for the past year, I’ve noticed that you never really know who is going to come through the doors—or what the art is going to mean to
- [Applications being accepted for Mona Lisa Project](https://massmoca.org/applications-being-accepted-for-mona-lisa-project/) - The Mona Lisa Project (MLP) is exclusively designed for teenage girls entering the 7th grade in the fall of 2010, who are seeking the opportunity to explore their creative sides. Over the course of two 16-week after-school program sessions, you will be introduced to yoga, art, journaling, and art dialogues while exploring Kidspace’s Fall 2010 and
- [DownStreet Art, 2010](https://massmoca.org/downstreet-art-2010/) - This spring Kidspace worked with a group of 7th graders from Greylock Elementary School, North Adams, and Gabriel Abbott Memorial, Florida, Massachusetts. Nationally renowned artist Victoria Palermo was invited to work with the students to create small models for possible public art projects. The students also worked with the Center for Ecological Technology to explore
- [Kidspace Voted Best Kids Venue](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-voted-best-kids-venue/) - 12,000 people wrote in to the Berkshire Eagle to vote for The Best of the Berkshires, 2010. Kidspace was chosen as the best kids venue. Thank you to all who voted!
- [Kidspace Doubles Attendance](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-doubles-attendance/) - Attendance numbers for July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010 reached an all time high at 29,000 students and public visitors. This is up from 13,000 in 08-09.
- [Summer Science Camp](https://massmoca.org/summer-science-camp/) - We are excited to be collaborating with the North Adams Public Schools this summer to provide the art programming for their annual summer science camp! Students will be creating artwork over the course of the month of July which will be added to the exhibit The Sunny Side of Main located at 53 Main Street
- [Napspace](https://massmoca.org/napspace/) - Because sometimes, you just have to take a nap.
- [A Call For Pink and Blue Art Supplies](https://massmoca.org/a-call-for-pink-and-blue-art-supplies/) - It is that time of the year when we ask for donation of art supplies for use in our fall exhibit. Please drop off in Kidspace any found object colored pink or blue. Suggested items include: Rubber gloves Fabric Boxes, cartons Plastic house ware, utensils, combs, toys, bottles, baskets, furniture, game pieces Paper bags Clothes
- [Solid Sound Festival](https://massmoca.org/solid-sound-festival/) - *Please note that although KIDSPACE gallery will be open for public viewing during the SOLID SOUND MUSIC FESTIVAL we will NOT be offering ART MAKING activities.* Thanks & have a great weekend!
- [The Meat Line](https://massmoca.org/the-meat-line/) - *We love when adults come into Kidspace. *We love it even more when they sit down at the art making tables. *We love it most of all when they dive in and make something :) Here's our tribute to our favorite "kid at heart" project of the summer: The Meat Line. Animal Crackers in....candy steaks
- [Iraqi Children's Art Exchange](https://massmoca.org/iraqi-childrens-art-exchange/) - We love Claudia Lefko and the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange :) and thank you for mentioning us in your interview on WAMC! Listen to it!
- [Pink and Blue Projects Opens Saturday](https://massmoca.org/pink-and-blue-projects-opens-saturday/) - Saturday, October 2 from 11am to 4pm (remarks at noon) Come to Kidspace dressed in your favorite pink and blue outfits, and join us to celebrate the opening of Color Forms I: Pink and Blue Projects by Portia Munson. Meet the artist and try making your own artwork. Refreshments will be served. Check out article
- [Holiday Art Classes in December](https://massmoca.org/holiday-art-classes-in-december/) - 3-part "green" series will give children the opportunity to create handmade holiday gifts HOLIDAY CARDS - Saturday, December 4 at 9:00-10:30 a.m. Design and create your own holiday cards to send or give as a gift HOLIDAY SCULPT - Saturday, December 11 at 9:00-10:30 a.m. Create papier-mache or clay handmade decorations HOLIDAY PAINT - Saturday,
- [Feminist Art Project](https://massmoca.org/feminist-art-project/) - Pink and Blue Projects by Portia Munson posted on Feminist Art Project's website--a special project of Rutger's University that was started up by the great Judy Chicago. http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/calendar/view/2675/?return=order_by%3Dstart_date%26end_date_day%3D%26text%3Dportia%20munson%26start_date_day%3D%26end_date_year%3D%26end_date_month%3D%26start_date_month%3D%26country%3D%26start_date_year%3D%26event_type%3D
- [NOW SHOWING](https://massmoca.org/now-showing/) - Kidspace is now showing in our Pink and Blue Projects exhibition the 1970s hit Free To Be You and Me during public hours. Stop on in and watch great skits such as Mommies are People and William Wants a Doll.
- [Visitor Comment](https://massmoca.org/visitor-comment/) - "There is always something interesting and spectacular in Kidspace! There is hope for us"
- [Art Class info](https://massmoca.org/art-class-info/) - *Please note that the art class that was scheduled for Saturday December 18, has been CANCELED.
- [Final Week Color Forms I: Portia Munson](https://massmoca.org/final-week-color-forms-i-portia-munson/) - February 27th is the last day to view Portia Munson's magical pink and blue installation. Kidspace will be open every day over February break (2/19 - 2/27) from 11am to 4pm for exhibition viewing and art-making activities. Kidspace will be closed to the public for the month of March to install Color Forms II: Soyeon
- [Building a Geodesic Dome](https://massmoca.org/building-a-geodesic-dome/) - Geodesic Domes are pretty awesome. You can build your own out of really simple materials and then use it as a super cool fort. First, you need the following materials: * A Ruler * A Wooden Dowel * Newspaper (65 sheets) * Tape (masking or duct) * A Stapler STEP 1: ROLL NEWSPAPER INTO PAPER
- [Food for Thought for Upcoming Curiosity Exhibition](https://massmoca.org/food-for-thought-for-upcoming-curiosity-exhibition/) - Williams Professor Susan Engel talks about children and curiosity
- [Announcing Kidspace Under the Sea Parade!](https://massmoca.org/announcing-kidspace-mermaid-parade/) - This year, at MASS MoCA's annual Free Day, take a break from the cold and experience the ocean right here in North Adams! Kidspace is hosting an Under the Sea Parade, due to kick off at 2:30pm on Saturday, February 11th outside Kidspace on the 2nd floor of MASS MoCA. Come in costume: merpeople,
- [Big Changes Coming to Kidspace!](https://massmoca.org/big-changes-coming-to-kidspace/) - Big and exciting news about Kidspace's reorganization and expansion happening this June! The new Kidspace will feature increased programming at all three museums, a professional development institute for teachers, and a new website designed to share resources; it is designed to meet the increasing demand for arts programs for students in preschool through eighth grade,
- [Coming Soon: CURIOSITY!](https://massmoca.org/coming-soon-curiosity/) - Kidspace Encourages Visitors to Keep Asking Questions in Curiosity Exhibition Opens June 23, 2012, 11 AM to 1 PM Beginning June 23, visitors can delve into a world full of dinosaurs, superheroes, ninjas, cowboys, and monsters at Kidspace's newest exhibition, Curiosity. Chock full of unexpected, outlandish, fantastic objects-turned-artworks that
- [The Bus Stand: Officially Open!](https://massmoca.org/the-bus-stand-officially-open/) - We at Kidspace are very excited about the new Bus Stand downtown! Designed by Kidspace visiting artist Victoria Palermo, the Bus Stand is public artwork and permanent addition to the North Adams community, adding to the movement to bring more public art to the city through the efforts of DownStreet Art. Mayor Alcombright, pictured above with
- [Kidspace Fall Public Hours Begin and Welcome Back NAPS & NBSU](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-fall-public-hours-begin-and-welcome-back-naps-nbsu/) - Please note our fall public hours. We are open every day except Tuesday from 11am to 5pm. Art-making is available on Fridays, Sundays, and over school breaks. Welcome back to our partners in the North Adams Public Schools (12th yr) and the North Berkshire School Union (10th yr). We are looking forward to seeing you
- [Curious about Cabinets? So Was Our New Intern Leigh Dale](https://massmoca.org/curious-about-cabinets-so-was-our-new-intern-leigh-dale/) - Museums are now places where everyone can enjoy objects; sometimes these objects are very rare, very famous, very old, or very beautiful but they were put in a museum so everyone could get the chance to see them. But it wasn't always this way! Hundreds of years ago, people collected objects they thought were interesting,
- [Bright Ideas](https://massmoca.org/bright-ideas/) - In August we hosted our Kids Gallery Quest which focused on "Bright Ideas"! In this hour long venture through the main galleries of MASS MoCA, we searched for pieces that involved LIGHT. One of the first pieces we came across was Diane Landry's "Knight of Infinite Resignation" which uses plastic bottles, light, and sand to
- [BIGFOOT SIGHTING IN KIDSPACE!](https://massmoca.org/bigfoot-sighting-in-kidspace/) - In honor of our Fresh Grass Blue Grass Festival, Kidspace has turned all things big...bigfoot we mean! Come round Kidspace's Curiosity exhibition to get your learning on about one of the greatest legends of all time: Bigfoot. Then rustle yourself up some supplies at our Bigfoot Art Cabaret to make your own hairy monster or
- [Curious? What about?](https://massmoca.org/curious-what-about/) - We've been asking students that visit Kidspace: "What are you curious about?" Here's this week's top 20 Curiosities 1. Legos (who doesn't love Legos?) 2. Horses 3. Dirtbikes 4. Dinosaurs/ Paleontology 5. Mythology 6. Why are people born with bones? 7. How do we learn? 8. Pandas (Why do they like bamboo so much?) 9.
- [Meet Our New College Interns!](https://massmoca.org/1978-2/) - Meet our new college interns! Stop by on the weekend and you might get to try some art-making with our resident experts! On Saturdays, you can meet Thamar she also goes by Tammi who hails from the Boston area. Thamar studies Fine and Performing Arts right down the road at MCLA. She has gallery experience
- [What are tweens curious about?](https://massmoca.org/what-are-tweens-curious-about/) - In our continued survey asking students who visit Kidspace: "What are you curious about?" here are some recent responses from the tween sector: 1. Why are there so many different colors? 2. How did everything get named? 3. The Butterfly Effect 4. Cars/engines/dirt bikes/motorcycles/snowmobiles 5. How is genetically modifying food possible? 6. Is there a
- [The Lego Story](https://massmoca.org/the-lego-story/) - This is a must watch for any lover of Legos! The Lego Story
- [Hand-Made Puppets Compliment Muppet Music Extravaganza!](https://massmoca.org/hand-made-puppets-compliment-muppet-music-extravaganza/) - On the day of the fabulous Muppet Music Extravaganza performed by Loser's Lounge, kids brought puppets made in Kidspace down to the show. Some kids modeled their puppets off the classics, and some invented entirely new characters, with silly voices and full personalities! Making your own hand puppets out of brown paper bags is a
- [Tricks AND Treats for 3rd graders!](https://massmoca.org/tricks-and-treats-for-3rd-graders/) - Some kids in this town really like LEGOs -- and those kids have been asking Shannon, Education Coordinator and fearless leader of our After-School groups, to have a LEGO-themed group for three years. Now three years is a considerable percentage of an 8-year-old's life, so it's no wonder they were let down when, upon their
- [What if kids ruled the world?](https://massmoca.org/what-if-kids-ruled-the-world/) - As part of our continued inquiry into childhood curiosities, one student expressed interest in wondering what the world would be like if it was run by kids. We decided to add this to our daily question by asking students: "If kids were in charge, what's one thing you would change about the world?" Here are
- [Invisible Cities - Book Club](https://massmoca.org/invisible-cities-book-club/) - Last night, the Education Department held our first adult program a book club focusing on Invisible Cities, the book and our exhibition. It was a wonderful night with beautiful art, intellectual prose, and insightful perspectives led by our Curator Susan Cross and Williams College Professor of English, Gage McWeeney. Have you been a part of
- [Curiosity-Inspiring Book Suggestions for Family Literacy Month!](https://massmoca.org/curiosity-inspiring-book-suggestions-for-family-literacy-month/) - November is Family Literacy Month, and as the month draws to a close, we thought it might be a nice to time to remind everyone that, really, every month should involve reading with kids there's never a bad time! Children's reading scores improve dramatically when their parents are involved in helping them to read. A
- [December Break "KIDS AT WORK" 2nd Annual Workshop Series](https://massmoca.org/december-break-kids-at-work-2nd-annual-workshop-series/) - Duct-Tape Diva Isabel Wednesday, December 26, 9-11am Join Isabel and her father, Joe Thompson, MASS MoCA's Director, for a thoroughly divine exploration of the many wonderful uses of Duct Tape. Design your own chic, functional and glamorous wallet, cell phone cover, or purse. New Year's Eve Hat-Making with Danni Thursday, December 27, 9-11am Danni Bourdeau and
- [After-School Architects Make Some Sweet Gingerbread Houses](https://massmoca.org/after-school-architects-make-some-sweet-gingerbread-houses/) - Yesterday, the third-graders in our after-school program got a little sticky... but they got very imaginative designing and erecting their own Gingerbread Houses. Tasty building materials included graham crackers, vanilla frosting, and candy decorations. If only all construction projects tasted this good! buy viagra buy cialis online usa achat viagra en ligne france acheter cialis
- [Guerrilla Holiday Cards](https://massmoca.org/love-and-joy-come-to-you/) - 'Tis the Season to make some fabulous holiday cards. Here at Kidspace, we've been spreading cheer -- to people we don't even know! The Kidspace tradition of guerrilla Christmas cards continues, and it goes like this: make a festive card, but leave it anonymous. Then open the phone book at random, close your eyes and
- [December Workshops -- It's Not Too Late!](https://massmoca.org/december-workshops-its-not-too-late/) - There's still time -- and availability! You can register for our "Kids at Work" winter workshop by emailing kidspace@massmoca.org, or calling (413) 664-4481, ext. 8131. You won't want to miss out. Wednesday, Dec. 26 -- Duct Tape Creations Thursday, Dec. 27 -- New Year's Eve Hats Friday, Dec. 28 -- Star Wars Bonanza Monday, Dec.
- [Register for our Fantastic February Art Camp](https://massmoca.org/register-for-our-fantastic-february-art-camp/) - Looking for something fun to do over February vacation? Look no further -- Kidspace is offering another great Art Camp. All week February 18th-22nd, from 9am-3pm, we'll be making art, meditating, and exploring the museum. Give us a call to reserve your spot now: 413-664-4481, x. 8131 -- or email us at kidspace@massmoca.org. For more
- [Show Some Love this Valentine's Day](https://massmoca.org/show-some-love-this-valentines-day/) - Hey Kids! Make sure your parents are signed up for Date Night at MASS MoCA this Valentine's Day, and you too can have a night at the museum! While adults on their date can take a romantic stroll through the museum, kids are having a blast up in Kidspace. We've got separate (but equally fantastic)
- [Good-bye, After-Schoolers](https://massmoca.org/good-bye-after-schoolers/) - It was sad to see them go... Since the beginning of the school-year, we've had the pleasure of weekly sessions with three different awesome groups of kids. Two groups of 1st-3rd-graders comprised our LEGO club program, and a group of 5th- and 6th-graders made up our program focusing on a theme of Curiosity. On the
- [Inspried by MASS MoCA: A Trip to "Pop-Up New Guinea"](https://massmoca.org/inspried-by-mass-moca-a-trip-to-pop-up-new-guinea/) - Sometimes the process of sharing creative ideas comes full circle: an artist inspires a group of kids, who create something incredible, in turn inspiring someone else, which ties right back into the theme of that first piece of artwork. It's a beautiful thing, how different concepts can weave together in unexpected ways. That's what happened
- [Happy Valentine's Day, Sweet Art](https://massmoca.org/happy-valentines-day-sweet-art/) - What do Cupid and artist Michael Fernandes have in common? Their handiwork with a bow and arrow could be found at MASS MoCA on Valentine's Day! The museum sold out its first ever Date Night last night, while decked out with handmade heart paper garlands and pink and white balloons. Rumor has it, one
- [A Vacation Sensation](https://massmoca.org/a-vacation-sensation/) - Where can you play games, see world-class art, meditate, explore an old factory, meet professional artists, cook pizza, mush about six different types of goo, and make artwork from just about anything? Only at ART CAMP. This past week, we had a small but incredible group of students spend their February vacation with us, playing
- [Art Assembly Program for Schools](https://massmoca.org/art-assembly-program-for-schools/) - There were plenty of oohs and ahhs in MASS MoCA's Hunter Center last week as an astounding troupe of women in leotards performed feats combining dance, acrobatics and gymnastics. The group is called LAVA, and they were performing for students from area schools for MASS MoCA's Art Assembly program. They brought with them from New
- [Monster Engine's Next Stop: MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/monster-engines-next-stop-mass-moca/) - What would a child's drawing look like if it were painted realistically? For the past several years, Kidspace artist Dave DeVries has been on a quest to answer this question. Dave's project Monster Engine re-interprets kids' drawings of monsters -- a subject that kids can often get frustrated drawing, because no matter how terrifying something
- [An Enlightening Artist Residency](https://massmoca.org/an-enlightening-artist-residency/) - This dude is half zombie, half king, half zebra, announces an 9-year-old, and he can fly, breathes fire, and has 32 legs. It's not the kind of creature you hear about every day, but it's exactly the level of imagination our artists-in-residence were hoping for. Sadie and Ephraim Hatfield recently invented their own beast, the Gigibòsgoshgoshmuxqüdòh,
- [PRINTeresting.](https://massmoca.org/printeresting/) - Teens from the area are gearing up for yet another amazing TEENSPACE program, and this year's focus is on print-making. Throughout the week, participants will have the opportunities to try different methods of printmaking and bookbinding, while discussing how young people can plan for careers in the arts. Symbolically, binding a book of your artwork
- [Gajin Fujita and the Faces of Jealousy](https://massmoca.org/gajin-fujita-and-the-faces-of-jealousy/) - The face depicted in Gajin Fujita's Demon Hanya State II (now on view in Kidspace's exhibit, "Curiosity") is unmistakably the female demon Hannya. Hannya, a Japanese demon whose name comes from 知恵, meaning "wisdom," has a signature wide, leering grin, metallic eyes, and two sharp horns that identify her. This demon embodies female jealousy, and
- [Tutorial! Tin-Foil Monoprints](https://massmoca.org/tutorial-tin-foil-monoprints/) - There are some things that kids just love. For some reason, brayers (paint rollers) are solidly in that category. It doesn't matter how simple a project is, if it involves paint brayers, kids are all over it. Yesterday with our after-school group, we made some tin foil monoprints, which we technically could have done without
- [Tutorial! Shaving Cream Prints](https://massmoca.org/tutorial-shaving-cream-prints/) - It's a Kidspace favorite; it's beautiful, it's inexpensive, it smells good... and you can even get messy. What could be better? Here's what you'll need: shaving cream liquid water color or food coloring a toothpick a popsicle stick paper (thick paper works best) paper towels and willingness to get a little messy! Squirt a good
- [Tutorial! Natural Bird Feeder](https://massmoca.org/tutorial-natural-bird-feeder/) - Spring has (finally!) sprung! Spend some time enjoying the beautiful weather by making a natural bird feeder. These simple feeders are easy to make and biodegradable. The birds will also use the string to build their nest! MATERIALS: 1 Orange 1 (or more) hungry child 2ft of hemp or other string birdseed HOW TO: 1.
- [Tutorial! Painting with Chalk](https://massmoca.org/tutorial-painting-with-chalk/) - It's super-easy, and watching it dry on the pavement is somehow mesmerizing. For each color, you'll need: 1/2 cup of water 1/4 cup of corn starch 2 tbsp of liquid water color or food coloring Step 1.) Mix the water and color. Step 2.) Gradually add corn starch while stirring. VOILA! (No, seriously, that's it!)
- [Tutorial! Fairy and Gnome Houses](https://massmoca.org/tutorial-fairy-and-gnome-houses/) - We love building fairy houses! Although there are some amazing resources out there for truly stellar houses, it doesn't have to be a complicated project. Begin by gathering a few simple supplies. We encourage using natural materials whenever possible, since you'll be creating these right in your yard or your favorite patch of woods. MATERIALS:
- [Boredom Buster Art Classes](https://massmoca.org/boredom-buster-art-classes/) - If you find your children uttering the dreaded sentence: "I'm bored," why not re-word their summertime humdrum with one of our artistically adjectival art classes? Fill their days with art-making and inspiration. Parents are welcome to join in the fun or drop off their children. Gooey- July 17 Magical- July 19 Windy- July 24 Impressionable-
- [Art Ninjas Camp](https://massmoca.org/art-ninjas-camp-2/) - Join us for a week of covert creations where we'll explore the museum, learn about guerrilla art, propaganda posters and other forms of stealth self-expression! Children will learn printmaking techniques, paint with moss (what?!) and engage in other fantastical fun that's so awesome it has to be kept a secret. Ultimately, we'll leave guerrilla art
- [Tutorial: Homemade Fortune Cookies and Folding Take-Out Box](https://massmoca.org/tutorial-homemade-fortune-cookies-and-folding-take-out-box/) - What do mothers and fortune cookies have in common? They're both sweet and filled with wisdom. So with our China-themed after-school group, we decided to dive into a fun baking project for Mothers' Day! After all, what hard-working Mom wouldn't want something yummy, homemade and beautifully decorated by her artistic kid(s)? We got our fortune
- [Boredom Buster Art Classes](https://massmoca.org/2821-revision-17/) - If you find your children uttering the dreaded sentence: "I'm bored," why not re-word their summertime humdrum with one of our artistically adjectival art classes? Fill their days with art-making and inspiration. Parents are welcome to join in the fun or drop off their children Gooey- July 17 Magical- July 19 Windy- July 24 Impressionable-
- [Summer Art Classes!](https://massmoca.org/summer-art-classes/) - If you find your children uttering the dreaded sentence: "I'm bored," why not re-word their summertime humdrum with one of our Boredom Buster art classes? Fill their days with art-making and inspiration. Parents are welcome to join in the fun or drop off their children. Gooey- July 17 Magical- July 19 Windy- July 24 Impressionable-
- [Tutorial! Kaleidoscopes](https://massmoca.org/tutorial-kaleidoscopes/) - The word kaleidoscope means an observer of beautiful forms. Kids in our art class were certainly observing some beautiful forms as they made and decorated their very own kaleidoscopes using simple, everyday materials. You can easily make your own!You will need: black construction paper scissors and glue tin foil crayon shavings colored transparent beads sequins or
- [August 24 - Space: The Final Frontier](https://massmoca.org/2960-revision-21/) - Michael Oatman's whimsical installation "all utopias fell" is always a particular hit among kids, and for good reason: even getting up to the seemingly-crashed airstream trailer feels like a giant adventure. And once inside, Oatman invites visitors to interact with the space -- to read the books, sit on the bed, put records on the
- [Kidspace Reminders](https://massmoca.org/welcome-to-the-kidspace-blog/) - Check the Kidspace blog regularly for art project tutorials, news about upcoming events, and Kidspace program updates. Our annual Kidspace exhibition Freedom: Just Another Word For… provides a platform for defining your own meaning of the word “freedom.” Freedom features artworks by six world-renowned artists of Asian descent including Roger Shimomura, Ang Tsherin Sherpa, Ran
- [Art Ninjas Camp!](https://massmoca.org/art-ninjas-camp/) - As August came to a close, twenty-two art ninjas during a week-long camp created a covert exhibition in a classified location. We worked throughout the week to fabricate art masterpieces to display in the exhibition, while also working on mindful awareness of our feelings and actions. The week commenced with brainstorming our own Samurai code
- [FreshKids @ FreshGrass](https://massmoca.org/freshkids-freshgrass/) - For MASS MoCA’s third annual three-day FreshGrass Festival of bluegrass and roots music, the Kidspace ArtBar and staff moved outside to host the FreshKids art-making tent. Overlooking Joe’s Field— the weekend’s largest outdoor venue—the FreshKids tent provided families with materials to fabricate their own bluegrass-inspired masterpieces while enjoying the festivities. To the backdrop of bluegrass
- [We want your holiday trash!](https://massmoca.org/we-want-your-holiday-trash/) - Every year, we love turning your holiday trash into treasures. This year, we're cranking it up a notch and dedicating an entire week during February vacation to the art of cardboard architecture!CAMP UTOPIA will give young fort builders, visionaries and budding engineers an entire week to transform a 2000 square foot empty room into a
- [The Beginning: Dream Big Task Force](https://massmoca.org/the-beginning-dream-big-task-force/) - "We've got a great beginning," a teen reflected at last weekend’s Summit 4 Teens. MASS MoCA and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) collaborated to host a night of art-making and brainstorming future teen programming. The college students mentored the teens, setting the precedent for a long-term partnership. We began the night getting to know
- [Thank You for Free Day!](https://massmoca.org/thank-you-for-free-day/) - Kidspace got taken over by something artMAZEing this Free Day!
- [What's that sound? It's time for Art Assembly!](https://massmoca.org/whats-that-sound-its-time-for-art-assembly/) - Over 1,200 kids braved the cold last week to sing, spin and scat to traditional Chinese songs with the talented Dave Liang and Zhang Le. What was the occasion? Our second sold-out Art Assembly of the season. Little Dragon Tales was a fun time for all involved, and I think we're all ready to sing
- [Some things that could happen on Date Night...](https://massmoca.org/some-things-that-could-happen-on-date-night/) - This Valentine's Day MASS MoCA will be open after dark, from 6-9pm, for our second annual Date Night. This is pretty close to that dream you have of spending a night in the museum.
- [4th Annual Teen Art Invitational](https://massmoca.org/4th-annual-teen-art-invitational/) - Join us for the 4th Annual Teen Art Invitational Friday April 11th 6:30-9:30pm with live music from local teen band Check out highlights from the 2014 Teen Art Invitational here.
- [Swansong](https://massmoca.org/swansong/) - I couldn't have asked for a more phenomenal place to spend the last 10 years. It has been such an honor to work with the teachers from our 9 partner schools, countless stellar artists who have inspired me in ways I can't even put into words and most importantly the students who have been a
- [Kidspace artists work with Kidspace kids!](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-artists-work-with-kidspace-kids/) - During the month of April, three artists exhibiting in Kidspace
- [Gone Off-route: A tour guide's experience at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/gone-off-route-a-tour-guides-experience-at-mass-moca/) - Spring 2014 Education Intern, Katherine Agard, reflects on her experiences as a tour guide. Much of art is about having an experience - about opening yourself up to noticing and looking at the world in a new way. At MASS MoCA, all tour guides learn to approach tours as conversations: we never know what we'll
- [Free Fun Friday!](https://massmoca.org/free-fun-friday/) - On Friday, June 27th, the Highland Street Foundation sponsored Free Fun Fridays! at MASS MoCA. 771 people came from all over the world--a fact evidenced by an interactive activity that took place in the museum’s main galleries. Upon entering the gallery dedicated to the work of Teresita Fernández--a conceptual artist focused on how changing individual
- [Summertime at Kidspace](https://massmoca.org/4133-2/) - This summer at Kidspace we sanitized the ArtBar, polished our medical supplies, and sharpened our colored pencils for the exhibition It’s Only Human. In the gallery, artists Marilene Oliver and Nick Veasey use medical technology to create images of the human body that reveal bones, blood vessels, organs, and tissue. They show bodies in
- [I’m baaack!](https://massmoca.org/im-baaack/) - Coming back to MASS MoCA has truly felt like a homecoming. I worked in the colorful, exhilarating Education Department in 2011-2012 as the full-year intern, and now I've returned as the Senior Museum Educator, growing more excited each day to be welcomed back into the MASS MoCA family. I've been settling into my new desk in the
- [Call for Teaching Artists - Teen Summer Residency 2015](https://massmoca.org/call-for-teaching-artists-teen-summer-residency-2015/) - MASS MoCA announces an exciting opportunity for a visual artist to serve in residence with teen participants. MASS MoCA Teen Programs aim to expose area youth to contemporary art-making practices, build confidence and leadership abilities, provide creative avenues for self-expression, and deepen teens’ connections to the museum and greater North Adams communities. The artist
- [Kidspace is hiring!](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-is-hiring/) - Kidspace ArtBar Assistant (part-time, as-needed; weekend hours required) ArtBar assistants help run public hours in the Kidspace gallery, facilitating drop-in art-making experiences for families. The ArtBar offers dynamic art activities thematically connected to current MASS MoCA exhibitions, especially the Kidspace exhibition It’s Only Human. Assistants would fill in as needed, particularly during winter break and other

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- [Eat](https://massmoca.org/visit/eat/) - More than a museum There’s so much great food in the Berkshires—including spots for a quick nosh at a picnic table or a sit down meal right here on our campus. For an expansive listing, check out these online resources. Discover North Adams Destination Williamstown The Berkshires On Campus These great food and beverage stops
- [MASS M<span style="text-transform:lowercase;">o</span>CA Records](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-records/) - Launched in October 2025, MASS MoCA Records is a new record label created and operated in collaboration with Hen House Studios that establishes a unique framework for record making by centering, artistic creativity, museum residencies, and live music making. The label will provide an alternative to the current commercial model for how independent music is heard,
- [Leadership](https://massmoca.org/about/leadership/) - MASS MoCA SR. LEADERSHIP TEAM Kristy Edmunds Director Tracy Moore Deputy Director Paige Bartels Senior Advisor & Secretary to the Board Susan Cross Director of Curatorial Affairs Morgan Everett Director of Public Initiatives & Real Estate Jennifer Falk Director of Communications & Content Patrick Fisher Director of Technology Victoria Frey Director of People & Culture
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- [Opportunities](https://massmoca.org/about/opportunities/)
- [Applying & Financial Aid](https://massmoca.org/studios/applying-financial-aid/) - BlackNile_credit_Visual_ThoughtBlackNile_credit_Visual_Thought Home Deadline EXTENDED for the Iris Residency Application: an opportunity for artists based in Western or Central Massachusetts who are foreign-born or identify as first- or second-generation American. Deadline November 15. Learn more here. Calls for applications are made four times a year and will open two months prior to the deadline. There are
- [The Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/studios/) - Studios_Chart_FA25Studios_Chart_FA25 Deadline EXTENDED for the Iris Residency Application: an opportunity for artists based in Western or Central Massachusetts who are foreign-born or identify as first- or second-generation American. Deadline November 15. Learn more here. Join the Studios at MASS MoCA mailing list to be kept up-to-date when future application rounds open. Since 2015, the Studios
- [Lease Space](https://massmoca.org/about/lease-space/) - MASS MoCA’s factory campus offers a creative work environment for you, your business, and your employees. Our warm and solid 19th-century mill buildings feature dramatically visible beams, high ceilings, large windows, and exposed brick—combined with modern amenities, high-speed connectivity, and a lively location. Tenants and their employees have ready access to on-site restaurant and café
- [On Campus](https://massmoca.org/visit/on-campus/) - It’s more than a museum here at our downtown North Adams, Massachusetts former factory campus: Plan to pad your visit to the MASS MoCA galleries with singular shopping experiences and delicious food and drink. Make time for a break with house made ice cream or locally brewed craft beer and coffee. And be sure to
- [About](https://massmoca.org/about/) - What We Do The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is one of the world’s liveliest centers for making and enjoying today’s most evocative art. With vast galleries and a stunning collection of indoor and outdoor performing arts venues, MASS MoCA is able to embrace all forms of art: music, sculpture, dance, film, painting,
- [Conferences + Meeting Rooms](https://massmoca.org/about/conferences/) - MASS MoCA has among the most dramatic and creative spaces in all of New England available for your special event. This former-factory campus holds 250,000 sq. feet of gallery spaces filled with contemporary art — a stunning setting where you can play host, for any number from 4 to 400. The museum’s constellation of galleries
- [Library Pass Program](https://massmoca.org/library-pass-program/) - RS172498_RS171034_2025.07.16.Cohort_Sol_LeWitt_Alternate_2_lpr_thumbRS172498_RS171034_2025.07.16.Cohort_Sol_LeWitt_Alternate_2_lpr_thumb MASS MoCA enjoys expanding the cultural and educational life of our regional communities. The Library Pass program ensures that admission fees are not an obstacle for families in the region who want to enjoy the museum. Each pass admits up to two adults and two children under age 16 to the MASS MoCA galleries
- [Stay](https://massmoca.org/visit/stay/) - Extend Your Visit We hope you will explore our home city of North Adams; check out Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts (we are situated right next to its northern most entrance); and dip into neighboring Adams and Williamstown while you’re in the Berkshires. Use these online resources to make the best plan. destinationwilliamstown.org
- [Membership FAQ](https://massmoca.org/membership-faq/) - Learn more about becoming a MASS MoCA member, how to renew a membership, and more. Members support the mission to champion artists and art-making in all forms.
- [Weddings + Celebrations](https://massmoca.org/about/special-events/) - MASS MoCA has among the most dramatic and creative spaces in all of New England available for your special event. This former-factory campus holds 250,000 sq. feet of gallery spaces filled with contemporary art — a stunning setting where you can play host, for any number from 4 to 400. The museum’s constellation of galleries
- [Summer Thursdays @ MASS MoCA: The Chalet, Book Talks, and more!](https://massmoca.org/thursdays/) - Thank you for joining us on Thursday nights this summer for book talks, open artists' studios, music and cocktails at The Chalet, extended hours in select exhibitions, and more.The Chalet is Presented in partnership with Clear Sky Cannabis
- [Workshops-in-Residence](https://massmoca.org/studios/workshops-in-residence/) - Page content A (Top)Page content A (Top) Home If you’re seeking a week-long, residency-style experience at MASS MoCA — with the support of a talented instructor and none of the stress of a highly competitive application process — explore our Workshop-in-Residence opportunities. These programs offer all the benefits of a self-directed residency, including 24/7 access
- [FAQs](https://massmoca.org/studios/faqs/) - Page content A (Top)Page content A (Top) Home APPLYING TO THE STUDIOSHow and when do I apply? Artists are invited to apply through the Studios’ Submittable page. Calls for applications are made four times a year. Subscribe to our mailing list to stay updated when the next round of applications open — it is free
- [Facilities](https://massmoca.org/studios/facilities/) - Page content A (Top)Page content A (Top) Home Resident Artists receive 24-hour access to private studio space on the MASS MoCA campus, plus lodging in newly renovated, furnished apartments across the street from the museum, right in downtown North Adams. We provide seven communal lunches per week in the company of your fellow residents. When
- [Assets for Artists](https://massmoca.org/assets-for-artists-3/) - As of October 1, 2025, MASS MoCA’s foundational, long-running program Assets for Artists will operate as an independent, non-profit organization and remains headquartered on the MASS MoCA Campus. Assets for Artists is an artist-led and artist-centered organization that marshals resources and strategies for creatives in New England to pursue self-determined careers while facing an economic
- [Resident Artists](https://massmoca.org/resident-artists/) - For over two decades, MASS MoCA has been one of the nation’s most productive venues for nurturing and creating new art — especially art which requires sophisticated equipment, generous spaces, and extended time — by offering excellent infrastructure and top-notch professional support and facilities. Over 500 artists have participated in extensive artist-in-residence and technical workshops
- [Artist Selection Team](https://massmoca.org/studios/artist-selection-team/) - 2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike Vos2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike VosHome Silvia López Chavez Silvia López Chavez (she/her) is a Dominican-American visual whose community-centered murals form connections across disciplines and cultural boundaries. She uses joy as an act of resistance and celebration through her vibrant work world-wide. Silvia is a proud recipient of a Common
- [Studios Alumni](https://massmoca.org/studios/studios-alumni/) - 2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike Vos2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike VosHome ALUMNI OF THE STUDIOS AT MASS MoCAJANUARY - JUNE 2024 Stephen Proski Corinne Yonce Natalia Mejía Murillo Madison Donnelly Hans Kuzmich T.J. Dedeaux-Norris Alex Davis Kelley-Ann Lindo Victor “MARKA27” Quinonez Alida Rodrigues Rob “Problak” Gibbs Shailja Patel Marina Dominguez Calvin Gimpelevich DaNice D Marshall
- [Teens](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/teens/) - 2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike Vos2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike Vos We introduce teen audiences to the artistic voices present at MASS MoCA, with an emphasis on joy, exploration, visibility, and fresh perspectives on our work. Through these programs, MASS MoCA endeavors to incubate the next generation of artists and creatives. Activators The Activators at
- [About Kidspace](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/about-kidspace/) - 2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike Vos2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike Vos Kidspace is a creative laboratory at MASS MoCA centering experiential learning and inspiring curiosity in the arts for all. Our staff uses MASS MoCA’s rich array of exhibitions, performances, and artist residencies as a starting point to foster your own self expression. We encourage
- [Visit](https://massmoca.org/visit/) - Skip the line! Advance tickets are recommended for all museum visitors. Walk-ups are always welcome. GET TICKETS Have questions about visiting MASS MoCA? Read our full FAQ. In-person discounts are available. Check to see if you are eligible. Museum Hours Closed Thanksgiving Day (November 27) & Christmas Day (December
- [Public Tours](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/public-tours/) - Public tours are one-hour long and led by museum educators on the following themes. All tours are conversation and inquiry-based, encouraging participation while also providing important content and context about the art on view. PUBLIC TOURS Summer/Fall (Through October 31) Weekdays: 11am: Perennial Highlights Tour (Long-Term Exhibitions) 1pm: Ephemeral Highlights Tour (Short-Term Exhibitions) Weekends: 11am:
- [Public Programs](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/) - 2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike Vos2022 Studios Oregon Fellow, Mike Vos The Public Programs department integrates artists, community, and expanded education by focusing on knowledge exchange, inquiry, and collaboration. The Public Programs department amplifies and enhances MASS MoCA’s visual and performing arts offerings through programs in creative and cultural practices often found outside of exhibition-making
- [Upcoming Performances](https://massmoca.org/performances/) - An essential and integral part of MASS MoCA's mission are the more than 40 weekends of live events staged year-round, including popular music, contemporary dance, alternative cabaret, world music dance parties, outdoor silent films with live music, documentaries, avant-garde theater, and music festivals. [/expand]
- [Education](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/schools/) - MASS MoCA uses its array of world-class exhibitions and performances as a platform for discussing contemporary social issues, as well as to expand notions about art making and the creative process. The school programs at MASS MoCA focus on facilitating students’ experiences with contemporary art through guided conversation and inquiry-based tours and art-making activities.
- [Accessibility](https://massmoca.org/visit/accessibility/) - We are happy to offer tours for blind/low vision and deaf/hard of hearing visitors upon request. Tours must be requested at least three weeks in advance and will be customized to your group’s needs. To request a tour, complete the group booking form on our Groups page and be sure to note your accessibility needs.
- [Groups](https://massmoca.org/visit/group-tours/) - Groups are welcome to visit MASS MoCA. Visits are scheduled according to availability, but we make every effort to accommodate your scheduling needs. Please note that discounted group rates and guided tours are not available during our festival weekends: Solid Sound (spring/early summer) and FreshGrass (late summer/early fall). Advance reservations are required for all guided
- [Community Day](https://massmoca.org/community-day-2025/) - Celebrate the start of summer with free museum admission on June 21, 2025 during MASS MoCA’s Community Day. Enjoy museum tours, art-making in Kidspace, author talks, and conversations with artists about exhibitions.RSVP HEREPublic Tours10am–4pm Meet in the B10 lobby throughout the day for in-depth explorations of works on view! 10am Outdoor Art Tour 11am Perennial
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://massmoca.org/visit/faq-frequently-asked-questions/)
- [Memorial Day Weekend:  <span class="title-light">Capstone to the 25th Anniversary Year</span>](https://massmoca.org/mem25/) - Join us for Memorial Day weekend at MASS MoCA! The festivities kick off with our Benefit Dinner & Celebration on Friday night, then continue all day Saturday and Sunday as we send off our 25th Anniversary in style. Learn more about the Benefit Dinner & Celebration. May 23-25, 2025 Dance In Conversation: Kristy Edmunds &
- [Privacy Policy](https://massmoca.org/privacy-policy/) - PRIVACY POLICYLast updated April 30, 2025This Privacy Notice for MASS MoCA ("we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:Visit our website at https://massmoca.org, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy NoticeEngage
- [Community Action Network](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/community-action-network/) - SU_25_Vincent Valdez and Gary Lichtenstein Past, Present & Future_600 x 364SU_25_Vincent Valdez and Gary Lichtenstein Past, Present & Future_600 x 364 The Community Action Network (CAN) at MASS MoCA was an ongoing initiative built on a foundation of long-term commitment to our local community. Launched in the spring of 2019 with the generous support of
- [Cookie Policy](https://massmoca.org/cookie-policy/)
- [Digital Guide](https://massmoca.org/visit/digital-guide/) - Enhance your visit to MASS MoCA with our Digital Guide on Bloomberg Connects. Access it any time to explore content about exhibitions and select artworks on view at MASS MoCA. Engage with the works in our galleries from anywhere with our free digital guide on Bloomberg Connects. Featuring curated content of works on view, historical
- [Research & Development Store](https://massmoca.org/research-development-store/) - MASS MoCA’s Research & Development (R&D) Store combines gallery and retail space focused on exhibiting and producing affordable, contemporary artist editions and books. It is also an intimate new venue for author events, book and record releases, and performances. The R&D Store’s nimble model of public programming advances and supports MASS MoCA’s creative impact and mission.
- [Terms and Conditions](https://massmoca.org/terms/)
- [Upcoming Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/upcoming-exhibitions/) - Learn what is on view now in the museum galleries here. And explore past MASS MoCA exhibitions here.
