Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Fri. May 2, 2025 ArtWorks Live!: The Future in Progress 5-8PM at moCa Cleveland Free to all Experience bold ideas, art in motion, and emerging voices. Shop inspired student creations and connect with the next generation of artists. Presented by

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Thu. June 26, 2025 Art NOW: Summer/Fall Exhibition Preview Party 5:30-7:30PM at moCa Cleveland moCa NOW Donor Event: Invitation Only INVITATION ONLY Join us at an exclusive preview reception celebrating the artists, partners, and supporters as moCa unveils a new season of art now… in progress! This event is by invitation only. For information on joining the moCa NOW Donor Program, visit mocacleveland.org/moca-now .

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Fri. September 26, 2025 Artist Talk & Book Tour Sharon Louden: Last Artist Standing 6-8PM at moCa Free to all REGISTER MINGLE & TOUR GALLERIES: 5:30PM TALK and Q&A: 6-7PM BOOK SIGNING: 7-8PM Sharon Louden is an artist, educator, advocate, consultant, community builder, founder and director of the Institute for Sustained Creativity, and editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books. Her latest book, Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life Over 50 , explores what it means to sustain a lifelong creative practice and offers 31 artists' insights into building a durable, fulfilling career at any stage of life. This talk is open to all creatives working at every stage of their careers. Louden will be joined by a rtist, appraiser, and owner of Deep Dive Art Projects , Bellamy Printz, for a dialogue on the themes of the book. The talk will be followed by a moderated audience Q&A focused on strategies for cultivating long-term, sustainable artistic practices. Presented by moCa Cleveland and Cleveland Institute of Art Cover Image: Jaq Chartier Blues w/8 Whites 16x16 inches Acrylic, inks, dyes, stains, & spray paint on wood panel, 2020 Courtesy of the artist Photography by the artist

designExplorr: Design Learning Challenge Workshop Feb 17, 2024 FREE for all ages This event is hosted OFFsite at: designExplorr Experiential Learning Center 3800 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland SIGN UP NOW Design Learning Challenge workshops unlock your creativity as you approach problems with design solutions. This workshop was developed by designExplorr, an organization devoted to helping youth find their way to creative careers. Workshops start every 30 minutes, 12-4PM If you have questions or if there are additional access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive, please contact access@mocacleveland.org . 1-2 week’s advance notice is recommended but not required. About designExplorr. designExplorr is a social impact organization aiming to address the diversity gap within the design profession by expanding design education and raising awareness among community partners. More at designexplorr.com . FAMILY FUN ON moCa Saturdays supported by PNC. About FREE for all ages This event is hosted OFFsite at: designExplorr Experiential Learning Center 3800 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland SIGN UP NOW Design Learning Challenge workshops unlock your creativity as you approach problems with design solutions. This workshop was developed by designExplorr, an organization devoted to helping youth find their way to creative careers. Workshops start every 30 minutes, 12-4PM If you have questions or if there are additional access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive, please contact access@mocacleveland.org . 1-2 week’s advance notice is recommended but not required. About designExplorr. designExplorr is a social impact organization aiming to address the diversity gap within the design profession by expanding design education and raising awareness among community partners. More at designexplorr.com . FAMILY FUN ON moCa Saturdays supported by PNC. FREE for all ages This event is hosted OFFsite at: designExplorr Experiential Learning Center 3800 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland SIGN UP NOW Design Learning Challenge workshops unlock your creativity as you approach problems with design solutions. This workshop was developed by designExplorr, an organization devoted to helping youth find their way to creative careers. Workshops start every 30 minutes, 12-4PM If you have questions or if there are additional access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive, please contact access@mocacleveland.org . 1-2 week’s advance notice is recommended but not required. About designExplorr. designExplorr is a social impact organization aiming to address the diversity gap within the design profession by expanding design education and raising awareness among community partners. More at designexplorr.com . FAMILY FUN ON moCa Saturdays supported by PNC.

