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Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Sun. December 28, 2025 Sensory Sundays 12-2:30PM at moCa Cleveland Free to all SIGN UP The last Sunday of the month at moCa. Sensory Sundays are designed for neurodiverse visitors and their families. Each session includes a touch table, sound and texture experiences, and audio descriptions of select artworks. Hosted in the Rayburn Practice Lab, these mornings create a calm, engaging environment for multi-sensory learning. Supported by

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Sun. November 30, 2025 Sensory Sundays 12-2:30PM at moCa Cleveland Free to all SIGN UP The last Sunday of the month at moCa. Sensory Sundays are designed for neurodiverse visitors and their families. Each session includes a touch table, sound and texture experiences, and audio descriptions of select artworks. Hosted in the Rayburn Practice Lab, these mornings create a calm, engaging environment for multi-sensory learning. Supported by

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Sat. December 6, 2025 moCa Saturday: FAM Day (Family, Art & Movement) 12-2:30PM at moCa Cleveland Free with admission SIGN UP Move with meaning in this transformative experience where visual art meets street dance. Join the acclaimed 10K Movement to reconnect with your body, creativity, and expression—through moves inspired by the current exhibitions of Clotilde Jiménez and Maggie Menghan Chen. All ages and levels welcome—no experience needed. Presented in partnership w/

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Sat. December 6, 2025 moCa Saturday: FAM Day (Family, Art & Movement) 12-2:30PM at moCa Cleveland Free with admission SIGN UP Move with meaning in this transformative experience where visual art meets street dance. Join the acclaimed 10K Movement to reconnect with your body, creativity, and expression—through moves inspired by the current exhibitions of Clotilde Jiménez and Maggie Menghan Chen. All ages and levels welcome—no experience needed. Presented in partnership w/

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda Jan 23, 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.

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.

Title Round Judy Barie Origins i & ii Diptych; oil on birch panel overall: 20 x 40 inches Estimated Value Range: $2,000 - $3,000 Starting bid: $1,000 Bidding increments: $100 As an artist, Judy Barie’s rich abstractions are highlights in the Fowler’s collection. As the Susan and John Turben Director of CVA Galleries at the Chautauqua Institution, Barie has served them as a trusted guide, introducing them to many artists and artworks over the years. Barie is a contemporary abstract artist known for her layered works of color, gestural marks, and rich patterns on birch panels. Influenced by Brice Marden and Elizabeth Murray, she has spent over 30 years developing a distinct visual language that appears in both individual paintings and series. Barie lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA, and spends her summers in Chautauqua, NY, where she curates contemporary exhibitions at the CVA Galleries at the Chautauqua Institution. Her paintings are created by mixing and pouring latex and oil paints, embracing both intentional mark-making and spontaneous effects. While the surface is still wet, she incorporates intricate patterns and gestural elements using techniques such as scraping, brushing, rolling, printing, and sanding. The interplay between freeform brushwork and precise detailing creates a dynamic visual tension. Color serves as the unifying thread across her work, reflecting her deep engagement with the material and process. More: Judy Barie Artist Statement “My paintings are a balance of unforeseen elements and deliberate gestures. I begin by pouring latex and oil paints in layers on birch panels, letting chance play a role in the textures and forms that emerge. While the paint is still wet, I apply color, pattern, and mark-making techniques—scraping, brushing, rolling, printing, and sanding. I am drawn to the tension between spontaneity and precision: loose brushstrokes collide with tightly rendered patterns, creating a visual contrast meant to engage and intrigue. Color is my primary motif, linking one image to the next. For me, painting is an intimate, tactile practice—a gestural marriage of materials and a celebration of paint itself.” Biography Barie earned her BFA from West Virginia University and completed a year-long printmaking residency at Atelier 17 (now Atelier Contrepoint) in Paris, France. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows across the U.S., including Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (NYC), Cumberland Gallery (Nashville), and G2 Gallery (Scottsdale). She is represented by Artists Circle Gallery (Bethesda, MD), Bonfoey Gallery (Cleveland, OH), and Zynka Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA). In addition to her studio practice, Barie consults for Contemporary Craft and Oxford Development in Pittsburgh. Each summer in Chautauqua, NY, she curates and manages exhibitions, supporting artists and engaging with collectors through her leadership at the CVA Galleries. Collections Barie’s work is held in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections, including: Charlotte Printmakers Society (NC) Hallmark Corporation (Atlanta, GA) Children’s Museum (Pittsburgh, PA) General Motors Headquarters (Chicago, IL) LaGrange Museum (GA)