- [Past Kidspace Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/past-kidspace-exhibitions/)
- [Current Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/exhibitions/)
- [Indigenous Peoples & Land Acknowledgment](https://massmoca.org/about/indigenous-peoples-land-acknowledgment/) - It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking, and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Muhheaconneok, Mohican people or Munsee Lenape people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the
- [Plastic Bag Store](https://massmoca.org/plasticbagstore/) - MASS MoCA, in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival, presents:CREATED, WRITTEN, DESIGNED AND DIRECTED by Robin FrohardtMUSIC by Freddi PricePRODUCED by Pomegranate ArtsA Tragicomic Ode to the Foreverness of Plastic. The Plastic Bag Store is an immersive, multimedia experience by Brooklyn-based artist Robin Frohardt that uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture
- [2024–2030 Strategic Plan](https://massmoca.org/strategic-plan/) - PBS_logo_shadowPBS_logo_shadow MASS MoCA’s origin story centers on the epic adventure of transforming an abandoned factory site in North Adams, Massachusetts, into the largest multidisciplinary contemporary art museum in North America. Our history will serve us well as we navigate the evolving questions (and responsibilities) posed to art and cultural institutions today, which have shifted dramatically
- [25th Anniversary Community Celebration](https://massmoca.org/massmoca-25-anniversary/) - Join us for a campus-wide, community celebrationas we turn 25 onSaturday, May 25!Free Museum Admission l Live Performances l Family Activities in partnership with May 25 Schedule:GALLERIESMass Moca is free for all! 10am – 5pm Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s 25th anniversary community celebration rocks the galleries with museum tours,
- [Events](https://massmoca.org/calendar/) - Check out what's coming up at MASS MoCA. An essential and integral part of MASS MoCA’s mission are the more than 40 weekends of live events staged year-round, including popular music, contemporary dance, alternative cabaret, world music dance parties, outdoor silent films with live music, documentaries, avant-garde theater, and music festivals. Over 500 artists have
- [Past Events](https://massmoca.org/past-events/)
- [Past Test](https://massmoca.org/past-test/)
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA From Home](https://massmoca.org/from-home/) - Whether you visited the galleries last week or haven't been for a while, amplify your MASS MoCA experience with MASS MoCA From Home, an online hub for all (virtual) things MASS MoCA. Explore the Sol LeWitt galleries with an all-new interactive 3D tour, tune in to community performances, get your creative juices flowing with classic
- [Performing Arts](https://massmoca.org/performing-arts/) - From our stages to our studios, an essential and integral part of MASS MoCA’s mission is supporting performing arts creation and presentation. Live events staged year-round include popular music, contemporary dance, alternative cabaret, world music dance parties, outdoor silent films with live music, documentaries, avant-garde theater, and music festivals. Just as vital is the work
- [TNEW Template](https://massmoca.org/tnew-template/)
- [Families & Community](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/families/) - ArtBar Take part, make art! Visit the ArtBar, a hands-on studio space in Kidspace to make art or take a project home with you. Projects are thematically connected to current MASS MoCA exhibitions. Check out MASS MoCA From Home for sample art projects. The ArtBar is open to the public on weekends and during school
- [Past Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/past-exhibitions-2/)
- [Directions](https://massmoca.org/visit/directions/) - MASS MoCA is located at 1040 MASS MoCA Way in North Adams, Massachusetts. Note: the closest airport and year-round train station are in Albany, New York, a little over an hour from North Adams. Need more info? Call our box office during business hours at 413.662.2111. A parking map can be found here. The Berkshire
- [Joseph Grigely Image & Video Descriptions](https://massmoca.org/grigely-descriptions/) - When planning began for this exhibition, Joseph and I discussed various accessibility features within the show including ASL and low vision/blind tours, as well as audio descriptions. Joseph suggested we talk to Andy Slater, a Chicago-based media artist, sound designer, teaching artist, and disability advocate. The process involved Andy and Joseph meeting in Chicago where
- [Press Room](https://massmoca.org/press-room/) - Welcome to MASS MoCA’s Press Room, where members of the public can view and download press releases, images, and other materials for MASS MoCA’s exhibitions and programs. The information provided on this website is for general informational and educational purposes only. Under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for fair
- [Thanks for staying in touch!](https://massmoca.org/thanks-for-staying-in-touch/) - You will continue receiving MASS MoCA emails promoting our events, performances, exhibitions, and more. We're looking forward to keeping you up to date on all things MASS MoCA—check out what's coming up here.
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- [Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective](https://massmoca.org/sol-lewitt/) - Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning the artist’s career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed—per LeWitt’s own specifications—over three stories of a historic mill building situated at the heart of MASS MoCA’s campus. The 27,000-square-foot
- [Winter/Spring Season 2022](https://massmoca.org/wsp22/) - MASS MoCA new Winter/Spring programming includes new exhibitions, community events, performances from Deon Jones, Supaman, Lucius, and more.
- [History](https://massmoca.org/about/history/) - The history of MASS MoCA’s site spans centuries of social, economic, industrial, and architectural change. In the microcosm of this one factory-campus, it is possible to trace the arc of industrialization and post-industrialization of New England, and indeed the world. The 16 acres of grounds on the Hoosic River in North Adams, Massachusetts, encompass a
- [RSVP to 3 Familiar Views from/at the USA-Mexico Border](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/rsvp-to-3-familiar-views-from-at-the-usa-mexico-border/) - Thursday, October 7, 8pm EST Please enter your information below to RSVP: RSVP * indicates required First Name Last Name Email Address *
- [The Drifting Studio](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/the-drifting-studio/) - The Drifting Studio — Wes Bruce’s travelling artmaking mobile — is an art studio on wheels with heart, because you can’t have heart without art! It connects families, and in particular, those engaged with the Department of Children and Families (DCF), with art, nature, and themselves. With “back to nature, back to art, back together”
- [College/School Partnership Program](https://massmoca.org/college-school-partnership-program/) - Participating members must show school/college ID to receive benefits. College and University students from non-participating schools are eligible for the $12 student ticket rate. School Students FREE Faculty/Staff FREE Group Tours FREE Self-Guided Group Tours FREE** Bennington College YES YES NO YES MCLA YES NO* NO YES-Including faculty Williams College YES YES NO
- [Union Election Statement](https://massmoca.org/union-election-statement/) - Wednesday, April 28, 2021 MASS MoCA is committed to continuing to build a culture where our employees feel valued and respected, and have the opportunity to contribute to the mission and grow as professionals. While we recognize the challenges we face as an institution, we believe in our staff and in our ability to meet
- [RSVP to In Session](https://massmoca.org/in-session-rsvp/) - Thursday, March 18, 6pm EST Please enter your information below to RSVP: * indicates required Email Address * First Name Last Name
- [Auditory After Hours](https://massmoca.org/auditory-after-hours/) - What if you could feel art — with your ears? Our new series Auditory After Hours gives visitors a chance to engage with art in an all-new way: while listening to a bespoke experience curated by one of your favorite musicians. Come at night, wander the museum’s cavernous spaces after hours, and prepare to have
- [Donate](https://massmoca.org/donate/)
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- [Adult Education](https://massmoca.org/adult-education/)
- [In the News](https://massmoca.org/in-the-news-2/) - MASS MoCA is one of the world's liveliest (and largest) centers for making and enjoying today's most important art, music, dance, theater, film, and video. Hundreds of works of visual and performing art have been created on its 19th-century factory campus during fabrication and rehearsal residencies, making MASS MoCA among the most productive sites in
- [Tickets](https://massmoca.org/tickets/)
- [Jenny Holzer](https://massmoca.org/jenny-holzer/) - In 1977, Jenny Holzer began to paste posters on the streets of New York City: anonymous, alphabetical lists of concise statements on subjects including capitalism, class, sex, and love. In the years since, Holzer’s pithy, often enigmatic messages have infi ltrated everyday life through materials from benches and LEDs to condom wrappers and tea sets.
- [Sound Art](https://massmoca.org/sound-art/)
- [Long-Term Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/long-term-exhibitions/)
- [Members Hours](https://massmoca.org/support/membershours/) - Experience James Turrell and Laurie Anderson's immersive exhibitions without the crowds. No appointment necessary. Thursdays: 5-6pm through June 21 and beginning September 6 7-8pm June 28-August 30 Saturdays: 10-11am through June 16 and beginning September 8 9-10am June 23-September 1
- [2018 BENEFIT  <br><span class="title-light">ART AUCTION</span>](https://massmoca.org/2018-auction/) - On Wednesday, October 24, MASS MoCA gathers artists, performers, friends, and supporters for its annual NYC benefit and live auction, honoring long time supporters and outgoing Chair Hans and Kate Morris. Bid here on art and one-of-a-kind experiences, the proceeds from which underwrite MASS MoCA programming, including the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New
- [2017 BENEFIT  <br>LIVE ART AUCTION</br>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-benefit-in-nycauction-items/2017-auction/) - Support MASS MoCA — and have lunch with Laurie Anderson. All net proceeds from our annual live auction support education and arts programs at MASS MoCA. Bid generously to win works by, or time with, contemporary art’s biggest names and rising stars. To place an absentee bid, fill out this form, and email it to Emily Daunis at edaunis@massmoca.org by
- [Art Ninjas Camp 2018](https://massmoca.org/camps/)
- [Past Artist Events](https://massmoca.org/past-artist-events/)
- [Past Performances](https://massmoca.org/past-performances/)
- [Artist Talks + Events](https://massmoca.org/artist-talks/)
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- [Kidspace Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/kidspace-exhibitions/) - A child-centered art gallery where professional, contemporary artists exhibit their work, Kidspace is also a hands-on studio where children create and study art. The art chosen for exhibition is used as a vehicle for discussing contemporary social issues, making evident topics of concern to children, and challenging notions about art and art materials. Key to
- [Kidspace Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/kidspace-exhibitions/) - A child-centered art gallery where professional, contemporary artists exhibit their work, Kidspace is also a hands-on studio where children create and study art. The art chosen for exhibition is used as a vehicle for discussing contemporary social issues, making evident topics of concern to children, and challenging notions about art and art materials. Key to
- [Laurie Anderson](https://massmoca.org/anderson/)
- [Artist Events](https://massmoca.org/artist-events/)
- [Weddings](https://massmoca.org/weddings/)
- [James Turrell <span class="title-light">Into The Light</span>](https://massmoca.org/turrell/)
- [BANG ON A CAN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2017](https://massmoca.org/bang-on-a-can-2017/) - Brilliant musicians and composers inhabit the MASS MoCA campus from July 19 - August 5 for three rollicking weeks of innovative, unexpected, and ear-expanding music. The annual festival includes daily performances in the museum galleries (free with museum admission), a concert with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert
- [Recent News](https://massmoca.org/in-the-news-2/recent-news/)
- [Nick Cave<span class="title-light">Until</span>](https://massmoca.org/nick-caveuntil/)
- [Lodging](https://massmoca.org/visit/lodging/) - There are several hotels in North Adams. The Porches (413.664.0400) and Holiday Inn (413.663.6500) are within two blocks. The Inn at East Main Street (413.664.2099) is five blocks away. Blackinton Manor (413.663.5795) is within a short drive. There are many other hotels in neighboring towns and a listing that is searchable by town is available from the Williamstown Chamber of Commerce, Destination Williamstown, the Berkshire Visitors
- [Past Exhibitions](https://massmoca.org/past-exhibitions/)
- [Board Meeting Calendar](https://massmoca.org/boardmeetingcalendar/) - · Thursday & Friday, February 25-26, 2016 (Captiva, FL) · Friday, May 20, 2016 (2pm) (at MASS MoCA) · Friday, July 29, 2016 (2pm) (at MASS MoCA) We have confirmed the date of our gala and board meeting in October 2016! Our gala will take place on Tuesday evening, October 25, at the Tribeca Rooftop
- [Office Rental](https://massmoca.org/about/office-rental/)
- [MASS MoCA Benefit in NYC<span class="title-light">Auction Items</span>](https://massmoca.org/mass-moca-benefit-in-nycauction-items/) - MASS MoCA toasts a future of art partnerships at its annual fall benefit on Tuesday, October 25, at Tribeca Rooftop in New York City. Artists Nick Cave & Bob Faust, Sarah Crowner, and Alex Da Corte co-chair this year’s gala, along with Christine and Andy Hall. The October 25 live auction will be conducted by
- [BANG ON A CAN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016](https://massmoca.org/bang-on-a-can-summer-music-festival-2016/) - Brilliant musicians and composers inhabit the MASS MoCA campus from July 13-30 for three rollicking weeks of innovative, unexpected, and ear-expanding music. The annual festival includes daily performances in the museum galleries (free with museum admission), a concert with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert performed by the
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- [Live in the Berkshires](https://massmoca.org/visit/live-in-the-berkshires/) - In the Berkshires you'll find the cultural richness of a major metropolitan area coupled with spectacular scenic beauty and the relaxed pace of the country. Opportunities for recreation abound and include hiking, biking, downhill and cross-country skiing, whitewater rafting, fishing, and golf. Here are some links for general information about the area: Contact the North
- [Sol LeWitt Floorplan](https://massmoca.org/sol-lewitt-floorplan/) - Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning the artist’s career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed—per LeWitt’s own specifications—over three stories of a historic mill building situated at the heart of MASS MoCA’s
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- [Art Ninjas Camp](https://massmoca.org/public-programs/art-ninjas-camp/) - About Art Ninjas Camp: MASS MoCA offers a lively range of art camps over the summer for children ages 5-12. Each week-long session includes ample art-making, yoga and movement games, and healthy snacks. Camps provide child-centered opportunities for creativity, self-expression, and intentional play that make every child a happy camper. For every Art Ninjas Camp you
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## Venues

- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/62046/)
- [B13 & B34](https://massmoca.org/venue/b13-b34/) - Get to know the current artists-in-residence over drinks, snacks, and conversation!
- [Meet in MASS MoCA Lobby, B10](https://massmoca.org/venue/meet-in-mass-moca-lobby-b10/) - Join writer Anaїs Duplan for multi-session seminar-style workshops on conceptualizing power in contemporary art.
- [The Research & Development Store and the MASS MoCA Gift Shop](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-research-development-store-and-the-mass-moca-gift-shop/) - Members are invited to pair seasonal refreshments with an extra 10% discount and complimentary gift wrapping in the MASS MoCA stores.
- [B6.1A](https://massmoca.org/venue/b6-1a/)
- [Club B10](https://massmoca.org/venue/club-b10/)
- [Building 7.2](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-7-2/)
- [B5 Mezzanine ](https://massmoca.org/venue/b5-mezzanine/)
- [The Research & Development Store ](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-research-development-store-2/)
- [B5 Mezzanine](https://massmoca.org/venue/b5-mezzanine-2/)
- [MASS MoCA Building 4, 2nd Floor + 5A](https://massmoca.org/venue/mass-moca-building-4-2nd-floor-5a/)
- [Gallery 6.2](https://massmoca.org/venue/gallery-6-2/)
- [North Adams Public Library, 74 Church St](https://massmoca.org/venue/north-adams-public-library/) - March 21 | In a co-presented event at the North Adams Public Library, the best-selling author reflects on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments.
- [Casita Berkshires](https://massmoca.org/venue/casita/)
- [B13](https://massmoca.org/venue/b13/)
- [B13.1](https://massmoca.org/venue/b13-1/)
- [UNO Community Center, 157 River Street](https://massmoca.org/venue/uno-community-center/)
- [Conference Room](https://massmoca.org/venue/conference-room/)
- [Building 4.1](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-4-1/)
- [Building 1.3](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-1-3/) - September 26 | This thought-provoking discussion features artist Robin Frohardt, Director Kristy Edmunds, and Julia Cohen, co-founder of Plastic Pollution Coalition.
- [Building 13.1](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-13-1/) - November 15 | Printmaker and MCLA professor Melanie Mowinski will give a short artist talk and share her work in this evening of artmaking.
- [B6.2 Event Space](https://massmoca.org/venue/b6-2-event-space/) - Artist Bob Faust visualizes the numbers that have swirled around MASS MoCA since its opening in 1999 in celebration of our 25th anniversary.
- [B11.2 Swing Space](https://massmoca.org/venue/b10-2-swing-space/) - July 25 | Join author Joseph Keckler for an audiovisual performance and workshop followed by a discussion just for MASS MoCA members in the R&D Store.
- [Building 1](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-1/)
- [Building 4 Fl. 2 & Building 5A](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-4-fl-2-building-5a/) - October 28 | Celebrate MASS MoCA’s newest exhibition, Like Magic, at an exclusive member preview.
- [Building 4.2](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-4-2/) - October 29 | Ten contemporary artists who subvert the systems that would deny them access to joy, delight, care, love, and healing through technologies of magic.
- [Gallery 5A](https://massmoca.org/venue/gallery-5a/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/48821/)
- [The Research & Development Store](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-research-development-store/) - July 24 – July 30 | Join us for a soft opening of MASS MoCA’s brand new Research and Development Store with a week’s worth of giveaways, author signings, meet-and-greets, and more.
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/47631/) - March | For the entire month of March, MASS MoCA is celebrating our members! We look forward to thanking you all month long with discounts, special events, and more.
- [Building 4 and Hunter Center](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-4-and-hunter-center/) - April 14 | MASS MoCA’s 11th annual Teen Invitational brings the work of local students and art instructors to the public for one long weekend—and one fun party!
- [Galleries B4.2 and 5A](https://massmoca.org/venue/galleries-b4-2-and-5a/) - On view beginning March 11| Artist Carrie Schneider presents a suite of new works at MASS MoCA, including three new series of photographs, a 16mm film, and a photographic “pandemic diary” composed of 105 unique works.
- [Building 4 & 5](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-4-5/) - Starting March 16 | Fancy a night at the museum? Every second Thursday of the month, our galleries stay open until 8 pm for pop-up performances and after-hours art appreciation.
- [deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum](https://massmoca.org/venue/decordova-sculpture-park-and-museum/) - November 9 | Marking Rose B. Simpson's artwork at multiple New England venues, this roundtable brings together the curators for a conversation.
- [The MASS MoCA Store](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-mass-moca-store/) - March 19, 2:30pm | Exhibiting artist Glenn Kaino stops by The MASS MoCA Store to sign copies of his exhibition catalogue, This Book is a Promise.
- [Building 8](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-8/) - March 9, 6:30pm | Members are invited to join us for a rare conversation with three of the artists who installed the 2008 Sol LeWitt retrospective.
- [Zoom](https://massmoca.org/venue/zoom/) - | All workshops are FREE and held via Zoom, with pre-registration required.
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/43148/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/42075/) - |
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/41844/)
- [Courtyard D or Hunter Center](https://massmoca.org/venue/courtyard-d-or-hunter-center/)
- [YouTube](https://massmoca.org/venue/youtube/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/40758/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/40749/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/40713/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/40215/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/39975/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/39614/)
- [Virtual](https://massmoca.org/venue/virtual/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/39314/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/39313/)
- [YouTube/Facebook](https://massmoca.org/venue/youtube-facebook/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/37382/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/37339/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/37295/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/37169/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/36874/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/36867/)
- [The Speed Way](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-speedway/)
- [Courtyard C or Club B10](https://massmoca.org/venue/courtyard-c-or-club-b-10/)
- [The Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-studios-at-mass-moca/)
- [Studio9 at Porches](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-studio-at-building-9-the-porches-inn/)
- [Tourists](https://massmoca.org/venue/tourists/)
- [Edison Ballroom](https://massmoca.org/venue/new-york-city/)
- [Downtown North Adams](https://massmoca.org/venue/downtown-north-adams/)
- [Williams College, Lawrence Hall 231](https://massmoca.org/venue/williams-college-lawrence-hall-231/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/33660/)
- [](https://massmoca.org/venue/33654/)
- [The Edison Ballroom](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-edison-ballroom-2/)
- [Tribeca 360](https://massmoca.org/venue/tribeca-360/)
- [B4.3](https://massmoca.org/venue/b4-3/)
- [B4.2](https://massmoca.org/venue/b4-2/)
- [B6.2 Prow](https://massmoca.org/venue/b6-2-prow/)
- [Building 26/34](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-26-34-2/)
- [Building 4](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-4/)
- [MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/venue/mass-moca-north-adams-ma/) - The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art andperforming arts in the United States. The complex was built by the Arnold Print Works, a business which operated on the site
- [B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building](https://massmoca.org/venue/b6-the-robert-w-wilson-building/)
- [Windsor Lake, North Adams, MA](https://massmoca.org/venue/windsor-lake-north-adams-ma/)
- [North Adams](https://massmoca.org/venue/north-adams/)
- [Joe's Field](https://massmoca.org/venue/joes-field/)
- [Tribeca Rooftop](https://massmoca.org/venue/tribeca-rooftop/)
- [The Chalet](https://massmoca.org/venue/the-chalet/)
- [Dré Pavilion or Club B10](https://massmoca.org/venue/dre-pavilion-or-club-b10/)
- [Marshall Street](https://massmoca.org/venue/marshall-street/)
- [Hunter Hallway](https://massmoca.org/venue/hunter-hallway/)
- [Club B10](https://massmoca.org/venue/club-b-10/) - Club B10 is a location on the main MASS MoCA campus. Its our "up in the club" venue with cabaret-style seating. During performing arts events, our cafe delivers dinner and the bar is always well-stocked. Be ready to make new friends - our tables seat five and if your party is smaller, you might find
- [Sol LeWitt](https://massmoca.org/venue/sol-lewitt/)
- [Offsite](https://massmoca.org/venue/offsite/)
- [Dré Wapenaar Pavilion](https://massmoca.org/venue/dre-wapenaar-pavilion/)
- [Building 15](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-15/)
- [Galleries](https://massmoca.org/venue/galleries/)
- [Building 5](https://massmoca.org/venue/building-5/)
- [Courtyard C or Hunter Center](https://massmoca.org/venue/courtyard-c-or-hunter-center/)
- [Hunter Center Mezzanine](https://massmoca.org/venue/hunter-center-mezzanine/)
- [Kidspace](https://massmoca.org/venue/kidspace/)
- [Rehearsal Hall](https://massmoca.org/venue/rehearsal-hall/)
- [Hunter Center](https://massmoca.org/venue/hunter-center/)
- [Courtyard D](https://massmoca.org/venue/courtyard-d/)
- [Courtyard A](https://massmoca.org/venue/courtyard-a/)
- [Courtyard C](https://massmoca.org/venue/courtyard-c/)
- [Natural Bridge State Park](https://massmoca.org/venue/natural-bridge-state-park/)
- [Harriman-West Airport](https://massmoca.org/venue/harriman-west-airport/)

## Events

- [<span class="title-light">In Conversation </span>Joy James & Jasmine Syedullah with Zora J Murff & Terence Washington](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-terence-washington/) - Political philosopher Joy James speaks with author Jasmine Syedullah, together with curator Terence Washington. The speakers will 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 matter is further explored in Murff's forthcoming MASS MoCA exhibition
- [Wilco's Solid Sound 2026](https://massmoca.org/event/wilcos-solid-sound-2026/) - Spanning three days and four stages, Solid Sound features music by Wilco and its members' side projects alongside a diverse lineup of enduring favorites and emerging voices. It also features a full comedy lineup, family fun for all ages, local food, craft beer, camping, naturalist activities, and more. Concerts held rain or shine. Where to
- [Open Studios](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-2/) - Get to know the current artists-in-residence over drinks, snacks, and conversation!
- [Family Storytime](https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytime-2025/) - Families with children up to age 6 are invited to join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a storytime and related exploration in the galleries. Each storytime features a different children’s book about contemporary art, creativity, and/or the themes of the exhibitions on view. Meet in Kidspace at the designated time, and a brief gallery walk-through
- [Homecoming](https://massmoca.org/event/homecoming/) - Opening Program: March 14, 2026, 12:30pm Click here to learn more about and register for the opening Pep Rally for the Trees. Artist and programmer Amanda Lovelee presents Homecoming at MASS MoCA, an immersive environmental art project designed to remember a deeper connection between humans and nature while playfully addressing the urgency of climate change
- [<span class="title-light">Educator Professional Development Workshop </span>Teaching with Larger-than-Life Artists](https://massmoca.org/event/teaching-with-larger-than-life-artists/) - Join Art21’s Education Coordinator and MASS MoCA’s Senior Manager of School Programs to learn strategies for teaching with contemporary art, both within the classroom and in the galleries. This session will consider how artists like Louise Bourgeois and James Turrell explore colossal ideas through form, aesthetics, and place. During this workshop participants can expect to
- [Spencer Finch <span class="title-light">Cosmic Latte</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/spencer-finch-cosmic-latte/) - Spencer Finch, the subject of a major mid-career survey at MASS MoCA in 2007 titled What Time is it on the Sun?, returns to the museum with a long-term installation commissioned and designed in conjunction with MASS MoCA’s Phase III expansion. Bringing the starry night inside the museum, Finch’s light-based work, Cosmic Latte features over
- [Dré Wapenaar <span class="title-light">Pavilion</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/dre-wapenaar-pavilion/) - Originally installed in association with NL: A Season of Dutch Arts in the Berkshires, 2007. Dutch artist and designer Dré Wapenaar's multi-colored Pavilion provides a shady respite for daytime visitors and evening revelers during the spring, summer, and fall. Located at the center of the MASS MoCA factory campus in Courtyard C, the outdoor social sculpture
- [Teen Invitational Reception](https://massmoca.org/event/teen-invitational-reception-2026/) - Join us for the 14th Annual Teen Invitational. Berkshire County high schoolers will exhibit their artworks at MASS MoCA in a pop-up exhibition that opens on April 16, 2026, from 6 to 9pm, and is on view through Sunday, April 19. This event is free and open to the public. The MASS MoCA Teen Invitational
- [Jeffrey Gibson <span class="title-light">POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jeffrey-gibson-2024/) - November 3 | Jeffrey Gibson’s new commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT is an immersive installation that will fill MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery space.
- [<span class="title-light">Graphic Novel Book Club </span>The Woman With Fifty Faces](https://massmoca.org/event/graphic-novel-book-club-the-woman-with-fifty-faces/) - In the past 40 years, comics have gone from an underground, alternative, and niche concern to being used as a tool for learning in primary schools across the country and critiqued in universities the world over. Many of us first experience “reading” images in the sequential format of graphic novels before ever entering a museum.
- [Yaya Bey](https://massmoca.org/event/yaya-bey/) - Rising R&B star Yaya Bey’s music contains multitudes — at once celebratory and deeply personal, sophisticated and full of visceral grooves, with a voice to melt hearts soaring above it all. Her wide-ranging sound is rooted in classic R&B, but brings in everything from hip-hop to soca to jazz and beyond; fans of The Roots,
- [Zora J Murff <span class="title-light">RACE/HUSTLE</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/zora-j-murff-race-hustle/) - Purchase a ticket for the member celebration here. Zora J Murff makes photographs, assemblages, videos, and text works that examine physical, psychic, and political violence, the rhythms and resonances of oppression throughout history and into the present, and the harmful desires that our visual culture cultivates. Murff is particularly attentive to the structures of state
- [Technologies of Relation](https://massmoca.org/event/technologies-of-relation/) - Purchase a ticket for the opening celebration here. 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 our devices, and to our future. These creators see the complexity of our relationships to the digital, avoiding
- [Camp MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/camp-mass-moca-2026/) - Young people entering grades 2–9 are invited to Camp MASS MoCA. We are hosting both middle school age camps (grades 6–9) and camps for grades 2–5. Participants explore the expansive campus and world-class art exhibitions, meet exhibiting artists, and create original works of their own. Stay tuned for registration details, coming in January 2026. Support
- [Pep Rally for the Trees](https://massmoca.org/event/pep-rally-for-the-trees/) - Amanda Lovelee creates immersive artworks around the U.S. to influence government at the local and national levels with a focus on climate justice. Her newest commission made with MASS MoCA, Homecoming, envisions the MASS MoCA campus as a symbolic micro field station for two trees-in-residence participating in assisted plant migration, a technology used to introduce
- [Contemporary Nature: Tending the Garden Symposium](https://massmoca.org/event/contemporary-nature-symposium/) - Contemporary Nature: Tending the Garden is a public symposium that poses questions for our ecological future: How do we tend the garden into co-becoming with the earth and all that it embodies? How can artists help us understand the interdependence between nature and humanity? Artists, scholars, and students convene to share their experiences on what
- [Shamel Pitts | TRIBE <span class="title-light">Marks of RED</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/shamel-pitts-tribe-marks-of-red/) - Co-presented by Jacob's Pillow
- [Member Appreciation Month](https://massmoca.org/event/member-appreciation-month-2026/) - Become a MASS MoCA member today — enjoy more than a year of free exhibition access, member programs, special invitations, discounts on shopping, and more. Not yet a member? Join today. Celebrate all month long: Membership Renewal Deal March 2026 Renew your membership in March and enjoy 14 months of membership for the price of
- [Cochemea](https://massmoca.org/event/cochemea/) - Soloist, section player, and composer/arranger Cochemea takes to MASS MoCA’s Club B10 stage.
- [Jordan Klepper](https://massmoca.org/event/jordan-klepper/) - Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade alum and current Daily Show host with the most, Jordan Klepper dishes out some of the shrewdest and funniest cultural commentary going — skewering the hypocrisy of our surreal political moment with a rare mix of bemused incredulity and genuine empathy. Klepper shares personal stories about his time on
- [<span class="title-light">Curator Tour </span>Technologies of Relation](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-technologies/) - MASS MoCA members, join curator Susan Cross for a tour of our newest group exhibition.
- [<span class="title-light">In Conversation </span> <em>Technologies of Relation</em> Artist Discussion](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-technologies-of-relation-artist-discussion/) - The artists featured in Technologies of Relation discuss the current state of technology, considering how we can rethink our relationships to our devices, to computing, and to artificial intelligence, while bringing increased ethics and agency into the digital landscape. The conversation is moderated by Susan Cross, MASS MoCA Director of Curatorial Affairs. After the talk,
- [Robin Frohardt <br><span class="title-light">Shopping Center of the Universe</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/robin-frohardtshopping-center-of-the-universe/) - Artist Robin Frohardt (The Plastic Bag Store) returns to MASS MoCA to preview her new theatrical work of speculative nonfiction.
- [School Break Kidspace Workshops: February 2026](https://massmoca.org/event/school-break-kidspace-workshops-february-2026/) - Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a series of free workshops for all ages during school break, February 16–20. Workshops will take place in Kidspace at 11am and 1pm every day, and each will focus on a different art medium and process. Come get inspired, learn something new, and make a project to take home!
- [Black Belt Eagle Scout and Mato Wayuhi with Ailani](https://massmoca.org/event/black-belt-eagle-scout-and-mato-wayuhi-with-ailani/) - An engagement with Jeffrey Gibson's POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT.
- [<span class="lowercase">devynn emory</span> <span class="title-light"><span class="lowercase"> boiling rain</span></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/devynn-emory-boiling-rain/) - An activation in Jeffrey Gibson's POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT.
- [<span class="title-light">Jimena Sarno: <em>Rhapsody</em> Repair Workshop </span>Ceramics with Gen Saratani](https://massmoca.org/event/rhapsody-repair-workshop-ceramics/) - Try your hand at Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing ceramic objects, in a special pop-up workshop in Jimena Sarno’s exhibition Rhapsody.
- [<span class="title-light">Drop-In Drawing </span>Vincent Valdez: <em>Just a Dream…</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/drop-in-drawing-vincent-valdez-just-a-dream/) - Practice drawing and engage with fellow visitors alongside the skillful artworks of Vincent Valdez.
- [<span class="title-light">Book Talk </span>The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook](https://massmoca.org/event/book-talk-the-berkshires-farm-table-cookbook/) - In this book talk, Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner tell the story of family-run agriculture through the language of food in the second edition of The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook. The conversation is moderated by journalist Jennifer Huberdeau. This stunning but approachable book offers more than 125 recipes to bring the magic of the
- [James Turrell <span class="title-light">C.A.V.U.</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/james-turrell-cavu/) - James Turrell’s largest free-standing circular Skyspace — titled C.A.V.U. — is now open on the MASS MoCA campus in North Adams, MA.
- [Museum Admission <span class="title-light">Advance tickets recommended</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/museum-tickets/) - Open Weds-Mon, 10am-5pm, closed Tues
- [Laurent Grasso <span class="title-light"><em>Metaphysical Maze</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/laurent-grasso-metaphysical-maze/) - Laurent Grasso’s Metaphysical Maze will transform MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery into a labyrinthine installation conceived as a journey across time itself, featuring a selection of Grasso’s films, objects, and paintings, presented together for the first time in an exhibition space. Metaphysical Maze will be the largest exhibition of the Paris-based conceptual artist’s work
- [Slow Art Day](https://massmoca.org/event/slow-art-day-2026/) - Did you realize that the average viewer spends only 21 seconds in front of a work of art? Let’s change that, together! Come celebrate International Slow Art Day and connect more deeply to what you see in our galleries. Enjoy a slow-looking tour at noon or 2pm – it’s chilled-out fun for all ages. Tours:
- [Community Free Day](https://massmoca.org/event/community-free-day/) - Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s 2026 community celebration rocks the galleries with thematic museum tours and art-making in Kidspace. At 4pm, join us in Building 5 for a performance by devynn emory, who was invited by Jeffrey Gibson to activate his exhibition POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT. Please note that
- [Michael E. Smith](https://massmoca.org/event/michael-e-smith/) - Using familiar objects, Michael E. Smith creates installations that thrum with unexpected energy. Drained fish tanks, plaster-filled basketballs, and unplugged scanners exert a new – or previously unseen – sense of alertness, even swagger, in their novel conditions. Retooling objects that remain, in the artist’s words, “stubbornly themselves,” such as a piece of furniture or
- [Drawing Expo with Vincent Valdez](https://massmoca.org/event/drawing-expo-with-vincent-valdez/) - Want to show off what you’ve been working on during drop-in drawing sessions at MASS MoCA? Celebrate the end of Just a Dream… Drop-In Drawing with a drawing exposition! Just a Dream… Drop-In Drawing Expo is open to the public and will be on view from 3 to 5pm in the B11.2 Swing Space. Come
- [Open Studios](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-3/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34. As always, this event is free and open to all. Directions to the Studios: B.13 When you park in the main visitor
- [<span class="title-light">Member Celebration </span><em>Technologies of Relation</em> and Zora J Murff: <em>RACE/HUSTLE</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/member-celebration-technologies-of-relation-race-hustle/) - Join fellow museum members, MASS MoCA curators, friends from the community, and artists to celebrate new exhibitions in The Robert W. Wilson Building (Building 6); Technologies of Relation; and Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE, along with a new installation by Laurie Anderson. Please register by emailing members@massmoca.org or by logging onto our website. Not yet a
- [School Break Kidspace Workshops: April 2026](https://massmoca.org/event/school-break-kidspace-workshops-april-2026/) - Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a series of free workshops for all ages during school break, April 20–24. Workshops will take place in Kidspace at 11am and 1pm every day, and each will focus on a different art medium and process. Come get inspired, learn something new, and make a project to take home!
- [Emily Johnson / Catalyst <span class="title-light">YOUR HONOR, a care procession</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/emily-johnson-catalyst-your-honor-a-care-procession/) - Join the celebrated dance artist for a new performance gathering unfolding within Jeffrey Gibson’s “POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT”
- [Amy Yoes <br><span class="title-light">Hot Corners</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/amy-yoes-hot-corners/) - Amy Yoes’ site-specific installation Hot Corners, transforms a 142-foot space in MASS MoCA’s Building 6 into a dynamic environment for interactive participation
- [Jason Moran <span class="title-light">Black Stars: Writing in the Dark</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jason-moran-black-stars-writing-in-the-dark/) - On view December 17 | An exhibition encouraging visitors to explore their own physical and historical proximity to the acts of making and witnessing live music.
- [Barbara Ernst Prey <span class="title-light">Building 6 Portrait: Interior</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/barbara-prey-building-6-portrait/) - Renowned watercolor artist Barbara Ernst Prey paints a monumental watercolor for MASS MoCA's expansion. Prey’s work is 9 feet tall by 16 feet wide and depicts the interior of B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building just prior to the start of construction. Best known for her plein air paintings, Prey’s commission sets a new benchmark
- [<span class="title-light">In Session </span>Gallery Visits with Anaїs Duplan](https://massmoca.org/event/in-session-gallery-visits-with-anaїs-duplan/) - Join writer Anaїs Duplan for multi-session seminar-style workshops on conceptualizing power in contemporary art.
- [Randi Malkin Steinberger <span class="title-light">The Archive of Lost Memories</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/randi-malkin-steinberger-the-archive-of-lost-memories/) - A Residency & Installation Viewable from the exterior during gallery hours, and open when the artist is in Giving new life to old things, Randi Malkin Steinberger provides a window into the lives of the forgotten through a vast collection of found photographs, slides, and tintypes that she has gathered over years of trolling flea
- [Steve Locke <span class="title-light">the fire next time</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/steve-locke-the-fire-next-time/) - August 3 | In his interdisciplinary practice, Locke engages issues of identity, desire, race, violence & memory, revealing as much tenderness & humor as he does brutality.
- [What to wear](https://massmoca.org/event/what-to-wear/) - A comedic post-rock opera by composer Michael Gordon and the late downtown theater renegade icon Richard Foreman.
- [<span class="title-light">In Conversation </span>Ohan Breiding & Lisa E. Bloom](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-ohan-breiding-lisa-e-bloom/) - Sharing an interest in artistic representations of climate change, artist Ohan Breiding and Lisa E. Bloom, author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic (Duke University Press, 2022), will discuss Breiding’s multimedia exhibition, Belly of a Glacier, which functions as a moving eulogy for the soon-to-be-extinct Rhône Glacier.
- [Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: <br>Touch of RED](https://massmoca.org/event/shamel-pitts-tribe/) - World Premiere Co-presented by Jacob's Pillow
- [Short-sighted](https://massmoca.org/event/short-sighted/) - Short-sighted is a trio that plays with the unexpected and absurd, with each dancer responding to a written score based on Hay’s long history with language.
- [The Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/a_s_s_e_t_s_f_o_r_a_r_t_i_s_t_s/) - Studio residencies for visual artists and writers.
- [<span class="title-light">In Conversation</span>Jimena Sarno & Alexandra Foradas](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversationjimena-sarno-alexandra-foradas/) - Artist Jimena Sarno speaks with guest curator Alexandra Foradas about her first solo museum exhibition, Rhapsody. They will discuss how Sarno engages contemporary and traditional craft practices and over 20 collaborators to illuminate how sharing time, space, and resources can deepen solidarity within a global context of extreme violence, fragmentation, and destruction. About the Exhibition:
- [Swamp Dogg Book Signing for <em>If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/swamp-dogg-book-signing/) - Reserve your copy of If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It to save your spot at the book signing in MASS MoCA's R&D Store.
- [The Chalet](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2025/) - You know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live performances and a bar, "The Chalet,” created by artist Dean Baldwin for the 2013 group exhibition Oh, Canada. With riverside regulars and friendly new faces, summer’s most magical memories happen
- [Community Day 2021](https://massmoca.org/event/community-day-2021/) - Free admission for Berkshire County residents!
- [School Break Kidspace Workshops: February 2025](https://massmoca.org/event/school-break-kidspace-workshops-feb25/) - Please note, the 11am workshop on Monday, February 17 has been cancelled due to inclement weather. Ticket holders will be notified by email. the 1pm workshop will still take place as scheduled. Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a series of free workshops for all ages during school break, February 17-21! Workshops will take place
- [School Break Kidspace Workshops: April 2025](https://massmoca.org/event/school-break-kidspace-workshops-apr25/) - Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a series of free workshops for all ages during school break, April 21-25! Workshops will take place in Kidspace at 11am every day, and each will focus on a different art medium and process. Come be inspired, learn something new, and make a project to take home! The ArtBar
- [Berkshire Teachers & Social Workers Appreciation Day](https://massmoca.org/event/berkshire-teachers-social-workers-appreciation-day/) - MASS MoCA invites Berkshires teachers and social workers to a free day of joy, creativity, and community with your families.
- [kelli rae adams: <span class="title-light">Forever in Your Debt</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/kelli-rae-adams/) - Artist kelli rae adams will be on-site many weekends throughout the exhibition run, check below for the schedule. Student loan debt in the US today totals over 1.7 trillion dollars and is collectively borne by more than 44 million Americans, including artist kelli rae adams. With her installation Forever in Your Debt, adams converts this
- [Bang on a Can Gallery Concerts 2021](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-gallery-concerts-2021/) - Leading up to the finale of Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend, Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose throughout the galleries. Join us for some of today's most exciting new music performed on most weekdays at 1:30pm and 4:30pm. Gallery concerts are free with museum admission, which can be purchased here. Museum
- [Shaun Leonardo’s You walk... Activation](https://massmoca.org/event/shaun-leonardos-you-walk/) - Artist and community-led activities
- [Community Day <span class="title-light">Free Admission for All</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/community-day-2020/) - Free for all who walk through the doors, our annual community celebration is brimming with art-making, gallery tours, live music, pop-up performances, fun photos, a free screening of Museum Town directed by Jennifer Trainer Thompson, and tons more to inspire and explore. Kidspace turns 20 this year — join the festivities as we celebrate two
- [The Chalet 2019](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2019/) - Our summer fun spot in 2019 promises grill favorites, frothy beverages, riparian regulars, and friendly new faces when we fire up The Chalet, for just one night each week. Summer’s most precious memories happen here — in the midst of the museum, to the beat of local music, under the Berkshire stars, at our riverside
- [The Chalet 2018](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2018/) - In 2018 our summer fun spot promises frothy beverages, riverside regulars, and friendly new faces when we fire up The Chalet, Oh, Canada artist Dean Baldwin’s-sculpture-turned-river- side-beer-garden for just one night each week. Summer’s most precious memories happen here — in the midst of the museum, to the hum of local music, under the Berkshire
- [Free Day 2018](https://massmoca.org/event/free-day-2018/) - Enjoy live music, make your own art, watch a pop-up performance, and hop on a gallery tour. A full schedule of activities (free for everyone who walks through the doors!) will be available here. MASS MoCA opens the doors to its 250,000 sq. ft. of galleries free of charge, in its first Free Day since
- [The Chalet 2017](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2017/) - Raise a glass with us every Thursday night of summer 2017 at The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin’s riverside beer garden. Enjoy balmy Berkshire nights with lively music, good conversation with visiting artists, and delicious drinks. The bar opens at 5:30pm; events begin around 8pm. LIVE MUSIC SCHEDULE June 29: DJ Elixer & iamsam July 6:
- [Free Day 2025](https://massmoca.org/event/free-day-2025/) - Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s annual community celebration rocks the galleries with thematic museum tours, art-making in Kidspace, workshops, and performances. FREE MUSEUM ADMISSION ALL DAY Plan to spend the day! Check out the full schedule below. SCHEDULE All Day: Kidspace Art-Making Kidspace, Building 10, 2nd Floor Join Museum Educators
- [School Break Kidspace Workshops: December 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/school-break-kidspace-workshops-2/) - December 26 — January 1, 2025 | During school break, come be inspired, learn something new, and make a project to take home!
- [Bang on a Can Gallery Concerts 2022](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-gallery-concerts-2022/) - Join us for some of today's most exciting new music when Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose throughout the galleries
- [Free Fall 49 by Brendan Fernandes](https://massmoca.org/event/free-fall-49-by-brendan-fernandes/) - Free Fall 49 is a dance-based performance responding to the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL, in which many of the victims were Latinx and LGBTQ+.
- [Community Programming in EJ Hill: Brake Run Helix](https://massmoca.org/event/community-programming-in-ej-hill-brake-run-helix/) - Join us as we work alongside artist EJ Hill and community partners in the Berkshires and around the world to convene live events inside Hill’s exhibition, all in the spirit of collective joy.
- [Skate Haven at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/skate-haven-at-mass-moca/) - August 12 & 13 | MASS MoCA hosts Skate Haven for two days of workshops exploring skateboarding culture, civic advocacy, and the arts.