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda Apr 21, 2024 Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. About Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season.

Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 Gala Porras-Kim A Hand in Nature Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 ∆ Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature . Installation view at MCA Denver, 2024. Photo: Wes Magyar ∆ Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature . Installation view at MCA Denver, 2024. Photo: Wes Magyar ∆ Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature . Installation view at MCA Denver, 2024. Photo: Wes Magyar Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 Gala Porras-Kim A Hand in Nature Multi-disciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim’s practice questions how knowledge is acquired and tests the potential for artworks and objects to function as meaning-makers outside of traditional museum contexts. For her exhibition, A Hand in Nature , which originated at MCA Denver, Porras-Kim extends lines of questioning into conservation, preservation, and care to the broader natural world and lived environment. The artworks on view distill natural processes into sculptures, paintings and drawings that will grow, evolve or degrade throughout the span of the exhibition. From sculptures rendered with salt-saturated concrete or copal resin wetted with local rainwater, to paintings created from slow drips of water drawing from the museum’s humidity and projections from light refractions off of brass panels, Porras-Kim’s work imagines what might be possible if natural forces and phenomena had the agency to self-determine. Generous support provided by The Robert H. Reakirt Foundation. This exhibition is organized by Leilani Lynch, Associate Curator, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. About the Artist Gala Porras-Kim Gala Porras-Kim Gala Porras-Kim lives and works in Los Angeles and London. Her work is about how the social and political contexts that influence history have been framed through the fields of linguistics, history and conservation. The work considers the way institutions shape inherited codes and forms and conversely, how objects can shape the contexts in which they are placed. Porras-Kim has had solo exhibitions at the MCA, Denver; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Museo delle Civilita, Rome in 2024; Leeum and MMCA Seoul; the Fowler Museum, Los Angeles; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla; MUAC, Mexico City; in 2023; Gasworks, London, Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, and Kadist in 2022, and the MOCA, Los Angeles in 2019 among others. Her work has been included in the Liverpool Biennial (2023), and Gwangju and Sao Paulo Biennales (2021), Whitney Biennial and Ural Industrial Biennial (2019). She was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019) and the artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute (2020-22). Installation Images Gala Porras-Kim, A Hand in Nature. Installation views at moCa Cleveland, 2025. Photos: Jacob Koestler

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda Feb 3, 2024 Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. About Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season.

Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Anthony Discenza A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 ∆ Entry to Stair A at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Dean Kaufman. ∆ Entry to Stair A at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Dean Kaufman. ∆ Entry to Stair A at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Dean Kaufman. Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Anthony Discenza A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats Anthony Discenza (1967, New Brunswick, NJ) is a conceptual artist who explores the production and distribution systems of mass media and the messages it generates. With a distinct interest in the relationship between textual, auditory, and visual systems of representation, Discenza often combines a variety of forms. A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats (2012) is a single-channel sound installation that presents a series of unlikely juxtapositions that are both humorous and confounding. Throughout his work Discenza is distinctly interested in presenting his audience with the intricate intersection of textual, auditory and visual information systems. In A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats a professional voice-actor reads an ongoing series of phrases such as: “Think Le Corbusier meets Red Lobster meets the Wonderbra. Think Straight Outta Compton meets Watership Down,” in a rich baritone that evokes a dramatic Hollywood movie or newscast. The tone of the voice actor formally mirrors the strategic ways that the mass-media conveys information. As the narrator evokes the theatrical absurdity of the dramatic, yet droll, voiced-over narrative of a film or a television commercial, Discenza offers a critique of the way mass-media uses language. Similarly, the work’s endless stream of absurd combinations contradicts its ironic title. Rather than coming to a universal understanding, Discenza’s monologue of nonsensical juxtapositions invites us to reflect on the oversimplified ways that advertising and cinema package and sell culture. Heard in the MOCA stairwell, the audio installation both comments on and upends the role of a passive audience. Anthony Discenza: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats is curated by A. Will Brown, Assistant Curator About the Artist Anthony Discenza Anthony Discenza (1967, New Brunswick, New Jersey) lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. He received an MFA from California College of the Arts (2000) and a BA from Wesleyan University (1990). Discenza is one-half of the collaborative entity HalfLifers, along with Torsten Z. Burns. HalfLifers fuses humor with a low-fi, improvisational approach to explore narratives of control and crisis embedded in technologic culture. Discenza’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (2015); Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, BE (2012); and Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2010). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2015); San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (2015); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (2014); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2012); The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (2012); and The Whitney Biennial, New York, NY (2000).