- [School Break Kidspace Workshops](https://massmoca.org/event/school-break-kidspace-workshops-02-24/) - Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a series of free workshops for all ages during the week of school break, February 19–23! Workshops will take place at 11am every day in Kidspace, and each will focus on a different art medium and process. Come be inspired, learn something new, and make a project to take
- [School Break Kidspace Workshops](https://massmoca.org/event/school-break-kidspace-workshops/) - Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a series of free workshops for all ages during the week of school break, April 15–19! Workshops will take place at 11am every day in Kidspace, and each will focus on a different art medium and process. Come be inspired, learn something new, and make a project to take
- [Spring Fling in the R&D Store](https://massmoca.org/event/spring-fling-in-the-rd-store/) - Meet up with friends in MASS MoCA's Research & Development Store for a day of programs! Featuring: Book Talks from Storey Publishing & Western Mass author Omkari Williams (MicroActivisim, 2023) at 12:00 PM, and Abigail Rose Clarke (Returning Home to Our Bodies, 2024) at 3pm. Tarot Readings co-sponsored by Wild Soul River will be available
- [Slow Art Day 2025](https://massmoca.org/event/slow-art-day-2025/) - Did you realize that the average viewer spends only 21 seconds in front of a work of art? Let’s change that, together! Come celebrate International Slow Art Day and connect more deeply to what you see in our galleries. Enjoy a slow-looking tour at noon or 2pm – it’s chilled-out fun for all ages. Tours:
- [Harold López-Nussa <span class="title-light">featuring Grégoire Maret</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/harold-lopez-nussa/) - The next installment in MASS MoCA’s series highlighting some of the best and brightest in contemporary jazz brings pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa to Club B10 for a thrilling evening of performance, featuring harmonica virtuoso Grégoire Maret. Catch an energizing evening that reflects the full range and richness of the Cuban musical tradition with a
- [Chuwi](https://massmoca.org/event/chuwi/) - "The Voice of a New Puerto Rican Generation" (PopSugar), Chuwi takes the stage at MASS MoCA on October 12.
- [Samora Pinderhughes <span class="title-light">I Hope This Finds You Well</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/samora-pinderhughes-i-hope-this-finds-you-well/) - Music, performance, installation, songcraft, and language are used to shape and hold space in this multidisciplinary music performance work.
- [Día de los Muertos](https://massmoca.org/event/dia-de-los-muertos-2025/) - Celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) MASS MoCA-style and mark the Mexican holiday of remembrance for those who have passed away.
- [<span class="title-light">In Conversation </span>Vincent Valdez & Evan Garza](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-vincent-valdez-evan-garza/) - Following the opening of his exhibition last May, Vincent Valdez returns to North Adams on November 1 for a public conversation with MASS MoCA Curator, Evan Garza, about his first career survey exhibition Just a Dream… Valdez and Garza will talk through select bodies of work on view in the exhibition, detailing the personal and
- [Current Job Openings](https://massmoca.org/event/current-job-openings/) - If you love the arts, and take pride in working hard with a dedicated team, we hope you find a position at MASS MoCA that fits your skills and experience.
- [Sol LeWitt<span class="title-light">A Wall Drawing Retrospective</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/sol-lewitt-a-wall-drawing-retrospective/) - Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective occupies nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that are installed—per LeWitt’s own specifications—over three stories of a historic mill building situated at the heart of MASS MoCA’s 19th-century, former factory campus. A landmark collaboration of MASS MoCA, Yale University Art Gallery, the Williams College Museum of Art,
- [Maddie Wiener](https://massmoca.org/event/maddie-wiener/) - 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
- [Laurie Anderson](https://massmoca.org/event/laurie-anderson/) - Laurie Anderson invites viewers to explore a multi-functional constellation of galleries and installations including two virtual reality experiences.
- [James Turrell <span class="title-light">Into The Light</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/james-turrell/) - MASS MoCA presents a multi-decade retrospective of James Turrell’s work, featuring a major work from each decade of the artist’s career.
- [Courtesy Code](https://massmoca.org/event/code-of-courtesy/) - MASS MoCA is a community of unique individuals who participate in making us who we are as an organization. Whether employed, volunteering, partnering, visiting, or creating and exhibiting art here – every person who walks through our doors contributes to the strength and integrity of our community. Learn more. By purchasing a ticket to join
- [Solid Sound 2026 Lodging](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2026-lodging/) - Where to Stay for Solid Sound: Learn more & reserve a Solid Ground tent site here. Learn more & reserve a Camp Aggie tent & RV plot here. (SOLD OUT) Berkshire Towers dorm room lodging. Berkshire Towers: MASS MoCA and MCLA provide festival lodging on the college campus, located within walking distance to Solid Sound
- [SOLD OUT - Solid Sound 2026 Lodging: Berkshire Towers](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2026-lodging-berkshire-towers/) - Berkshire Towers lodging is now sold out. BACK TO SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL LODGING MASS MoCA and MCLA provide festival lodging on the college campus, located within walking distance to the Solid Sound Festival and convenient to downtown merchants, bars, and restaurants. Accommodations include double and single rooms in Berkshire Towers. MCLA Dorms: Berkshire Towers 3-night
- [Solid Sound 2026 Lodging: Solid Ground (Tent Camping)](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2026-lodging-solid-ground-tent-camping/) - MASS MoCA teams up with the City of North Adams to provide SolidGround — a field for tent camping within easy walking distance from Solid Sound and convenient to downtown merchants, bars, and restaurants. This is a basic, open-field tent site with concession food service, porta-potties, and drinking water. A self-monitored, donation-based cell phone charging
- [Solid Sound 2026 Lodging: Camp Aggie (Tents & RVs)](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2026-lodging-camp-aggie-tents-rvs/) - Camp Aggie in Adams, MA is available for tent camping and RVs during Solid Sound. Camp Aggie is located 4 miles from the festival and museum. Free and frequent shuttle service will be provided to/from all campsites for the duration of the festival. Camp Aggie camping and RV plots are on sale now. Camp Aggie
- [Amy Podmore <span class="title-light">Audience</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/amy-podmore-audience/) - Amy Podmore is propelled by an interest in surrealist strategies of transformation and the line between stillness and motion in sculpture. In Audience, she offers enigmatic plaster casts of found wicker baskets and cornucopias. What we see as the exterior is actually the interior of these baskets, unfolding a vulnerable underbelly in the act of
- [Jimena Sarno <span class="title-light">Rhapsody</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jimena-sarno-rhapsody/) - Jimena Sarno engages craft traditions to imagine a future built on values of collectivity, reconfiguration, and repair. For Rhapsody, the title of the exhibition and the installation at its core, Sarno collaborated with artists, teachers, and makers, most of whom are from the Global South, combining filmmaking, sound, and sculpture with contemporary and traditional craft
- [<span class="title-light">Opening Celebration</span>Jimena Sarno<br><em>Rhapsody</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/opening-celebrationjimena-sarnorhapsody/) - Celebrate the opening at MASS MoCA of Jimena Sarno: Rhapsody, the artist’s first major solo exhibition. Be among the first to view Sarno’s latest work in our galleries while spending an evening with fellow MASS MoCA members, donors, and patrons while enjoying refreshments. In Rhapsody, Jimena Sarno has collaborated with over 20 artists, teachers, and
- [Mary Lum <span class="title-light">Assembly (Lorem Ipsum)</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/mary-lum-assembly-lorem-ipsum/) - Artist Mary Lum, who lives in North Adams, works in a range of media, including wall drawing, painting, collage, photography, and artist books. Language plays an important role in her practice, with the artist drawing on texts from a diversity of sources, including literature, psychoanalysis, and the news. Lum has been included in three previous
- [After Hours: Family Night](https://massmoca.org/event/family-night-after-hours/) - Families with children of all ages are invited to Family Night at MASS MoCA on Thursday, October 16, from 5:30 to 7:30pm. This free event will feature after-hours access to select exhibitions in the museum, performances, art-making, food, giveaways, and fun! Free; RSVPs encouraged but not required. Performances and Activities Include: Museum of Mysteries Quest
- [Commitment to Community Values, People & Place](https://massmoca.org/event/commitment-to-community-values-people-place/) - MASS MoCA is a community of unique individuals who participate in making us who we are as an organization. Whether employed, volunteering, partnering, visiting, or creating and exhibiting art here – every person who walks through our doors contributes to the strength and integrity of our community. MASS MoCA adopts a pluralistic approach that seeks
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA After Hours](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-after-hours-2/) - March 9 | In March, MASS MoCA After Hours will feature an indoor carnival with pop-up poetry, local performing artists, a photo booth, and cotton candy. Admission is free for members; $5 for Berkshire County residents.
- [Ohan Breiding<br><span class="title-light">Belly of a Glacier</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ohan-breiding/) - In 2019, Iceland constructed the first memorial to mark the death of its Okjökull glacier. Since then, funerals have been held around the world to mark the melting of glacier bodies. These rituals of collective grief amplify the current state of climate emergency while expressing the intimate entanglement of human and environmental well-being. Co-organized with
- [CANCELLED - Mariah Rigg <em>Extinction Capital of the World</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/book-talk-mariah-rigg-extinction-capital-of-the-world/) - A stunning portrait of Hawai'i — and a powerful meditation on family, queer love, and community amid imperialism and environmental collapse.
- [Sol LeWitt <span class="title-light">Structures</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/sol-lewitt-structures/) - A new adjunct to MASS MoCA’s long-running Sol LeWitt exhibition A Wall Drawing Retrospective, a concise selection of the artists' three-dimensional sculptures is on view in B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building. The works illustrate the generative potential for LeWitt’s serial approach. Sol LeWitt, Negative Pyramid, 1997 Courtesy the estate of Sol LeWitt Photo courtesy
- [Nicholas Whitman](https://massmoca.org/event/nicholas-whitman/) - Photographer Nicholas Whitman began photographing North Adams' abandoned Sprague Electric Company factory in 1988 “because it would surely be razed.” Documenting the then-deteriorating 19th-century mill buildings, Whitman captured scenes ranging from vast postindustrial landscapes to minute traces of the plant’s former workers. Whitman’s meticulously composed photographs, windows onto the historic nature of MASS MoCA's celebrated
- [Gunnar Schonbeck <span class="title-light">No Experience Required</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/gunnar-schonbeck/) - Over a period of fifty years, Gunnar Schonbeck assembled a collection of hundreds of instruments, handmade from a diverse and unexpected range of materials. His unmistakable works include a 9-ft banjo, 8-ft tall marimba, drums made from aircraft fuselages, welded steel harps and countless steel drums, zithers, pan pipes, tubular chimes, and triangular cellos. His
- [Carly Glovinski <span class="title-light">Almanac</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/carly-glovinski-almanac/) - June 2024 | Inspired by the late April through mid-September New England growing season, Carly Glovinski brings her pressed flower work, Almanac, to MASS MoCA.
- [Alison Pebworth <span class="title-light">Cultural Apothecary</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/alison-pebworth-cultural-apothecary/) - In February 2025, Alison Pebworth’s Cultural Apothecary will begin the first phase of its physical manifestation at MASS MoCA. For more than a decade, Pebworth has been inspired by a 19th-century neurological disorder called Americanitis. With vague and capacious symptoms ranging from abnormal fatigue to premature baldness, a diagnosis of Americanitis essentially pathologized the anxiety
- [Vincent Valdez <span class="title-light">Just A Dream…</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/vincent-valdez-just-a-dream/) - Vincent Valdez bears witness to the world around him, chronicling America at the margins. Just a Dream… is the artist’s first major museum survey including work from over twenty years across all media. The exhibition is co-organized by MASS MoCA and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). The exhibition addresses American politics today, including topics
- [Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust](https://massmoca.org/event/dirty-disorderly-contemporary-artists-on-disgust/) - In Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, Anna Ting Möller, New Red Order, and Nguyễn Duy Mạnh use the aesthetics of disgust to understand the social construction of putrid and squalid things. Disgust has been interpreted as an evolutionary tool of survival to create distance between ourselves and that which may harm us, particularly
- [FreshGrass | North Adams](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-northadams/) - September 19–21 | A family-friendly festival with the best in bluegrass and roots music filling the fields, courtyards, and galleries of MASS MoCA.
- [Lake Street Dive](https://massmoca.org/event/lake-street-dive/) - With Lawrence Doors: 6pm Music: 7:30pm Lake Street Dive has pushed the possibilities of pop music as a unifying force, not only through their eclectic sound — a boldly original cross-pollination of soul, folk, jazz, classic pop, and more — but through the five-piece’s all-embracing ethos which has earned them a reputation as a beloved
- [<span class="title-light">Book Talk</span> Auyon & Jyoti Mukharji<br><em>Heartland Masala</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/book-talk-auyon-jyoti-mukharjiheartland-masala/) - Join Heartland Masala's Jyoti & Auyon Mukharji and Tu Le of 328North for a playful and informative talk in MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store.
- [<span class="title-light">Book Talk</span>Melissa Mendes<br><em>The Weight</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/book-talkmelissa-mendesthe-weight/) - Join us for a lively discussion celebrating the release of author/artist Melissa Mendes' just-published The Weight (Drawn & Quarterly). In 2014 Mendes began creating and self-publishing the Ignatz-nominated comic The Weight, now a graphic novel, inspired by her late grandfather's life. Mendes has portrayed a young woman’s journey to adulthood precipitated by the discovery of
- [<em>Like Magic</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/like-magic/) - October 29 | Ten contemporary artists who subvert the systems that would deny them access to joy, delight, care, love, and healing through technologies of magic.
- [<em>Like Magic</em> <br>Library Sale & Book Seance <br> <span class="lowercase">with</span><span class="title-light">Mandylion Press</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/like-magic-library-sale-book-seance-with-mandylion-press/) - A book is a portal, a technology that enables a reader to cope in an unjust world. Books structure rituals; books bring back the dead. Join us as we say goodbye to our beloved Like Magic exhibition — and conduct a one-day-only sale of the Like Magic Library that has been so popular with visitors.
- [Summer Thursdays](https://massmoca.org/event/summer-thursdays/)
- [MX Oops Dance Party](https://massmoca.org/event/mx-oops/) - Join multimedia performance artist MX Oops as they transform Jeffrey Gibson's exhibition POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT into a lively dance floor that brings art, music, and nightlife together for one unforgettable, evening-length party. MX Oops, master of ceremonies, invites you, the party people, into a sound bath turned DJ set. Diving into the world
- [Outdoor Exhibitions Open](https://massmoca.org/event/outdoor-exhibitions-open-may-25/) - Outdoor Exhibitions re-open on May 25, 2025
- [Michael Oatman <span class="title-light">all utopias fell</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/michael-oatman-all-utopias-fell/) - all utopias fell will be off view on Monday, August 25. all utopias fell is a project in three parts: The Shining, The Library of the Sun, and Codex Solis. The Shining is a 1970s-era satellite that has seemingly just crash-landed. This gleaming, re-purposed Airstream trailer—with large parachutes and active solar panels—is, according to the
- [SOLD OUT - Educator Professional Development Day](https://massmoca.org/event/educator-professional-development-day/) - This program has reached capacity. If you would like to be added to the waitlist please email Rebecca Cuscaden Marvin, Senior Manager of School Programs, at rmarvin@massmoca.org. Join Rebecca Cuscaden Marvin, MASS MoCA’s Senior Manager of School Programs, and facilitators for a free professional development day of workshops for PreK-12 educators! Workshops will provide
- [<span class="title-light">Bang on a Can: </span> LOUD Weekend 2025](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-loud-weekend-2025/) - Click here for the detailed LOUD Weekend 2025 schedule. The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival has transformed MASS MoCA into a genre-bending musical utopia for innovative composers and performers for 24 of our 26 years. Over three weeks, every corner of our galleries and outdoor spaces will come alive with performances, workshops, and
- [Like Magic: Grace Clark's <em>In a new light (Healing Dirt) </em>Activation](https://massmoca.org/event/activations-of-grace-clarks-in-a-new-light-healing-dirt/) - Humans have long sought healing, growth, regeneration, rejuvenation, and blessing from natural materials, whether at a healing spring in the Appalachian Mountains or from the dirt floor of a chapel in New Mexico. On the day of each new moon — believed by many to be a time of rebirth — visitors to Grace Clark's
- [Summer Foraging with Wild Soul River](https://massmoca.org/event/summer-foraging-with-wild-soul-river/) - Wild Soul River owners Rebecca Guanzon and justin adkins host a late summer foraging workshop inspired by Alison Pebworth’s exhibition Cultural Apothecary. Guanzon and adkins will provide an overview of ancestral knowledge and ways of the "honorable harvest" (a phrase used by Robin Wall Kimmerer) before venturing into the gardens and parks surrounding the MASS
- [In Conversation:  <span class="title-light">Skate Haven</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-skate-haven/) - Skate Haven founders J. Joseph and Steve Roberts give a public talk on skateparks as public art, and the need for more functional cities. Skate Haven builds upon their presence at MASS MoCA in 2023, creating an enhanced set of workshops that facilitate deepened conversation around city planning, community, and skateboarding. In collaboration with MASS
- [Camp MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/camp-mass-moca/) - Young people entering grades 2–9 are invited to Camp MASS MoCA. For the first time, MASS MoCA is hosting a camp for middle schoolers in grades 6–9 during week 1 of camp! Participants explore the expansive campus and world-class art exhibitions and create original works of their own. Sign up early as space is limited
- [Roomful of Teeth](https://massmoca.org/event/roomful-of-teeth-2025/) - Now in their 16th year, the multiple Grammy Award–winning vocal group Roomful of Teeth returns to MASS MoCA to explore new sounds and expand their adventurous repertoire. Frequent collaborator William Brittelle joins the group to workshop Millennium Rift, a new immersive multimedia song cycle with a soundscape that emerges from Roomful of Teeth’s otherworldly vocals
- [Magical Thinking Symposium](https://massmoca.org/event/magical-thinking-symposium/) - November 11? | Through lectures, performances, guided meditations, and discussions, this symposium will incorporate and expound upon ongoing research by participating artists.
- [Representation & the Public Record](https://massmoca.org/event/representation-the-public-record/) - Representation & the Public Record will convene artists, historians, and designers to draw out the intersection of two key themes: how individuals and groups are represented in public discourse, media, and institutions, and the role of public records in shaping this representation. The day will include presentations and conversations with artists delving into practical aspects of
- [Member Sip & Shop](https://massmoca.org/event/member-sip-shop-3/) - Members are invited to pair seasonal refreshments with an extra 10% discount and complimentary gift wrapping in the MASS MoCA stores.
- [<span class="title-light">Family Portrait Workshop</span>In Celebration of Vincent Valdez](https://massmoca.org/event/family-portrait-workshopin-celebration-of-vincent-valdez/) - Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a family portraiture workshop in celebration of Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…
- [School Break Kidspace Workshops](https://massmoca.org/event/school-break-kidspace-workshops-3/) - Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a series of free workshops for all ages during the end-of-year school break, December 29–January 2. Workshops will take place in Kidspace at 11am and 1pm every day, and each will focus on a different art medium and process. Come be inspired, learn something new, and make a project
- [<span class="title-light">Curator Tour </span>Vincent Valdez: <em>Just a Dream...</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-vincent-valdez-just-a-dream/) - MASS MoCA members are invited to join curator Evan Garza for a members-only tour of Vincent Valdez’s exhibition Just a Dream…
- [Members Family-Friendly Tour](https://massmoca.org/event/members-family-friendly-tour/) - Member families with children of all ages are invited to join this tour with our Museum Educators.
- [<span class="title-light">Book Talk </span>Jason Fulford on Jason Polan: <em>The Post Office</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/book-talk-jason-fulford-on-jason-polan-the-post-office/) - Jason Fulford reflects on artist Jason Polan's commitment to mail art as a means to build networks and make connections.
- [Common Notions Publisher Showcase with Josh MacPhee](https://massmoca.org/event/common-notions-publisher-showcase-with-josh-macphee/) - Josh MacPhee and key players of indie publisher Common Notions join us in the R&D Store for a conversation moderated by MCLA Professor of Art Melanie Mowinski.
- [SOLD OUT - Julio Torres](https://massmoca.org/event/julio-torres/) - Spend a summer evening in the Hunter Center with comedian/actor/director/writer/fashion icon/fill-in-the-blank-because-he-does-it-all Julio Torres as he returns to MASS MoCA for the first time since his 2016 High Mud Comedy Fest debut! From SNL staff writer, to co-writer and showrunner of Los Espookys (with Fred Armisen and Ana Fabrega) on HBO, to writer-director of the 2023
- [Skate Jam](https://massmoca.org/event/skate-jam/) - Skate Haven will transform MASS MoCA’s Courtyard D into a pop-up skatepark for a skate jam featuring clinics, a best trick contest, and product giveaways. The space will be filled with obstacles built by MASS MoCA’s fabrication team and by Skateparks, Arts, and Advocacy program participants. No matter their skill level, or whether participants are
- [UNO Drop-In Art Club <span class="title-light">with the Clark, MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA, <span class="lowercase">and nb</span>CC</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/uno-drop-in-art-club-with-the-clark-mass-moca-and-nbcc/) - Join the Clark, MASS MoCA, and nbCC Educators at the UNO Drop-In Art Club, a free weekly art program for youth ages 8 to 19! Taking place every Wednesday from 3:30 to 4:30pm, the Drop-In Art Club offers a supportive environment where young artists can experiment with various media, techniques, and styles. From painting and
- [Dan Nadel on <span class="title-light">Robert Crumb</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/dan-nadel-on-robert-crumb/) - Dan Nadel presents the first biography of Robert Crumb — one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century — whose iconic, radically frank, and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel. Crumb spans the pressures of 1950s suburban America and Crumb’s
- [Skateparks, Arts, and Advocacy](https://massmoca.org/event/skateparks-arts-and-advocacy/) - Join us on Sunday, August 17 at 3pm for Skate Jam when Courtyard D turns into a pop-up skatepark for all to enjoy. Skateparks, Arts, and Advocacy is a free, three-day summer program in partnership with Skate Haven that explores skateboarding culture, civic advocacy, and the arts. This program invites high school students to partake
- [North Adams Public Library Workshops](https://massmoca.org/event/north-adams-public-library-workshops/) - Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for free afternoon art workshops at the North Adams Public Library! Designed for children ages 12 and younger, the workshops include a storytime and art-making project related to one of the exhibitions on view. Friday August 1, 11am RSVP here A Museum Educator runs a puppet-making workshop during the week
- [Audrey Golden on The Raincoats](https://massmoca.org/event/audrey-golden-on-the-raincoats/) - The first biography of legendary and influential British punk band The Raincoats, who were instrumental in the origins and longevity of Rough Trade Records, lauded by Nirvana and Sleater-Kinney, among others, and have long been revered by those in the international punk scene. Though The Raincoats were formed in London in 1977, their sound was
- [Outdoor Art Tour](https://massmoca.org/event/outdoor-art-tour/) - Members are invited to a tour of our beloved Outdoor Exhibitions, including Stephen Vitiello’s All Those Vanished Engines, Franz West’s Les Pommes d’Adam, Taryn Simon’s The Pipes, and James Turrell’s C.A.V.U. (Skyspace). Explore MASS MoCA's campus and learn about the art on display outside the museum’s walls on this one and a half hour tour
- [Thérèse Soukar Chehade: <span class="title-light"><em>We Walked On</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/therese-soukar-chehade-we-walked-on/) - Set during the early years of Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war, We Walked On immerses readers in the landscape of war, weaving political unrest into everyday life. With Hisham, a thirty-year-old Arabic teacher, and Rita, his fourteen-year-old student, Chehade has created two richly drawn characters who counter violence with the redemptive power of books and human
- [[CANCELLED] Skip Marley <span class="title-light">with Ivy Sole</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/skip-marley-with-ivy-sole/) - Due to unforeseen scheduling issues, the performance of Skip Marley with Ivy Sole has been canceled. Skip Marley honors the legacy of his legendary grandfather Bob with an energetic blend of rock, rap, and pop that he’s showcased in collaborations with the likes of H.E.R., Rick Ross, and Ari Lennox. The Philly-based rapper and producer Ivy
- [[CANCELLED] McQueen Adams](https://massmoca.org/event/mcqueen-adams/) - June 10 | Berkshire native and Comedy Central creator McQueen Adams mixes pop-culture and projections into this fast-paced fever dream of a live comedy show.
- [[CANCELLED] In Conversation: Carrie Schneider & Laura Mulvey](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-carrie-schneider-laura-mulvey/) - April 3 | Influential feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey, still known for coining the term "the male gaze" in her seminal 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema" discusses her new book "Afterimages" and its intersections with artist Carrie Schneider's new work.
- [Hot Corners Drawing Activation with Amy Yoes](https://massmoca.org/event/hot-corners-drawing-activation-with-amy-yoes/) - Explore Amy Yoes’ drawing implements in a drop-in activation to create artworks on paper in Yoes’ Hot Corners exhibition, facilitated by the artist. Stay for a couple minutes to make a few remnant tracings, or join us until 4pm to dive deep and execute a series of drawings in relation to Yoes’ practice of making
- [Member Preview Reception <span class="title-light">EJ Hill</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/member-preview-reception-ej-hill/) - October 28, 6–9pm | Members are invited to join us for a preview of EJ Hill’s spectacular and sprawling exhibition Brake Run Helix.
- [Guster & The Mountain Goats](https://massmoca.org/event/guster-the-mountain-goats/) - Doors: 6pm Guster and The Mountain Goats take to MASS MoCA’s Courtyard D stage. Hear why Boston.com says rock group Guster is “back in a big way,” and Pitchfork declares that “few working artists have accumulated a richer body of lore than the Mountain Goats” at this unmissable summer show. $1 per ticket supports the
- [New York State of Mind](https://massmoca.org/event/new-york-state-of-mind/) - New York State of Mind is the newest rotation of music photography at MASS MoCA. The exhibition provides a snapshot of New York from 1969 to 1992, a span that gave us Bob Gruen’s iconic image of revelers at Woodstock, before depicting clubs such as Max’s Kansas City where we see Johnny Thunders, Iggy Pop,
- [The Metabolic Studio/Optics Division <span class="title-light">Hoosic: The Beyond Place</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/liminal-camera-building-6-portrait/) - In October 2016, artists Lauren Bon, Richard Nielsen, and Tristan Duke of the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio spent a week at MASS MoCA using their Liminal Camera — a moveable, monumental camera built from a repurposed shipping container — to create a series of portraits of B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building. The team
- [Erica Feldmann: <span class="title-light"><em>Intention Obsession</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/erica-feldmann-intention-obsession/) - Join us for an intention-filled evening of magical rituals for every season of the zodiac, from Erica Feldmann, owner and founder of the Salem-based store HausWitch. Even if you’re not ready to commit to a black velvet cloak or coven membership (yet), Intention Obsession is a book for all types of seekers, sharing practical magic
- [Northern Berkshire Art Outside](https://massmoca.org/event/northern-berkshire-art-outside/) - An initiative of the Clark Art Institute, MASS MoCA and the Williams College Museum of Art, Northern Berkshire Art Outside is an online walking and biking tour showcasing outdoor art in Williamstown and North Adams. Available on Google Maps at this link, the tour includes some 30 works of art stretching across 10 miles of
- [MASS M0CA BY THE NUMB3R5 <span class="title-light">A Project by Bob Faust</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-m0ca-by-the-numb3r5/) - Artist Bob Faust visualizes the numbers that have swirled around MASS MoCA since its opening in 1999 in celebration of our 25th anniversary.
- [Helen Molesworth <span class="title-light">Open Questions</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/helen-molesworth-open-questions/) - November 29 | Celebrate the publication of Open Questions, the first collection of curator Helen Molesworth’s writings, with Molesworth and MASS MoCA Chief Curator Denise Markonish.
- [Kevin Bubriski <span class="title-light">The Uyghurs</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/kevin-bubriski-the-uyghurs/) - October 26 | An intimate evening with North Adams native & documentary photographer Kevin Bubriski.
- [An Artist's Bread & Butter <span class="title-light">Insights & Process with kelli rae adams</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/an-artists-bread-butter/) - October TBD | Sample sourdough breads baked by artist kelli rae adams as she reflects on past work and shares insights into her current and future projects.
- [Lizzie No <span class="title-light">Album Release Show</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/lizzie-no/) - January 20 | Celebrate the release of Lizzie No’s genre-defying new album, Halfsies.
- [Music From The Sole <span class="title-light">I Didn't Come to Stay</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/music-from-the-sole/) - October 5 | Tap, percussive dance, samba, house, and original live music come together to celebrate the joy, depth, and virtuosity of Black dance and music.
- [Maxine Lyle <span class="title-light">Step Show: The Musical</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/maxine-lyle-step-show/) - December 9 | Take a riveting ride through the world of step dance and its imprint on Black culture.
- [Williamstown Theatre Festival: Jeremy O. Harris](https://massmoca.org/event/wtf-jeremy-o-harris/) - Co-presented with Works & Process and Potash Hill
- [ONCE WITHIN A TIME](https://massmoca.org/event/once-within-a-timeco-presented-with-kinetek/) - Co-Presented by Kinetek
- [Trisha Brown Dance Company <span class="title-light">Roof Piece</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/trisha-brown-dance-company-roof-piece/) - In the case of prohibitive weather, this performance may be rescheduled or postponed due to the position of the dancers on MASS MoCA's roofs and to ensure the safety of all participants. Ticket holders will receive email communication to confirm this if this is the case. Roof Piece (1971) by the iconic choreographer Trisha Brown
- [serpentwithfeet: Heart of Brick](https://massmoca.org/event/serpentwithfeet-heart-of-brick/) - October 7 | Three genre-defying artists join forces to tell the story of unpredictable romance & self-discovery in this theatrical dance and music production.
- [Camille A. Brown and Dancers: Ink](https://massmoca.org/event/camille-a-brown-and-dancers-ink-co-presented-by-jacobs-pillow/) - Co-presented by Jacob's Pillow
- [Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo](https://massmoca.org/event/les-ballets-trockadero-de-monte-carlo-2/) - Co-presented by Jacob's Pillow
- [Siudy Garrido's <em>Intimate Flamenco</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/intimate-flamenco/) - April 27 | SEO HERE
- [No Rule Is Our Rule with Eiko Otake](https://massmoca.org/event/no-rule-is-our-rule/) - Co-presented by Jacob’s Pillow
- [The Center Will Not Hold](https://massmoca.org/event/the-center-will-not-hold/) - Co-presented by Jacob’s Pillow
- [Daddy AF](https://massmoca.org/event/daddyaf/) - Co-presented by Jacob’s Pillow
- [SOLD OUT - Dave Guy](https://massmoca.org/event/dave-guy/) - SOLD OUT NYC trumpet player Dave Guy’s hip-hop and soul-inflected jazz conjures his influences — as much A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul as Donald Byrd and Hugh Masekela — and makes it clear why he has regularly appeared on records and onstage with the likes of Amy Winehouse, The Roots, Sharon Jones,
- [Black Feminist Book Club](https://massmoca.org/event/black-feminist-book-club/) - November 30 | The Black Feminist Book Club brings together community members to read, discuss, and take action inspired by Black feminist texts.
- [Member Picnics](https://massmoca.org/event/member-picnics/) - Members are invited to join MASS MoCA staff for a summer picnic. Discover a lesser-known corner on our expansive, creative campus. Hear about the history of our site and our plans for the future. See MASS MoCA from a new perspective, hang out with new and old friends, and enjoy a picnic lunch with us.
- [SOLD OUT - Sarah Sherman](https://massmoca.org/event/sarah-sherman/) - SOLD OUT SNL mainstay Sarah Sherman has become the standard bearer of weird and unhinged hilarity for the legendary show, amplifying its cultural relevance. As a champion of the outsider, she’s full of love; as a keen observer and critic of hypocrisy and anyone with hate in their heart, she’s equally full of gleeful venom.
- [Richard Nielsen <span class="title-light"> <em>This is Not a Gag</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/richard-nielsen-this-is-not-a-gag/) - In March 2020, Los Angeles-based artist Richard Nielsen began painting portraits of people in their COVID-19 face masks. On view at MASS MoCA, This is Not a Gag includes his first set of 49 paintings. Presented in a Zoom-like grid, the series shows the determination behind the eyes of artists, writers, and friends of the
- [<span class="title-light">Bang on a Can </span>Gallery Concerts 2025](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-gallery-concerts/) - Leading up to a LOUD Weekend finale, Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose throughout the galleries. Join us for some of today’s most innovative new music. Admission to gallery concerts is free with museum admission, which can be purchased here. Museum admission is always free for members. Not yet a member? Become
- [SNACKTIME](https://massmoca.org/event/snacktime/) - SNACKTIME is Philadelphia’s beloved seven-piece band with soul, funk, punk, hip hop, and rock influences. About the Artist: SNACKTIME began by performing free shows in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square in the summer of 2020. After attracting huge crowds in the park, the band played their first headlining club show and sold over 900 tickets. Things quickly
- [Jazzmeia Horn](https://massmoca.org/event/jazzmeia-horn/) - With Black Nile The next installment in MASS MoCA’s series highlighting some of the best and brightest in contemporary jazz brings multi-award winning vocalist Jazzmeia Horn to the Hunter Center. “Horn is among the most exciting young vocalists in jazz, with a proud traditionalism that keeps her tightly linked to the sound of classic figures
- [Community Visioning Session <span class="title-light">North Adams <br>Route 2 Overpass Study</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/community-visioning-session/) - On Thursday, July 10, the City of North Adams will host its third community engagement event on the North Adams Route 2 Overpass Study (R2OS), in person under the tent in Courtyard A on the MASS MoCA campus. The community is invited to join the feasibility study team for a presentation of project updates and
- [Harold López-Nussa](https://massmoca.org/event/harold-lopez-nussa-2018/) - Harold López-Nussa flew direct Havana>North Adams to deliver the full range and richness of his native Cuban music. The pianist and bandleader combines distinctive pop, classical, and folkloric elements into a wild Cuban jazz. What to Expect This event will be “up in the club” with cabaret-style seating. Preferred Ticket buyers get the best seat
- [James B. Haile: <span class="title-light"><em>The Dark Delight of Being Strange</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/james-b-haile-the-dark-delight-of-being-strange/) - Offering new ways to grasp the meanings and implications of Black freedom, James B. Haile III invites us to reimagine history and memory, time and space, our identities and ourselves. An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary
- [<span class="title-light"><em>Super Gay Poems:</em></span> Reception and Readings](https://massmoca.org/event/super-gay-poems-reception-and-readings/) - Readings from Community Day Contributors and Conversation with Stephanie Burt. Join us for a THANK YOU celebration and reception in the R&D Store as community members, MASS MoCA staff, and invited artists read hand-chosen works from Super Gay Poems. The book's editor Stephanie Burt — a major poet, literary critic and scholar — provides introductory
- [Nicholas Carr:<span class="title-light"><em>Superbloom</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/nicholas-carr-superbloom/) - "At times alarming, Superbloom is a profound reminder of what’s at stake if we consume only ultra processed communication at the expense of real, embodied community." –Nicholas J. Weyrens A celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression,
- [<em>Musicians on Musicians</em> <span class="title-light">Curated by Wilco</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/musicians-on-musicians/) - June 22 | Wilco members have handpicked 35 images featuring iconic performers — Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Cobain, and many more.
- [Community Day:  <span class="title-light">Summer 2025</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/community-day-summer-2025/) - Celebrate the start of summer with free museum admission on June 21, 2025 during MASS MoCA’s Community Day. Enjoy museum tours, art-making in Kidspace, author talks, and conversations with artists on exhibitions. Stay tuned for a full list of happenings at MASS MoCA. Lead Community Sponsor
- [Kevin Bubriski: <span class="title-light"><em>The New Mexicans</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/kevin-bubriski-the-new-mexicans/) - The New Mexicans documents Kevin Bubriski’s two-year stay in New Mexico in the early 1980s. A young photographer fresh from the Peace Corps in Nepal, Bubriski fully immersed himself as a still photographer on the set of the film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. This led to assignments as a local news photographer — work
- [Community Day Family Storytime](https://massmoca.org/event/community-day-family-storytime/) - Families with children up to 6 years old are invited to join Drag Story Hour Berkshires for a special storytime and related exploration of Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT. Each Family Storytime features a different children’s book about contemporary art, creativity, and/or the themes of the exhibitions on display. Meet in Kidspace
- [Vocal Workshop  <span class="title-light"><em>Roots and Rhythm</em></span> with Martha Redbone](https://massmoca.org/event/vocal-workshop-roots-and-rhythm-with-martha-redbone/) - Martha Redbone presents Roots and Rhythm, a vocal workshop for all ages expressing tension and strength in voice, harmony, and sound healing. This program is part of Community Day (free for all), purchase a ticket here to stick around for Redbone’s performance at 8pm in the Hunter Center. About the Artist: Martha Redbone is a
- [<span class="title-light"><em>Cultural Apothecary</em></span> Activation](https://massmoca.org/event/cultural-apothecary-activation/) - Join us for an activation of Alison Pebworth’s current exhibition Cultural Apothecary. Through this exhibition, MASS MoCA’s Museum Attendants and Activators facilitate consideration of the root causes of the cultural ills that contribute to the anxiety of our present times, and to work together towards tools for healing. Pebworth’s installation at MASS MoCA offers an
- [Jason Fulford: <span class="title-light"><em>Lots Of Lots </em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jason-fulford-lots-of-lots/) - Jason Fulford's latest book is a vibrant riff on conceptual artist Sol LeWitt's 1977 publication PhotoGrids. Lots Of Lots transforms the seemingly quotidian objects captured by Fulford in nearly seven hundred photographs into an evocative collection of interconnected and overlapping forms. In this lively presentation, Fulford presents these images in a 20-minute, double-projector slideshow, while
- [In Conversation: MX Oops on Ecstatic Aesthetics & Queer Mysticism](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-mx-oops-on-ecstatic-aesthetics-queer-mysticism/) - Why is mysticism relevant today and how can the dance floor be a place to build a bridge between personal and transpersonal? Transdisciplinary artist and educator MX Oops uses the embodied methodologies of club culture to explore how the dance floor creates a unique opportunity to expand and deepen our senses. In this session, they
- [Connections Tours](https://massmoca.org/event/connections-tours/) - Join Museum Educators for a new Connections Tour of the museum! Educators will be stationed throughout the galleries on a thematic tour that examines community. Grab a map in the lobby, then choose your own route and move at your own pace to discover surprising connections and enlightening information about the art on display.
- [In Conversation: Jeffrey Gibson & Antonia Oliver <br> on Critical Resources](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-jeffrey-gibson-antonia-oliver-on-critical-resources/) - Join us for an in-depth conversation with Jeffrey Gibson and Antonia Oliver, co-curators of Gibson’s Resource Room (Building 5 Mezzanine), to learn about the artist's drive to present critical resources that give context to his monumental exhibition, POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT.
- [Martha Redbone](https://massmoca.org/event/martha-redbone-2/) - Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, playwright and United States Artist Fellow of Cherokee/Choctaw and African American descent. Her multi-disciplinary works share her life experience as an Afro-Indigenous woman and mother in an ever-changing world. Martha works in partnership with longtime collaborator Aaron Whitby. Their songs and storytelling give voice to issues of social
- [POSTPONED – Chef Hugh Mangum:<br> <span class="title-light"> Barbecue from Across the Globe</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/barbecue-smoked-grilled-recipes-from-across-the-globe/) - THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store invites you to celebrate the publication of Barbecue: Smoked & Grilled Recipes from Across the Globe (Phaidon) with a special one-night-only prix fixe, family-style event at Casita. Join us as we sample barbecue from this vibrant collection of recipes from over 80
- [Genesis Baez & Christine Kelly: <span class="title-light">Book Launch & Reception</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/genesis-baez-christine-kelly-book-launch-reception/) - Genesis Báez’s visual work merges fiction, personal narratives, and social histories of modern colonization in a conversation around placemaking. Báez’s debut monograph, Blue Sun (Capricious Publishing, 2025) spans a decade of photographic work made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Blue Sun offers a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship through images of the elemental and
- [Artist Workshop: <span class="title-light">The Matière</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/the-matiere-material-studies-from-the-bauhaus-black-mountain-college-and-beyond/) - Material Studies from The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Beyond Matière exercises focus on the tactile exploration of materials and can reveal how our eyes think a material would feel. A broken egg shell, for example, seems visually different seen on top of ruffled white silk versus on top of burlap. The principles of this
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Benefit Dinner & Celebration <span class="title-light">May 2025</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/benefit-dinner-and-celebration-25/) - Celebrate the conclusion of MASS MoCA’s 25th Anniversary year with a special performance by Trisha Brown Dance Company and a farm-to-table benefit dinner.
- [FreshGrass Festival](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-festival/) - MASS MoCA’s FreshGrass festival of progressive bluegrass and roots music is produced in collaboration with FreshGrass LLC and its sister publication, No Depression Magazine. Since 2010, the FreshGrass festival has won a reputation for hosting master musicians who are the standard-bearers of traditional bluegrass, side by side with musicians exploring the genre’s most progressive and experimental
- [Solid Sound Festival](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-festival/) - The Grammy award-winning band Wilco is the force behind our Solid Sound Festival, a three-day festival of art, music, and comedy that takes over the entire MASS MoCA campus every other summer. Wilco headlines the festival and also selects a diverse slate of established artists and young talent that plays to an audience of some 8,000
- [Sundance Institute](https://massmoca.org/event/sundance-institute/) - Every winter, MASS MoCA becomes a home for the Sundance Institute, whose Theatre Lab brings playwrights, actors, and musicians to North Adams for an intensive 3-week workshop residency centered on writing, first readings, and work-in-progress showings, often unveiling new scripts and songs to the public for the first time before Berkshire audiences.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-21/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34. As always, admission is free and open to all.
- [<em>Like Magic</em>: <span class="title-light">Screening Series</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/like-magic-screening-series-5/) - Join us in the Like Magic exhibition for the final installment in our series of screenings of short videos by artists and filmmakers addressing technologies of magic — including devices, charms, rituals, and spells. This session is curated by Curatorial Assistant Lydia Jasper. Installation view of Tourmaline, Atlantic is a Sea of Bones, 2017, Digital video, sound.
- [Curator Tour <span class="title-light"><em>The Archive of Lost Memories</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-the-archive-of-lost-memories/) - MASS MoCA members are invited to join Curatorial Graduate Fellow Emma Poveda for a members-only tour of Randi Malkin Steinberger’s residency and installation The Archive of Lost Memories. Space is limited and RSVP is required. For questions or additional information, email members@massmoca.org. Not a member? Join now to attend. MASS MoCA members enjoy free museum
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-25/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA, where you can get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation! Each event will take place in Building 13 and Building 34. Free and open to all. Thursday, June 5, 5-7pm Thursday, July 10, 5-7pm Thursday, August 7, 5-7pm Visit the museum
- [Martin Puryear <span class="title-light"><em>Big Bling</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/martin-puryear-big-bling/) - Martin Puryear's monumental sculpture Big Bling has landed for at least the next five years at MASS MoCA. Sited at the museum's extreme southern perimeter in the heart of the downtown North Adams, Massachusetts business district, the sculpture creates a dramatic new connection between MASS MoCA’s 16-acre, 28-building factory campus and the city’s Main Street
- [Stephen Vitiello <span class="title-light">All Those Vanished Engines</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/stephen-vitiello-all-those-vanished-engines/) - Sound artist Stephen Vitiello created All Those Vanished Engines especially for the MASS MoCA Boiler House. This building is a relic from the industrial past of the site and was once used to heat the factory campus the museum now inhabits. Starting with the inherent resonance of the pipes and metal drums in the space,
- [Richard Nonas <span class="title-light">Cut Back Through (for Bjorn)](https://massmoca.org/event/richard-nonas-cut-back-through-for-bjorn/) - "There is a language of place, and it is the most direct human language there is; the most basic way to impose human order and meaning on an outside, non-human world." — Richard Nonas Following his ambitious exhibition in Building 5, The Man in the Empty Space, Richard Nonas has created a long-term, outdoor installation
- [Franz West <span class=title-light>Les Pommes d’Adam</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/franz-west-les-pommes-dadam-hall-art-foundation/) - Franz West’s Les Pommes d’Adam—a monumental outdoor sculptural ensemble on extended loan from the Hall Art Foundation—appears at MASS MoCA, in its first presentation in the United States and its second-ever showing. The sculpture was previously exhibited in 2007, when it was installed at the Place Vendôme in Paris next to Napoléon Bonaparte’s Vendôme Column.
- [Anselm Kiefer](https://massmoca.org/event/anselm-kiefer/) - The long-term exhibition—realized in collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation—includes Étroits sont les Vaisseaux (Narrow are the Vessels) (2002), an 82-foot long, undulating wave-like sculpture made of cast concrete, exposed rebar, and lead; The Women of the Revolution (Les Femmes de la Revolution) (1992), comprised of more than twenty lead beds with photographs and wall
- [Taryn Simon <span class="title-light">The Pipes</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/taryn-simon-the-pipes/) - Taryn Simon’s large-scale outdoor sculpture The Pipes is on long-term view on the MASS MoCA campus. What began as an oversized concrete instrument for a cacophony of global mourning in Simon’s work An Occupation of Loss (The Armory, 2016) will be populated by the sounds, collective call and response, and movements of a living public.
- [SOLD OUT - Artist Workshop: <br> Stop-Motion with Shayna Strype](https://massmoca.org/event/artist-workshop-stop-motion/) - SOLD OUT Join us for a stop-motion animation workshop led by animator Shayna Strype. This hands-on experience, open to all skill levels and ages, will introduce participants to the art of stop-motion using a variety of materials, from everyday objects to handcrafted pieces. Whether you're an experienced animator or a curious beginner, you'll explore techniques
- [In Conversation: Vincent Valdez & Hanif Abdurraqib](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-vincent-valdez-hanif-abdurraqib/) - Join artist Vincent Valdez in conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib in conjunction with Valdez's exhibition Just a Dream... The two will discuss what it means to be American today through the lens of art, politics, music, and basketball. The artists will sign books in MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store following
- [Saul Williams](https://massmoca.org/event/saul-williams/) - The groundbreaking rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor Saul Williams, who burst into the public consciousness as Nuyorican Poets Cafe's Grand Slam Champion in 1996 and then the star of the 1998 independent hit Slam, has since toured the world with his band, opened for Nine Inch Nails, and had records produced by
- [Opening Preview Celebration <span class="title-light">Vincent Valdez: <em>Just a Dream...</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/opening-preview-celebration-vincent-valdez-just-a-dream/) - Get a first look and celebrate the opening of Just a Dream…, Vincent Valdez’s first major museum survey, co-organized with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). The exhibition spans twenty years of the artist's works across all media, addressing American politics today. Including previously unexhibited and new bodies of work, Just a Dream… is a unique
- [In Conversation: Kristy Edmunds & Susan Rosenberg](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-kristy-edmunds-susan-rosenberg/) - In between the two performances of Roof Piece, join MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds for an insightful conversation with Susan Rosenberg. She is the author of Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art. Rosenberg is consulting historical scholar at Trisha Brown Dance Company and directs the master's degree program in museum administration at St. John's University,
- [Family Movement Workshop](https://massmoca.org/event/family-movement-workshop/) - Join professional dancer and teaching artist Helen Styring Tocci for a family movement workshop in celebration of Trisha Brown Dance Company’s performance at MASS MoCA! Drawing inspiration from Trisha Brown: Roof Piece and the natural and built environments of MASS MoCA, participants will activate the museum’s campus and outdoor artworks with site-specific movement explorations and
- [Family Storytime](https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytime-2025-05-17/) - Families with children up to 6 years old, let your imagination run wild with gallery exploration, art discussion, and the magic of art-inspired storytelling.
- [Bike to Work Day](https://massmoca.org/event/bike-to-work-day/) - On Friday, May 16, MASS MoCA is celebrating National Bike to Work Day, in collaboration with the Berkshire Bike Path Council! As the spring weather rolls in, cycle to MASS MoCA and enjoy discounts on admission and purchases at the museum stores when you present your bike lock key (or snap a picture of your
- [Family Storytime](https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytime/) - Families with children up to 6 years old, let your imagination run wild with gallery exploration, art discussion, and the magic of art-inspired storytelling.
- [Seth Rogovoy: Within You Without You<span class="title-light">Co-Presented at the North Adams Public Library</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/seth-rogovoy/) - NOTE: This co-presentation takes place at neighboring North Adams Public Library (74 Church St., North Adams, MA) not at MASS MoCA. Join MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store and the North Adams Public Library for a free reading, presentation, and book-signing with Seth Rogovoy, author of Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison. How
- [Diane DiMassa: <span class="title-light"><em>Hothead Paisan</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/diane-dimassa-hothead-paisan/) - Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan is an icon of the ’90s lesbian DIY comics scene, a patron saint of those who wonder if going off the deep end is the only sane response to life in modern America. One of the funniest, sharpest, and most unexpectedly warm comics of the late 20th century, Hothead Paisan is
- [FreshGround Camping](https://massmoca.org/event/freshground-camping/) - FreshGround is a tent-camping field within easy walking distance of the FreshGrass | North Adams festival and convenient to downtown.
- [SOLD OUT - Ani DiFranco with Special Guest Wryn](https://massmoca.org/event/ani-difranco/) - SOLD OUT Feminist icon, Grammy winner, Broadway star, best-selling memoirist, and children’s book author Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own label in 1990 (the aptly named Righteous Babe Records). While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced
- [In Conversation: Petra Szilagyi & Bayo Akomolafe](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-szilagyi-akomolafe/) - Amid the ongoing constellation of crises impacting contemporary life around the globe, institutional and governmental responses can feel frustratingly inadequate. Petra Szilagyi creates artworks that respond with reflection and absurdity — like Bless Your Hard Drive, a prayer room for a benevolent future for the internet currently on view in Like Magic. Join Szilagyi and
- [Building 6 Artists In Conversation <span class="title-light">Alison Pebworth & Steve Locke with MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Curators</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/building-6-artists-in-conversation-alison-pebworth-steve-locke-with-mass-moca-curators/) - Join us for two back-to-back conversations in Club B10! Artist Alison Pebworth and MASS MoCA Curator Alexandra Foradas will be in conversation about Pebworth’s exhibition Cultural Apothecary. After, hear Steve Locke and MASS MoCA Curator Evan Garza discuss Locke’s exhibition the fire next time. Pebworth’s Cultural Apothecary asks viewers to consider the root causes of
- [Ben Shattuck:<span class="title-light"> <em>The History of Sound</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ben-shattuck-the-history-of-sound/) - “Polyphonic fiction… A reminder of the short story’s power…The History of Sound marks Shattuck as one of the form’s brightest lights…A terrific writer…Deeply resonant.” —The Boston Globe Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor, Ben Shattuck’s The History of Sound showcases breathtaking humanity and humor. These twelve luminous stories
- [In Conversation: Alice Proujansky & Randi Malkin Steinberger](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-alice-proujansky-randi-malkin-steinberger/) - Alice Proujansky and Randi Malkin Steinberger engage in a critical conversation regarding archives. As artists working with archives in two different approaches, their conversation will hone in on questions of objectivity, preservations, grief, relief, and patina versus decay. As part of the Activator program for juniors and seniors living in Berkshire County, Steinberger and Proujansky
- [Teen Invitational Reception](https://massmoca.org/event/teen-invitational-reception-2025/) - Join us for the 13th Annual Teen Invitational. Berkshire county high schoolers will exhibit their artworks at MASS MoCA in a pop-up exhibition that opens on April 17, 2025 from 6 to 9pm. This event is free and open to the public. The Teen Invitational exhibition is on view and open for drop in: Thursday,
- [Memorial Day Weekend](https://massmoca.org/event/memorial-day-weekend/)
- [Family Storytime](https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytime-2025-04-19/) - Families with children up to 6 years old, let your imagination run wild with gallery exploration, art discussion, and the magic of art-inspired storytelling.
- [Howard Fishman: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse  <span class="title-light">Co-Presented at the North Adams Public Library</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/howard-fishman-to-anyone-who-ever-asks-co-presented-at-the-north-adams-public-library/) - NOTE: This co-presentation takes place at neighboring North Adams Public Library (74 Church St., North Adams, MA) not at MASS MoCA. Join MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store and the North Adams Public Library for a free reading, presentation, and book-signing of To Anyone Who Ever Asks, a title that was Shortlisted for the Plutarch
- [Angélica Garcia](https://massmoca.org/event/angelica-garcia/) - Gemelo, the new record from the beguiling Mexican-Salvadoran American sonic experimentalist Angélica Garcia, is a vibrant, prismatic hybrid-pop masterpiece that channels the sounds and moods of Kali Uchis, Rosalía, and Kate Bush. It follows her 2020 breakthrough Cha Cha Palace, which included the hit “Jícama” (featured on Barack Obama’s best-of year-end playlist) and launched her
- [SOLD OUT - An Evening with Fran Lebowitz](https://massmoca.org/event/fran-lebowitz/) - SOLD OUT “Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.” - Fran Lebowitz In a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads, Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators. The forthright, irascible, and unapologetically opinionated author brings her sardonic wit to the Hunter Center stage in an evening
- [Plan Your Visit](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-is-open-3/)
- [Osman Khan <span class="title-light">Road to Hybridabad</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/osman-khan/) - In Road to Hybridabad, Osman Khan re-reads the magical and fantastical figures found in folktales and lore, with a particular focus on those from South Asia, the Middle East, and other Muslim and immigrant traditions. Khan interprets these figures through contemporary technologies and concerns: this new body of work includes an animatronic djinn, drone-operated flying
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA After Hours: <br><span class="title-light">  <em>Road to Hybridabad</em> </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-after-hours-road-to-hybridabad/) - Join us for a night at the museum for a last look at Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad. During this evening of programming, we celebrate the exhibition closing and facilitate knowledge sharing of immigration processes through a toolkit presentation by Emma Lezberg. The exhibition will be on view until 8pm. Mingle, grab the new catalogue,
- [SOLD OUT - Curator Tour <span class="title-light">POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-power-full/) - SOLD OUT Join MASS MoCA’s Chief Curator, Denise Markonish, for a members-only tour of Jeffrey Gibson’s kaleidoscopic exhibition POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT in our signature Building 5 gallery. Gibson is known for creating installations, performances, paintings, and sculpture that elevate and provide visibility to queer and Indigenous communities whose cultural narratives have been historically
- [Klaas Hübner and Andrew Schrock <span class="title-light">Corrugarou</span> ](https://massmoca.org/event/klaas-hubner-andrew-schrock/) - Seen from a distance, Klaas Hübner and Andrew Schrock’s Corrugarou at first resembles a slightly surreal guard tower, its perforated metal sides slashed by large fan blades. Upon entering the structure, however, visitors find themselves within a two-story playable musical instrument. By turning the cranks in the structure’s base, visitors can set the fans in
- [Assets for Artists Worshops](https://massmoca.org/event/assets-for-artists-workshops-wsp25/) - Assets for Artists workshops continue into 2025 with online offerings open to artists in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and now Vermont and Maine!
- [Family Storytime](https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytime-2025-03-15/) - Families with children up to 6 years old, let your imagination run wild with gallery exploration, art discussion, and the magic of art-inspired storytelling.
- [Member Appreciation Month](https://massmoca.org/event/member-appreciation-month-2025/) - Member Appreciation Month is here throughout March 2025. We are celebrating MASS MoCA Members with additional discounts and perks for a limited time only. Become a MASS MoCA member today — enjoy more than a year of FREE exhibition access, exclusive member programs, special invitations, discounts on shopping, and more. Celebrate all month long: Membership
- [Curator Tour <span class="title-light">Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-dirty-disorderly/) - Join Williams College graduate student and curatorial fellow Riley Yuen for a members-only tour of their exhibition Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, which features works by Anna Ting Möller, Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, and New Red Order. Artworks made from ceramics, kombucha scoby, and photogrammetry pick at the sutures of society and uncover the
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-20/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34. As always, admission is free and open to all.
- [when i am alone <span class="title-light">David Lang in Amy Podmore's Audience</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/when-im-alone/) - Composer David Lang's piece, when i am alone, is performed alongside Amy Podmore’s sculptural wall installation, Audience. Embracing nuance and ambiguity, the two pieces together reflect the harmonies and balances, as well as the contradictions and paradoxes, of what it means to be both an individual and a citizen of this world. when i am
- [Member Celebration <span class="title-light">Steve Locke, Alison Pebworth & Amy Podmore</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/member-celebration-b6/) - Join fellow museum members, MASS MoCA curators, friends from the community, and the artists to celebrate three new exhibitions in The Robert W. Wilson Building (Building 6) — Steve Locke: the fire next time, Alison Pebworth: Cultural Apothecary, and Amy Podmore: Audience. Please register by emailing members@massmoca.org or by logging onto our website. Not yet
- [Alison Pebworth <em>Cultural Apothecary</em> Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/alison-pebworth-cultural-apothecary-opens/)
- [Allovers](https://massmoca.org/event/allovers/) - Musician and sound artist Ryan Olson teams with producer and sound artist Seth Rosetter to convert the stairs and basement of MASS MoCA’s Building 10 into a musical instrument. Allovers is "played" by stimuli from its surrounding environment, from snippets of conversation and footfalls, to the rattle of carts and deliberate acts of musical intervention.
- [Black Feminist Book Club](https://massmoca.org/event/black-feminist-book-club-2/) - The Black Feminist Book Club brings together community members to read and discuss, inspired by Black feminist texts. Gwendolyn VanSant hosts this next iteration of the book club in MASS MoCA's Research & Development Store. Participants will explore the selected text together, view special exhibitions and community spaces related to the books, and be introduced
- [Sarah Crowner <span class="title-light">Wall (Hot Blue Terra Cotta)</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/sarah-crowner-wall-hot-blue-terracotta/) - Sarah Crowner's gorgeous 10 × 20 foot tile mural Wall (Hot Blue Terra Cotta) — fabricated for her 2016 MASS MoCA exhibition — now guides visitors in and out of the museum's new gallery spaces. Known for her bold and graphic work in a variety of mediums spanning the fine and applied arts, Crowner finds
- [CANCELLED – Like Magic: Screening Series](https://massmoca.org/event/like-magic-screening-series-4/) - Please note, this event has been cancelled. Check back soon for future programming updates. Join us in Like Magic for a series of screenings of short videos by artists and filmmakers addressing technologies of magic — including devices, charms, rituals, and spells. This session features films selected by Dan Hudson, Executive Director of Images Cinema
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA's 25th Anniversary Gala](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-mocas-25th-anniversary-gala/) - May 24 | Join us to celebrate MASS MoCA’s 25th Anniversary to honor the support of the diverse community of people and partner organizations who have helped us succeed
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-wsp25/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34. As always, admission is free and open to all.
- [slowdive](https://massmoca.org/event/slowdive/) - With Quannnic Early ‘90s shoegaze legends slowdive re-emerged after the success of Pygmalion (1995) 29 years ago with their self-titled record in 2017 and an earth-shaking reunion set at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival. They've been selling out shows and releasing new music ever since – including 2023’s brilliant Everything Is Alive. slowdive performs at MASS
- [CANCELLED - Stephen Sanchez](https://massmoca.org/event/stephen-sanchez/) - December 3 | With a dusty baritone as bright as an eternally lit jukebox, Stephen Sanchez tunes into longing and love with the acuity of a tried-and-tested troubadour.
- [CANCELLED - Curator Tour <span class="title-light">Black Stars: Writing in the Dark</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-black-stars/) - Please note, this event has been cancelled. Contact members@massmoca.org to learn about other Curator Tours or with any questions. Join Curator Alexandra Foradas for a members-only tour of the exhibition by Jason Moran, Black Stars: Writing in the Dark. The exhibition encourages visitors to explore their own physical and historical proximity to the physical acts
- [CANCELLED - Oscar Jerome](https://massmoca.org/event/oscar-jerome/) - July 1 | British jazz-soul fusion guitarist Oscar Jerome hops the pond this summer for a concert full of dazzling licks and engaging vocals.
- [Camp MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/camp-mass-moca-2024/) - Young people entering grades 2-6 are invited to Camp MASS MoCA. Participants explore the expansive campus and world-class art exhibitions and create original works of their own. Sign up early as space is limited!
- [Curator Tour <span class="title-light">the fire next time</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-the-fire-next-time/) - Join Curator Evan Garza for a members-only tour of Steve Locke’s Building 6 exhibition the fire next time. New York-based artist Steve Locke’s exhibition is a meditation on uniquely American forms of violence directed at Black and queer people. the fire next time takes its title from a book by James Baldwin, first published in
- [Joe Manning: Looking at North Adams](https://massmoca.org/event/joe-manning-looking-at-north-adams/) - Author and historian Joe Manning speaks to life in and around this city — referencing the trains, hills, rivers, and buildings that shape life in North Adams. Manning's short texts, describing and illuminating the views through mill building windows throughout the museum, are excerpted from his publications about North Adams history and drawn from oral
- [Family Storytime](https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytime-2025-01-18/) - Families with children up to 6 years old, let your imagination run wild with gallery exploration, art discussion, and the magic of art-inspired storytelling.
- [Family Storytime](https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytime-2025-02-15/) - Families with children up to 6 years old, let your imagination run wild with gallery exploration, art discussion, and the magic of art-inspired storytelling.
- [SOLD OUT - Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Sylvan Esso</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-sylvan-esso/) - SOLD OUT
- [Elle Pérez: Intimacies](https://massmoca.org/event/elle-perez-intimacies/) - July 22 | Bronx-born Puerto Rican photographer Elle Pérez captures intimacy between friends, lovers, bodies, and nature in a solo exhibition of vulnerable images at MASS MoCA.
- [Eluding Capture <span class="title-light">Three Artists From Central Asia</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/eluding-capture/) - Eluding Capture features the work of Saodat Ismailova, Alexander Ugay, and Gulnur Mukazhanova, three artists who explore the conditions of belonging in Central Asia through photography, textile, film, and video. Typically defined as modern-day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, Central Asia has been ruled by Indigenous Khanates, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union
- [Cardboard Cinema <span class="title-light">Robin Frohardt’s Handmade Worlds</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/cardboard-cinema/) - February 19 | This companion project to The Plastic Bag Store is an installation of handmade cardboard sets & puppets accompanied by animated short films.
- [Like Magic: Screening Series](https://massmoca.org/event/like-magic-screening-series-3/) - December 7 | This Like Magic film session features films selected by Like Magic exhibiting artist Gelare Khoshgozaran and MASS MoCA Curator Alexandra Foradas.
- [Kasambwe Brothers](https://massmoca.org/event/kasambwe-brothers/) - November 16| Using homemade instruments, this dynamic Malawi trio creates infectious grooves using traditional rhythm and soulful harmony.
- [Member Sip & Shop](https://massmoca.org/event/member-sip-shop-2/) - November 14 | Members, pair refreshments with an extra 10% off and complimentary gift wrapping to kickstart the holiday season at the R&D Store.
- [SOLD OUT - Artist Workshop: Melanie Mowinski](https://massmoca.org/event/artist-workshop-melanie-mowinski/) - November 15 | Printmaker and MCLA professor Melanie Mowinski will give a short artist talk and share her work in this evening of artmaking.
- [In Conversation: Jeffrey Gibson & Albert McLeod](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-jeffrey-gibson-albert-mcleod/) - Join us in the Hunter Center with artist Jeffrey Gibson and Albert McLeod in conversation regarding Gibson’s new commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT. About the Speakers: Albert McLeod is a Status Indian with ancestry from Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the Metis community of Norway House in northern Manitoba. He has over thirty years of
- [ANOHNI](https://massmoca.org/event/anohni/) - To celebrate the opening of Jeffrey Gibson’s installation POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT, the trailblazing singer, songwriter, and visual artist ANOHNI returns to MASS MoCA for an intimate concert with pianist Gael Rakotondrabe in the Hunter Center. Her work across genres examines her relationship to ecocide through the lens of her trans experience. ANOHNI first
- [Chris Doyle <span class="title-light">The Coast of Industry</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/chris-doyle-the-coast-of-industry/) - Artist Chris Doyle’s work highlights the precarious moments we face in attempting to care for the natural world, resulting in narratives built around themes of interconnectivity and the tension between the individual and the group in a culture fiercely devoted to progress. His video animation The Coast of Industry runs nearly 300 feet along one
- [Curator Tour <span class="title-light">Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-2/) - Members are invited to join Curator Alexandra Foradas for a tour of the new exhibition Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad. In Road to Hybridabad, Khan rereads the magical and fantastical figures found in folktales and lore, with a particular focus on those from South Asia, the Middle East, and other Muslim and immigrant traditions. Khan
- [Bang on a Can Gallery Concerts](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-gallery-concerts-2019/) - Join us in the galleries for some of today's most exciting new music, performed by Bang on a Can fellows and faculty! Lunchtime concert series Weekdays July 18–Aug 2 at 1:30pm 19 Jul Fri Ghanaian drumming Friday, July 19, 4:30pm 22 Jul Mon Nick Photinos, cello Monday, July 22, 4:30pm 23 Jul Tue Mark Stewart
- [The Plastic Bag Store](https://massmoca.org/event/the-plastic-bag-store/)
- [<span class="title-light">Bang on a Can: </span> LOUD Weekend 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-loud-weekend-2024/) - August 1-3 | Renowned special guests, BoaC faculty & young players perform a series of playful and heady collisions of jazz, classical, rock and beyond.
- [SOLD OUT - FIREBIRD](https://massmoca.org/event/firebird/) - January 27 | A rule-breaking concert program and an extra-terrestrial installation in one whose orchestra of light must be experienced to be believed.
- [CANCELLED - Beverly Glenn-Copeland](https://massmoca.org/event/beverly-glenn-copeland/) - October 21 | On his first collection of new music in nearly two decades, the Philadelphia-born, Canada-based singer drinks deeply from the truths of this world.
- [SOLD OUT - Philip Glass Ensemble: Koyaanisqatsi Live](https://massmoca.org/event/philip-glass-koyaanisqatsi-live/) - October 19 | The Philip Glass Ensemble performs Philip Glass’s score for the Godfrey Reggio film Koyaanisqatsi.
- [Lulada Club](https://massmoca.org/event/lulada-club/) - November 9 | This powerhouse band pays homage to the icons while offering a fresh perspective through their original tunes.
- [Jeffrey Gibson: <em>POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT</em> Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/jeffrey-gibson-power-full-because-were-different-opens/)
- [Opening Preview Celebration <span class="title-light">Jeffrey Gibson: <em>POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT</em></span>](https://massmoca.org/event/opening-preview-gibson/) - November 2 | Members, get a first look and celebrate the opening of Jeffrey Gibson’s new commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT.
- [Elizabeth Ferrer: <em>Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografía</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/dia-de-los-muertos-ferrer/) - November 1 | Join us in the R&D Store for an in-depth look at a pioneering Chicano photographer who preserves the legacy of his southwestern community.
- [Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)](https://massmoca.org/event/dia-de-los-muertos/) - November 1 | Join us for our annual celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the Mexican holiday of remembrance for those who have passed away.
- [In Conversation: Amos Kennedy & Melanie Mowinski](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-kennedy-mowinski/) - October 24 | Amos Kennedy is internationally recognized for his messages of social justice and Black power, emblazoned in boldly inked prints made for the masses.
- [<em>Cellophane Bricks</em>: Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with Denise Markonish](https://massmoca.org/event/cellophane-bricks/) - July 11 | A rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling from one of our most innovative writers and critical minds.
- [Dust Collective Night with Barbara Bosworth & S. Billie Mandle](https://massmoca.org/event/dust-collective-night/) - October 5 | The Research & Development Store hosts Dust Collective and the artists behind their two most recent books, Barbara Bosworth and S. Billie Mandle.
- [Bruce Odland & Sam Auinger <span class="title-light">Harmonic Bridge</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/bruce-odland-sam-auinger-harmonic-bridge/) - Plays from 8am to 10pm under the Route 2 overpass on Marshall Street, at the southeast corner of MASS MoCA's main parking lot. In the MASS MoCA portion of this multi-part project, Harmonic Bridge, low sounds roll and drone under the Route 2 overpass half a block from MASS MoCA. Entering the space under the bridge,
- [North Adams Public Schools Family Night](https://massmoca.org/event/naps-family-night-2/) - October 3 | North Adams Public School students and their families are invited to Family Night at MASS MoCA.
- [Louise Bourgeois](https://massmoca.org/event/louise-bourgeois/) - Louise Bourgeois described her artistic practice as an attempt to work through whatever tumult plagued her — psychologically, personally, artistically — to find perfect harmony. Her work often references human anatomy and sexuality, in some instances overtly and in others more subtlely through organic and ambiguous forms. Her oeuvre encompassed drawings, paintings, textiles, embroidered works,
- [EJ Hill <span class="title-light">Brake Run Helix</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ej-hill/) - On View Now | A sprawling exhibition that includes a rideable sculptural installation inspired by the form and function of roller coasters.
- [Dulcé Sloan](https://massmoca.org/event/dulce-sloan/) - July 19 | Don’t miss one of the sharpest, fastest rising voices in comedy when Dulcé Sloan takes the stage in North Adams, MA.
- [In Conversation: <em>Audience</em> Catalogue Launch with Amy Podmore and Jessica Fisher](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-audience/) - Join us for a conversation in the Research and Development Store with artist Amy Podmore and former MASS MoCA Curatorial Assistant Meghan Clare Considine about Amy Podmore’s recent exhibition, Audience, and exhibition catalogue. They will be joined by poet and translator Jessica Fisher, who contributed a new poem to the catalogue. Amy Podmore is propelled
- [Free Fun Friday](https://massmoca.org/event/free-fun-friday-3/) - On Friday, August 30, patrons enjoy free admission to MASS MoCA from 10am to 6pm as part of the Highland Street Foundation’s Free Fun Fridays statewide cultural initiative. Make art at the ArtBar and explore the new Kidspace exhibition Still I Rise, featuring nuanced representations of women of color in all stages of life. Every
- [The Chalet 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2024/2024-08-29/) - Thursdays | Free fun, friendly faces, and music under the Berkshire stars.
- [The Chalet 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2024/2024-09-05/) - Thursdays | Free fun, friendly faces, and music under the Berkshire stars.
- [The Chalet 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2024/2024-08-22/) - Thursdays | Free fun, friendly faces, and music under the Berkshire stars.
- [The Chalet 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2024/2024-08-15/) - Thursdays | Free fun, friendly faces, and music under the Berkshire stars.
- [The Chalet 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2024/2024-07-25/) - Thursdays | Free fun, friendly faces, and music under the Berkshire stars.
- [The Chalet 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2024/2024-08-08/) - Thursdays | Free fun, friendly faces, and music under the Berkshire stars.
- [The Chalet 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2024/) - Thursdays | Free fun, friendly faces, and music under the Berkshire stars.
- [The Chalet 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2024/2024-07-18/) - Thursdays | Free fun, friendly faces, and music under the Berkshire stars.
- [Artists In Conversation: Osman Khan](https://massmoca.org/event/artists-in-conversation-osman-khan/) - August 25 | A conversation with artist Osman Khan, whose exhibition Road to Hybridabad opens on August 24.
- [Osman Khan: <em>Road to Hybridabad </em>Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/osman-khan-road-to-hybridabad-opens/)
- [Roomful of Teeth](https://massmoca.org/event/roomful-of-teeth-5/) - August 24 | Two-time GRAMMY winners Roomful of Teeth return to MASS MoCA for a week-long residency to workshop new music with some of today's most visionary composers.
- [Member Celebration: Osman Khan: <em>Road to Hybridabad</em> & <em>Eluding Capture</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/member-celebration-osman/) - August 24 | Celebrate MASS MoCA’s newest shows, including Osman Khan’s highly anticipated solo exhibition, with fellow members & friends.
- [Jennifer Kabat: <em>The Eighth Moon</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/jennifer-kabat-the-eighth-moon/) - October 10 | In this Author Talk and discussion, Senior Curator Susan Cross talks with Kabat about her capacious memoir, where the past comes alive in the present.
- [Mike Vos: <em>Somewhere in Another Place</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/mike-vos/) - October 26 | Somewhere In Another Place distills more than three years of work by the photographer, visual artist, musician (and former two-time Assets for Artists resident).
- [In Conversation: Robin Frohardt, Kristy Edmunds & Jenny Gitlitz](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-pbs/) - September 26 | This thought-provoking discussion features artist Robin Frohardt, Director Kristy Edmunds, and Julia Cohen, co-founder of Plastic Pollution Coalition.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-19/) - September 26 | Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence!
- [Curator Tour: Like Magic](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-like-magic/) - October 5 | Join MASS MoCA members for a tour of Like Magic with Curator Alexandra Foradas and Curatorial Assistant Meghan Clare Considine.
- [Fall Artist Workshops <br><span class="title-light">Assets for Artists</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/fall-artist-workshops-a4a/) - A4A is expanding our online offerings to be open to artists anywhere in MA, CT, and RI, and now also VT and ME!
- [Frederic Tuten: <em>Uncle Umberto’s Orchard</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/frederic-tuten/) - Join us in celebrating the illustrious publication of Uncle Umberto’s Orchard, a short story by four-time Pushcart Prize-winning author and visual artist Frederic Tuten. This deluxe, limited edition of 60 copies is a collaboration with Plain Wrapper Press Redux and is paired with two multi-color screen prints developed by Gary Lichtenstein Editions and based on
- [Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe](https://massmoca.org/event/tomashi-jackson/) - August 29 | Join us for a book launch and conversation with the artist — whose vibrant work powerfully explores systemic inequities found throughout US history.
- [Deep Water](https://massmoca.org/event/deep-water/) - On view July 16, 2022 | Deep Water is an exhibition of photographs bearing witness and celebrating modern jazz and blues Black musicians from the 1950s-60s.
- [Steve Locke: <em>the fire next time</em> Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/steve-locke-the-fire-next-time-opens/)
- [Amy Podmore: <em>Audience </em>Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/amy-podmore-audience-opens/)
- [<span class="title-light">Bang on a Can </span>Gallery Concerts](https://massmoca.org/event/boac-gallery-concerts/) - July 18 – July 30 | Join us for some of today’s most exciting new music as Bang on a Can fellows & faculty let loose throughout the galleries
- [Joseph Keckler: The Voice in Performance](https://massmoca.org/event/joseph-keckler-workshop/) - July 25 | Join author Joseph Keckler for an audiovisual performance and workshop followed by a discussion just for MASS MoCA members in the R&D Store.
- [Jenny Holzer Benches](https://massmoca.org/event/jenny-holzer-benches/) - Visitors to MASS MoCA will encounter a constellation of Jenny Holzer’s carved stone benches throughout the museum.
- [Sip and Shop with Beyond Plastics: <span class="title-light"> Tools to reduce single use plastics</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/sip-and-shop-with-beyond-plastics/) - Following July 20’s 1pm performance of The Plastic Bag Store, stop by MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store for a no-plastic Sip & Shop with our partners from Beyond Plastics. The Plastic Bag Store is an immersive, multimedia experience by artist Robin Frohardt, produced in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival, that uses humor, craft, and
- [Gamaliel Rodríguez <span class="title-light">La travesía / Le voyage</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/gamaliel-rodriguez/) - Gamaliel Rodríguez’s large-scale works on paper imagine landscapes inspired by the two-fold character of his native Puerto Rico, which the artist recently described as a mix of “beauty and chaos.” Merging industrial and natural environments, Rodríguez depicts abandoned structures surrounded by verdant greenery — which he often renders as an aerial view. Devoid of a
- [Eve Schaub: <em>Year of No Garbage </em>](https://massmoca.org/event/eve-schaub/) - August 8 | Year of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental movement. Join Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, in the R&D Store.
- [Amy Yoes: Catalogue Launch & Activation](https://massmoca.org/event/amy-yoes-catalogue-launch/) - August 10 | Join artist Amy Yoes for a catalogue launch in the R&D Store, followed by an activation in Yoes’ exhibition Hot Corners.
- [Interacting with Color: <span class="title-light">A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s <em>Color Experiments</em> with Fritz Horstman </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/fritz-horstman/) - July 13 | Fritz Horstman joins us in the R&D Store for a presentation and discussion of his newly published book.
- [Like Magic: Screening Series](https://massmoca.org/event/like-magic-screening-series-2/) - July 13 | Join us for a series of screenings of videos by artists and filmmakers addressing technologies of magic — including devices, charms, rituals, and spells.
- [Seun Kuti & Egypt 80](https://massmoca.org/event/seun-kuti-egypt-80/) - July 12 | Leading his pioneering father Fela’s legendary band Egypt 80, Seun Kuti brings Afrobeat to new heights.
- [Joseph Grigely: <span class="title-light">In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996-2023)</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/joseph-grigely-in-what-way-wham-white-noise-and-other-works-1996-2023/) - May 28 | Artist Joseph Grigely uses handwritten notes and fractured language to explore deafness, disability, and the perception of sound as visual media.
- [The Drifting Studio](https://massmoca.org/event/the-drifting-studio/)
- [to see oneself at a distance](https://massmoca.org/event/to-see-oneself-at-a-distance/) - March 25 | A new exhibition featuring the work of four artists who employ rigorous archival research to explore histories of liberation and decolonization in India, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
- [Wilco's Solid Sound 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2024/) - Spanning three days and four stages, Solid Sound features music by Wilco and its members' side projects alongside a diverse lineup of enduring favorites and emerging voices. It also features a full comedy lineup, family fun for all ages, local food, craft beer, camping, naturalist activities, and more. Concerts held rain or shine. Where to
- [<em>Forever in Your Debt</em>: The Tally](https://massmoca.org/event/forever-in-your-debt-the-tally/) - June 8 | Mark the final month of artist kelli rae adams’ installation — which visualizes the nation’s student debt crisis — with a week of commemorative programming.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Jason Moran</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-jason-moran/) - Curated listening experience
- [<span class="title-light">An Evening with</span> Kevin Morby & Waxahatchee](https://massmoca.org/event/an-evening-with-kevin-morby-waxahatchee/) - PREFERRED TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee roll into town on July 23 for a stripped-down evening on the MASS MoCA stage. Conjuring sunsets, campfires, and long drives on the open road with a pluck of their guitars and a few choice words, these indie folk-rockers plays mid-field mid-summer. Breaking through the upper
- [Car Seat Headrest <span class="title-light">with Bartees Strange</span> <span class="title-light">[Rescheduled]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/car-seat-headrest-2022/) - March 25, 2022 | Car Seat Headrest tickets are sold out. For more information or to be added to the waitlist contact boxoffice@massmoca.org. The 2020 concert with Car Seat Headrest has been rescheduled to March 25, 2022. Purchased tickets for Car Seat Headrest will be transferred to the new date—no action is necessary. Following a blowout 2019 Hunter Center
- [FreshGrass Festival 2021](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-festival-2021/) - An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming with bright talent on four stages, and also in our galleries, brick-lined courtyards, and grassy field, produced in partnership by MASS MoCA, the FreshGrass Foundation, and No Depression. Already have your FreshGrass ticket? Find out everything you need to know
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Tune-Yards</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-tune-yards/) - Curated listening experience
- [Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore](https://massmoca.org/event/julianna-barwick-mary-lattimore/) - In honor of the opening of James Turrell: C.A.V.U. (Skyspace) we bring you an evening with two young luminaries working at the intersection of ambient and electronic music. Vocalist Julianna Barwick and harpist Mary Lattimore share a love for looping and layering - prepare to be transported by their dulcet tones.  Make a Plan
- [The Roots](https://massmoca.org/event/the-roots/) - In Concert on July 8 | The Roots are in concert at MASS MoCA. Be here when one of the best known and most respected hip-hop acts in the business rock the field.
- [Members Opening Reception](https://massmoca.org/event/members-opening-reception/) - RSVPs open Wednesday, May 19, 1pm, space is limited. MASS MoCA members are invited to gather to celebrate the opening of new installations, Shaun Leonardo: You walk… and James Turrell's Skyspace, C.A.V.U., as well as current exhibitions by Blane De St. Croix, Glenn Kaino, Richard Nielsen, Wendy Red Star, and Gamaliel Rodríguez, along with the
- [Brooke Annibale](https://massmoca.org/event/brooke-annibale/) - July 2, 8pm | Pop-folk singer-songwriter Brooke Annibale conjures up a dreamy, dark, and enticing sonic landscape..
- [Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend 2021](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-loud-weekend-2021/) - Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and more!
- [Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend 2022](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-loud-weekend-2022/) - July 28-30 | A fully loaded eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental, and electronic music over three days throughout the museum’s expansive campus.
- [Here and There <span class="title-light">Courtney Barnett, Lucy Dacus, Men I Trust, Faye Webster, Bartees Strange, The Beths, and Hana Vu</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/here-there/) - Courtney Barnett’s Here And There is a boutique touring festival with a rotating line-up featuring many of the most exciting songwriters in music today. Curated by Barnett, the North Adams festival will feature Barnett, Lucy Dacus, Men I Trust, Faye Webster, Bartees Strange, The Beths, and Hana Vu. Schedule 10-6pm: Museum open (admission included with
- [Bright Half Life <span class="title-light">Presented in Partnership with WAM Theatre</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/bright-half-life-presented-in-partnership-with-wam-theatre/) - June 5, 2pm | Part of the Fresh Takes play reading series Bright Half Life is a kaleidoscopic play about the infinite moments that make a relationship.
- [LeWitt Redrawn <br><span class="title-light">Members Event</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/lewitt-redrawn/) - March 9, 6:30pm | Members are invited to join us for a rare conversation with three of the artists who installed the 2008 Sol LeWitt retrospective.
- [Mamadou Diabate & Percussion Mania](https://massmoca.org/event/mamadou-diabate-percussion-mania/) - April 9 | The internationally acclaimed balafon virtuoso Mamadou Diabaté hails from the Sambla people of Burkina Faso where music and language are one in the same.
- [Members’ Opening Reception: <span class="title-light">Lily Cox-Richard, Amy Hauft, & Marc Swanson</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/members-opening-reception-lily-cox-richard-amy-hauft-marc-swanson/) - March 12, 5:30pm | MASS MoCA members are invited to gather to celebrate the opening of the new exhibitions Lily Cox-Richard, Amy Hauft, and Marc Swanson.
- [Deon Jones](https://massmoca.org/event/deon-jones/) - March 19, 8pm | Deon “DJ” Jones is a musician and artist with one of the most important voices of his generation.
- [Lucius <span class="title-light">with Charlie Hickey</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/lucius/) - April 28, 8pm | Lucius performs in MASS MoCA's Hunter Center.
- [Solid Sound 2022](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2022/) - May 27-29, 2022 | SOLID SOUND PASSES ARE SOLD OUT Where to Stay: Learn more & reserve a college residence hall room here. Learn more & reserve a Solid Ground tent site here. Learn more & reserve a Camp Aggie tent or RV site here. Spanning three days and four stages, Solid Sound includes music by Wilco and its
- [Sonny Singh](https://massmoca.org/event/sonny-singh/) - January 8 | For the last decade, Sonny Singh has brought his fiery trumpet playing and vocals to audiences around the world with the bhangra brass band Red Baraat, last at MASS MoCA for FreshGrass 2017. In 2020, Singh launched his solo project focused on boundary-defying Punjabi anthems to uplift and ignite. Simultaneously spiritual and rebellious, Singh's music
- [32 Sounds </br><span class="title-light">Film by Sam Green </br>  Live music by JD Samson</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/32-sounds/) - December 11, 8pm | 32 Sounds is an immersive “live cinema” documentary that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green, who was last at MASS MoCA with Kronos Quartet for A Thousand Thoughts. The film weaves together 32 audio experiences, crafting a cinematic poem that is a meditation on the power of sound to bend
- [Faye Webster [Postponed]](https://massmoca.org/event/faye-webster/) - February 26 | Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Faye Webster show has been postponed. We are currently working with the artist to find a new date, all existing tickets will be valid for the rescheduled date. Ticket buyers have been notified. For questions please email boxoffice@massmoca.org. Faye Webster tickets are sold out. For more information or to be
- [Animal Collective <span class="title-light">with L'Rain</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/animal-collective-with-lrain/) - March 11, 2022 | Tickets are sold out. For more information or to be added to the waitlist contact boxoffice@massmoca.org. Over two decades have passed since Animal Collective began to reimagine, then define, the sound and image of indie rock. Creating a twisted musical world all their own where cascading drums, blissful electronic hooks, and dazzling harmonies abounded, their paradigm-breaking
- [FreshGrass Festival 2022](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-festival-2022/) - September 23-25, 2022 | The FreshGrass lineup is here featuring Gary Clark Jr., Old Crow Medicine Show, Trampled by Turtles, Yola, Aoife O'Donovan, and more!
- [Michael Olatuja: <span class="title-light">Lagos Pepper Soup</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/michael-olatuja-lagos-pepper-soup/) - October 16, 8pm | London-born, Lagos, Nigeria-raised, New York-based composer, bandleader, and bassist Michael Olatuja blends the sounds of these three cities into what he describes as a “cinematic Afrobeat." One of the most inventive and in-demand bassists on the scene today, Olatuja has worked and recorded with the likes of Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Shakira, and MASS MoCA
- [Eli Keszler](https://massmoca.org/event/eli-keszler/) - Live Music | October 23, 8pm | Avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist Eli Keszler is “experimental electronic music’s favorite drummer” (Pitchfork). Keszler’s live performances often incorporate his sound installations and blur the boundaries between composition and improvisation. From intricate and eerie to dazzling chaos, this virtuosic percussionist brings surreal sound to life on the MASS MoCA stage. "Eli Keszler has dismantled the
- [Member Opening Reception <span class="title-light">Ceramics in the Expanded Field</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/member-opening-reception-ceramics-in-the-expanded-field/) - Thursday, October 7, 6pm | MASS MoCA
- [Alex Edelman](https://massmoca.org/event/alex-edelman/) - Saturday, September 4, 8pm |
- [Chvrches <span class="title-light">with special guest Cafuné</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/chvrches/) - Live on August 5 | Scottish electro-pop group Chvrches stops by MASS MoCA on August 5 while on tour for the trio's hook-laden 2021 release Screen Violence.
- [Terence Blanchard <span class="title-light">feat. The E-Collective & Turtle Island Quartet</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/terence-blanchard/) - August 26 | Renowned trumpeter/ composer Terence Blanchard performs music from his 2021 release Absence feat. The E-Collective & Turtle Island Quartet.