Oct 7, 2017-Jan 28, 2018 A Poet*hical Wager Doug Ashford Abbas Akhavan Abraham Cruzvillegas Lara Favaretto Iman Issa Rashid Johnson Jumana Manna Oscar Murillo Tariku Shiferaw Mario GarcÍa Torres Emanuel Tovar Oct 7, 2017-Jan 28, 2018 ∆ Installation view, A Poet*hical Wager, 2017, at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Jerry Birchfield. ∆ Installation view, A Poet*hical Wager, 2017, at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Jerry Birchfield. ∆ Installation view, A Poet*hical Wager, 2017, at moCa Cleveland. Photo: Jerry Birchfield. Oct 7, 2017-Jan 28, 2018 A Poet*hical Wager Doug Ashford Abbas Akhavan Abraham Cruzvillegas Lara Favaretto Iman Issa Rashid Johnson Jumana Manna Oscar Murillo Tariku Shiferaw Mario GarcÍa Torres Emanuel Tovar Timed with the fifth anniversary of MOCA Cleveland’s Farshid Moussavi-designed building, A Poet*hical Wager explores the ethical dimension of works that use abstraction, minimalism, and assemblage to approach complex ideas that cannot be addressed through representation. Emblematic of an increasing global dependence on abstract transactions that occur largely outside of our vision and comprehension, the works in the exhibition manifest the complexity of modern life in both form and process. The title of this exhibition references the book The Poethical Wager by American poet and scholar, Joan Retallack, which is in part about forms that break patterns. Through the lens of international artists working in a wide variety of media—sculpture, assemblage, film, installation, and painting—the exhibition probes how subjects born of changes in our international social, political, and economic contexts inhabit unexpected artistic forms. Rather than create works that function as direct accounts of a specific event or situation, the artists in the exhibition use form to weave a complex narrative using a constellation of source materials. In this way, viewers encounter a poetic interpretation of a specific subject that may more closely approximate its felt experience. Curator Andria Hickey states, “The exhibition is developed through conversations with artists and seems especially timely given the increasingly complex relationship we have with world events that are both affecting and divorced from personal experience. Looking at abstraction as a form of response suggests a different way of working, and a different way of thinking about the affective power of art today.” Artists include Doug Ashford (b. 1958, Rabat, MA); Abbas Akhavan (b. 1977, Tehran, IR); Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968, Mexico City, MX); Lara Favaretto (b. 1973, Treviso, Italy); Iman Issa (b. 1979, Cairo, EG); Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago, Illinois); Jumana Manna (b. 1987, Princeton, NJ); Oscar Murillo (b.1986, Valle del Cauca, Colombia), Tariku Shiferaw (b.1983, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia); and Mario GarcÍa Torres (b. 1975, Monclova, Mexico), Emanuel Tovar (b. 1974, Guadalajara, Mexico). Major support for A Poet*hical Wager is provided by Scott Mueller, with additional support from BakerHostetler, kurimanzutto, Mexico City and PÁRAMO. Community support provided by InterContinental Hotel Cleveland. All current exhibitions are funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Leadership Circle gifts from anonymous donors, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Richard and Michelle Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Jan Lewis, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All moCa Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum’s Board of Directors, patrons, and members. Installation Images