- [Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience’s Juneteenth Celebration](https://massmoca.org/event/terrance-simien-the-zydeco-experiences-juneteenth-celebration/) - Saturday, June 18, 8pm | MASS MoCA | GRAMMY-winning zydeco master Terrance Simien brings his red hot band for a special night of music, storytelling, and joy.
- [Cirque Kalabanté: Afrique En Cirque](https://massmoca.org/event/cirque-kalabante-afrique-en-cirque/) - June 26, 4pm | Montréal-based Cirque Kalabanté combines breathtaking acrobatics with live music for the perfect summer afternoon for the whole family.
- [Roomful of Teeth & Friends](https://massmoca.org/event/roomful-of-teeth-4/) - August 17, 8pm | The ensemble of Grammy-winning vocal titans, Roomful of Teeth, returns to its summer home for a knock-out performance.
- [Meet MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA's New Director <span class="title-light">Kristy Edmunds</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/meet-mass-mocas-new-director/) - MASS MoCA's Board of Trustees announces that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its new Director, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board. Edmunds comes to MASS MoCA from UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), where she has served as the Executive and Artistic Director since 2011.
- [In Conversation: Kristy Edmunds, Director, and Joseph Thompson, Founding Director](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-kristy-and-joe/) - May 25 | Join us for an afternoon of memories and laughter with Kristy Edmunds, Director and Joseph Thompson, Founding Director, together on stage.
- [25th Anniversary Community Celebration](https://massmoca.org/event/25th-anniversary-community-celebration/)
- [Son Lux](https://massmoca.org/event/son-lux/) - May 25 | Kick off MASS MoCA's next 25 years with a concert by groundbreaking trio Son Lux, the trio who scored Academy Award winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.
- [<em>Crip Authorship</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/crip-authorship-author-talk/) - March 23 | Join us in the R&D Store for a discussion surrounding the content of Crip Authorship with the book’s co-editor and contributing author.
- [John Cameron Mitchell & Amber Martin <span class="title-light">Cassette Roulette: An Evening of Songs and Stories</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/john-cameron-mitchell-amber-martin/) - July 16, 8pm | John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) joins forces with Amber Martin and special guests for an evening of songs and stories.
- [Chicano Batman](https://massmoca.org/event/chicano-batman/) - May 11 | LA psych-soul four-piece Chicano Batman brings high-spirited alternative synthesis of tropicália, psychedelia & soul to MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center.
- [Curator Tours](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tours-3/) - May 11 | MASS MoCA members are invited to join Graduate Fellow Jess Chen for a personalized tour of her recent exhibition Eluding Capture.
- [J. Hoard](https://massmoca.org/event/j-hoard/) - December 3 | Melding the core of the Black church and the allure of Broadway, J. Hoard’s music easily shifts genres to articulate his vivid songwriting.
- [Taylor Mac & Matt Ray <span class="title-light">in Conversation & Song</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/taylor-mac-in-conversation-song/) - November 19 | Taylor Mac previews a new evening of original music celebrating queer luminaries throughout history, followed by a discussion with the artist.
- [Kaleta & Super Yamba Band](https://massmoca.org/event/kaleta-super-yamba-band/) - January 7 | Brooklyn-based Super Yamba Band ignites the hottest afro-funk dance parties in town, featuring the legendary Kaleta.
- [La Seca: Armando Guadalupe Cortés and M. Elijah Sueuga](https://massmoca.org/event/la-seca-armando-guadalupe-cortes-and-m-elijah-sueuga/) - February 3 & 4 | This collaborative performance by Manolis Elijah Sueuga and Armando Guadalupe Cortés converges on the artists' shared interest in geography, sound and sculpture.
- [Jack Ferver <span class="title-light">Is Global Warming Camp? and other forms of theatrical distance for the end of the world</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jack-ferver-is-global-warming-camp/) - September 8-10, 8pm | Writer, choreographer, and director Jack Ferver premieres their first full-length work in three years.
- [Shadow <span class="title-light"> Screening with Q&A</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/shadow-screening-with-qa/) - January 21 | Insert Copy Here
- [Free Day 2023](https://massmoca.org/event/free-day-2023/) - January 28 | Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s annual community celebration rocks the galleries with live music, pop-up performances, take-home art projects, and tons more!
- [Florencia Cuenca & Jaime Lozano: Broadway en Spanglish](https://massmoca.org/event/florencia-cuenca-jaime-lozano-broadway-en-spanglish/) - February 4 | Husband and wife duo Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca create Mexican musical magic on Broadway en Spanglish.
- [In Conversation: Marc Swanson, Maggie Nelson, Susannah Sayler, & Edward Morris](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-marc-swanson-maggie-nelson-susannah-sayler-edward-morris/) - March 6 | Marc Swanson in conversation with writer Maggie Nelson and artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris.
- [Ivy Sole](https://massmoca.org/event/ivy-sole/) - February 25 | Ivy Sole brings a rare hybrid of sultry and soulful R&B paired with undeniable hip-hop lyricism to MASS MoCA this February.
- [Distanced Together](https://massmoca.org/event/distanced-together/) - January 27 | Distanced Together, composed by MindTravel creator Murray Hidary, is an immersive musical experience intended to be a collective, cathartic and healing journey with the music acting as the soundtrack tracing the arc of the pandemic.
- [Ten Transcendental Etudes](https://massmoca.org/event/etudes-friday/) - March 1 & 2, 8pm | Bennington College Professor Nicholas Brooke and his creative collaborators present a work-in-progress that melds sampling, sound design, and physical theater.
- [Ravyn Lenae](https://massmoca.org/event/ravyn-lenae/) - April 28 | The one and only Ravyn Lenae brings her sultry-smooth sound to MASS MoCA for an intimate evening.
- [The Magnetic Fields — 69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary Tour](https://massmoca.org/event/69-love-songs-25th-anniversary/) - March 22 & 23, 2024 | The Magnetic Fields will perform 69 Love Songs in its entirety over the course of 2 nights, for the first time in two decades.
- [Brad Gooch: <em>Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/brad-gooch-radiant/) - August 16 | A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch (Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Hara).
- [Council: Gabriel Kahane & Pekka Kuusisto](https://massmoca.org/event/council/) - May 9 | The iconic Finnish musician and cult American singer-songwriter present an evening of intimate and sonically varied songs & chamber music.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-18/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34. Our May Open Studios is presented in conjunction with MASS MoCA’s 25th Anniversary Celebration. As always, free admission and open to all. Visit our news page
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-17/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34. Our May Open Studios is presented in conjunction with MASS MoCA’s 25th Anniversary Celebration. As always, free admission and open to all. Visit our news page
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-16/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34. Our May Open Studios is presented in conjunction with MASS MoCA’s 25th Anniversary Celebration. As always, free admission and open to all. Visit our news page
- [I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition By Lucy Sante](https://massmoca.org/event/lucy-sante/) - Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed. Stay tuned for future updates and announcements. An iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was. Lucy Sante felt at home
- [Marin Kosut: <em>Art Monster</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/marin-kosut-art-monster/) - August 22 | Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living working behind the scenes.
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Member Experience: <em>The Plastic Bag Store</em>](https://massmoca.org/event/members-plastic-bag-store/) - June 15 | Join MASS MoCA members for a performance of The Plastic Bag Store followed by an upcycled craft workshop to create functional twine from recycled plastic bags.
- [Summer Artist Workshops <br><span class="title-light">Assets for Artists</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/summer-workshops-a4a-2024/) - Summer 2024 | If you're a creative of any discipline and at any career stage in MA, CT or RI, check out the new workshops lineup.
- [<span class="title-light">Bang on a Can: </span> LOUD Weekend 2023](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-loud-weekend-2023/) - July 27–29 | Featuring the KRONOS Five Decades and Love in Exile, Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present the annual LOUD Weekend, a fully loaded eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental, and electronic music.
- [Slow Art Day](https://massmoca.org/event/slow-art-day/) - April 13 | Come celebrate International Slow Art Day and connect more deeply to what you see in our galleries.
- [Teen Invitational Reception](https://massmoca.org/event/teen-invitational-reception/) - April 12 | A collaboration with high school art teachers and students in the northern Berkshires; celebrate with us on opening night and see the extraordinary talent of our local teens.
- [Okwui Okpokwasili](https://massmoca.org/event/okwui-okpokwasili/) - Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow Dance Choreographer, writer, and actress Okwui Okpokwasili brings her kinesthetically powerful movement style to a site-specific dance that responds to Nick Cave’s major Building 5 exhibition Until. Seating in the gallery is limited for this intimate performance. This program is part of the Irene Hunter Fund for Dance at MASS MoCA
- [Richard Move <span class="title-light">XXYY</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/richard-move-xxyy/) - Co-presented with Jacob’s Pillow Dance The choreographer/dancer/director and TEDGlobal Oxford Fellow Richard Move will be in residence to develop XXYY, a new collaboration with theater artist Alba Clemente and an original score by Italian electronic music pioneer Martux_m. XXYY is a multi-sensorial, poetic, and otherworldly theatrical event exploring the chromosomal combinations that produce gender identity,
- [Bill T. Jones](https://massmoca.org/event/bill-t-jones/) - Co-presented with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Call and Response Conceived and performed by Bill T. Jones Assisted by Janet Wong Music composed and performed by Ted Coffey Sound Design by Sam Crawford Performing in Nick Cave’s expansive installation Until, the iconic choreographer will present a solo work created
- [Big Dance Theater <span class="title-light">17C<span class>](https://massmoca.org/event/big-dance-theater-2/) - Co-presented with Jacob's Pillow Dance Obie Award-winning maverick ensemble Big Dance Theater takes a dizzying intertextual spin through the outré diaries of Samuel Pepys, a famed 17th-century socialite, weaving music, dance, video, and text into this sneak preview performance. Read NYFA's interview with creator, choreographer, and director Annie-B Parson about 17C, which will premiere next
- [Mateo López, Lee Serle & Maya Zbib](https://massmoca.org/event/lee-serle/) - Co-presented with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Australian choreographer Lee Serle, Colombian visual artist Mateo López, and Lebanese theater director Maya Zbib all come together for a hands-on theater-and-sculpture piece that explores consumerism and individualism in America today. What to Expect General admission seating in our premier venue, the Hunter Center. Beer, wine, and spirits at the
- [Ian Berg <br> Subject:Matter <span class="title-light">Co-Presented by Jacob's Pillow</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ian-berg/) - Expect live music and high-flying hoofing at this work-in-progress performance as Boston-based choreographer Ian Berg examines the intersections of tap and jazz, specifically how standards — like “Take the A Train” in jazz and “The Shim Sham” in tap — work to maintain our collective memory. Join us after the show for a Q&A with
- [Vuyani Dance Theatre <span class="title-light">Cion: Requiem of Ravel's Boléro</span> <span class="title-light">Co-Presented with Jacob's Pillow</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/vuyani-dance-theatre/) - Gregory Maqoma, the South African choreographer of William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load, returns with Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro. The work weaves a narrative of greed, power, and the pain of mourning with a moving live score interrogating Ravel’s music through South African vocal traditions.  Make a Plan Seating is general admission
- [Katie Workum and Kimberly Bartosik](https://massmoca.org/event/katie-workum-and-kimberly-bartosik/) - Co-Presented with Jacob's Pillow Dance Two rising stars make their MASS MoCA debuts in this evening of dynamic and innovative contemporary dance. The “serious and ambitious” (The New York Times) Katie Workum brings her new piece Black Lakes, a work full of improvisation, risk, and humor. The second half of the program features Bessie Award-winner
- [Joseph Grigely: Guided Tour & Artist Talk](https://massmoca.org/event/acknowledgments-artist-talk/) - March 30 | A celebration of the community who helped stage Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? Concludes with a Grigely catalogue launch in the R&D Store with the artist.
- [ANTONIO SANCHEZ “BIRDMAN LIVE” 10th Anniversary](https://massmoca.org/event/birdman-live/) - April 6 | Experience the explosive BIRDMAN film, accompanied live by composer Antonio Sanchez with his Grammy Award-winning score.
- [Andre Dubus III: Ghost Dogs <span class="title-light">Co-Presented at the North Adams Public Library</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/andre-dubus-iii-ghost-dogs-co-presented-at-the-north-adams-public-library/) - March 21 | In a co-presented event at the North Adams Public Library, the best-selling author reflects on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments.
- [Deaf Experience Tours](https://massmoca.org/event/deaf-experience-tours/) - Second Saturdays | Public tours of Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996-2023) in ASL and English.
- [Deaf Experience Tours](https://massmoca.org/event/deaf-experience-tours-2/) - Deaf Experience tour guides and ASL interpreters will be present most Saturdays between 11am–3pm in Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996-2023) during the run of the exhibition. To confirm the weekly schedule, please contact us at groups@massmoca.org for more information.
- [Chris Doyle: The Coast of Industry Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/chris-doyle-the-coast-of-industry-2/)
- [Carly Glovinski:<em> Almanac</em> Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/carly-glovinski-almanac-opens/)
- [Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)](https://massmoca.org/event/day-of-the-dead/) - November 2 | An afternoon of joyful celebration and remembrance of friends, pets, and family members past.
- [Daymé Arocena](https://massmoca.org/event/dayme-arocena/) - March 9 | Afro-Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena brings her powerhouse vocal performance to MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center.
- [[POSTPONED] Curator Tour](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour/) - March 9 | MASS MoCA members are invited to join curatorial fellow Jess Chen for a personalized tour of Eluding Capture.
- [In Conversation: Like Magic](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-like-magic/) - October 29 | A conversation with artists from Like Magic and exhibition curator Alexandra Foradas, moderated by MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds.
- [The Plastic Bag Store Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/the-plastic-bag-store-opens/)
- [Member Appreciation Month](https://massmoca.org/event/member-appreciation-month/) - March | For the entire month of March, MASS MoCA is celebrating our members! We look forward to thanking you all month long with discounts, special events, and more.
- [Member Appreciation Month](https://massmoca.org/event/member-appreciation-month-2023/) - March | For the entire month of March, MASS MoCA is celebrating our members! We look forward to thanking you all month long with discounts, special events, and more.
- [Johanna Hedva: Your Love Is Not Good](https://massmoca.org/event/johanna-hedva-your-love-is-not-good/) - February 23 | Like Magic artist Johanna Hedva joins MASS MoCA Curator Alexandra Foradas in the Research & Development Store for a reading and discussion.
- [Johanna Hedva in Concert](https://massmoca.org/event/johanna-hedva-in-concert/) - February 24 | Like Magic artist Johanna Hedva will debut songs from their upcoming, in-progress album, Fist.
- [Like Magic: Screening Series](https://massmoca.org/event/like-magic-screening-series/) - March 2 | Screenings of short videos by artists & filmmakers addressing technologies of magic — including devices, charms, rituals, and spells.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-15/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence! Each event will take place from 5-7PM in Building 13 + Building 34. As always, free admission and open to all. Visit our news page to learn more about the current Studios cohort.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-14/) - Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence! Each event will take place from 5-7PM in Building 13 + Building 34. As always, free admission and open to all. Visit our news page to learn more about the current Studios cohort.
- [Camp MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA 2023](https://massmoca.org/event/camp-mass-moca-2023/) - MASS MoCA Member Early Registration: March 15, 3pm Members get 10% off Camp MASS MoCA. Not yet a member? Become one here. Registration Opens to All: March 22, 12pm Young people entering grades 2-6 are invited to Camp MASS MoCA. Participants explore the expansive campus and world-class art exhibitions and create original works of their
- [The Workers](https://massmoca.org/event/the-workers/) - We all know what Rosie the Riveter looked like, and what she stood for. Ford-era production line labor—and the rise of powerful unions—left us indelible portraits of work in mid-20th-century America. Before that, Dickens created searing portraits of labor in the proto-industrial era, as Millet and his followers recorded a vivid picture of agrarian labor
- [FIREBIRD](https://massmoca.org/event/firebird-viewing/) - January 26–29| A rule-breaking concert program and an extra-terrestrial installation in one whose orchestra of light must be experienced to be believed.
- [EJ Hill: Break Run Helix Closes](https://massmoca.org/event/ej-hill-break-run-helix-closes/)
- [Akoma: Jlin and Florence To](https://massmoca.org/event/akoma-jlin-and-florence-to/) - February 18 | Experimental electronic composer Jlin brings complex, percussion-driven rhythms to MASS MoCA this February.
- [Curator Tour](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tours-2/) - January 13 | MASS MoCA members are invited to join Chief Curator Denise Markonish for a personalized tour of recent exhibitions.
- [Free Day 2024](https://massmoca.org/event/free-day-2024/) - January 27 | Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s annual community celebration rocks the galleries with pop-up performances, art-making in Kidspace, and tons more.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-13/) - January 25 | Get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation. Free admission and open to all!
- [Ten Transcendental Etudes](https://massmoca.org/event/etudes-saturday/) - March 1 | Bennington College Professor Nicholas Brooke and his creative collaborators present a work in progress that melds sampling, sound design, and physical theater.
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA After Hours: <br><span class="title-light"> Celebration of EJ Hill: <em>Brake Run Helix</em> </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-after-hours-brake-run-helix/) - January 13| The fourth and final installment of "MASS MoCA After Hours," a series of evening community events with programming hosted in EJ Hill: Brake Run Helix.
- [Zainab Johnson](https://massmoca.org/event/zainab-johnson/) - January 13 | Stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Zainab Johnson takes to the Club B10 stage for a memorable night of comedy based on her unique point-of-view.
- [Anne Samat: Love](https://massmoca.org/event/anne-samat-love/) - June 24 | Artist Anne Samat mixes traditional Southeast Asian Pua Kumbu weavings with household goods to create totems of devotion in her solo Kidspace exhibition Love.
- [Daniel Giordano <span class="title-light"> Love from Vicki Island</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/daniel-giordano-love-from-vicki-island/) - On view beginning February 4 | Daniel Giordano’s sculptures combine found objects with ceramic and cast aluminum, transforming familiar elements into what he considers portraits of his family and hometown.
- [Free Admission for Berkshire County <span class="title-light">December 6-23<span>](https://massmoca.org/event/free-berkshire-county-4/) - MASS MoCA celebrates the Berkshires this holiday season offering FREE admission to all Berkshire County residents from Friday, December 6, through Monday, December 23. While you're in North Adams, visit downtown and across the MASS MoCA campus for holiday shopping, including Bright Ideas Brewing, ROAM: A XTina Parks Gallery, the MASS MoCA Store, Cynthia-Reeves, Ferrin Contemporary, The Artist
- [Troker + El automóvil gris](https://massmoca.org/event/troker-el-automovil-gris/) - November 11 | Mexican jazz and psychedelic music group Troker performs a live accompaniment to a MASS MoCA presentation of El automóvil gris (The Gray Car, 1919).
- [Happy New Year from Vicki Island](https://massmoca.org/event/happy-new-year-from-vicki-island/) - December 30 | As we prepare to say farewell to Daniel Giordano's exhibition and ring in the new year, join us for two events with the artist on December 30.
- [<em>Eluding Capture </em>Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/eluding-capture-opens/)
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-9/) - August 3 | Experience the work of Assets for Artists’ current artists-in-residence at MASS MoCA. As always, free admission and open to all.
- [Jarvis Rockwell <span class="title-light"> Us</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jarvis-rockwell-us/) - Jarvis Rockwell's collection will “walk” over to nearby Hotel Downstreet to be displayed soon; more information to come. Artist Jarvis Rockwell’s massive 2002 installation Maya introduced MASS MoCA visitors to Rockwell, whose detailed wall-drawing continues to delight museum-goers and concert audiences just outside of the museum’s Club B-10. Rockwell returns to MASS MoCA with a
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA From Home](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-from-home/) - Explore all (virtual) things MASS MoCA
- [Plan Your Visit](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-is-open-2/)
- [Lee Boroson <span class="title-light">Plastic Fantastic</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/lee-borosonplastic-fantastic/) - Lee Boroson’s work begins with ideas of nature, which he mediates between the landscape as culture as opposed to notions of the outdoors as “wild” or “untamed.” To achieve this goal, Boroson creates large-scale immersive installations using inflatables, fabric, and light to create phenomenological experiences for his viewers, based on the elemental forces in nature,
- [Natalie Jeremijenko: <span class="title-light">Tree Logic</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/natalie-jeremijenko/) - Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist-experimenter. Her projects and those with an artists' collective called the Bureau of Inverse Technology consist of creating devices and situations to gather and document overlooked facts. These data sets—and the means by which they were accumulated—range from the Despondency Index (for which the Bureau installed a motion detector camera on the Bay
- [WonderWorlds <span class="title-light">observations in pipe cleaners and pom-poms</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/wonderworlds/) - In fall 2004, Boston-based artist Linda Price-Sneddon created WonderWorlds, a fantastical installation, filling the entire Kidspace gallery. Its thematic focus on systems, both natural and human-made, suggested how careful observation expands our awareness and understanding of the many ecosystems to which we belong. The transformation of simple craft materials — pom-poms, string, colored tape, and
- [Walter Fähndrich: <span class="title-light">Music for a Quarry</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/walter-fahndrich-music-for-a-quarry-2/) - In Music for a Quarry by Walter Fähndrich, clear tones call across the natural amphitheater of the Hoosac Marble Quarry from ten speakers, equally spaced along its circumference, for fifteen minutes of twilight every evening. Working with the latitude and longitude of the quarry, a computer program begins the music at the same solar time
- [Jason Moran & The Bandwagon](https://massmoca.org/event/jason-moran-the-bandwagon/) - November 17 | Prodigy pianist and composer Jason Moran & his trailblazing trio The Bandwagon play MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center.
- [M.R. O’Connor: Ignition](https://massmoca.org/event/m-r-oconnor-ignition/) - October 19 | A co-sponsored event with the Council on the Uncertain Human Future for the book launch of M.R. O’Connor’s new book on the powerful phenomenon of wildfire.
- [Winter/Spring Artist Workshops <br><span class="title-light">Assets for Artists</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/winter-spring-artist-workshops-assets-for-artists/) - January — May | New year, new skills! Our Assets for Artists program has a brand new season of online and in-person professional development workshops.
- [FreshGrass | North Adams 2023](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-2023/) - September 22–24, 2023 | FreshGrass | North Adams will feature Dropkick Murphys Acoustic, Lukas Nelson + POTR, Sierra Ferrell, Rhiannon Giddens, The Devil Makes Three and so many more!
- [Solid Sound 2024 Lodging](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2024-lodging/) - Where to Stay for Solid Sound: Learn more & reserve a Berkshire Towers dorm room here. Learn more & reserve a Solid Ground tent site here. Learn more & reserve a Camp Aggie tent or RV site here. Berkshire Towers: MASS MoCA and MCLA provide festival lodging on the college campus, located within walking distance
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-12/) - November 2 | See the most contemporary art we have on view — works-in-progress by our amazing artists-in-residence!
- [LOOK UP](https://massmoca.org/event/look-up/) - November 3 | Lorelei Ensemble brings radiant sound and spectacular virtuosity to MASS MoCA, under the direction of founder and artistic director Beth Willer.
- [Carrie Schneider <span class="title-light"> Sphinx </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/carrie-schneider-sphinx/) - On view beginning March 11| Artist Carrie Schneider presents a suite of new works at MASS MoCA, including three new series of photographs, a 16mm film, and a photographic “pandemic diary” composed of 105 unique works.
- [Solid Sound 2024 Lodging: Camp Aggie (Tents & RVs)](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-camp-aggie-2024/) - Camp Aggie in Adams, MA is available for tent camping and RVs during Solid Sound. Camp Aggie is located 4 miles from the festival and museum. Free and frequent shuttle service will be provided to/from all campsites for the duration of the festival. Camp Aggie 3-night tent camping $179 Tent Plot Camp Aggie camping plots
- [Solid Sound 2024 Lodging: Berkshire Towers](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-berkshire-towers-2024/) - MASS MoCA and MCLA provide festival lodging on the college campus, located within walking distance to the Solid Sound Festival and convenient to downtown merchants, bars, and restaurants. Accommodations include double and single rooms in Berkshire Towers. PURCHASE DORM ROOM LODGING HERE MCLA Dorms: Berkshire Towers 3-night stay $699 per Double Room $499 per Single
- [Solid Sound 2024 Lodging: Solid Ground (Tent Camping)](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-ground-2024/) - MASS MoCA teams up with the City of North Adams to provide SolidGround — a field for tent camping within easy walking distance from Solid Sound and convenient to downtown merchants, bars, and restaurants. This is a basic, open-field tent site with concession food service, porta-potties, and drinking water. A self-monitored, donation-based cell phone charging
- [CHINWAG Podcast Taping](https://massmoca.org/event/chinwag/) - October 14 | Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma’s freewheeling conversation dives deep (like, really, really deep) into the wilderness of the mind.
- [Like Magic Opens](https://massmoca.org/event/like-magic-opens/)
- [John Kelly <span class="title-light">Time No Line</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/john-kelly-time-no-line/) - John Kelly, a theater artist of rare emotional depth, presents a solo work-in-progress based on personal journal entries about the East Village of the 1980s, gender performance, the culture wars, queer history, and more that incorporates movement, projections, song, and spoken word. What to expect This event will be “up in the club” with rows of seats on the floor.
- [Post Tree](https://massmoca.org/event/post-tree/) - With Carolyn Schoerner & James Hoff in Collaboration with Sarah Crowner In conjunction with the exhibition Beetle in the Leaves, dancer and choreographer Carolyn Schoerner and artist and musician James Hoff have collaborated on a performance that uses Sarah Crowner’s works as both stage and backdrop. Using classical ballet techniques, Schoerner will perform repeated patterns that reflect those of
- [Benjamin Clementine](https://massmoca.org/event/benjamin-clementine/) - Clementine’s metier is torch songs, most of which tend to follow the same pattern — an opening of piano chords that ebbs and flows with Clementine gliding over the top before launching into a full-throated outburst of emotion... his technique is pretty rough and ready, lacking in technique and range but bursting with character, his
- [Members' Opening Reception<br>Nick Cave<span class="title-light">Until</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/members-opening-reception-nick-cave-until/) - Saturday, October 15, 5:30–7pm RSVP to 413.664.4481 x8112 or cweber@massmoca.org Come see artist Nick Cave as you have never seen him before when he transforms MASS MoCA’s Building 5 gallery into an immersive installation akin to entering the belly of one of his signature Soundsuits. Through exuberant, politically charged materials, Cave probes issues relating to gun violence, race, and gender inequality.
- [Free on the 10s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-10s/) - MASS MoCA is free for 01247 residents
- [Suite for the Summer Rain / Dance of the Yellow Leaf](https://massmoca.org/event/suite-for-the-summer-rain-dance-of-the-yellow-leaf/) - Music by Peter Salett Live Drawing by Michael Arthur Film composer/singer-songwriter Peter Salett, a “downtown folk legend” (Time Out NY) who has opened for the likes of The Swell Season and They Might Be Giants, performs this wistful song cycle backed by a full band and accompanied by artist Michael Arthur’s evocative, improvised ink illustrations, which unfurl alongside the music.
- [<span class="title-light">High Mud Comedy Fest Presents</span>Tim Dillon](https://massmoca.org/event/tim-dillon/) - "I was a child actor. I started doing coke at 12. My mother's a schizophrenic. I was a closeted homosexual. I'm politically all over the map, though I lean conservative. I was in the mortgage industry. I idolize hucksters, thieves, cons, and cheats. My dream is to be a traveling salesman through America. And if
- [FreshGround 2016 <span class="lowercase">and</span> <br>Camp Aggie](https://massmoca.org/event/freshground-2016/) - FreshGround is a tent-camping field within easy walking distance (.7 miles; 12 minutes) of the FreshGrass bluegrass festival, convenient to downtown merchants, bars, and restaurants. A shuttle bus runs continuously to the festival. Camp Aggie for RV camping is located 4 miles down the road from the festival. Shuttle buses run to the festival every 20-30 minutes. FreshGround 2-night Tent
- [FreshGrass Festival 2016](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass/) - An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming with bright talent on four stages, and also in our galleries, brick-lined courtyards, and grassy field, produced in partnership by MASS MoCA, the FreshGrass Foundation, and No Depression. Single Day Tickets On Sale Now BUY 3-DAY FESTIVAL PASS $99 3-DAY
- [Free North Adams](https://massmoca.org/event/free-north-adams/) - MASS MoCA is free for 01247 residents
- [Everton Blender](https://massmoca.org/event/everton-blender/) - Spend one last summer night at MASS MoCA with the cool, steady, and easy grooves of reggae legend Everton Blender, whose perfect combination of classic roots and dance-hall rhythm make him a powerful presence in the world of Jamaican music. What to Expect When the weather holds, this event will be outside. You may order
- [Opening Reception & Member Preview](https://massmoca.org/event/member-preview-like-magic/) - October 28 | Celebrate MASS MoCA’s newest exhibition, Like Magic, at an exclusive member preview.
- [MICHELLE](https://massmoca.org/event/michelle/) - October 28 | Dance a euphoric future into being through the power of MICHELLE's melodies as they blend unique perspectives & backgrounds into one cohesive celebration.
- [Talk & Create with Bruno Miguel](https://massmoca.org/event/talk-create-bruno-miguel/) - March 25 | Stop by this family-friendly event to hear from the artist Bruno Miguel as he walks us through his work on view in Kidspace's Defining Moments.
- [The Old Man and the Sea](https://massmoca.org/event/the-old-man-and-the-sea/) - March 25 | The Old Man and the Sea is an opera by Paola Prestini, Royce Vavrek, and Karmina Šilec that presents a dual track of storytelling by combining Hemmingway's classic tale with original portraits of quotidian life to create a look at aging, legacy, and our relationship to oceans.
- [Curator Conversation: How to Make It in the Art World](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-conversation-how-to-make-it-in-the-art-world/) - April 1 | Join MASS MoCA and Oolite Arts for a conversation with Curator and CO-founder of ARTNOIR Larry Ossei-Mensah.
- [11th Annual Teen Invitational](https://massmoca.org/event/11th-annual-teen-invitational/) - April 14 | MASS MoCA’s 11th annual Teen Invitational brings the work of local students and art instructors to the public for one long weekend—and one fun party!
- [International Slow Art Day](https://massmoca.org/event/international-slow-art-day-3/) - April 15 | Come celebrate International Slow Art Day at MASS MoCA with an afternoon of programs dedicated to connecting you more deeply to what you see in our galleries.
- [Urban Bush Women: Haint Blu <span class="title-light">  Co-presented by Jacob’s Pillow & Williams College</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/urban-bush-women/) - April 22 | After two years in development at residencies in Miami, Martha's Vineyard, North Adams, and New Orleans, UBW brings its newest work to MASS MoCA for a site-specific performance in the galleries.
- [Rhythm Is Life <span class="title-light">Dormeshia Tap Collective </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/dormeshia/) - April 8 | Joined by a smoking hot jazz trio and an ensemble of fellow hoofers, tap queen Dormeshia brings her critically acclaimed, classic-style tap concert to North Adams for an evening of thrilling percussive dance and music co-presented by Jacob’s Pillow.
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA After Hours](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-after-hours-3/) - May 11 | In May, MASS MoCA After Hours will feature live music from Berkshire fave Misty Blues! Admission is free for members; $5 for Berkshire County residents.
- [Side By Side <span class="title-light"> by Maggie Crane](https://massmoca.org/event/side-by-side-by-maggie-crane/) - May 13 | Berkshires-born comedian Maggie Crane tackles disability, death, and Dunkin Donuts in her darkly hilarious solo show at MASS MoCA.
- [Phony Ppl](https://massmoca.org/event/phony-ppl/) - May 27 | Phony Ppl rings in our summer season with their signature genre-bending blend of hip-hop, jazz, R&B, reggae, soul, and rock. Get ready to party.
- [<span class="title-light">Bang on a Can </span>Gallery Concerts](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-gallery-concerts-2/) - July 12 – July 27 | Free with museum admission, Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose in the galleries. Join us for new music performed on most weekdays at 1:30pm and 4:30pm.
- [Reading: Carmen Maria Machado and Carrie Schneider](https://massmoca.org/event/reading-carmen-maria-machado-and-carrie-schneider/) - On the occasion of Carrie Schneider's current MASS MoCA exhibition Sphinx, author Carmen Maria Machado will read the text she wrote for the catalog of the same name (forthcoming from Hassla and MASS MoCA). Carmen will also read an excerpt from her collection Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press 2017). After the reading, join
- [Member Sip & Shop](https://massmoca.org/event/member-sip-shop/) - July 26 | Members are invited to enjoy an exclusive preview of MASS MoCA's new Research & Development Store.
- [Isaac Fitzgerald: <span class="title-light">Dirtbag, Massachusetts</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/isaac-fitzgerald-dirtbag-massachusetts/) - Tonight's event has reached capacity; we anticipate additional spots will be available at the door. We encourage you to join the wait list in person before the start of the event. Winner of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association 2023 Book of the Year Award (Nonfiction) Join us for a reading and conversation in the
- [Kerri Schlottman: <span class="title-light">Tell Me One Thing</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/kerri-schlottman-tell-me-one-thing/) - August 10 | Author Kerri Schlottman discusses her recent novel, Tell Me One Thing, in which an artist re-encounters the long-lost subject of her photograph years later.
- [Donna Kozloskie & Ben Sisario: 33 1/3](https://massmoca.org/event/donna-kozloskie-ben-sisario-33-1-3/) - August 26 | Donna Kozlosie & Ben Sisario join MASS MoCA for a lively reading, discussion & book signing.
- [Marika Maijala: Artist Talk & Demo with Gary Lichtenstein Editions](https://massmoca.org/event/marika-maijala/) - September 28 | Join Marika Maijala at the MASS MoCA R&D Store for an artist talk, Rosie Runs book launch & hands-on silkscreen “pull” with Gary Lichtenstein Editions.
- [Holly Lynton: <span class="title-light">Bare Handed</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/holly-lynton-bare-handed/) - August 31 |
- [The Chalet 2023](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2023/2023-06-29/) - Thursdays, June 29 – August 31 | There’s nothing like summer nights at The Chalet, our sculpture-turned-beer-garden. For one night each week, enjoy local music and drinks by the riverside!
- [North Adams Public Schools (NAPS) Family Night](https://massmoca.org/event/naps-family-night/) - October 12 | North Adams Public School students and their families are invited to Family Night at MASS MoCA.
- [The Research & Development Store](https://massmoca.org/event/the-research-development-store/) - July 27 – July 30 | Join us for a soft opening of MASS MoCA’s brand new Research and Development Store with a week’s worth of giveaways, author signings, meet-and-greets, and more.
- [Public Tours](https://massmoca.org/event/public-tours/) - Check back soon for information about public tours. Gallery guides are available for most exhibitions. Have questions during your visit? See one of our museum attendants.
- [Shaun Leonardo <span class="title-light">You walk...</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/shaun-leonardo/) - You walk... is an interactive installation by Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist Shaun Leonardo. Translating his performance practice into a participatory installation, Leonardo offers a series of visual and textual prompts — drawing from themes present in exhibitions on view throughout the museum — to invite us to consider how we process and embody space, ideas, and
- [Marko Remec <span class="title-light">Would That I Wish For (Tall Totem)</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/marko-remec-would-that-i-wish-for-tall-totem/) - Artist Marko Remec often creates visual puns that conflate conventional art forms with current events, often involving tricks of the eye, forced perspective, and other formal sleights of hand. In the series of work that includes Would That I Wish For, the artist adheres ready-made objects such as mops, brooms, safety mirrors, and rear-view mirrors
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-8/) - September 14 | Experience the work of Assets for Artists’ current artists-in-residence at MASS MoCA. As always, free admission and open to all.
- [In Conversation: Carrie Schneider & Laura Mulvey](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-carrie-schneider-laura-mulvey-september/) - September 14 | Influential feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey discusses her new book and its intersections with artist Carrie Schneider's work.
- [Walk with Amal: Musical Mystical Tour](https://massmoca.org/event/little-amal/) - September 10 | 12 foot puppet Little Amal visits MASS MoCA on her U.S. tour.
- [Joseph Beuys <span class="title-light">Lightning with Stag in Its Glare</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/joseph-beuys-lightning-with-stag-in-its-glare/) - The work of mid 20th-century European sculptor Joseph Beuys is grounded in a tradition of narrative sources often absent in American art of the same period. The historic symbolism of Northern Europe, Christianity, and an invocation of the spiritual power of animals and nature course throughout Beuys' diverse activities, from performances and lectures to sculptures
- [CAMINA CON AMAL: TOUR MÍSTICO MUSICAL](https://massmoca.org/event/camina-con-amal-tour-mistico-musical/) - Todos están invitados para darle la bienvenida a la Little Amal (la Pequeña Amal) en North Adams. Amal – que significa “esperanza” en árabe – es una marioneta de 12 pies de altura de una niña refugiada siria de 10 años de edad y celebrada internacionalmente. Desde el año 2021, se han organizado más de
- [Wendy Red Star <span class="title-light">Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/wendy-red-star/) - Multi-media artist Wendy Red Star, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) tribe, offers accounts of American history that rectify the frequently flawed narratives about Native people. An avid researcher, Red Star re-examines cultural artifacts and primary source historic imagery, and uses them as the foundation for her beautifully annotated photographs and installations. The Children of
- [Glenn Kaino <span class="title-light">In the Light of a Shadow</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/glenn-kaino-in-the-light-of-a-shadow/) - Glenn Kaino: In the Light of a Shadow is inspired by the connection between protests across the globe, specifically those in response to the tragic events known as “Bloody Sunday” from Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland. The exhibition spans the entirety of MASS MoCA’s signature football-field sized Building 5 gallery with an immersive installation
- [Close to You](https://massmoca.org/event/close-to-you/) - Kinship is a feeling of intimacy. A nurturing and restorative force, it suffuses the experience of closeness with senses of belonging and of refuge, sustaining us as we move through the world. At its best, kinship is a form of care that enables renewal. Close to You gathers the work of six artists who probe
- [James Turrell, Nicholas Mosse, and William Burke <br> <span class="title-light">Lapsed Quaker Ware</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/james-turrell-and-nicholas-mosse-lapsed-quaker-ware/) - This series of black basalt tableware is a collaboration between James Turrell and Irish potter Nicholas Mosse of Kilkenny, Ireland. The pottery was inspired by the work of the innovative English potter, Josiah Wedgwood, who made very decorative black basalt ware for the general English market in the 18th century, and also created a simpler
- [Ceramics in the Expanded Field](https://massmoca.org/event/ceramics-in-the-expanded-field/) - On view now | Ceramics in the Expanded Field brings together a group of eight artists who are changing the way we think of clay. Their ambitious works integrate ceramics—a medium long siloed and marginalized—with disciplines ranging from photography and video to painting and performance. While they push ceramics beyond its traditional functional forms, these artists simultaneously connect their
- [Lady Pink](https://massmoca.org/event/lady-pink/) - Lady Pink and Jenny Holzer reunite for a new project on view beginning July 30, 2022. Lady Pink's large-scale graffiti mural is realized atop Holzer’s posters.
- [Patrick Sansone: <span class="title-light">Noticings: Walls | Windows | Words</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/patrick-sansone-noticings-walls-windows-words/) - As the pandemic entered our lives, Patrick Sansone (Wilco) found himself returning to film photography after a pause from the practice of almost 9 years.
- [Lily Cox-Richard <span class="title-light">Weep Holes</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/lily-cox-richard-weep-holes/) - On view now | Weep Holes addresses ideas of stewardship, beauty, and threat, collective action, and building and dismantling.
- [Choreopolitics <span class="title-light">Brendan Fernandes & nibia pastrana santiago</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/choreopolitics/) - Choreopolitics juxtaposes the work of multidisciplinary artists Brendan Fernandes and nibia pastrana santiago, who use dance to resist, heal, and connect. Both previously trained in ballet, yet now they invert the style's demands for spectacle, grace, and the illusion of ease. Fernandes reshapes and expands ballet through classical technique and experimental movement that challenge social
- [Amy Hauft <span class="title-light">700,000:1 |  Terra + Luna + Sol</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/amy-hauft/) - On view through January 2023 | Amy Hauft creates installations that reorient our experience of the landscape and of planetary living
- [Marc Swanson <span class="title-light">A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/marc-swanson-a-memorial-to-ice-at-the-dead-deer-disco/) - A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco is Marc Swanson's most ambitious installation to date.
- [Alvvays](https://massmoca.org/event/alvvays/) - September 2 | Canadian indie pop band alvvays plays MASS MoCA.
- [Danielle Ponder](https://massmoca.org/event/danielle-ponder/) - August 18 | Danielle Ponder brings her shiver-inducing mix of pop, R&B, blues, rock, and moody trip-hop to North Adams for a celestial sonic experience.
- [SOLD OUT - Pixies & Modest Mouse <span class="title-light">with special guest Cat Power</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/pixies-modest-mouse-with-special-guest-cat-power/) - August 26 | Alt-rockers (and Massachusetts natives) Pixies join forces with Modest Mouse for an epic sundown show on August 26, with support from indie innovator Cat Power.
- [Curator Tours](https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tours/) - Join Senior Curator, Susan Cross, for a patron program exclusive tour of her recent exhibitions. Attendees can expect intimate conversation and insights while exploring the vast works at MASS MoCA. Space is limited and RSVP is required. Event is exclusive to patron program members and can only be redeemed if membership is active at the
- [The Chalet 2023](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2023-august-24/) - Our summer fun spot promises frothy beverages, riverside regulars, and friendly new faces when we fire up The Chalet, Oh, Canada artist Dean Baldwin’s sculpture-turned-riverside-beer-garden for just one night each week. Summer’s most precious memories happen here — in the midst of the museum, to the hum of local music, under the Berkshire stars. Check
- [Roomful of Teeth, Pamela Z & The Living Earth Show: <span class="title-light"> This Impossible Building </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/roomful-of-teeth-pamela-z-this-living-earth-show-the-impossible-building/) - ??? | Grammy-winning vocal titans Roomful of Teeth return to their summer home for a weeklong residency culminating in a knock-out, virtuosic performance.
- [Xtina Parks: ROAM](https://massmoca.org/event/xtina-parks-roam/) - August 17 | A conversation & book signing of fine art photographer Xtina Parks' new book, ROAM in the MASS MoCA Research and Development Store.
- [Joe Wardwell <span class="title-light">Hello America: 40 Hits from the 50 States</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/joe-wardwell-hello-america/) - Boston-based artist Joe Wardwell’s Hello America: 40 Hits from the 50 States, a new wall drawing for MASS MoCA, takes inspiration from J.G. Ballard’s 1981 novel Hello America. The book begins after an energy crisis in the late 20th century that leaves America all but abandoned. A century later a group of European explorers finds
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-11/) - November 30 | See the most contemporary art we have on view — works-in-progress by our amazing artists-in-residence!
- [Fall Artist Workshops <br><span class="title-light">Assets for Artists</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/fall-artist-workshops-assets-for-artists/) - Free financial & business training for MA, RI & CT artists
- [SOLD OUT - Ilana Glazer Live!](https://massmoca.org/event/ilana-glazer-live/) - August 5 | One half of the dynamic duo behind cult show Broad City, comedian, writer, and actress Ilana Glazer takes the stage for a night of quick wit and big laughs.
- [BLKBOK](https://massmoca.org/event/blkbok/) - July 15 | Prodigious pianist BLKBOK – who has shared stages with Justin Timberlake and Rihanna – weaves solo compositions with spoken word/poetry in this intimate concert
- [Yto Barrada <span class="title-light">Ways to Baffle the Wind</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/yto-barrada-ways-to-baffle-the-wind/) - Ways to Baffle the Wind features new and recent work by French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada and includes sculpture, textile, films, and games.
- [Member Preview: <span class="title-light">Anne Samat: Love</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/member-preview-anne-samat-love/) - June 23 | Join us and artist Anne Samat for a preview of her new Kidspace exhibition. Bring the family for ArtBar activities and a small reception!
- [Defining Moments](https://massmoca.org/event/defining-moments/) - On view beginning June 26 | A Kidspace exhibition featuring Shaun Leonardo and Bruno Miguel exploring how memories are formed, recalled, and visualized.
- [Raiche with Jasmine Janai <span class="title-light"> presented by the Berkshire Black Economic Council](https://massmoca.org/event/raiche-presented-by-the-berkshire-black-economic-council/) - June 17 | Celebrate Juneteenth weekend with a fair from The Berkshire Black Economic Council (BBEC) and a homecoming performance by Berkshire-born songwriter Raiche.
- [CARE SYLLABUS](https://massmoca.org/event/care-syllabus/) - A justice-oriented public education and community resource
- [The Celestials](https://massmoca.org/event/the-celestials/) - June 8 | Inspired by the history of Chinese laborers in North Adams, this new play from director Peter Glazer explores immigration and community through a local lens.
- [Rina Sawayama <span class="title-light">Hold The Girl Tour: Reloaded with Isabel LaRosa</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/rina-sawayama/) - June 9 | Pop star and actress Rina Sawayama – who stars opposite Keanu Reeves in the new John Wick 4 – brings her dazzling live show to North Adams. Don’t miss this one.
- [Member Preview & Celebration: <span class="title-light">Joseph Grigely, Daniel Giordano, Carrie Schneider, & to see oneself at a distance </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/member-preview-celebration-2023/) - May 27 | Join us for an exclusive member preview of Joseph Grigely: In What Way Wham?, and a celebration of three other recently opened exhibitions.
- [Blueberry Surprise](https://massmoca.org/event/blueberry-surprise/) - Audio performance of Blueberry Surprise: A Play for Three Voices at the Serpentine, London, September 22, 2017 Running time: 38 minutes 6 seconds Courtesy of the artist, Krakow Witkin, Boston, MA, and Air de Paris, Romainville, France This work contains some adult language. 
- [Yto Barrada <span class="title-light">Ways to Baffle the Wind</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/yto-barrada-ways-to-baffle-the-wind-2/)
- [Accessibility Features](https://massmoca.org/event/accessibility-features/)
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-5/) - April 27 | Experience the work of Assets for Artists’ current artists-in-residence at MASS MoCA. As always, free admission and open to all.
- [Camp MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA 2023](https://massmoca.org/event/camp-mass-moca-2023-2/)
- [Summer Artist Workshops <br><span class="title-light">Assets for Artists</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/summer-artist-workshops-assets-for-artists/) - MASS MoCA's Assets for Artists program hosts free workshops for artists, writers & musicians in CT, MA, & RI.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-10/) - July 6 | Experience the work of Assets for Artists’ current artists-in-residence at MASS MoCA. As always, free admission and open to all.
- [Thanks for signing up for a reminder!](https://massmoca.org/event/thanks-for-signing-up-for-a-reminder/) - We'll send a reminder straight to your inbox when tickets go on sale for the concert you clicked on! Rina Sawayama Friday, June 9, 7pm Artist Pre-sale: Wednesday, March 29, 10am–10pm MASS MoCA Member Pre-sale: Thursday, March 30, 10am–10pm General On-Sale: Friday, March 31, 10am Learn more about the show here. Pixies & Modest Mouse
- [Modest Mouse VIP Experience](https://massmoca.org/event/modest-mouse-vip-experience/) - Modest Mouse VIP Experience Includes: One GA ticket to Modest Mouse and Pixies One pre-show performance with Modest Mouse One pre-show Q&A with Modest Mouse Three limited edition Modest Mouse merch items, designed exclusively for VIP customers One exclusive Modest Mouse VIP laminate and lanyard Early entry into the venue Please note, the pre-show event
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA After Hours](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-after-hours/) - April 13 | In April, MASS MoCA After Hours will feature soundtracks curated by visual and performing artists. Bring your headphones (and smartphone) and tune in! Admission is free for members; $5 for Berkshire County residents.
- [Camp Kidspace 2022](https://massmoca.org/event/camp-kidspace-2022/) - Summer camp for kids entering grades 1-5
- [Eight Elements in Eight Hours <span class="title-light">  Co-presented by Jacob’s Pillow </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/eight-elements-in-eight-hours/) - March 9, 10, & 11 | Dynamic dancer Thulani Chaulke performs a durational dance in MASS MoCA’s galleries, developed in collaboration with William Kentridge Studios and fellow dancer Albert Fana Tshabalala.
- [Distanced Together](https://massmoca.org/event/distanced-together-sound-installation/) - January 20-February 4 | Distanced Together, composed by MindTravel creator Murray Hidary, is an immersive musical experience intended to be a collective, cathartic and healing journey with the music acting as the soundtrack tracing the arc of the pandemic.
- [Sundance Institute](https://massmoca.org/event/sundance-institute-2/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Iphigenia:<br> A New Opera <span class="title-light">Created by Wayne Shorter & esperanza spalding</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/iphigenia-a-new-opera-created-by-wayne-shorter-esperanza-spalding/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Jack Ferver](https://massmoca.org/event/jack-ferver-is-global-warming-camp-and-other-forms-of-theatrical-distance-for-the-end-of-the-world/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-6/) - On the fourth Thursday of every month, come see the most contemporary art we have on offer – works in progress by our amazing artists-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA! Visit the museum until close and then head over to Building 13 for drinks, snacks, and great conversation. Learn more about MASS MoCA’s Assets
- [32 Sounds </br><span class="title-light">Film by Sam Green </br>  Live music by JD Samson</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/32-sounds-film-by-sam-green-live-music-by-jd-samson/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Maxine Lyle](https://massmoca.org/event/maxine-lyle/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Spring Online Artist Workshops <br><span class="title-light">Assets for Artists</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/spring-online-artist-workshops-assets-for-artists/) - MASS MoCA's Assets for Artists program hosts free online workshops for artists, writers & musicians in CT, MA, & RI.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-7/) - On the fourth Thursday of every month, come see the most contemporary art we have on offer – works in progress by our amazing artists-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA! Visit the museum until close and then head over to Building 13 for drinks, snacks, and great conversation. Learn more about MASS MoCA’s Assets
- [Armando Guadalupe Cortés with Juve Cortes-Rivera: aún los gallos lloran](https://massmoca.org/event/armando-guadalupe-cortes-with-juvenal-cortes-aun-los-gallos-lloran/) - February 18 & 19 | Artist Armando Cortes returns to his installation Castillos to present a new iteration of 'aún los gallos lloran (Even Roosters Cry).
- [Día Gratis 2023](https://massmoca.org/event/dia-gratis-2023/) - Gratis para Todos
- [Steffani Jemison <span class="title-light">Plant You Now, Dig You Later</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/steffani-jemisonplant-you-now-dig-you-later/) - In her largest solo exhibition to date, New York-based artist Steffani Jemison uses the complicated role of language and literacy in black history to explore narration, abstraction, citizenship, education, and the role of the archive. At MASS MoCA, Jemison presents a sound work and an excerpt from a novella, along with her formally stripped-down, conceptually
- [Tanja Hollander <span class="title-light">Are you really my friend?</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/tanja-hollander/) - In 2011, Maine-based photographer Tanja Alexia Hollander set out to differentiate the actual from the virtual by photographing all 626 of her Facebook friends. Following, she traveled across the globe, setting up in-person meetings in her friends’ homes to discover the ways in which friendship is defined, and how permission is granted into one’s private
- [The Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/studios-2/) - Artist Residency Program for Visual Artists and Writers
- [Jeff Tweedy on MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/jeff-tweedy-on-mass-moca/)
- [Amy Hauft on creating at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/amy-hauft-on-creating-at-mass-moca/)
- [Graduate Fellow curates their first exhibition about using dance to resist, heal, and connect](https://massmoca.org/event/graduate-fellow-curates-their-first-exhibition-about-using-dance-to-resist-heal-and-connect/)
- [Redrawing Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #1211](https://massmoca.org/event/redrawing-sol-lewitts-wall-drawing-1211/)
- [Please, Touch the Exhibit: Gunnar Schonbeck and MASS MoCA's No Experience Required](https://massmoca.org/event/lily-cox-richard-examines-materiality-reuse-and-the-value-of-objects/)
- [Lily Cox-Richard examines materiality, reuse, and the value of objects](https://massmoca.org/event/lily-cox-richard-examines-materiality-reuse-and-the-value-of-objects-2/)
- [Maxine Lyle in residence](https://massmoca.org/event/maxine-lyle-in-residence/)
- [Sam Green on making a sonic spectacular](https://massmoca.org/event/i-dont-know-where-else-i-would-ever-do-this-sam-green-on-making-a-sonic-spectacular-a-mass-moca/)
- [esperanza spalding in residence](https://massmoca.org/event/theres-something-deeply-helpful-about-working-on-the-story-here-esperanza-spalding-on-mass-moca/)
- [Member Celebration: <span class="title-light"> Laurie Anderson, kelli rae adams, Yto Barrada, Jason Moran, Richard Nielsen & Amy Yoes </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/member-celebration-kelli-rae-adams-yto-barrada-jason-moran-richard-nielsen-amy-yoes/) - January 7 | Join MASS MoCA curators and friends to celebrate the artists who have exhibited this year in B6: The Robert Wilson Building.
- [Artist Talk: Angélique Kidjo on the making of Yemandja](https://massmoca.org/event/artist-talk-angelique-kidjo-on-the-making-of-yemandja/) - &nbsp
- [Sundance Institute Look Back](https://massmoca.org/event/sundance-institute-look-back/)
- [Julianne Swartz <span class="title-light">In Harmonicity, The Tonal Walkway</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/julianne-swartz-in-harmonicity-the-tonal-walkway/) - Julianne Swartz’s work is rooted in emotion, vulnerability, and the provocation to recognize and connect to one another as feeling human beings. Over the years Swartz has returned again and again to using the human voice, recording singers both professional and amateur to create moving works that embrace visitors with sound and emotion. For In
- [Radical Particularities of Care <span class="title-light">Maggie Nelson in Conversation with Marc Swanson</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/radical-particularities-of-care-maggie-nelson-in-conversation-with-marc-swanson/) - Virtual Discussion | This virtual event brings together the writer Maggie Nelson and MASS MoCA exhibiting artist Marc Swanson for a night of conversation.
- [Trenton Doyle Hancock + Frank Oz](https://massmoca.org/event/trenton-doyle-hancock-frank-oz/) - Join exhibiting artist Trenton Doyle Hancock as he discusses his lifelong practice of character creation and myth building with screen legend Frank Oz. The two will talk about the creative process, pop culture, and identity in what promises to be a riveting night of conversation. What to Expect: We’ll be in our premier venue, the
- [Jenny Holzer](https://massmoca.org/event/jenny-holzer/) - Interested in adding your own sentence to the Truisms posters in this exhibition? A good Truism is short and to the point. Your Truism should read as if it has been in use for a hundred years. Submit your one-sentence, all-capitalized submission here. Jenny Holzer’s concise, often enigmatic, writings infiltrate public life and consciousness through
- [Plan Your Visit](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-is-open/)
- [Soccer Mommy <span class="title-light">with Lightning Bug</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/soccer-mommy/) - November 5 | Soccer Mommy stops by MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA touring for her album Sometimes, Forever, produced by Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin.
- [Open Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-2/) - October 6, 5–7pm | Experience the work of Assets for Artists’ current artists-in-residence at MASS MoCA. As always, free admission and open to all.
- [Aún Los Gallos Lloran (Even Roosters Cry): A Performance by Armando Cortés](https://massmoca.org/event/aun-los-gallos-lloran-even-roosters-cry-a-performance-by-armando-cortes-september/) - September 3 & 4, 2pm | Armando Cortés activates his installation Castillos
- [Sarah Oppenheimer <span class="title-light">S-334473</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/sarah-oppenheimer-s-334473/) - Sarah Oppenheimer creates precise instruments for manipulating our built environment–altering our frame of spatial reference, displacing our experience of inside and out, and inverting our sense of what is near and far, here and there. S-334473 performs as a dynamic spatial switch: two instruments work in tandem to reorient the exchange of sight and circulation
- [The Chalet 2016](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-summer-2016/) - Raise a glass with us every Thursday night this summer 2016 at The Chalet, artist Dean Baldwin's riverside beer garden. Enjoy balmy Berkshire nights with lively music, captivating conversation, and deliciously refreshing brews. Live Music Schedule 6/30 GRNDMS 7/7 Eliza Edens 7/14 Long Journey 7/21 The Jays 7/28 Bang on a Can After Hours 7/29
- [[Postponed] Mija: Screening with Q&A and Performance](https://massmoca.org/event/mija/) - April 20, 2024 | The new documentary Mija, tells the stories of daughters of undocumented immigrants from Mexico, navigating their careers.
- [Taylor Mac](https://massmoca.org/event/taylor-mac/) - “Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming each and every one of them.” — The New York Times The inimitable theater artist presents a work-in-progress performance of the latest installment from his 24-Decade History of Popular Music, an outrageously entertaining romp through 240 years of American culture as seen
- [Curatorial Roundtable: Rose B. Simpson in New England](https://massmoca.org/event/curatorial-roundtable-rose-b-simpson-in-new-england/) - November 9 | Marking Rose B. Simpson's artwork at multiple New England venues, this roundtable brings together the curators for a conversation.
- [ERRE <span class="title-light">THEM AND US / ELLOS Y NOSOTROS</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/erre/) - The U.S.-Mexico border has been the subject of increased attention and heated debate since Donald Trump declared the building of a permanent wall along the 2,000-mile boundary between the two countries as one of his top priorities as president. Artist ERRE, who lives and works between Tijuana and San Diego, has made the border a
- [Pop-up Artist Talk with Marc Swanson & Jack Ferver](https://massmoca.org/event/pop-up-artist-talk-with-marc-swanson-jack-ferver/) - Join us for a pop-up conversation with visual artist Marc Swanson, whose exhibition A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco is on view now, and writer, choreographer, and director Jack Ferver, who is premiering a performance in Swanson's exhibition titled Is Global Warming Camp? and other forms of theatrical distance for the end
- [Open Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-4/) - Open Studios at MASS MoCA offers the public an opportunity to see the works-in-progress of artists participating in Assets for Artists’ residency program, The Studios at MASS MoCA. Each month will feature work from a new cohort. Please note: masks will be required to enter the Studios. Refreshments will be available but please put your
- [The Chalet](https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-2022/) - Thursday Nights, July 14 – Sept. 8 | Our summer fun spot returns and promises frothy beverages, riverside regulars, and local music serenades.
- [<span class="title-light">An Evening With</span> They Might Be Giants <span class="title-light">[Rescheduled to 2022]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/they-might-be-giants/) - They Might Be Giants is celebrating Flood's 30th anniversary by performing the album, in its entirety, on stages in select cities across the US.
- ["How does your horn sound?"](https://massmoca.org/event/how-does-your-horn-sound/) - In a rare 1983 interview, Jean-Michel Basquiat mulled over the difficulty of describing his painting process: “It's like asking somebody, asking Miles [Davis], ‘How does your horn sound?’” Basquiat’s analogy points to the kinship between visual art and music—including the ways that words can fail them. "How does your horn sound?" is the second of
- [Open Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-3/) - October 6, 5–7pm | Experience the work of Assets for Artists’ current artists-in-residence at MASS MoCA. As always, free admission and open to all.
- [Jack Ferver <span class="title-light">Gallery Pop-up</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jack-ferver-gallery-pop-up/) - April 23, 4pm | Jack Ferver will perform an excerpt of their new upcoming solo work in Marc Swanson's exhibition A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco.
- [Roomful of Teeth](https://massmoca.org/event/roomful-of-teeth-3/) - Kicking off a second decade's re-imagining of the potential of the human voice, Roomful of Teeth presents new works commissioned as part of the American Composers Forum's "ACF Connect" program, alongside a retrospective of Teeth's first ten years. What to Expect Seating is general admission. Preferred Ticket buyers get the best seats in the house,
- [Summer Online Artist Workshops <br><span class="title-light">Assets for Artists</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/summer-online-artist-workshops-assets-for-artists/) - Improve the business side of your creative practice, MASS MoCA's Assets for Artists hosts free online workshops for artists in CT, MA, & RI.
- [Senator Elizabeth Warren on kelli rae adams' Forever in Your Debt](https://massmoca.org/event/senator-elizabeth-warren-on-kelli-rae-adams-forever-in-your-debt/)
- [North Adams Pride Night](https://massmoca.org/event/north-adams-pride-night/) - June 24, 6–10pm | Featured entertainer Boxxa Vine joined by special guests and local drag queens Vuronika Baked and Jackie Leggs.
- [Time of Now](https://massmoca.org/event/time-of-now/) - June 25 | The third annual Time of Now explores themes of fragility, community, and repair featuring Helga Davis, Treya Lam, and more.
- [Kidspace Opening Reception <span class="title-light">Defining Moments</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/kidspace-opening-reception-defining-moments/) - June 26, 10am–1pm | Join us for the free Opening Reception for Kidspace's new exhibition, Defining Moments featuring artists Shaun Leonardo and Bruno Miguel.
- [Micah Lexier <span class="title-light">A Coin in the Corner</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/micah-lexier-a-coin-in-the-corner/) - A Coin in the Corner is an installation of 100 special-edition minted coins by Toronto-based artist Micah Lexier. Originally commissioned as part of MASS MoCA's 2012 exhibition Oh, Canada, each coin contains a simple line drawing of a coin in a corner. Lexier’s work is a clever pun for bilingual Canada, for the word corner
- [Aún Los Gallos Lloran (Even Roosters Cry): A Performance by Armando Cortés](https://massmoca.org/event/aun-los-gallos-lloran-even-roosters-cry-a-performance-by-armando-cortes-june/) - June 11 & 12, 2pm | Armando Cortés activates his installation Castillos
- [Kraftwerk 3-D](https://massmoca.org/event/kraftwerk-3-d/) - German electropop pioneers Kraftwerk built the soundtrack for the digital age, these 1970s visionaries stop by North Adams, MA on a 3-D tour.
- [Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend 2021 <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-loud-weekend-2021-cancelled/) - Loud Weekend 2020 is cancelled. Please join us for this MASS MoCA-favorite weekend in summer 2021. LOUD Weekend returns this summer with special guest Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Natalie Joachim, Michael Gordon's Field of Vision, the Orchestra of Original Instruments, late nights at The Chalet – and lots more yet to be
- [Jenny Holzer at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/jenny-holzer-map-of-exhibition-works/) - Jenny Holzer’s concise, often enigmatic writings infiltrate public life and consciousness through everyday objects such as LED panels and stone benches, as well as her paintings and sculpture. She is best known for her light projections, begun when she illuminated the banks of the Arno River with her writings in 1996. In these projections, which
- [Solid Sound 2022 Lodging](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2022-lodging/) - Learn more and reserve lodging or camping for Solid Sound 2022. MASS MoCA and MCLA provide lodging on the college campus; tent and RV sites are also available.
- [Spring Online Artist Workshops <br><span class="title-light">Assets for Artists</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/spring-artist-workshops-assets-for-artists/) - Free online financial & business training for MA, RI & CT artists | All workshops are FREE and held via Zoom, with pre-registration required.
- [Auditory After Hours](https://massmoca.org/event/a_u_d_i_t_o_r_y_a_f_t_e_r_h_o_u_r_s/) - Curated listening experiences from Kaki King, Sylvan Esso, and more.
- [Artists-in-Residence](https://massmoca.org/event/artists-in-residence/)
- [Celebrating 10 Years of FreshGrass](https://massmoca.org/event/celebrating-10-years-of-freshgrass/) - #FreshStreams
- [Helga Davis and Shara Nova](https://massmoca.org/event/made-at-mass-moca-helga-davis-and-shara-nova/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Bearthoven](https://massmoca.org/event/made-at-mass-moca-bearthoven/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Treya Lam](https://massmoca.org/event/made-at-mass-moca-treya-lam/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [SSF22 Lodging: College Residence Hall](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-mcla-2022/) - MASS MoCA and MCLA provide festival lodging on the college campus, within walking distance of Solid Sound and convenient to merchants, bars, and restaurants.
- [Yemandja](https://massmoca.org/event/yemandja/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Supaman](https://massmoca.org/event/supaman/) - April 30, 8pm | Supaman’s one-of-a-kind performances combine Native culture, comedy, and urban hip hop culture which dazzles audiences and captivates listeners.
- [Lucius Pre-Show VIP Experience](https://massmoca.org/event/lucius-vip-experience/) - Lucius Pre-Show VIP Experience One preferred ticket with the best view in the house VIP early entry into the venue Intimate pre-show performance with Lucius Q&A session with Lucius Group photo with Lucius Exclusive VIP tour poster signed by Lucius Exclusive pocket mirror Exclusive commemorative pre-show VIP laminate General admission tickets are available here. Make
- [Multi-media artist Kahlil Robert Irving reflects contemporary life in clay](https://massmoca.org/event/multi-media-artist-kahlil-robert-irving-reflects-contemporary-life-in-clay/)
- [Wendy Red Star reflects on representation and the joy of working with students](https://massmoca.org/event/wendy-red-star-reflects-on-representation-and-the-joy-of-working-with-students/)
- [SSF22 Camping: Tents](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-ground-2022/) - MASS MoCA teams up with the City of North Adams to provide SolidGround — a field for tent camping within easy walking distance from Solid Sound and convenient to downtown merchants, bars, and restaurants. This is a basic, open-field tent site with concession food service, porta-potties, and drinking water. A self-monitored, donation-based cell phone charging station
- [<span class="title-light">2020 Teen Invitational<span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/10th-annual-teen-invitational/) - This event has been cancelled. The highlight of this pop-up exhibition of regional high school art makers is a rollicking Friday night award ceremony. The works by more than 100 talented local students stays up all weekend. The depth and breadth of these young artists will knock your socks off. Opening celebration Friday, May 29,
- [SSF22 Camping: <br>Tents & RVs](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-camp-aggie-2022/) - Camp Aggie camping plots will be available for purchase on December 17 at 10am. Tent & RV camping for Solid Sound Festival 2022.
- [Open Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-august-2022/) - August 11, 5–7pm | Check out what the Studios at MASS MoCA residency program artists have been creating. Bring a friend—the snacks are on us.
- [Open Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-july-2022/) - July 14, 5–7pm | Check out what the Studios at MASS MoCA residency program artists have been creating. Bring a friend—the snacks are on us.
- [Aún Los Gallos Lloran (Even Roosters Cry): A Performance by Armando Cortés](https://massmoca.org/event/aun-los-gallos-lloran-even-roosters-cry-a-performance-by-armando-cortes-july/) - Jule 9 & 10, 2pm | Armando Cortés activates his installation Castillos—on view in the exhibition Ceramics in the Expanded Field—with a performance.
- [Open Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-june-2022/) - June 2, 5–7pm | Check out what the Studios at MASS MoCA residency program artists have been creating. Bring a friend—the snacks are on us.
- [Open Studios at MASS MoCA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-april-2022/) - April 21, 5–7pm | Check out what the Studios at MASS MoCA residency program artists have been creating. Bring a friend—the snacks are on us.
- [Open Studios at MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca/) - March 25, 5-7pm | Come check out what the March cohort of our Studios at MASS MoCA residency program has been creating, when they give us a peek behind the curtain.
- [Glenn Kaino Book Signing](https://massmoca.org/event/glenn-kaino-book-signing/) - March 19, 2:30pm | Exhibiting artist Glenn Kaino stops by The MASS MoCA Store to sign copies of his exhibition catalogue, This Book is a Promise.
- [Yemandja <span class="title-light">World Premiere & <br>MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA Benefit</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/yemandja-world-premiere/) - A new music-theater work of magical realism that illuminates what happens when people are robbed of their culture. | March 4 & 5
- [Kissing through a Curtain](https://massmoca.org/event/kissing-through-a-curtain/) - “How would you like to be kissed through a curtain?” “Better than not kissing at all.” An exchange on the act of translation, as recounted by poet Kwame Dawes. Translation offers uncertain intimacy. We wonder: what is lost in translation? What kernel of the original cannot be carried to the new language and context? And
- [Latinas413's "Yo Soy Arte"](https://massmoca.org/event/latinas413s-yo-soy-arte/) - Pop-Up Performance
- [Sol LeWitt <span class="title-light">A Wall Drawing Retrospective</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/sol-lewitt-a-wall-drawing-retrospective-3/) - Featuring 105 of Sol LeWitt’s large-scale works that encompass the artist’s entire career—from his taut, early graphite wall drawings of the mid-1960s to his swirling, brightly colored drawings of the early 21st century—the milestone retrospective Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective was organized with Yale University Art Gallery, Williams College Museum of Art, and the
- [kelli rae adams visualizes the burden of student loan debt](https://massmoca.org/event/kelli-rae-adams-visualizes-the-burden-of-student-loan-debt/) - Artist Interview
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA COVID-19 Vaccine Entry Requirements](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-entry-requirements/) - All visitors age 12 and up must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination at entry (accompanied by a photo ID for visitors over 18). As of February 16, the age requirement will change to 5 and older. The safety of our patrons, staff, artists, and local community is our top priority. Please take a minute to
- [Siren: Composers of the Sea <span class="title-light">First Episode of LASOE (Listening to Another Species on Earth)</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/siren-composers-of-the-sea/) - In Siren composer and performer Annie Lewandowski, artist and coder Kyle McDonald, and Sculpture Artist Amy Rubin explore humpback whale song in a true meeting of intelligences—humpback whale, human, and artificial. Their visually and sonically immersive piece reveals the wounded flourishing of the humpback whale, a species that continues to sing amidst the threat of
- [Fragility Etudes <span class="title-light">Music by Susie Ibarra <br>Film by Yuka C. Honda</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/fragility-etudes-film/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Linda Sormin's "Stream" Timelapse](https://massmoca.org/event/linda-sormins-stream-timelapse/) - See how Linda Sormin's "Stream"—on view in Ceramics in the Expanded Field—came together in the museum's tallest gallery.
- [Linda Sormin pushes the limits of clay](https://massmoca.org/event/linda-sormin-pushes-the-limits-of-clay/) - Unraveling her training in traditional methods, Linda Sormin challenges values such as “wholeness” and “purity” in her work by pushing clay beyond its limits.
- [Anina Major <span class="title-light">All Us Come Across Water</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/anina-major-all-us-come-across-water/) - Anina Major's installation, All Us Come Across Water, translates the art of plaiting, the basket-weaving of her Bahamian forebears, using clay in the place of palms.
- [Wes Bruce <span class="title-light">The Drifting Studio</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/wes-bruce-the-drifting-studio/) - Artist Wes Bruce’s traveling artmaking mobile invites children and families to appreciate the everyday beauty that surrounds them in playful and inspiring art-making activities.
- [Ceramics in the Expanded Field <span class="title-light">Exhibition Overview with Curator Susan Cross</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ceramics-in-the-expanded-field-exhibit-overview-with-curator-susan-cross/) - Ceramics in the Expanded Field brings together a group of eight artists who are changing the way we think of clay.
- [Cellophane Self-Portrait](https://massmoca.org/event/cellophane-self-portrait/) - Virtual Art-Making
- [CARE SYLLABUS Interview](https://massmoca.org/event/care-syllabus-4th-module/) - Victoria Papa, Levi Prombaum, and Christina Yang, three members of the CARE SYLLABUS team, spoke with Rizvana Bradley on the occasion of her guest-curated module, “On the Impurity of Forms.”
- [Pop-Up Artist Talk with Kameelah Janan Rasheed](https://massmoca.org/event/pop-up-artist-talk-with-kameelah-janan-rasheed/) - Friday, December 17, 3pm | This event is free with gallery admission and will take place in Kameelah Janan Rasheed's exhibition
- [Meet & Greet with Filmmaker Sam Green](https://massmoca.org/event/meet-greet-with-filmmaker-sam-green/) - Member Event | December 17, 6pm | Join us for a MASS MoCA member-exclusive presentation by Sam Green, followed by a meet and greet.
- [<span class="title-light">Benefit Concert</span> Jeff Tweedy <span class="title-light">with special guest Nels Cline</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jeff-tweedy-2021/) - With the high likelihood of lightning on Saturday evening, we will be moving the Jeff Tweedy Benefit Concert on Saturday at 8pm inside to the Hunter Center. Due to capacity restrictions, a Sunday 4pm show has been added. Please contact the box office with questions and to purchase tickets. The one and only Jeff Tweedy
- [Pop-Up Talk with Artist Aslı Çavuşoğlu](https://massmoca.org/event/pop-up-talk-with-asli-cavusoglu/) - December 2, 3pm | Join us for a pop-up conversation with artist Aslı Çavuşoğlu, whose work is on view in Kissing through a Curtain. Working across various media, Çavuşoğlu often assumes the role of an interpreter, writer, or facilitator in her projects in order to highlight the precarious and subjective nature of our shared histories. Curator Alexandra Foradas will
- [Fragility Etudes <span class="title-light">Music by Susie Ibarra <br>Film by Yuka C. Honda</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/fragility-etudes/) - Saturday, November 20, 8pm |
- [Iphigenia:<br> A New Opera <span class="title-light">Created by Wayne Shorter & esperanza spalding</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/wayne-shorter-esperanza-spalding-iphigenia/) - Created by Wayne Shorter & esperanza spalding | Fri, Nov. 5, & Sat. Nov. 6, 8pm | Iphigenia tickets are sold out. For more information or to be added to the waitlist contact boxoffice@massmoca.org. In Iphigenia, two of the most visionary and daring musical voices of our time—composer Wayne Shorter and librettist and performer esperanza spalding—have created a modern operatic re-imagining of the ancient tale of a daughter sacrificed to the gods.
- [Faye Webster](https://massmoca.org/event/f_a_y_e/) - February 26 | Atlanta singer-songwriter Faye Webster pairs close, whisper-quiet, home-recorded vocals with the unmistakably intimate vibe of musicians together in a room. Her sound draws as much from the lap-steel singer-songwriter pop of the 1970s and teardrop country tunes as it does from the audacious personalities of her city’s rap and R&B community. Since finding her way
- [Ceramics in the Expanded Field](https://massmoca.org/event/ceramics-in-the-expanded-field-2/)
- [Slow Looking Meditation](https://massmoca.org/event/slow-looking-meditation/) - With Wendy Red Star's Indian Summer - Four Seasons
- [In Conversation with Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown](https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-with-dr-kimberly-juanita-brown/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [A Roundtable  on Black Elegiac Form](https://massmoca.org/event/a-roundtable-on-black-elegiac-form/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [3 Familiar Views from/at the USA-Mexico Border](https://massmoca.org/event/3-familiar-gazes-from-at-the-usa-mexico-border/) - Panel Discussion | Thursday, October 7, 6pm
- [In Session: <span class="title-light">Artist Residencies</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/in-session-3/) - Lisa Dent, Tracy Moore, Cameron Shaw, Eric Shiner, Dr. Mindy Fullilove, and Ceclile Shellman
- [In Session](https://massmoca.org/event/in-session/) - In Session at MASS MoCA, with Nick Cave, Shaun Leonardo, Steve Locke, Xaviera Simmons, M. Carmen Lane and Dr. Kalima Young
- [In Session](https://massmoca.org/event/in-session-2/) - Lisa Dent, Tracy Moore, Cameron Shaw, Eric Shiner, Dr. Mindy Fullilove, and Ceclile Shellman
- [ERRE in 3D](https://massmoca.org/event/erre-in-3d/) - Experience ERRE: THEM AND US / ELLOS Y NOSOTROS with an all-new self-guided 3D tour—zoom in on the details, look back at the installation process, and uncover nuggets of knowledge as you virtually stroll through the galleries. Once you press the play button a tour will begin to fly you through the exhibition, or you
- [Blane De St. Croix <span class="title-light">How to Move a Landscape</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/blane-de-st-croix-how-to-move-a-landscape/) - How to Move a Landscape is artist Blane De St. Croix’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date, exploring the geopolitical landscape and environmental issues. De St. Croix's research-intensive art involves years of field work and collaboration with leading climate scientists. How to Move a Landscape features drawings and sculpture alongside newly commissioned large-scale installations
- [Dispatch at FreshGrass Festival](https://massmoca.org/event/dispatch-at-freshgrass-festival/) - September 24-26
- [Passion Fruit Dance Company](https://massmoca.org/event/passion-fruit-dance-company-2/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Bearthoven](https://massmoca.org/event/bearthoven/) - Artists in Residence
- [Broken Theater](https://massmoca.org/event/broken-theater/) - Artists in Residence
- [Helga Davis and Shara Nova](https://massmoca.org/event/shara-nova-and-helga-davis/) - Artists in Residence
- [Treya Lam](https://massmoca.org/event/treya-lam-2/) - Artists in Residence
- [English with an Accent](https://massmoca.org/event/english-with-an-accent/) - Artist in Residence
- [Opiate d’Amour](https://massmoca.org/event/opiate-damour/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Raga Maqam](https://massmoca.org/event/raga-maqam-2/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Zodiac: Poems for Cello](https://massmoca.org/event/zodiac-poems-for-cello/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [A Nation Grooves: A People’s History of Hip-Hop](https://massmoca.org/event/a-nation-grooves-a-peoples-history-of-hip-hop/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Alec Soth & Dave King <span class="title-light">The Palms</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/alec-soth-dave-king-the-palms-2/) - Artists-in-Residence
- [Frozen Watercolors](https://massmoca.org/event/frozen-watercolors/) - Slow virtual art-making
- [Paper Pulp Clay](https://massmoca.org/event/paper-pulp-clay/) - Slow virtual art-making
- [Listening Session: Black Elegies in Sight & Sound](https://massmoca.org/event/listening-session-black-elegies-in-sight-sound/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [Lido Pimienta](https://massmoca.org/event/lido-pimienta/) - The self-described “Afro/ Indigenous/ Colombian/Canadian/ punk/ folklorist/ traditionalist/ transgressive/ diva/ angel” Lido Pimienta creates an ecstatic musical hybrid of electronic meets cumbia that manages the neat trick of being at once thought-provoking, intense, and joyful. Her 2020 record Miss Colombia, a follow-up to the Polaris Prize-winning 2017 debut la Papessa, is “a full-throated declaration of
- [How to Move a Landscape: Collaborations in Art and Climate Science](https://massmoca.org/event/how-to-move-a-landscape-collaborations-in-art-and-climate-science/) - Time of Now
- [Adeline](https://massmoca.org/event/adeline/) - French-Caribbean singer/bassist/producer Adeline’s unique blend of funk, R&B, and soul hits a sonic sweet spot between the past and the future. With two EPs worth of heartwarming songs and a host of collaborations with the likes of Kamauu, Kraak & Smack, and the French rap phenom Lisko, she kept love and hope alive for many
- [Constellation Creations](https://massmoca.org/event/constellation-creations/) - Virtual art-making
- [Miko Marks](https://massmoca.org/event/miko-marks/) - With vivid lyrics, a honeyed-wine voice, and timeless arrangements, Miko Marks’ music is a unifying blend of country, blues, gospel, roots, and Americana. “I took the limits off myself,” Marks explains to Rolling Stone, discussing her return to recording following a thirteen-year hiatus and referencing a Nashville industry that had simultaneously molded and marginalized the
- [Zarouhie Abdalian <span class="title-light">Chanson du ricochet</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/zarouhie-abdalian-chanson-du-ricochet/) - A voice, reverberating from the brick walls of small outbuildings that define a grassy courtyard, reads a list of tools as though reciting an incantation. Through the transformative process of rhythm and articulation, Zarouhie Abdalian’s sound installation Chanson du ricochet (2016) allows us to hear each term anew—whether familiar (trowel, reamer, ruler, mop) or highly specialized (jeweler’s
- [L'Rain](https://massmoca.org/event/lrain/) - Brooklyn-based songwriter and producer L’Rain brings an ethos of genuine experimentation to her richly layered compositions. She weaves guitar, synthesizers, and delay effects into a swirl of free jazz and heartfelt, personal songs. This performance follows her week-long residency at MASS MoCA.  Make a Plan (and Bring Your Own Chair!) Live events at
- [Alec Soth & Dave King <span class="title-light">The Palms</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/alec-soth-dave-king-the-palms/) - Tickets for Friday, June 25, 8pm Tickets for Saturday, June 26, 8pm Photographer Alec Soth — “a celebrated chronicler of American contemporary life” (The Guardian) — collaborates for the first time with drummer/composer Dave King of the jazz duo The Bad Plus, who is “better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-‘60s jazz and
- [Time of Now: <span class="title-light">History & Memory</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/time-of-now-history-memory/) - Time of Now is an in-person and virtual event that explores the relationship between individual memory and collective history, and how the past continues to shape our present reality. Pop-up performances, activities, in-person and virtual talks, and self-guided tours will bring together a group of thinkers, performers, and artists for public events throughout the museum.
- [Auditory After Hours <span class="title-light">Common Folk</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-common-folk/) - Auditory After Hours: Common Folk, June 5, has been postponed to June 12. What if you could feel art — with your ears? Our series Auditory After Hours gives visitors a chance to engage with art in an all-new way: while listening to a bespoke experience curated by one of your favorite musicians. Come at
- [Passion Fruit Dance Company](https://massmoca.org/event/passion-fruit-dance-company/) - RSVP to the performance and lecture here. What is the groove? How do you find it? And how important is it in self-expression? In Dance Within Your Dance, choreographer Tatiana Desardouin invites the audience to connect with the techniques, rhythms, and essence of hip-hop and house dance styles. Not just a simple aesthetic, “the groove”
- [Auditory After Hours <span class="title-light">Common Folk</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-common-folk-4/)
- [FreshGrass Festival | North Adams](https://massmoca.org/event/fresh-tickets/) - Tickets on sale now!
- [Passion Fruit Dance Company](https://massmoca.org/event/dance-within-your-dance/)
- [Deviant Fates: Ends in Care Times / Care in End Times](https://massmoca.org/event/deviant-fates-ends-in-care-times-care-in-end-times/) - CARE SYLLABUS Livestream Discussion
- [Auditory After Hours <span class="title-light">Common Folk</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-common-folk-3/)
- [Auditory After Hours <span class="title-light">Common Folk</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-common-folk-2/)
- [Past Performances](https://massmoca.org/event/p_a_s_t_p_e_r_f_o_r_m_a_n_c_e_s/)
- [Artists-in-Residence](https://massmoca.org/event/a_r_t_i_s_t_s_i_n_r_e_s_i_d_e_n_c_e/)
- [Upcoming Performances](https://massmoca.org/event/p_e_r_f_o_r_m_a_n_c_e_s/)
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Tune-Yards</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-tune-yards-4/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Tune-Yards</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-tune-yards-3/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Tune-Yards</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-tune-yards-2/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Benefit Auction 2021 <span class="title-light">Ready. Set. Bid.</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auction-2021/) - With works from Xu Bing, Ledelle Moe, David Byrne, and more
- [FreshGrass Festival - North Adams, Mass.](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-festival-north-adams-mass-2/) - September 24-26
- [FreshGrass Festival - North Adams, Mass.](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-festival-north-adams-mass/) - September 24-26
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">LADAMA</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-ladama-4/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">LADAMA</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-ladama/) - Curated listening experience
- [Limited Artist Editions | Jenny Holzer, Glenn Kaino, and more](https://massmoca.org/event/limited-artist-editions-jenny-holzer-glenn-kaino-and-more/) - Jenny Holzer, Glenn Kaino, and More
- [Tom Slaughter <span class="title-light">Icon Alphabet</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/tom-slaughter/) - Covering an interior wall visible to visitors approaching MASS MoCA's postindustrial museum lobby (as well as to those in its galleries), Tom Slaughter's joyful imagery unfurls across a 140 ft. stretch in the first-ever exhibition designed by his daughters Hannah and Nell Jocelyn and son-in-law Jim Mezei. The expansive Icon Alphabet celebrates Slaughter's lifetime creating bright,
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">LADAMA</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-ladama-3/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Museum Town](https://massmoca.org/event/museum-town/) - Free Member Screening
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">LADAMA</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-ladama-2/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">LADAMA</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-ladama-5/) - Curated listening experience
- [Capacity-Building Grant Program](https://massmoca.org/event/capacity-building-grant-program/) - Pairs micro-funds with business planning for an artist’s long-term success
- [Professional Development Workshops](https://massmoca.org/event/professional-development-workshops-for-artists/) - Artist-focused financial and business trainings
- [Mini-Grants for Artists](https://massmoca.org/event/mini-grants-for-artists/) - MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists Program has provided financial and business training and capacity building grants to hundreds of artists all around New England and New York City. The Capacity-Building Grants Program (formerly “Matched Savings Program”) is an innovative support model that helps artists strengthen their creative practice and grow their long-term sustainability. Local, regional,
- [North Adams Project](https://massmoca.org/event/north-adams-project/) - Through its North Adams Project, MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program supports artists from a wide range of disciplines who live in North Adams or are interested in relocating to North Adams. The support includes mini-grants, professional development workshops, individual coaching, referrals, and networking opportunities. Learn more about the North Adams Project here. Email assetsforartists@massmoca.org
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA turns 20<span class="title-light">Let's Party.</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-turns-20/) - Capturing MASS MoCA’s energy and spirit of embracing music and art in all forms, our 20th birthday party spreads across the museum campus — from Marshall Street to the interior courtyards and galleries — encompassing new exhibitions, wild versions of your favorite games, terrific music by performers from both near and far, great food and
- [Haunting Tones: A Conversation about These (Mournful) Shores](https://massmoca.org/event/haunting-tones-a-conversation-about-these-mournful-shores/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [TEST VIDEO 1](https://massmoca.org/event/test-video-1/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur pellentesque cursus pharetra. Nulla facilisi. Proin egestas ut nisi quis sodales. Suspendisse id efficitur purus, ut blandit risus. Donec malesuada nulla sit amet vehicula rutrum. Donec vitae nunc in arcu hendrerit convallis a eu urna. Integer placerat vehicula gravida. Sed et blandit enim. Sed venenatis bibendum
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Kaki King</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-kaki-king-2/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Kaki King</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-kaki-king/) - Curated listening experience
- [Artist Roundtable: Reimagining Care of Indigenous Objects](https://massmoca.org/event/care-syllabus-artist-roundtable-reimagining-care-of-indigenous-objects/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [Union Election Statement](https://massmoca.org/event/union-election-statement/) - MASS MoCA's employees are the heart and soul of our institution, and they have the right to choose whether to unionize or not through a democratic process. MASS MoCA’s leadership and Board respect this right and will not oppose or in any way interfere with efforts to organize. Should MASS MoCA’s employees vote to certify
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Kaki King</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-kaki-king-3/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Kaki King</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-kaki-king-4/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Wendy Red Star Family Portrait Quilt Activity](https://massmoca.org/event/wendy-red-star-family-portrait-quilt-activity/) - Virtual art-making
- [Interview with Justin Favela](https://massmoca.org/event/interview-with-justine-favela/) - Artist interview
- [Artist Roundtable: Reimagining Care of Indigenous Objects](https://massmoca.org/event/artist-roundtable-reimagining-care-of-indigenous-objects/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [WallaSauce: Circular Rag Rug Weaving Tutorial](https://massmoca.org/event/wallasauce-circular-rag-rug-weaving-tutorial/) - Virtual art-making
- [Done](https://massmoca.org/event/done-maxine-lyle/) - A film by Maxine Lyle and Jordan Crawford
- [WallaSauce: Sewing Machine Tutorial](https://massmoca.org/event/sewing-tutorial/) - Virtual art-making
- [Sol LeWitt in 3D](https://massmoca.org/event/sol-lewitt-in-3d/) - Experience Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective with an all-new self-guided 3D tour—zoom in on the details of your favorite pieces, look back at the installation process with time-lapse videos, and uncover nuggets of knowledge and history as you virtually stroll through the winding galleries. Once you press the play button a tour will begin
- [Scavenger Hunt](https://massmoca.org/event/scavenger-hunt/) - Sol LeWitt in 3D
- [Tissue Paper Piñata Paintings](https://massmoca.org/event/tissue-paper-piñata-paintings/) - Virtual art-making
- [Berkshire Dance Theatre](https://massmoca.org/event/berkshire-dance-theatre/) - In celebration of MASS MoCA From Home’s kick-off, one of our fave community performances from Free Day 2019 pops-up on our virtual stage. Gather round with families, friends, and museum-goers to watch Berkshire Dance Theatre put on a stellar show.  About Berkshire Dance Theatre Berkshire Dance Theatre (BDT) is a non-profit
- [Elevator Music from Mike Martin](https://massmoca.org/event/elevator-music-from-mike-martin/) - From time to time our freight elevator’s been known to become an extension of our stages, hosting intimate one-of-a-kind pop-up performances from staff and local friends. In celebration of MASS MoCA From Home’s kick-off weekend, our very own Mike Martin, a.k.a. MASS MoCA’s Audio Technician extraordinaire, pops-up right here with a virtual elevator set. 