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Fri. April 10, 2026 CIFF: Paint Me a Road Out of Here 5-6:29PM at Playhouse Square Complex Tickets available Mar 18 $1 off any ticket with discount code: MOCA GET TICKETS In 1971, artist Faith Ringgold created a monumental painting “For the Women’s House” for the women incarcerated at Rikers Island jail. Fifty years later, artist Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, who gave birth in prison 15 years ago, finds herself banding together with an eclectic group of activists, politicians, artists, corrections officers, and Faith Ringgold herself to free the artwork with the ultimate goal of freeing the women. Paint Me a Road Out of Here is a wild tale of the painting’s whitewashed journey and the two artists who challenged the same powerful and oppressive institutions, a half century apart, with their artwork, their voices, and their shared, persistent goals. COMMUNITY PARTNERS: moCa Cleveland National Congress of Black Women $1 discount applies to all films, with the exception of Opening Night, 7x7 Retrospective, and Day Pass purchases.

Oct 7, 2017-Jan 28, 2018 Jason Salavon Rainbow Aggregator Oct 7, 2017-Jan 28, 2018 ∆ Jason Salavon, Rainbow Aggregator , 2012-2013, computer program, internet connection, computer, dimensions variable. © Jason Salavon, courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, still by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. ∆ Jason Salavon, Rainbow Aggregator , 2012-2013, computer program, internet connection, computer, dimensions variable. © Jason Salavon, courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, still by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. ∆ Jason Salavon, Rainbow Aggregator , 2012-2013, computer program, internet connection, computer, dimensions variable. © Jason Salavon, courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, still by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. Oct 7, 2017-Jan 28, 2018 Jason Salavon Rainbow Aggregator Rainbow Aggregator is a continuous real-time representation of trending information and topics sourced from Twitter and Google. The digital animation is created through custom-made software that translates trending topics into an abstract composition of vibrant colors and ever-changing streams of text. On random occasions, sections of the web-code connected to each trending word or phrase appear throughout the digital animation. Salavon’s digital animation highlights the terms and concepts that are driving digital activity now, in many cases highlighting the invisible or abstract transactions that frame our world. This also is a key concern among works on display in A Poet*hical Wager , a group exhibition on view in the Mueller Family Gallery that explores the relationship between abstraction and ethics in the work of eleven international artists. All current exhibitions are funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Leadership Circle gifts from anonymous donors, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Richard and Michelle Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Jan Lewis, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All moCa Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum’s Board of Directors, patrons, and members. About the Artist Jason Salavon Jason Salavon (1970, Indiana) is a Chicago-based artist who designs computer programs and software that reconfigures data from the Internet such as search results, news headlines, and social media trends. Through photographic prints, digital animations, and real-time software installations, Salavon presents new ways of seeing and understanding the flow and construction of information in contemporary culture. Installation Images

Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 ∆ Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), One year performing outside (Stonewall)(protests) 2020-2021. Courtesy the artist ∆ Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), One year performing outside (Stonewall)(protests) 2020-2021. Courtesy the artist ∆ Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), One year performing outside (Stonewall)(protests) 2020-2021. Courtesy the artist Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) is the second recipient of moCa’s biannual Toby’s Prize. Named after philanthropist Toby Devan Lewis—one of moCa’s long-standing Board members—the prize supports the artistic practices of five artists over a 10-year period. Puppies Puppies’s early conceptual works were created under a pseudonym that avoided specificity of gender, origin, and individualism. Beginning in 2018, the artist embarked on a new series of work that coincided with the beginning of her transition to Jade Kuriki Olivo. Throughout her multilayered practice is a commitment to the rights of Black, Indigenous, People of Color, transgender, gender non-conforming, two-spirit+ communities. The artist is the first to share the Toby’s Prize experience, inviting artists Jerome AB and J.J. Adams to create new works for two simultaneous solo exhibitions opening in January 2022. Her project at moCa also includes the development of a new film and the creation of her first publication, published in collaboration with Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Canada, and Kunsthaus Glarus in Switzerland. Toby's Prize is generously supported by Toby Devan Lewis.