- [Marshmallow + Toothpick Sculptures](https://massmoca.org/event/marshmallow-toothpick-sculptures/) - Virtual art-making
- [Upside-Down Trees](https://massmoca.org/event/upside-down-trees/) - Virtual art-making
- [Viewfinder Landscape Collage](https://massmoca.org/event/viewfinder-landscape-collage/) - Virtual art-making
- [Make Music with Mark Stewart](https://massmoca.org/event/mark-stewart-in-gunnar-schonbeck/) - Straight from Gunnar Schonbeck: No Experience Required our neighborhood Bang on a Can All-Star Mark Stewart reminds us that anyone can be a musician, and music can be made from the most ordinary of objects. Shake off those winter blues—it's time to jam! Gifts from individuals like you strengthen MASS MoCA’s ability to make
- [Ad Minoliti <span class="title-light">Fantasías Modulares</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ad-minoliti-fantasias-modulares/) - Grinning triangles, lounging cows, and winking circles populate the vibrant, queer landscapes of Ad Minoliti’s imagined worlds. Trained as a painter, Minoliti draws on the rich legacy of geometric abstraction in her native country, Argentina, where geometry was used as a tool for picturing utopian alternatives. By combining abstraction with playful figuration, Minoliti upends familiar
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Back Catalogue</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-back-catalogue/) - Curated listening experience
- [Clark Art Institute](https://massmoca.org/event/clark-art-institute/) - The Clark Art Institute sponsors annual exhibitions organized by graduate students from the Clark Art Institute–Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. Through this program, candidates for a Master’s in Art History undertake all aspects of exhibition development, including scholarly research and writing, installation design, art handling and preparation, and exhibition promotion. MASS MoCA
- [Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts](https://massmoca.org/event/massachusetts-college-of-liberal-arts/) - One of the top public liberal arts colleges in the country, the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' robust Arts Management program supplies MASS MoCA with interns across every department. MASS MoCA is also one of the numerous venues in MCLA's summer-long DownStreet Art — a roving slate of pop-up galleries, performances, and participatory events throughout our home city
- [The Hall Art Foundation](https://massmoca.org/event/the-hall-art-foundation/) - In 2013, The Hall Art Foundation joined with MASS MoCA and the artist Anselm Kiefer to realize an extraordinary quasi-permanent installation of works by the post-World War II German master. Occupying a 10,000 square-foot, 1-million gallon abandoned water tank, the exhibition includes three vast works, including a magnificent suite of 30 large-scale paintings on the subject of
- [Jacob's Pillow](https://massmoca.org/event/jacobs-pillow/) - Jacob’s Pillow Dance, the nation’s preeminent and longest-running institute and festival for contemporary dance, makes MASS MoCA an off-summer home for large-scale co-presentations and dance residencies. Performances range from fully staged productions by leading international dance companies to focused technical workshops, to participatory dance parties featuring live music and dance instruction. Utilizing MASS MoCA’s massive Hunter Center theater
- [<span>Bang on a Can</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can/) - Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival is MASS MoCA’s longest running musical event: a three-week concatenation of performances, workshops, and seminars focused on adventurous new music. The Festival’s public programs include 40+ performances during regular museum hours—taking over gallery spaces, courtyards, and virtually any other space the musicians can exploit. The Festival also includes several
- [Curriculum Takeover for Black Lives Matter](https://massmoca.org/event/curriculum-takeover-for-black-lives-matter/) - Co-developed by Berkshire County youth and artist Shaun Leonardo, the Curriculum Takeover for Black Lives Matter is a virtual teaching resource where students can direct their own and their peers’ learning around racial injustice. Inspired by Leonardo's series, The Breath of Empty Space, which was on view from August 2020 through January 2021, the three-part
- [Curriculum Takeover for Black Lives Matter](https://massmoca.org/event/curriculum-takeover-for-black-lives-matter-2/)
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Jason Moran</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-jason-moran-2/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Jason Moran</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-jason-moran-4/) - Curated listening experience.
- [Schools & Educators](https://massmoca.org/event/s_c_h_o_o_l_s/)
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Jason Moran</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-jason-moran-3/) - Curated listening experience.
- [It's Only Human](https://massmoca.org/event/kidspace-its-only-human/) - It’s Only Human, which was on view in Kidspace, examined the human figure from the inside — an unexpected and often unfamiliar perspective apart from the medical and scientific world. The exhibition presented the works of two internationally-acclaimed British artists: Nick Veasey and Marilène Oliver, who both use medical imaging technology to reveal what’s going
- [Walk in My Shoes](https://massmoca.org/event/walk-in-my-shoes-2/) - In June 2015, Kidspace kicked off four years of related exhibitions organized under a single narrative arc. The series of experiential exhibitions explore problem-solving through three key habits of mind: empathy, optimism, and courage. In the first year, Walk in My Shoes (June 20, 2015–May 30, 2016) featured artwork chosen to activate empathic responses and amplify compassion
- [Federico Uribe <span class="title-light">Here Comes The Sun</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/here-comes-the-sun/) - On June 18, 2016, Kidspace opened Here Comes the Sun, Colombian-born, Miami-based artist Federico Uribe’s magical, colorful, and sculptural menagerie of animals. In tandem, Chicago-based artist Nick Cave wrapped the Kidspace ArtBar in a graphic Kaleidoscopic Playground, a participatory art-making lab inviting visitors to explore their senses, emotions, and self. Both artists shape-shift feelings of
- [Cavernous <span class="title-light">The Inner Life of Courage</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/cavernous/) - In Cavernous: The Inner Life of Courage, Colorado-based artist Wes Sam-Bruce used the Hoosac Tunnel as a metaphor for brave endeavors. Kidspace explored what it takes to be courageous and persevere in the face of mountain-sized obstacles. Gallery visitors were invited to play in a tunnel-like structure built specifically for the museum. Sam-Bruce, renowned for
- [Come To Your Senses <span class="title-light">Art to See, Smell, Hear, Taste, and Touch</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/consenses-a-journey-through-the-senses/) - Sally Taylor, daughter of James Taylor and Carly Simon, curates Come to Your Senses in MASS MoCA’s lively Kidspace gallery and art-making studio.
- [Art Ninjas Camp 2017](https://massmoca.org/event/education-art-ninjas-camp-2017/) - Art Ninjas embark on daily missions filled with art, adventure, and intrigue. Sign up early as space is limited and goes quickly. Magic August 7-11 SOLD OUT Ninjas convene to master the techniques of the great art wizards. Concoct enchanting potions, create magic wands, and craft spell books. Remember, this is a Muggle-free camp. Color
- [Art Ninjas Camp 2018](https://massmoca.org/event/art-ninjas-camp-2018/) - Summer camp for kids entering grades 1-5
- [Art Ninjas Camp 2019](https://massmoca.org/event/art-ninjas-camp-2019/) - Summer camp for kids entering grades 1-5
- [Families & Community](https://massmoca.org/event/f_a_m_i_l_i_e_s/)
- [Art Ninjas Camp 2020 [CANCELLED]](https://massmoca.org/event/art-ninjas-camp-2020/) - In response to COVID-19, Art Ninjas Camp has been cancelled. See you in Summer 2021.
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Sylvan Esso</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-sylvan-esso-3/) - SOLD OUT
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Sylvan Esso</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-sylvan-esso-4/) - SOLD OUT
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Sylvan Esso</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-sylvan-esso-5/) - SOLD OUT
- [Ledelle Moe <span class="title-light">When</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ledelle-moe/) - Ledelle Moe’s weathered, monolithic heads and figures variously bring to mind the relics of an ancient civilization or statues toppled in the wake of political upheaval. On close examination, what appears to be timeworn stone reveals itself as concrete, and the massive forms show themselves to be constructed from many smaller sections. One might confuse
- [River Street Billboard Project](https://massmoca.org/event/river-street-billboard-project/) - MASS MoCA has partnered with the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition in a community engagement project involving the billboards near the Porches Inn on River Street. This long-term project involves using the billboards to promote a sense of neighborhood identity and values (in correlation with the nearby UNO Park and Community Center) as well as to
- [Jason Lucas](https://massmoca.org/event/jason-lucas-reads-on-the-pulse-of-morning-and/) - Reading Maya Angelou's On the Pulse of Morning and Langston Hughes' Let America Be America Again
- [Shaun Leonardo <span class="title-light">The Breath of Empty Space</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/shaun-leonardo-the-breath-of-empty-space/) - The Breath of Empty Space features the Brooklyn-based artist Shaun Leonardo whose work addresses how the mediated images of systemic oppression and violence against Black and Brown young men and boys in the United States have shaped our fear, empathy, and perception. This exhibition originated at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, and
- [Gamaliel Rodríguez](https://massmoca.org/event/gamaliel-rodriguez-on-la-travesia-le-voyage/) - The artist speaks about his work La Travesía / Le Voyage
- [Elevator Music from Chris Lynch](https://massmoca.org/event/elevator-music-from-chris-lynch/) - From time to time our freight elevator’s been known to become an extension of our stages, hosting intimate one-of-a-kind pop-up performances from staff and local friends. In celebration of MASS MoCA From Home’s kick-off weekend, our very own Chris Lynch, a.k.a. MASS MoCA’s Sound Engineer extraordinaire, pops-up right here with a virtual elevator set.
- [ArtBar Specials](https://massmoca.org/event/artbar-specials-2/) - Virtual art-making projects
- [Creating Lithographs at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts with Wendy Red Star](https://massmoca.org/event/creating-lithographs-at-crows-shadow-institute-of-the-arts-with-wendy-red-star/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [Wendy Red Star in conversation with her mother, Molly Malone](https://massmoca.org/event/wendy-red-star-in-conversation-with-her-mother-molly-malone/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [Interview with Wendy Red Star](https://massmoca.org/event/interview-with-wendy-red-star/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [Behind the Scenes of Wendy Red Star's Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird](https://massmoca.org/event/behind-the-scenes-of-wendy-red-stars-apsaalooke-children-of-the-large-beaked-bird-2/) - CARE SYLLABUS
- [Ben Ripley <span class="title-light">AMITY/ENMITY</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ben-ripley-amity-enmity/) - This past spring, artist Ben Ripley worked with MASS MoCA’s Director of Education, Laura Thompson, to organize an exhibition of his work with her Advanced Museum Studies class at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA). When MCLA’s Gallery 51 shut down due to COVID-19, MASS MoCA stepped in to host Ripley's show. On view
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Sylvan Esso</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-sylvan-esso-2/) - Curated listening experience
- [Migguel Anggelo: LatinXoxo](https://massmoca.org/event/migguel-anggelo-latinxoxo/) - Gender boundaries (and inhibitions) melt away in this outrageous theatrical concert — a striptease of “Latin Lover” clichés where Anggelo, a “force to be reckoned with” (LA Times), roams through a songscape of iconic pop hits, original compositions, and the Spanish boleros of his youth. The singing, dancing, dragging Anggelo thrills audiences with his “bold
- [Annie Lennox: <span class="title-light">'Now I Let You Go...'</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/annie-lennox-now-i-let-you-go/) - We interact with an infinity of objects from birth to the grave. Over time our ‘belongings’ become more steeped and resonant with memory and nostalgia. In many ways, personal objects express aspects of who we are — our identity: our values: our statements and choices. The passages of time through which we exist become defined
- [Hexadome](https://massmoca.org/event/ism-hexadome/) - Six video screens + 52 speakers = an immersive, 360°, omni-sensory experience — minds blown. Much more than spectacle, Hexadome is a platform for projects by world-renowned artists including Holly Herndon, Thom Yorke, Peter Van Hoesen with Heleen Blanken, and Ben Frost. Ten commissioned installations and a 18-minute segment of The NeverEnding Story (in surround) will run on
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Clipping</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-clipping-3/)
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Clipping</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/clipping/) - Curated listening experience
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Clipping</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-clipping-1/)
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Clipping</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-clipping-2/)
- [Christina Kubisch: <span class="title-light">Clocktower Project</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/christina-kubisch-clocktower-project/) - The comparison of a city's clock to a person's heart, though it has been made countless times, remains evocative. When Christina Kubisch first visited MASS MoCA in 1996, she was moved by the fact that the century-old factory clock had not kept time, nor had its bells rung, since 1986, when the Sprague Electric Company
- [Adult Education](https://massmoca.org/event/a_d_u_l_t_e_d_u_c_a_t_i_o_n/)
- [MASS MoCA on Ice, 2019](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-on-ice/) - MASS MoCA on Ice was open in 2019 and early 2020, thank you to all who joined us! The ice rink is no longer open. In 2019 and early 2020, MASS MoCA on Ice, was the backyard-style skating rink in MASS MoCA's "front yard" next to Bright Ideas Brewing, ROAM Gallery, and A-oK Barbeque, which
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Son Lux</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-son-lux-5/)
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Son Lux</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-son-lux-3/)
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Son Lux</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-son-lux-4/)
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Clipping</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-clipping-2-2/) - Saturday, December 5, 7pm, 7:30pm & 8pm
- [Auditory After Hours: <span class="title-light">Son Lux</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/auditory-after-hours-son-lux/) - Curated listening experience
- [Wall Drawing 1185](https://massmoca.org/event/walldrawing1185/) - Scribbles: Inverted curve (horizontal). October 2005 Graphite Courtesy of the Estate of Sol LeWitt First Installation Galleria Studio G7, Bologna, Italy First Drawn By Asmir Ademagic, Rachela Abbate, Marco Bertozzi, Elisa Cancucci, Alessandra Frisan, Elena Latini, Luca Lolli,Viviana Longo, Benny Mangone, Juri Marsigli, Maria Lucrezia Schiavarelli, Anthony Sansotta, Francesca Simeone, Alessio Tugnoli, Simone Vagnetti MASS
- [Wall Drawing 1046](https://massmoca.org/event/walldrawing1046/) - Bars of color (La Coruña). May 2002 Acrylic paint Courtesy of the Estate of Sol LeWitt First Installation Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, La Coruña, Spain First Drawn By German Tajes Camiño, Sachiko Cho, Jose Ramon Fraga, Jose Carlos Soliño, Manuel Gracia Solana, Constantino Diaz Vazquez, Jose Luis Vazquez, Jo Watanabe The crisscrossing bars
- [Wall Drawing 160](https://massmoca.org/event/walldrawing160/) - A black outlined square with a red diagonal line centered on the axis between the upper left and lower right corners and another red diagonal line centered on the axis between the lower left and upper right corners. April 1973 Red and black crayon Courtesy of the Estate of Sol LeWitt First Installation Museum of
- [Donate to Assets for Artists](https://massmoca.org/event/donate-to-assets-for-artists/) - Supporting artists is more essential than ever
- [Free on the 5s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-5s-2/) - Free admission for North Adams residents
- [Ghostcatching](https://massmoca.org/event/ghostcatching/) - Ghostcatching by Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar finds its place in the unexpected intersection of dance, drawing, and computer composition. The work was made possible by advances in motion capture, a technology that tracks sensors attached to a moving body. The resulting data files reflect the position and rotation of the body in motion, without
- [Wall Drawing 793A](https://massmoca.org/event/walldrawing793b/) - Irregular wavy color bands. January 1996 Color ink wash Courtesy of the Estate of Sol LeWitt First Installation Sala de las Alhajas, Madrid First Drawn By Sachiko Cho, Jo Watanabe MASS MoCA Building 7 Second Floor Many of Sol LeWitt's ink wall drawings consist of thick bands of color. Until 1996 these bands took the
- [Anish Kapoor](https://massmoca.org/event/anish-kapoor/) - Anish Kapoor is known for creating sculptures with extraordinary surfaces that pull viewers in, encouraging close looking. Varying widely in scale and incorporating materials from stone and earth to silicone and PVC, his work combines formal precision with innovative engineering and a precise use of optics and reflectivity. In Untitled (2012), part of a larger
- [Andy Wrba and Friends](https://massmoca.org/event/andy-wrba-and-friends/) - A Berkshire County native and founder of the Berkshire Jazz Collective, Andy Wrba’s become a central fixture of our thriving music community up in the hills. At MASS MoCA he’ll be joined by a who's who of Berkshire-based musicians including Todd Reynolds, Billy Keane and Tory Hanna of The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow, Benny Kohn, and
- [Half Waif](https://massmoca.org/event/half-waif/) - “Striking...beautifully rendered and deeply layered synth-pop.” — Pitchfork The project of electropop visionary — and Williamstown native — Nandi Rose, Half Waif swirls poignant lyrics, expansive instrumentation, and reverberating vocals into shimmering vignettes both intimate and epic in scale. With piles of critical acclaim and international tours with Mitski and Iron & Wine under her
- [Suffering From Realness](https://massmoca.org/event/suffering-from-realness/) - “It will gradually become apparent that at particular moments when there is within a society a crisis of belief…the sheer material factualness of the human body will be borrowed to lend that cultural construct the aura of ‘realness’ and ‘certainty.’ – Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (1985)
- [Robert Rauschenberg <span class="title-light">Lurid Attack of the Monsters</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/robert-rauschenberg/) - Robert Rauschenberg’s approach to art making was expansive and generous and his works reveal his sharp-eyed observations. Harvesting imagery and ideas from the daily news, politics, popular culture, and from his vast circle of friends and fellow artists, he created works which were a prescient harbinger of today’s culture of sampling and remix. Rauschenberg was
- [Trenton Doyle Hancock <span class="title-light">Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/trenton-doyle-hancock-mind-of-the-mound-critical-mass/) - "About 50,000 years ago an ape man named Homerbuctas masturbated in a field of prehistoric flowers giving birth to a legend, no, “The” Legend. For years, there have been reports of large, furry, smelly heaps residing in wooded areas around the world. These reports are supposed sightings of the cryptid (creature not yet verified by
- [Chrissie Hynde: <span class="title-light">Paintings</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/chrissie-hynde-paintings/) - I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock 'n' roll. Finally, I thought, 'Now's the time.' As soon as I could be alone and paint without any interruptions, I just couldn't stop." – Chrissie Hynde In the past five years, Chrissie Hynde has rekindled a love of painting that
- [Titus Kaphar <span class="title-light">Language of the Forgotten</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/titus-kaphar/) - The artist Titus Kaphar is first and foremost interested in history – and in particular whose stories get told, and which ones get left out. Through cutting, bending, sculpting, and remixing historic paintings and sculptures, Kaphar often shifts the focus of the narratives to create new works that exist between fiction and quotation. In 2017,
- [Rafa Esparza <span class="title-light">staring at the sun</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/rafa-esparza/) - Rafa Esparza first used the labor-intensive process of hand-making adobe bricks in 2014. Extending the skill he learned from his father — who made adobe bricks in Mexico to sell and to build his first home — Los Angeles-based Esparza hand-made approximately 1,400 adobe bricks to cover the surface of Michael Parker’s sculpture, The Unfinished.
- [The Bright and Hollow Sky](https://massmoca.org/event/the-bright-and-hollow-sky/) - Music is so intimate – touching our lives through lyrics, melodies, and live performance – that we sometimes feel we know our favorite performers personally. The Bright and Hollow Sky, a title borrowed from Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger,” is the first in a multi-year series of rotating exhibitions drawn from a single private collection of
- [Ciarra Fragale](https://massmoca.org/event/ciarra-fragale/) - 7pm - SOLD OUT 9pm - ON SALE: Friday, September 25, 12pm Born and raised just down the street, in New York's Hudson Valley, singer-songwriter Ciarra Fragale’s "sound is a breath of fresh air" (New Paltz Oracle). Melding indie-folk instrumentals with a blues-tinged croon, Fragale keeps the summer vibes going a little bit longer when
- [<span class="title-light">F<span class="lowercase">resh</span>G<span class="lowercase">rass</span> P<span class="lowercase">resents</span></span> Chris Thile <span class="title-light">Dom Flemons</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/chris-thile-dom-flemons/) - SOLD OUT On what would have been the Saturday night of the 10th annual FreshGrass Bluegrass and Roots Music Festival at MASS MoCA, FreshGrass presents two extraordinary artists who have become part of the family this past decade. Multiple GRAMMY Award-winner and MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile, a member of Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek and
- [June Millington](https://massmoca.org/event/june-millington/) - Limited availability tickets: 7:30pm - SOLD OUT 9:30pm - SOLD OUT Rock ‘n’ roll godmother June Millington made history in the '60s as the co-founder and guitarist of Fanny, one of the first all-women rock bands to be signed to a major label and dubbed as “extraordinary...one of the [finest] rock bands of their time”
- [Open Again July 11](https://massmoca.org/event/o_p_e_n_a_g_a_i_n/) - Purchase Tickets Here
- [Marco Benevento](https://massmoca.org/event/marco-benevento/) - Limited availability tickets: 7:30pm - SOLD OUT 9:30pm - SOLD OUT "One of the most talented keys players of our time" (CBS Radio), Marco Benevento appears at MASS MoCA for a rare solo show you will not want to miss. Just a man and his piano, Benevento will perform a selection from his lengthy discography
- [Huck](https://massmoca.org/event/huck/) - Rescheduled to Sunday, August 30, 7:30pm + 9:30pm Purchase tickets to the 7:30pm show here Purchase tickets to the 9:30pm show here If you have any questions please reach out to Meghan Labbee at mlabbee@massmoca.org or 413-650-5305. With his band Huck, the prolific young Brooklyn-born musician and producer John Wolfe lays down wry, slightly woozy
- [Reed Foehl + Friends](https://massmoca.org/event/reed-foehl/) - Part New England folklore, part Southern charm, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Reed Foehl has an innate gift for hook-laden tunes that linger for days. From traditional folk ballads to barroom sing-alongs, this tunesmith’s “emotional, deeply personal lyrics and indelibly infectious choruses...leave the listener with an overriding sense of optimism” (Glide Magazine) — something we could all use
- [Free on the 5s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-5s/) - Free admission for North Adams residents
- [The Eulogy](https://massmoca.org/event/the-eulogy/) - An extension of The Breath of Empty Space, MASS MoCA shares a video and transcript of Leonardo’s performance The Eulogy. The Eulogy (2015-2017) recreates a New Orleans Jazz funeral procession to hold space for bodies who no longer physically can. Towering above the audience, Leonardo recites a script that combines his own words, honoring the
- [Yasser Tejeda](https://massmoca.org/event/yasser-tejeda/) - Limited availability tickets on sale: 7:30pm - SOLD OUT 9:30pm - SOLD OUT The dynamic and enchanting guitarist and singer Yasser Tejeda’s band Palotré plays a singular brand of Dominican fusion that gives traditional folkloric music a new spin. Jazz, rock, and Caribbean rhythms catalyze to produce "a frenzied celebration of ancestral union" (Billboard). Sounds
- [MASS MoCA Announces Leadership Succession Plan](https://massmoca.org/event/l_e_a_d_e_r_s_h_i_p_1/) - Director Joseph Thompson Announces Plans to Step Down Deputy Director Tracy Moore to Be Appointed Interim Director Following Transition Thompson will Stay on as Special Counsel for Next 12 Months
- [MASS MoCA Announces Leadership Succession Plan](https://massmoca.org/event/l_e_a_d_e_r_s_h_i_p/) - Director Joseph Thompson Announces Plans to Step Down Deputy Director Tracy Moore to Be Appointed Interim Director Following Transition Thompson will Stay on as Special Counsel for Next 12 Months
- [Thursday Nights <span class="title-light">[On Hiatus] </span>](https://massmoca.org/event/thursday-nights/) - In order to continue bringing you the best performing arts of our time in the safest manner possible, we will be pressing pause on the Thursday Nights with Music series to focus all our efforts on weekend performances. Limited capacity, and advance reservations required. This is not the Chalet of summers past, for sure, but
- [The Adventures of Prince Achmed](https://massmoca.org/event/the-adventures-of-prince-achmed/) - SOLD OUT Powered by vibraphonist and composer Bill Ware’s score, performed live by an outstanding horn-heavy band that includes Sam Bardfeld (Bruce Springsteen) on violin and Steven Bernstein (Sexmob) on slide trumpet, this beautiful 1926 silent film by pioneering silhouette animation filmmaker Charlotte Reiniger is based on One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Prepare to
- [Yo La Tengo](https://massmoca.org/event/yo-la-tengo/) - SOLD OUT MASS MoCA favorites Yo La Tengo — one of the most celebrated and adventurous bands in rock history — returns. YLT’s dynamic range touches on pure noise, serene beauty, and everything in between. Each show will feature an acoustic set crafted for the MASS MoCA audience, with songs from across the band's more
- [Bang on a Can & Friends <span class="title-light">with Don Byron and Zoë Keating</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-friends/) - Two evenings of innovative, unexpected, and ear-expanding music, Bang on a Can & Friends’ eclectic program features the Bang on a Can All-Stars with special guests Don Byron, Zoë Keating, Gregg August, Todd Reynolds and music by Louis Andriessen, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Thurston Moore, Steve Reich, and Julia Wolfe. Experience Bang on a Can’s
- [The 1865's Honeychild Coleman + Biz](https://massmoca.org/event/the-1865s-honeychild-coleman-biz/) - Think “Bad Brains meets Foo Fighters in a black woman’s hair salon for a cup of tea.”
- [Treya Lam](https://massmoca.org/event/treya-lam/) - SOLD OUT Treya Lam’s cinematic songs layer ethereal vocals over Nina Simone-inspired piano, meditative guitar, and lush chamber arrangements that reveal her training in classical music — Lam's multi-instrumental debut album Good News was produced by guitar virtuoso Kaki King. For this socially-distanced event, Lam performs in a re-imagined concert courtyard, that takes advantage of
- [Deep Blue Sea: <span class="title-light">Bill T. Jones | Diller Scofidio + Renfro | Peter Nigrini</span> <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/deep-blue-sea-bill-t-jones/) - In response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. SOLD OUT Please call the box office to be put on a wait list, should tickets be released. 413.662.2111×1 A NEW COMMISSION BY PARK AVENUE ARMORY WORK-IN PROGRESS AT MASS MoCA CO-PRESENTED WITH JACOB'S PILLOW Deep Blue Sea, which will have its world premiere at the
- [Roger C. Miller + Ludovico Ensemble <span class="title-light">Music for String Quartet + 2 Turntables</span> <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/roger-c-miller-ludovico-ensemble-music-for-string-quartet-2-turntables/) - In response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Roger Miller, a MASS MoCA regular between appearances with Alloy Orchestra and Mission of Burma, blends elements of classical and rock with looped electric guitar before the evening gives way to Music for String Quartet performed by Ludovico Ensemble, with Miller joining in on the
- [Bell Orchestre <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</style>](https://massmoca.org/event/bell-orchestre/) - In response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. “Everything instrumental post-rock should be…brimming with sound but uncrowded and dazzling with finesse rather than force.” (Pitchfork) A Montreal-based collective that includes Arcade Fire members Richard Reed Parry and Sarah Neufeld, Bell Orchestre has tapped into a distinct energy — something like that of an approaching
- [High Mud Comedy Festival <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</style>](https://massmoca.org/event/high-mud-comedy-festival/) - High Mud, our annual 2-day yuk-fest, returns to North Adams with A-List talent — including John Early, Roy Wood Jr., Jacqueline Novak, and many more.
- [Mark Stewart & Karen Curlee <span class="title-light">The Music of Cole Porter</span> <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</style>](https://massmoca.org/event/the-music-of-cole-porter/) - In response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Join Porches guests, Bang on a Can All-Star Mark Stewart, Broadway’s Karen Curlee, and a quartet of mainstay local musicians for The Music of Cole Porter. The brand new Studio9 at Porches is perhaps the most acoustically proficient (and warm and inviting) listening room in all
- [<span class="title-light">Artist Talk:</span> Kim Faler <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</style>](https://massmoca.org/event/artist-talk-kim-faler/) - In response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. For Kissing through a Curtain, artist Kim Faler created a series of more than 20 sculptures, suspended from the gallery’s two-story ceiling. Each is a large-scale rendering of a wad of chewed bubble gum, cast in materials including metal and chalk. Faler, who is based in
- [<span class="title-light">FreshGrass Presents</span> Michael Daves & Friends <span class="title-light">featuring Jacob Jolliff</span><span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</style>](https://massmoca.org/event/michael-daves/) - In response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Flatpicker Michael Daves, who plays with the likes of Chris Thile, Steve Martin, and Tony Trischka, grew up playing bluegrass in that grand old tradition of staying up late and singing real loud. Now heralded as “a leading light of the New York bluegrass scene” (The
- [Raga Maqam<span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/raga-maqam/) - In response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. The cutting edge ensemble Raga Maqam explores the confluences of Indian classical Raga and Maqam, the improvisational structure of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. This work-in-progress performance comes after a week-long residency of intensive jamming and experimentation — expect deep grooves and never-before-heard
- [Liz Phair<span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/liz-phair/) - In response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Legendary indie darling Liz Phair rocketed onto the 90s stage with her raw, empowering lyrics about sex and relationships. Exile in Guyville, her 1993 gold-selling studio debut, and its beloved followup Whip Smart became the soundtrack of a generation of girls ready for anarchy and honesty.
- [Members Opening Reception <span class="title-light">Kissing through a Curtain, Gamaliel Rodriguez, Ad Minoliti</span><span class="title-light">[POSTPONED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/members-opening-reception-may-23/) - This event has been postponed. Please stay in touch as further details will be forthcoming. Join us on May 23 to celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions: Kissing through a Curtain, Gamaliel Rodríguez: La travesía/Le voyage, and Ad Minoliti: Fantasías Modulares. Please join us for a performance of taracatá trabaja, conceptualized by artist Jimena
- [SayReal <span class="title-light">Members-Only Performance</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/sayreal/) - Rescheduled to Wednesday, July 15, 8:30pm SOLD OUT “Making music for the revolutionary soul, a SayReal song is a visionary’s anthem.” — AFROPUNK Following up a Members-Only preview day in the galleries on July 10, we continue to spread the member love with a first look at our totally reimagined concert courtyard where an industrial
- [Open Again July 11](https://massmoca.org/event/open-again-july-11/) - Purchase Tickets Here
- [Open Again July 11](https://massmoca.org/event/open-again-july-11-3/) - Purchase Tickets Here
- [Open Again July 11](https://massmoca.org/event/open-again-july-11-2/) - Purchase Tickets Here
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA is Open](https://massmoca.org/event/were-open/) - Purchase Tickets Here
- [Artist Talks + Events](https://massmoca.org/event/a_r_t_i_s_t-t_a_l_k_s/)
- [Still I Rise](https://massmoca.org/event/still-i-rise/) - You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise Drawing from Maya Angelou’s 1978 verse, Still I Rise uses portraiture to re-imagine nuanced images of women. Artists Deborah Roberts, Genevieve Gaignard, E2 – Kleinveld & Julien, Gustave Blache
- [Cauleen Smith <span class="title-light">We Already Have What We Need</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/cauleen-smith/) - Cauleen Smith describes her work as a reflection on “the everyday possibilities of the imagination.” Trained as a filmmaker, the multidisciplinary artist creates visual and phenomenological experiences that ruminate on social, cultural, intellectual, artistic, and political liberation. Her stunning works draw on poetry, Afrofuturism, science fiction, and tactics of experimental film to conjure alternative narratives
- [FreshGrass Festival 2020 <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-festival-2020/) - FreshGrass | Bentonville, originally postponed from April until October 2020, cancels this year’s festival. Please stay tuned to learn about a 2021 edition! FreshGrass / North Adams, scheduled for September, cancels its 2020 festival, with its 2021 event scheduled for September 24-26. An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly
- [Museum Update](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-homepage-2/)
- [Museum Update](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-homepage/)
- [We Need You.](https://massmoca.org/event/we-need-you-2/)
- [Violent Femmes <span class="title-light">and</span> X <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/violent-femmes-and-x/) - This event has been cancelled. Click here to learn more. With its self-titled, platinum-selling 1983 debut album, the Violent Femmes instantly became one of the most inventive and surprising bands of the era, brandishing a singular blend of folk and punk, sarcasm and spirituality, which made brilliant stories of anguish, shame and lust into hilariously
- [We Need You. <span class="title-light">More from Joe</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/we-need-you/) - Thanks for digging deeper. I write seeking your financial support. By now, 76 days have passed since MASS MoCA’s last performing arts event, and 68 days since the last visitor graced our galleries. Much has transpired: After losing – almost overnight – nearly all earned revenues (which comprised 70% of our total budget), we laid
- [Donate Now](https://massmoca.org/event/d_o_n_a_t_e_n_o_w/) - Keep MASS MoCA thriving
- [Open Studios <span class="title-light">[CANCELLED]</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-mar-20/)
- [Reserve Now<span class="title-light">James Turrell <br> Laurie Anderson</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/james-turrell-and-laurie-anderson-reserve-now/)
- [<span class="title-light">High Mud Comedy Festival Presents</span> Becca Blackwell: Schmermie's Choice](https://massmoca.org/event/becca-blackwell/) - Trans actor, performer, and writer Becca Blackwell’s stand-up special/teen zine confessional is a provocative and hilarious personal tale of being adopted into a religious Midwestern family, molested, trained to be a girl, but plagued by the question, “How do I become a man, and do I even want that?” Make a Plan This event contains
- [Swarm Season](https://massmoca.org/event/swarm-season/) - An impressionistic documentary that plays like poetic science fiction, Swarm Season links endangered bees, NASA exploration, indigenous cosmology, and volcanic activity into an interconnected web of looming man-made catastrophe. Following the screening join us for a Q&A with filmmakers and invited guests. Filmmaker Sarah Christman will join us for a conversation after Swarm Season. February
- [Dave Cole <span class="title-light">The Knitting Machine</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/dave-cole-the-knitting-machine/) - On the most American of holiday weekends, MASS MoCA presented a truly monumental and uniquely American sculptural installation by Dave Cole. Starting June 30, 2005, Cole was in residence at MASS MoCA with his project The Knitting Machine, which comprised two excavators specially fitted with massive 20' knitting needles. The product of The Knitting Machine was
- [Sam Evian](https://massmoca.org/event/sam-evian/) - Brooklyn-based indie pop singer-songwriter Sam Evian “wears his 1960s influences unabashedly, stirring in flecks of light psychedelia” (Pitchfork). Evian and his fun band bring a sunshiny vibe to North Adams in the depths of winter. Make a Plan This event will be “up in the club” with lounge seating. Preferred ticket seats are located by
- [Xu Bing <span class="title-light">Phoenix</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/xu-bing-phoenix/) - Drawing inspiration from the contemporary realities of his fast-changing country, Chinese artist Xu Bing spent two years creating his newest work, Phoenix. The installation featured two monumental birds fabricated entirely from materials harvested from construction sites in urban China, including demolition debris, steel beams, tools, and remnants of the daily lives of migrant laborers. At
- [Border South](https://massmoca.org/event/border-south/) - To stem the immigration tide, Mexico and the U.S. collaborate to crack down on migrants, forcing them into ever more dangerous territory. Border South reveals the immigrants’ resilience, ingenuity, and humor as it exposes a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death. Following the screening join us for
- [Criminal <span class="title-light">Live Podcast</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/criminal/) - SOLD OUT Please call the box office to be put on a wait list, should tickets be released. 413.662.2111×1 This wildly popular true crime podcast, Criminal, comes to North Adams for a live recording of stories about people who have done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. “No matter how strange
- [Let the People Decide](https://massmoca.org/event/let-the-people-decide/) - Nowhere is American democracy more at risk than in the fairness of our elections — a concept explored in depth in this scathing and insightful look into the attack on voting rights for African Americans in North Carolina. Following the screening join us for a Q&A with filmmakers and invited guests. Filmmaker Gavin Guerra will
- [American Factory](https://massmoca.org/event/american-factory/) - When a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in a shuttered General Motors plant in Ohio, a culture clash unfolds that sheds light on the future of American labor and Chinese economic dominance. Following the screening, stay for a Q&A with filmmakers and invited guests. Producer Jeff Reichert, Williams College Professor of Economics Sara LaLumia, and
- [Jaleel Shaw](https://massmoca.org/event/jaleel-shaw/) - SOLD OUT Please call the Box Office for more information (413) 662-2111 ×1 Saxophonist and bandleader Jaleel Shaw “plays with seductive melodicism” (The Washington Post) — perfect for a post-Valentines night out. Shaw has performed and recorded with the likes of Roy Hargrove, Mingus Big Band, Christian McBride, Chick Corea, and Jason Moran. Now fronting
- [High Mud Comedy Fest](https://massmoca.org/event/high-mud-2019/) - Our annual salute to a few funny things will gather world champion comedians to enlighten us with humor in this heightened moment. Come for laugh-filled workshops, wickedly mocking museum tours, and hilarious musical interludes. Friday, March 29 BUY FRIDAY PASS 8pm Hosted by James Adomian Sarah Squirm Judah Friedlander Saturday, March 30 BUY SATURDAY
- [B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building Grand Opening](https://massmoca.org/event/building-6-grand-opening/) - More art, more music, and a bike path through the building.
- [Cocktails with Curators: Susan Cross on Ledelle Moe](https://massmoca.org/event/cocktails-with-curators-susan-cross-on-ledelle-moe/) - Members are invited to join curator Susan Cross for insights on South African-artist Ledelle Moe's Building 5 exhibition, When. Stick around for beer and wine with fellow members after checking out these monumental sculptures. RSVP to members@massmoca.org Not yet a member? Become one here. Join us later in the evening when Gregory Maqoma, the South
- [M.A.K.U. Soundsystem](https://massmoca.org/event/m-a-k-u-soundsystem/) - Come for Community Day (free admission for all visitors!) and stay for the fiery rhythms of M.A.K.U. Soundsystem, an immigrant band formed in NYC that mashes Colombian folklore, psychedelic rock, and Caribbean grooves using traditional percussion, drums, synths, bass, guitar, and sizzling horns. Make a Plan This event will be “up in the club” with
- [Ian Chang: 属](https://massmoca.org/event/ian-chang-属/) - "One of music's greatest drummers." (NPR) Electronic artist/drummer Ian Chang collaborates with visual duo Endless Endless to create a mesmerizing world of integrated sound, light, and projection that responds to Chang's cathartic drumming. Be advised: Strobe lights are used during this performance. Make a Plan This event will be held "up in the club." Every seat
- [Open Studios](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-feb-20/)
- [Natasha Bowdoin <span class="title-light">Maneater</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/natasha-bowdoin-maneater/) - Houston, TX-based artist Natasha Bowdoin builds wall-works with words. In her largest-ever cut paper and collage installation, she investigates the intersections of the visual, the experiential, and the literary, treating language and nature as kindred phenomena. Referencing such sources as Golden Age children’s book illustrations, 19th-century botanical drawings, floral textile patterns, lunar maps, and prints
- [Members Opening Reception <span class="title-light">Ledelle Moe</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/members-opening-reception-ledelle-moe/) - Join us on December 14 to celebrate the opening of Ledelle Moe: When. Ledelle Moe’s weathered, monolithic heads and figures variously bring to mind the relics of an ancient civilization or statues toppled in the wake of political upheaval. On close examination, what appears to be timeworn stone reveals itself as concrete, and the massive
- [David Neumann and Marcella Murray: Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed](https://massmoca.org/event/david-neumann/) - What might constructive conversations on race feel like? Award-winning choreographer and theater artist (and MASS MoCA favorite) David Neumann with co-creator Marcella Murray stage their years-long dialogue on the subject inside a TV talk show featuring video, personal histories, the unpacking of scientific uncertainties, and bright bursts of mesmerizing dance. What to Expect All seating
- [Open Studios](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-dec-19/)
- [DELSONIDO](https://massmoca.org/event/delsonido/) - Brooklyn-based DELSONIDO’s founding members hail from Barranquilla on Colombia’s northern coast. Their music is a riotous hot pot of Caribbean sounds together with influences from NYC’s vibrant electronica, rock, and underground jazz scenes. Bring your dancing shoes. What to Expect Have dinner and drinks on MASS MoCA's campus or in downtown North Adams before the
- [Misty Blues <span class="title-light">20th Anniversary Concert</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/misty-blues-20th-anniversary-concert/) - Berkshire County's favorite blues band is celebrating two decades of tasty tunes on one delicious night. Fronted by the powerful and stirring bandleader, Gina Coleman, Misty Blues has been a foundation of the Berkshires music scene since its inception. Name a Berkshire music venue (past or present) and the odds are that Misty Blues played
- [Book Club: BLK FMNNST Loaner Library](https://massmoca.org/event/book-club-blk-fmnnst-loaner-library-whatever-happened-to-interracial-love/) - Read and discuss selections from exhibiting artist Cauleen Smith’s BLK FMNNST Loaner Library 1989–2019 — paintings of the covers of must-read texts. Discussions take place over three sessions this fall. Facilitated by Gwendolyn VanSant Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?, 2016 Written in the 1960s, these posthumously published stories by pioneering filmmaker Kathleen Collins explore race,
- [Open Studios](https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-jan-25/)
- [Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend 2019](https://massmoca.org/event/loud-weekend-2019/) - CLICK HERE FOR THE HOUR-BY-HOUR FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Weekend Passes Friday Passes Saturday Passes Sunday Passes Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present LOUD Weekend, a fully loaded eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental and electronic music. Head to bangonacan.org for more info and the hour-by-hour schedule. Some highlights of the inaugural Bang on a
- [<span class="title-light">High Mud Comedy Festival Presents</span> Josh Gondelman](https://massmoca.org/event/josh-gondelman/) - Emmy Award-winning Boston-bred comedian Josh Gondelman has made a name for himself writing and producing for hilarious hit shows like Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Desus and Mero, and Billy on the Street — and now, he's making a face for himself too with stand-up appearances on Conan, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and
- [Artist Talk: Genevieve Gaignard](https://massmoca.org/event/artist-talk-genevieve-gaignard/) - Exhibiting artist Genevieve Gaignard – whose work focuses on photographic self-portraiture, sculpture, and installation to explore race, femininity, class, and their various intersections – discusses her extensive and topical practice. What to Expect MASS MoCA members are invited to a post-talk cocktail reception with the artist and Kidspace curator Laura Thompson. MASS MoCA strives to
- [<span class="title-light">Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Presents</span> Artists as Advocates](https://massmoca.org/event/sundance-institute-theatre-lab-presents-shaina-taub/) - Join award-winning songwriter Shaina Taub and friends for an intimate cabaret evening. Drawing off the themes of this year’s Lab, Sundance Institute artists will perform an array of musical selections related to activism, gender equity, and social justice. What to Expect This event will be “up in the club” with cabaret-style seating. Preferred ticket seats
- [The New Pornographers <span class="title-light">with Parsonsfield</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/the-new-pornographers/) - Calling all Neko Case fans. The emotive, erudite chanteuse is hauling her best musician friends and favorite side project, The New Pornographers (featuring the stellar lineup of Case plus AC Newman, Kathryn Calder, Todd Fancey, Blaine Thurier, John Collins, Joe Seiders and Simi Stone), to MASS MoCA for a Thursday night show — we feel so
- [Book Club: BLK FMNNST Loaner Library](https://massmoca.org/event/book-club-blk-fmnnst-loaner-library-in-the-wake/) - A community book club featuring selections from exhibiting artist Cauleen Smith’s BLK FMNNST Loaner Library 1989–2019 — paintings of the covers of must-read texts. Discussions take place over three sessions this fall. Facilitated by Gwendolyn VanSant In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, 2016 Christina Sharpe’s highly influential non-fiction book In the Wake uses the
- [Liberian Girl in Brooklyn](https://massmoca.org/event/liberian-girl-in-brooklyn/) - This riveting one-woman show from dynamic singer and actor Marcelle Davies-Lashley is a moving snapshot of her family history and West African roots, brought to life with live original music, dance, and powerful storytelling. What to Expect This event will be “up in the club” with cabaret-style seating. Preferred ticket seats are located by the
- [Jenny Holzer](https://massmoca.org/event/j_e_n_n_y_h_o_l_z_e_r/)
- [Janice Kerbel <span class="title-light">Slip</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/janice-kerbel-slip/) - At once poetic and darkly comedic, Janice Kerbel’s Slip uses graphic musical notation to imagine the trajectory of a body in mortal peril as it slips on a banana peel. Moving from very small to very large print along an upward curve before suddenly crashing downward, Slip unfolds across more than 100 running feet of
- [Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller’s PARLOUR GAME](https://massmoca.org/event/parlour-game/) - In their latest endeavor PARLOUR GAME, violinist Jenny Scheinman and drummer Allison Miller — most recently at MASS MoCA with her propulsive Boom Tic Boom! — dig into the rootsier elements of jazz along with formidable pianist Carmen Staaf and bassist Tony Scherr. From the classic format of the piano quartet, they explore swing, gogo,
- [Members Opening Reception <span class="title-light">Sarah Oppenheimer,<br>Jenny Holzer,<br>and ERRE</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/members-opening-reception-oppenheimer-holzer-erre/) - Join us on October 26 to celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions: Sarah Oppenheimer: S-334473, Jenny Holzer, and ERRE: THEM AND US: ELLOS Y NOSOTROS. Sarah Oppenheimer's work pivots between sculpture and architecture, disrupting our experience of spatial continuity and shaping our experience of the built environment. For MASS MoCA, Oppenheimer will re-orient S-337473
- [Orion Sun](https://massmoca.org/event/orion-sun/) - Orion Sun is the one-woman project of Philly-based singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tiffany Majette, an emerging creative force of nature who is destined for greatness. Echos of Frank Ocean and Lauryn Hill permeate her mellow, carefully crafted songs, which are perfect “to dance to, cry to, fall in love to” (WXPN Philadelphia). What to Expect
- [In a Grove](https://massmoca.org/event/in-a-grove/) - Based on the Japanese short story of the same name that was later adapted by Akira Kurosawa as his award-winning 1950 film Rashomon, In A Grove is an opera in development by composer Christopher Cerrone and the innovative Metropolis Ensemble, an orchestra dedicated to a new future for classical music. Christopher Cerrone, composer Mary Birnbaum,
- [Cauleen Smith: H-E-L-L-O...There's No Place Like Home...Somewhere Over the Rainbow...We Atone](https://massmoca.org/event/cauleen-smith-h-e-l-l-o-theres-no-place-like-home-somewhere-over-the-rainbow-we-atone/) - Joining the North Adams annual Fall Foliage Parade, Cauleen Smith’s procession features a local marching band playing a composition based on the iconic notes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Wizard of Oz, along with a color guard waving flags designed by the artist. With music by Jeff Parker and choreography by
- [Kimbra <span class="title-light">with Emily Wells</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/kimbra-with-emily-wells/) - New Zealand pop savant Kimbra mixes electronic beats with jazz, rock, and a killer R&B delivery that makes her an in-demand collaborator with the likes of Snoop Dogg and Gotye. Her music is boundaryless, with influences encompassing Prince, Björk, and Jeff Buckley. Kimbra’s Hunter Center concert will be a moment of ecstatic release to close
- [Time of Now: A Weekend of Thought and Performance](https://massmoca.org/event/time-of-now-a-festival-of-thought-and-performance/) - Pay attention. That's easier said than done, as our ability to focus is disrupted by rapid-fire technology, a 24-hour news cycle, and the constant buzz around us. This two-day gathering of artists and thinkers asks what it means to be human today. With Cauleen Smith, MPA, ERRE, Gustave Blache III, Brandee Younger, Kimbra + Emily Wells
- [Book Club: BLK FMNNST Loaner Library](https://massmoca.org/event/book-club-blk-fmnnst-loaner-library-parable-of-the-sower/) - A community book club featuring selections from exhibiting artist Cauleen Smith’s BLK FMNNST Loaner Library 1989–2019 — paintings of the covers of must-read texts. Discussions take place over three sessions this fall. Facilitated by Gwendolyn VanSant Parable of the Sower, 1993 Octavia Butler’s riveting science fiction novel Parable of the Sower is set in 2024
- [Dawn DeDeaux and Lonnie Holley <span class="title-light">Thumbs Up for the Mothership</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/thumbs-up-for-the-mothership/) - Thumbs Up for the Mothership
- [FreshGround 2019 Camping and <br>Camp Aggie RVs + Camping](https://massmoca.org/event/freshground-and-camp-aggie-2019/) - FreshGround is a tent-camping field within easy walking distance (.7 miles; 12 minutes) of the FreshGrass bluegrass festival, convenient to downtown merchants, bars, and restaurants. A shuttle bus runs continuously to the festival from the campsite. Camp Aggie for RV and tent camping is located 4 miles down the road from the festival. Shuttle buses
- [FreshGrass Festival 2019](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-festival-2019/) - Tickets on sale now! Purchase 3-Day passes here - available at the gate Friday single-day passes - available at the gate. Saturday single-day passes - available at the gate. Sunday single-day passes - available at the gate. Daily schedule here. An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming
- [Jenny Holzer <span class="title-light">For North Adams</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jenny-holzer-for-north-adams/) - For North Adams, 2017 Light projection MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA Saturday, May 27 – Sunday, June 25 Wednesdays through Sundays, from dusk until 11pm Text rises out of the surface of the Hoosic River or materializes on blades of grass before scrolling slowly over industrial pane glass windows and brick. The beauty of the
- [Flying Lotus](https://massmoca.org/event/flying-lotus/) - A dance party to end this summer — and maybe all summers! The experimental hip-hop and electronic artist, label-founder, filmmaker, Adult Swim mastermind, and all-around wizard of the LA underground beat scene Flying Lotus swoops into town as part of a limited tour, with a video wall, 3-D glasses for all, and a head full
- [Jupiter & Okwess](https://massmoca.org/event/jupiter-okwess/) - Led by the dynamic frontman Jupiter Bokondji Ilola, Jupiter & Okwess mixes traditional Congolese rhythms with Western rock and pop styles to create “vigorous, inventive variations on funk” (The New York Times) that add up to pure dance-floor bliss. What to Expect Have dinner and drinks on MASS MoCA's campus or in downtown North Adams
- [Cha Wa](https://massmoca.org/event/cha-wa/) - Deep funk beats and bass-heavy sousaphone blasts mix with the gritty warmth of singer J’Wan Boudreaux’s voice to create an irresistible New Orleans brass band-meets-Mardi Gras Indian sound. The Grammy-nominated Cha Wa radiates the fiery energy of the best features of Big Easy street culture. What to Expect In good weather, we dance outside in
- [Laurie Anderson Presents: LOU REED DRONES with Stewart Hurwood](https://massmoca.org/event/laurie-anderson-presents-lou-reed-drones-with-stewart-hurwood/) - Laurie Anderson presents a drone-based sonic experience utilizing guitars from her late husband Lou Reed's collection. The installation, curated by Reed's former guitar technician, Stewart Hurwood, places the instruments in an arrangement against a group of amplifiers so that their tuned feedback creates an enveloping drone of harmonics that shifts and changes, depending on the
- [Artist Talk: Cauleen Smith](https://massmoca.org/event/artist-talk-cauleen-smith/) - Cauleen Smith discusses her exhibition We Already Have What We Need and her practice in general, which is often described as an exploration of “the everyday possibilities of the imagination.”
- [Maggie Rogers <span class="title-light">with special guest Natalie Prass</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/maggie-rogers/) - REGRETS -- THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT. Anticipation for Maggie Rogers’ major label debut has been building for three years since a viral video shot her to instant stardom, and Heard It in a Past Life, released in January of this year, has not disappointed. Her exceptional blend of soulful pop and indie folk marks
- [Artist Talk with Chrissie Hynde](https://massmoca.org/event/chrissie-hynde/) - "I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock 'n' roll. Finally, I thought, 'Now's the time.' As soon as I could be alone and paint without any interruptions, I just couldn't stop." – Chrissie Hynde In the past five years, Chrissie Hynde has rekindled a love of painting that predates
- [The Pretenders <span class="title-light">with C. Gibbs</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/the-pretenders/) - In the band's only North American appearance this year, The Pretenders play MASS MoCA on July 26, with proceeds from this benefit concert supporting the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music, which underwrites new work by emerging and established musicians at MASS MoCA. Brooklyn-based C. Gibbs opens the evening with guests from Bang
- [Adia Victoria](https://massmoca.org/event/adia-victoria/) - The Nashville-based Adia Victoria treats the blues like a matter of life and death for her — as NPR put it, she’s “redefining what it means to be a Southern blueswoman — that's a wily, radical and thoroughly contemporary role.” Or, as Victoria tells The New York Times, “I want to make the blues dangerous
- [Caroline Rose](https://massmoca.org/event/caroline-rose/) - The multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and fierce frontwoman Caroline Rose may hail from Brooklyn, but she's a solid Berkshire favorite. Rose has been turning heads with her synth-heavy, critically acclaimed 2018 release Loner, which veered from her earlier folk sound into darkly funny, danceable pop. A celebration of self-expression and reflection, Zenizen opens the evening with its
- [Gregg August, Ken Thomson and friends](https://massmoca.org/event/gregg-august-ken-thomson-and-friends/) - Clarinetist and composer Ken Thomson performs burst for clarinet and prerecorded backing track and Uneasy with Todd Reynolds, violin; Nick Photinos, cello; Karl Larson, piano. Gregg August (bass) performs a new piece for solo bass called Les Feuilles Mortes-From Sam Jones to Israel Crosby, based on the bass line introduction of Autumn Leaves, played by
- [New short pieces by festival composers](https://massmoca.org/event/new-short-pieces-by-festival-composers/) - Hot off the press! Composer fellows jump in to create new and exciting works especially for the festival while they are here in residence. Crackerjack performers Nick Photinos (cello), Theodosia Roussos (voice and oboe), Gregg August (bass), Adam Holmes (percussion), and Georgia Mills (piano) are gonna totally rock on these delightful miniatures for duo and
- [Ghanaian drumming](https://massmoca.org/event/ghanaian-drumming/) - Led by drum and dance master Nani Agbeli, Bang on a Can fellows perform music and dance from Ghana. Nani will lead an informal workshop for audience members after the performance.
- [Concert at the Lake](https://massmoca.org/event/concert-at-the-lake-3/) - Our annual blow-out avant-variety show!! Bring a blanket.
- [Todd Reynolds and Nina Young](https://massmoca.org/event/todd-reynolds-and-nina-young/) - Violinist-composer Todd Reynolds teams up with composer Nina Young to create a collaborative formal composition which explodes the vibrations of bowed and struck metal, wood, string, and voices, spun electronically into four channels of breathing, evolving sound.
- [Found Sound Nation](https://massmoca.org/event/found-sound-nation-2/) - This performance is the culmination of a 3-day lab involving all the festival fellows where they explore playing and composing through a series of exercises inspired by Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening pieces and Brain Eno's radical spontaneity games. The fellows will create new works in small ensembles to be performed in multiple galleries.
- [Nick Photinos, cello](https://massmoca.org/event/nick-photinos-cello/) - Cellist Nick Photinos performs two world premieres: Ken Thomson's Decades pass for 4 cellos (with Lauren Radnofsky, Martha Petri, and Gramm Drennen) and the cello and piano version of John Adams' Road Movies featuring Karl Larson.
- [Lunchtime concert series](https://massmoca.org/event/lunchtime-concert-series/) - WEEKDAYS JULY 18–AUG 2, 1:30pm Performances by festival fellows all around the gallery spaces. Check the sign in the lobby for location.
- [Latin Big Band](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-latin-big-band/) - Led by Gregg August, Ben Lapidus, and Mauricio Herrera, the Bang on a Can fellows perform for free at the American Legion bar. Bring your dancing shoes.
- [Mark Stewart and friends](https://massmoca.org/event/mark-stewart-and-friends-2/) - Music for Guitars, Banjo, Mandocello, plumbing pipes, stethoscopes & All Folks Present
- [Karl Larson, piano](https://massmoca.org/event/karl-larson-piano/) - Karl Larson performs SOVT, a spacious meditation for solo piano by Sarah Hennies.
- [Matthew Barney: Redoubt <span class="title-light">Co-Presented with Williams College Museum of Art</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/matthew-barney/) - Set in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, Matthew Barney’s feature-length film layers classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity’s place in the natural world, continuing Barney’s long-standing focus on landscape as both setting and subject. Redoubt adapts the myth of Diana, goddess of the hunt, and Actaeon, a hunter who trespasses on her and is punished
- [John Simon](https://massmoca.org/event/john-simon/) - Legendary music producer John Simon put his stamp on some of the greatest albums ever recorded, from The Band’s Music from Big Pink to Janis Joplin’s Cheap Thrills to Leonard Cohen’s early records. He’s in North Adams playing songs and telling stories from his book Truth, Lies & Hearsay: A Memoir of a Musical Life
- [Liz Glynn <span class="title-light">The Archaeology of Another Possible Future</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/liz-glynn-the-archaeology-of-another-possible-future/) - Los Angeles-based artist Liz Glynn presents her most ambitious project to date in MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery, a sprawling sculptural experience of sight, sensation, sound, and scent stretching nearly a football field in length. The Archaeology of Another Possible Future expands Glynn’s interest in the rise and fall of empires, the assignment of
- [Solid Sound Festival 2019](https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-festival-2019/) - Tickets are on sale now. Weekend Passes are sold out. Saturday Passes are sold out. Friday Passes are sold out. Sunday Passes – check Solid Sound website for more availability Reserve tent sites here. Reserve tent & RV sites here. Reserve rooms in a suite style residence hall here. Spanning three days and four stages,
- [Meet the Artist <span class="title-light">Jerry Gretzinger</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/meet-the-artist-jerry-gretzinger/) - A Half-Century Project of Imagination In 1963, Jerry Gretzinger doodled a map of a small imaginary town. His sketch took on a life of its own and, as of his exhibition at MASS MoCA in 2012, was comprised of over 2,600 hand-crafted panels spanning a jaw-dropping 2,000 square feet. The world he depicted evolved and
- [Kidspace Opening Reception <span class="title-light">Still I Rise</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/kidspace-opening-reception-still-i-rise/) - You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise Drawing from Maya Angelou’s 1978 verse, Still I Rise uses portraiture to re-imagine nuanced images of women. Artists Gustave Blache III, E2 – Kleinveld & Julien, Genevieve Gaignard, Tim Okamura,
- [Bombino](https://massmoca.org/event/bombino/) - “North African desert blues (or Tichumaren in Tamasheq, the Tuareg language) has become arguably the most successful world music genre to break through since reggae — and few performers have wielded the guitar with such mastery and majesty as Bombino,” (The New York Times). Bombino’s previous records, produced by the likes of The Black Keys’
- [Victoria Palermo <span class="title-light">Bus Stand</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/victoria-palermo-bus-stand/) - The Bus Stand, designed by artist Victoria Palermo, is a public artwork and permanent addition to the North Adams community, adding to the movement to bring more public art to the city through the efforts of DownStreet Art. Palermo, of Queensbury, New York, is a visiting assistant professor of Art at Skidmore College. Her work
- [LADAMA](https://massmoca.org/event/ladama/) - "Irresistible spirit and universal appeal" — NPR An ensemble of women who hail from every corner of the Americas, LADAMA performs a Pan-Latin blend of original music and traditional songs. The group formed at OneBeat, a fellowship that promotes cultural diplomacy through international collaboration—and hard-hitting social engagement is an important part of LADAMA’s mission, and
- [Kate Wallich + The YC X Perfume Genius](https://massmoca.org/event/kate-wallich-the-yc-x-perfume-genius/) - The Sun Still Burns Here, a new collaboration by Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich and musician/composer Mike Hadreas of the band Perfume Genius, conjures a spiritual unraveling of romantic decay. Two musicians, five dancers, and four designers create a three-dimensional performance that integrates indie rock with contemporary dance. What to Expect Seating is general admission. Preferred
- [Tank and the Bangas](https://massmoca.org/event/tank-and-the-bangas/) - "Unpredictable, theatrical and full of funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz and spoken word freshness – Tank and the Bangas, who broke out as the winners of NPR's Tiny Desk Concert contest, might not be able to describe the sounds they emit – but it is beautiful nonetheless" (Okayplayer). This is one of the finest party bands
- [It’s Rude to Stare <span class="title-light">Drawing and Sculpture by Richard Criddle</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/its-rude-to-stare/) - It's Rude to Stare featured the sculpture and drawings of English-born, Vermont-based artist Richard Criddle. In a personal "archaeological dig" into his childhood fears and stories, Criddle, as many of us do, interpreted these memories as larger than life. He presented his autobiography with oversized sculptural figures made from wood, bronze, fabricated steel, and found
- [Pledges of Allegiance](https://massmoca.org/event/pledges-of-allegiance/) - Pledges of Allegiance, a project of Creative Time in NYC, was a serialized commission of sixteen flags, each created by an acclaimed artist, aiming to inspire political participation across cultural institutions and their communities. We raised 4 flags in spring 2018. Each flag pointed to an issue that the individual artist was passionate about, a
- [Mastheads](https://massmoca.org/event/mastheads/) - The Mastheads’ five writing studios, designed by architects Tessa Kelly and Chris Parkinson, spatially interpret the Berkshire work and homes of American Renaissance writers Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Photo: Iwan Baan
- [Etel Adnan <span class="title-light">A yellow sun A green sun a yellow sun A red sun a blue sun</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/etel-adnan/) - How does the experience of reading poetry differ from the experience of looking at a painting? What reveries can a poem evoke that a painting cannot, and vice versa? Presenting a selection of paintings in oil and ink by the prolific Arab-American artist Etel Adnan, alongside a small reading room with her written works, A
- [Allison Janae Hamilton <span class="title-light">Pitch</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/allison-janae-hamilton-pitch/) - Allison Janae Hamilton’s evocative work is influenced by the sights and sounds of the southern landscape. Her photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations feature environments familiar to the north Florida and Tennessee landscapes that are home to her family — boiling swamps and tall pines, vespid wasps and green anoles, wild horses, and white clapboard houses.
- [TARYN SIMON <br>A COLD HOLE <br> ASSEMBLED AUDIENCE](https://massmoca.org/event/taryn-simon-assembled-audience-a-cold-hole/) - An ambitious exhibition featuring two new installation-based commissions by artist Taryn Simon, which activates the rituals of applause and the cold water plunge.
- [An Afternoon of Conversation and Song with Annie Lennox](https://massmoca.org/event/annie-lennox/) - SOLD OUT Please contact the box office at (413) 662-2111 to be added to the waitlist To launch her exhibition, Annie Lennox: 'Now I Let You Go...', and to kick off a day-long celebration of MASS MoCA's 20-year anniversary on May 25, Lennox will share stories and perform songs in an afternoon solo performance to benefit The Annie Lennox Foundation (supporting social
- [Opening Reception](https://massmoca.org/event/may-25-opening-reception/) - Join us on May 25 to celebrate the opening of four new exhibitions: Annie Lennox: 'Now I Let You Go...', Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We Need, Suffering from Realness, and Joe Manning: Looking at North Adams. This opening reception is free for all. Across and within a massive earthen mound wending through two
- [Soul Science Lab <span class="title-light">Let Your Soul Glow</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/soul-science-lab/) - Trenton Doyle Hancock recently introduced us to Soul Science Lab, the music and multimedia duo Chen Lo and Asante Amin. Backed by a smoking-hot live band, they transport us on an inspiring journey of cross-cultural exploration via words and video, all wrapped in an irresistible soundtrack of hip-hop, funk, soul, and Afrobeat. What to Expect
- [Les Nubians <span class="title-light">Co-Presented with O+ North Adams</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/les-nubians/) - Les Nubians is the French-Cameroonian duo whose 1998 debut earned a Grammy nom for its singular blend of warm R&B and francophone hip-hop. Two decades later, the grooves are as strong and danceable as ever — and the perfect party to close out North Adams’ first-ever O+ Festival. Local musician Spero will warm us up.
- [Free for Berkshire County](https://massmoca.org/event/free-berkshire-county-3/) - From Monday, May 6, through Monday, May 13, MASS MoCA is opening its doors and waiving admission fees for all Berkshire County residents. Proof of Berkshire County residence is all you need to enjoy the galleries. Don't miss beer, barbeque, and ice cream while you're here. Be sure to visit North Adams' first-ever O+ Festival
- [9th Annual Teen Invitational](https://massmoca.org/event/teen-invitational/) - “We love this raucous show!” — MASS MoCA Director Joseph Thompson A collaboration with high school art teachers, principals, and artists in the northern Berkshires, MASS MoCA’s 9th annual Teen Invitational brings local students’ and instructors’ work to the public for one long weekend — and one fun party. Catch the best of our young
- [Don Gummer <span class="title-light">Primary Separation</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/don-gummer-primary-separation/) - Primary Separation was first designed by the artist Donald Gummer in 1969 in a small model, and was realized here at full scale in 2006. The sculpture consists of a massive granite boulder, 12 feet long by 6 feet tall, sawed in half. The stone halves—separated by an 11-inch gap—are suspended 10 feet above ground, within
- [Mitski <span class="title-light">with Jay Som</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/mitski/) - SOLD OUT Please contact the box office at (413) 662-2111 to be added to the waitlist With her breakout 2016 record Puberty 2 — all raw honesty and stripped down intensity — Mitski seemed to emerge into the indie limelight as a fully formed artist, immediately landing on every critic’s year’s best list. Her brilliant 2018 follow-up,
- [Sammus](https://massmoca.org/event/sammus/) - Philly-based MC and beat-maker Sammus combines an explosive stage presence with head-spinning verbal pyrotechnics and an omnivorous curiosity — she’s as likely to geek out on gaming as to throw down on identity politics, making her performance a perfect companion to Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass in the big gallery. Whatever she’s rapping about, the beats
- [Fishing](https://massmoca.org/event/fishing/) - Tickets for the Sunday matinee performance can be purchased here. The Saturday performance is SOLD OUT. This work-in-progress showing offers a first look at the new all-star collaboration between actor Jon Hamm, director/choreographer Danielle Agami, Wilco percussionist Glenn Kotche, set designer Amir Raveh, and writer Nadav Heyman — a ravishing piece of multidisciplinary performance that
- [Vincent Valdez & Adriana Corral](https://massmoca.org/event/vincent-valdez-adriana-corral/) - Suffering From Realness artists Vincent Valdez and Adriana Corral mark the opening of this new exhibition, on Saturday, April 13, 4pm, with a procession of their sculpture Requiem, a larger-than-life cast of an American eagle, accompanied by parading musicians — recalling a New Orleans-style jazz funeral. The artists will discuss their work following the event. This
- [Spanglish Fly](https://massmoca.org/event/spanglish-fly/) - Blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms with classic R&B and soul, the 12-piece-strong Spanglish Fly is NYC’s finest boogaloo band, updating the sounds of 1960s Spanish Harlem. Expect a night of deep grooves with wild covers and horn-heavy originals — wear your dancing shoes.  What to Expect This event will be “up in the club” with cabaret-style
- [Training Ground for Democracy](https://massmoca.org/event/training-ground-democracy/) - December 7, 2010 Update: On December 7, 2010, MASS MoCA and Christophe Büchel entered into a settlement agreement resolving their long-standing dispute over an art installation Mr. Büchel was to have installed at MASS MoCA. Under the agreement, the court case and all related claims have been dismissed, and all parties have been released. In
- [Spencer Finch<span class="title-light">What Time Is It on the Sun?</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/spencer-finch-what-time-is-it-on-the-sun/) - Spencer Finch wants us to consider the question: Is it possible to see yourself seeing? As he explains: "There is always a paradox inherent in vision, an impossible desire to see yourself seeing. A lot of my work probes this tension; to want to see, but not being able to." He explored that challenge and
- [<span class="title-light">FreshGrass Presents </span>Punch Brothers <span class="title-light">with special guest Gabriel Kahane</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/punch-brothers-with-gabriel-kahane/) - VIP Package details available here. TICKETS ON SALE NOW With their dazzling 2018 Nonesuch Records release All Ashore, Punch Brothers firmly re-established themselves as the world’s most exciting progressive bluegrass band. Each member’s various other projects (including the inimitable Chris Thile’s Live From Here hosting duties) keep them busy enough that a chance to see
- [Rachel Howard <span class="title-light">Paintings of Violence (Why I am not a mere Christian)</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/rachel-howard-paintings-of-violence-why-i-am-not-a-mere-christian/) - Paintings of Violence (Why I am not a mere Christian) is a single installation comprised of ten paintings and one sculpture, in relationship to the sculptural assembly, Lightning with Stag in its Glare, by Joseph Beuys. In her work, Howard examines religion, mortality, and violence, specifically the more subtle kinds of "controlled violence" that are
- [The Lure of the Dark <span class="title-light">Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/the-lure-of-the-dark/) - Sex, death, romance, magic, terror, wonder, alienation, and freedom: the night invites a myriad of often contradictory associations. For centuries, painters have been drawn to the mysteries and marvels of the night and its perceptual and poetic possibilities. From Rembrandt and his Night Watch to Georges de la Tour’s candle-lit scenes of the seventeenth century,
- [Aeon Ritual](https://massmoca.org/event/aeon-ritual/) - This ecstatic, immersive musical performance occupies the space between concert and traditional religious or ceremonial rites.
- [Kaki King: Data Not Found](https://massmoca.org/event/kaki-king-data-not-found/) - Tickets are now sold out. Call 413.664.4481 x1 to be added to the Wait List. Jazz/shoegaze/post-rock wizard Kaki King opens a portal every time she touches her guitar. In the intimate Club B10, she brings us on an exploration of big data in contemporary culture in this work-in-progress presentation. This multimedia journey is in collaboration
- [Documentary Film Series <span class="title-light">Bisbee '17</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/bisbee-17/) - A century-old episode of anti-union violence on the Arizona-Mexico border still resonates. March 7: 306 Hollywood March 14: Genesis 2.0 March 21: Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul Bisbee '17 is the first installment of Present Tense, a series of documentary films that reframe the past as an acute lens for examining the right now. Photo
- [Documentary Film Series <span class="title-light">306 Hollywood</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/306-hollywood/) - Sibling directors Elan and Jonathan Bogarín’s wildly creative examination of the life of their grandmother and the unusual house and possessions she left behind. February 28: Bisbee '17 March 14: Genesis 2.0 March 21: Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul 306 Hollywood is the second installment of Present Tense, a series of documentary films that reframe
- [George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic](https://massmoca.org/event/george-clinton-parliament-funkadelic/) - SOLD OUT Call the Box Office for more information. 413.664.4481x1 Do not attempt to adjust your radio. There is nothing wrong. The Prime Minister of Funk, George Clinton, is steering the Mothership into MASS MoCA for a special stop on his final tour at the helm of the everlasting P-Funk — at the invitation of
- [Members Opening Reception <span class="title-light">Trenton Doyle Hancock,<br> Rafa Esparza,<br> and Tom Slaughter</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/members-opening-reception-trenton-doyle-hancock-rafa-esparza-and-tom-slaughter/) - Join us on March 9 to celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions: Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass, Rafa Esparza’s staring at the sun, and Tom Slaughter: Icon Alphabet. Trenton Doyle Hancock’s largest ever solo project will fill our massive Building 5 gallery with forms and figures from the artist’s densely
- [Natalia Zukerman](https://massmoca.org/event/natalia-zukerman-2/) - “A wise mix of rootsy styles from torch blues to country swing. If you’re a fan of Madeleine Peyroux, Bonnie Raitt, or even Amy Winehouse, you’ll find stuff to connect with here.” — Philadelphia Daily News The slide, lap steel, and dobro wizard Natalia Zukerman shapes folk, jazz, and blues sounds into songs of intense
- [<span class="title-light">FreshGrass Presents </span>Punch Brothers <span class="title-light">with special guest Gabriel Kahane</span> VIP Tickets](https://massmoca.org/event/punch-brothers-vip-tickets/) - The AHOY! Premium Big Time Friend Package — $179 per package One general admission seated ticket with early entry to see the Punch Brothers live Two 12 oz. bags of Ahoy!, a coffee blend from Madcap Coffee specially roasted in collaboration with Punch Brothers, and shipped directly to you from the roaster, after the show. One limited
- [Blind Boy Paxton](https://massmoca.org/event/blind-boy-paxton/) - Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, “virtually the only music-maker of his generation — playing guitar, banjo, piano and violin, among other implements — to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and ’30s.” This storyteller and deeply talented multi-instrumentalist will captivate with his musical literacy and
- [Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)](https://massmoca.org/event/triptych-eyes-of-one-on-another/) - Thirty years after Robert Mapplethorpe’s death, we still cannot turn away from his photographs. Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) brings together the work of composer Bryce Dessner (The National) and a team of extraordinary collaborators including director Daniel Fish and Ashley Tata, librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle, and Roomful of Teeth for a work-in-progress presentation
- [Free Day 2019](https://massmoca.org/event/free-day-2019/) - We’ll amplify your MASS MoCA experience when we throw open the doors to the museum for free and fill the galleries with art-making activities, lively discussion, and pop-up performance. Create some art, take a tour, catch some live music in the elevator, and learn about the history of our life on Marshall Street. Events 11:30am
- [Kavita Shah](https://massmoca.org/event/kavita-shah/) - The stunning vocalist and composer Kavita Shah works elements of Brazilian, West African, and Indian musical traditions into smoldering jazz, reminiscent of Norah Jones. NPR has praised her, “amazing dexterity for musical languages” and our intimate club space is the perfect venue for this transcendent musician. Shah will be joined on stage by her band Chico
- [Techne: Extension Exorcises](https://massmoca.org/event/techne-extension-exorcises/) - Vocalist Karen Adelman and experimental percussionist Corey Fogel joined Liz Glynn in a durational activation of her installation, The Archaeology of Another Possible Future, inserting live music, spoken text, and performance. This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Photo by Douglas Mason
- [Badlands <span class="title-light">New Horizons in Landscape</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/badlands/) - Click here to order an exhibition catalog. From the earliest renderings on cave walls, man has been compelled to depict the world around him. The tradition of portraying the landscape has threaded together movements as varied as the mid-19th century Hudson River School and the Earth Art of the 1960s and '70s. Badlands: New Horizons
- [These Days <span class="title-light">Elegies for Modern Times</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/these-days-elegies-for-modern-times/) - In 1967 Jackson Browne penned the lyric: "These days I seem to think about/ How all the changes came about my ways/ And I wonder if I'll see another highway." As the world shifts around us in ways that are profoundly disorienting, Browne's song resonates. Bringing together six artists whose work is infused with that
- [Free on the 3s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-3s/) - MASS MoCA is free for North Adams residents on the 3rd of the month through June 2019. Bring an official ID (or utility bill) to show you’re a resident of the 01247 and MASS MoCA’s galleries are yours for the day. Wednesday, October 3 Saturday, November 3 Monday, December 3 Thursday, January 3 Sunday, February
- [Free on the 3s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-3s-2/) - MASS MoCA is free for North Adams residents on the 3rd of the month through June 2019. Bring an official ID (or utility bill) to show you’re a resident of the 01247 and MASS MoCA’s galleries are yours for the day. Saturday, November 3 Monday, December 3 Thursday, January 3 Sunday, February 3 Sunday, March 3
- [Free on the 3s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-3s-3/) - MASS MoCA is free for North Adams residents on the 3rd of the month through June 2019. Bring an official ID (or utility bill) to show you’re a resident of the 01247 and MASS MoCA’s galleries are yours for the day. Monday, December 3 Thursday, January 3 Sunday, February 3 Sunday, March 3 Wednesday, April
- [Free on the 3s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-3s-5/) - MASS MoCA is free for North Adams residents on the 3rd of the month through June 2019. Bring an official ID (or utility bill) to show you’re a resident of the 01247 and MASS MoCA’s galleries are yours for the day. Sunday, February 3 Sunday, March 3 Wednesday, April 3 Friday, May 3 Monday, June
- [Free on the 3s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-3s-6/) - MASS MoCA is free for North Adams residents on the 3rd of the month through June 2019. Bring an official ID (or utility bill) to show you’re a resident of the 01247 and MASS MoCA’s galleries are yours for the day. Sunday, March 3 Wednesday, April 3 Friday, May 3 Monday, June 3 What to
- [Free on the 3s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-3s-7/) - MASS MoCA is free for North Adams residents on the 3rd of the month through June 2019. Bring an official ID (or utility bill) to show you’re a resident of the 01247 and MASS MoCA’s galleries are yours for the day. Wednesday, April 3 Friday, May 3 Monday, June 3 What to Expect Looking for
- [Free on the 3s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-3s-8/) - MASS MoCA is free for North Adams residents on the 3rd of the month through June 2019. Bring an official ID (or utility bill) to show you’re a resident of the 01247 and MASS MoCA’s galleries are yours for the day. Friday, May 3 Monday, June 3 What to Expect Looking for something to eat?
- [Free on the 3s](https://massmoca.org/event/free-on-the-3s-9/) - MASS MoCA is free for North Adams residents on the 3rd of the month through June 2019. Bring an official ID (or utility bill) to show you’re a resident of the 01247 and MASS MoCA’s galleries are yours for the day. Monday, June 3 What to Expect Looking for something to eat? Check out Lickety
- [Volunteer Opportunities](https://massmoca.org/event/volunteer/) - We are looking for fun and engaging individuals who want to join our volunteer usher team for our upcoming seasons. As a volunteer usher, you help MASS MoCA front-of-house staff with patron experiences during performances, events, and festivals. Enjoy some of the most exciting music and performing arts events in New England! Volunteers must be
- [Grizzly Bear <span class="title-light">with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/grizzly-bear/) - "As great a testament to band democracy as I've seen onstage" — Pitchfork
- [The Decemberists VIP Tickets](https://massmoca.org/event/the-decemberists-vip/) - DYNAMITE ACTION CONCERT GOER LEVEL — $149 per package One general admission ticket to see The Decemberists live in concert Invitation to a pre-show event in MASS MoCA's Hunter Center, featuring a 2-song performance by The Decemberists and Q&A session One limited-edition tour poster, signed by The Decemberists One collectible patch Crowd-free merchandise shopping On-site concert
- [Ray LaMontagne <span class="title-light">with very special guest Neko Case</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/ray-lamontagne-with-very-special-guest-neko-case/) - Ray LaMontagne stops in North Adams, Mass. on his Part of the Light tour. He is joined by Neko Case for what promises to be a revelatory MASS MoCA moment.
- [Ray LaMontagne <span class="title-light">with very special guest Neko Case</span>VIP Tickets](https://massmoca.org/event/ray-lamontagne-with-very-special-guest-neko-casevip-tickets/) - 'Part of the Light' Ultimate Fan Experience — $279 per package One GA ticket Invitation to the pre-show lounge, including: Gallery wall showcasing tour posters & photos One complimentary drink ticket On-stage photo opportunity holding one of Ray LaMontagne's guitars Backstage tour of the venue and museum + museum tour One exclusive Ray LaMontagne custom
- [Kids Can Too!](https://massmoca.org/event/kids-can-too-2018/) - Kids Can Too! invited the whole family to play along with Bang on a Can faculty and fellows. This musical exploration performance-presentation was hands-on and gets wilder and wilder each year. Photo by Jane Burns
- [Bang on a Can Marathon <span class="title-light">with Steve Reich</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/bang-on-a-can-marathon-2018/) - More than 60 performers in more than 20 performances made up 6 hours of magical music and mayhem. Patrons came early and stayed long — the Hunter was flowing with familiar and just-composed music, while the courtyard was full of friends and food. One of our favorite and most lively days of the year, it
- [Jaimeo Brown Transcendence <span class="title-light">featuring Chris Sholar & Jaleel Shaw</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/jaimeo-brown-transcendence/) - Musician Jaimeo Brown, performing with his ensemble, Transcendence, fuses jazz, hip-hop, and blues.
- [Sundance Theatre Lab](https://massmoca.org/event/sundance-theatre-lab-2/) - Made at MASS MoCA
- [FreshGrass Festival 2018](https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-festival-2018/) - Flogging Molly, Trampled By Turtles, Indigo Girls, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, and many more.
- [FreshPass 2018](https://massmoca.org/event/freshpass-2018/) - Let us amplify your festival. FreshPass includes: Preferred seating or standing sections at the main stages Access to the FreshPass Lounge: free beer, beverages, snacks, comfy seating, juice to charge your phone, and a festival concierge Meet-and-greet opportunities with FreshGrass artists An exclusive tour of the galleries with a museum curator
- [MASS M<span class="lowercase">o</span>CA's <br>Annual New York City Benefit](https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-benefit-2018/) - To preview items in our live art auction or place a bid online — including works from Rachel Howard and Sam McKinniss — click here. Patrons joined us on October 24 for MASS MoCA’s annual fall benefit with cocktails, dinner, and a lively auction at the Tribeca 360, with spectacular views of the New York City skyline.
- [<span class="title-light">High Mud Comedy Fest Presents</span> Chicago City Limits](https://massmoca.org/event/high-mud-comedy-fest-presents-chicago-city-limits/) - Audience-inspired hilarity reached new heights with the brilliant improv of Chicago City Limits, NYC’s longest-surviving comedy revue. In a continuous run of more than 10,000 performances since opening its own theater in 1980 (after relocating from Chicago), the group has honed its social/political humor to a razor sharp edge. What to Expect This event will
- [LeWitt<span class="lowercase">x</span>10](https://massmoca.org/event/lewittx10/) - Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective ten-year celebration
- [Artists in Conversation: Taryn Simon](https://massmoca.org/event/artists-in-conversation-taryn-simon/) - Taryn Simon’s monumental installations — A Cold Hole + Assembled Audience — examine the ways in which individual intention and public performance collide in the ancient rituals of cold-water immersion and applause. Simon discussed the research and histories at the foundation of her work. Photo courtesy of the artist and MASS MoCA
- [Sundance Institute Theatre Lab: James and Jerome](https://massmoca.org/event/sundance-institute-theatre-lab-james-and-jerome/) - James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis make hyper-literary, live-music story performances using lush, powerful combinations of acoustic and electronic music with live narration. Piano Tales No. 17 was the latest in James and Jerome’s ongoing celebration of the art of the musical tale. At the start of the night, the audience chose which three tales (out
- [The Fall Of The House Of Usher](https://massmoca.org/event/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher/) - This spellbinding stage version of Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece was written and directed by Arthur Yorinks and Jim Simpson and featured a score by Philip Glass, adapted from the House of Usher opera that Glass and Yorinks created in 1988. The work-in-progress presentation was replete with puppets, musicians, actors, and projections — and it was
- [A Closer Look At Etel Adnan](https://massmoca.org/event/a-closer-look-at-etel-adnan/) - Etel Adnan appears in many ways a singular figure in global contemporary art and poetry; Robyn Creswell, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, joined curator Elise Y. Chagas to discuss the context and detail of Adnan's twin pursuits of painting and poetry. Creswell discussed the rich literary world in post-World War II Beirut, which foregrounded Adnan’s participation in the
- [William Kentridge <span class="title-light">The Head & The Load</span>](https://massmoca.org/event/william-kentridge-the-head-and-the-load/) - Work-in-Progress Theater
- [Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below](https://massmoca.org/event/teresita-fernandez-as-above-so-below/) - Demonstrating the artist’s remarkable ability to transform materials and their surrounding architecture into an enveloping perceptual experience, Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below combined graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifted from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic. Drawing upon natural phenomena and diverse historical and cultural

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