Jun 28-Dec 29, 2024 A PLACE meant Co-organized with Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Jun 28-Dec 29, 2024 How can Cleveland use emerging design solutions to address displacement and affordable housing challenges in our city? A PLACE meant explores innovations in affordable housing at the nexus of environmental responsibility, energy efficiency, and contemporary design. Co-organized with Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM) and Humanitarian & Founding Principal Sai Sinbondit of I_You Design Lab, the exhibition presents material and image-based examples of accessible housing approaches taking shape across the globe. From modular housing that can be constructed with limited tools to container homes made from existing vessels to 3D printed homes that can be erected in a few days, the exhibition reflects on the city's housing history while encouraging shifts that could make Cleveland a center of design innovation in the future. The exhibition, located throughout moCa’s ground floor from July-December 2024, will be accompanied by a series of free public events and intergenerational education programs to teach about and inspire a commitment to creative affordable housing in our community.How can Cleveland use emerging design solutions to address displacement and affordable housing challenges in our city? This project ties LMM's 55th anniversary and its ever-expanding focus on housing and shelter solutions through pioneering initiatives like Breaking New Ground and the Solar Homes of SC that underscore the importance of collaboration, innovation, and community engagement to address systemic issues. As Cleveland grapples with the challenges of affordable housing and displacement, moCa, LMM, and Sindondit take a proactive design approach to offer dynamic solutions to help create a more inclusive and sustainable future. Installation Images Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, A PLACE Meant. Installation views at moCa Cleveland, 2024. Photos: Jacob Koestler About Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Founded in 1969, the mission of Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM) is to promote shalom (peace, well-being) and justice (right relationship) through a Christian ministry of service and advocacy with those who are oppressed, forgotten and hurting. LMM’s founding began as an ecumenical response, started by the Lutheran Church, to the urban uprising that took place on the East Side of Cleveland in the mid-1960s. Over the last five decades, LMM has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to addressing chronic needs, enabling people in our community facing adversity to become self-sufficient, and advocating for systems change. Our programming focuses on innovative and effective services in the areas of Guardianship, Housing & Shelter, Workforce Development, and Youth Resiliency. About i_you design lab I_You Design Lab is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit collective made up of artists, makers, and designers dedicated to the betterment of people and environmental through leveraging research and design as tools to address fundamental needs, dignity, local community’s health, and environmental stewardship. We partner with individuals, communities, and other nonprofits through projects that fundamentally elevate the quality of lives of those who are displaced and under-served. I_You Design Lab is governed by a board of directors who advise on the organization’s strategy, operations, and paths to meet to the organization’s mission.

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) 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.

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.

Feb 18-Jun 5, 2021 Imagine Otherwise Shikeith Imani Dennison Amber N. Ford Antwoine Washington Feb 18-Jun 5, 2021 Shikeith, Still Waters Run Deep (still), 2021, installation with video, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. “What happens when we proceed as if we know this, antiBlackness, to be the ground on which we stand, the ground from which we to attempt to speak, for instance, an “I” or a “we” who know, an “I” or a “we” who care?"—Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Imagine Otherwise expresses the boundlessness and fierceness of Black imagination and love despite ongoing antiBlack violence as it thinks with Christina Sharpe’s groundbreaking book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being . Featuring artists Shikeith, Imani Dennison, Amber N. Ford, and Antwoine Washington, this multimedia exhibition spotlights Black pathways to self-determination and collective liberation through photographic, sculptural, mixed media, and video-based installations. This careful navigation, or “wake work,” to use Sharpe’s term, operates beyond representational politics as it interrogates spatial and temporal tensions of disenfranchisement, resistance, memory, visibility, loss, and (re)invention across Black cultures. Shikeith explores how Black queer re-making is a sacred space and practice in his two-part installation, still waters run deep / fall in your ways (2021). Using poetry, historical narratives, ambient recordings of children's rhymes, shades of blue, dance, and organic elements such as water, Shikeith maps Black men's negotiations of intimacy and routes toward freedom beyond architectural and societal constraints. Imani Dennison’s NO MAS- Irreversible Entanglements (2020), filmed on location in Johannesburg, South Africa, offers a dream-like meditation. In only eight minutes, vibrant imagery coupled with the fluid, yet energetic, free jazz and poetry of the Philadelphia, New York, Washington DC-based group Irreversible Entanglements presents an intoxicating, otherworldly Afro-futurist vision of Black people escaping all terrestrial confinements. Amber N. Ford’s detailed photographic attention to relationships of subjects and infinite patterning zooms in and out through Strands, Tracks & Naps (2021). Reminiscent of a display of coiffures in a hair salon, lush color portraits, small studies, and collage superimposed on a dense close-up of passion twists express the vast geography of Black ways of being. Antwoine Washington employs domestic furnishings and murals as visual storytelling in And Yeah, About that Seat at the Table (2021). The artist’s multimedia installation highlights how that proverbial access point to power is illusory for most Black people, while also honoring a long history of Black self-making. Organized by La Tanya S. Autry, Gund Curator in Residence, moCa Cleveland’s first on-staff Black curator creating exhibitions in its 52-year history, Imagine Otherwise is unlike any other curatorial project funded by the institution. As a manifestation of “wake work,” this city-wide initiative is sited at moCa Cleveland (Shikeith), ThirdSpace Action Lab in Glenville (Imani Dennison and Amber N. Ford), and Museum of Creative Human Art /Larchmere Arts (Antwoine Washington). Autry envisions possibilities beyond moCa Cleveland’s consistent antiBlack practices by partnering with these Black-led and centered organizations that regularly care for Black residents and others while challenged with far smaller budgets than many area white-led and centered arts institutions. Offered during another heightened time of national racial crisis, Imagine Otherwise is a limited, yet hopefully, significant prodding for an authentic, community-led institutional reckoning of moCa Cleveland and a soulful salute to the city’s Black dwellers who persist by always imagining otherwise. Exhibition locations ThirdSpace Action Lab , Glenville 1464 E 105th St #302, Cleveland, OH 44106 Museum of Creative Human Art (MOCHA) presented at Larchmere Arts 12726 Larchmere Blvd, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) , Cleveland 11400 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106 About the Artists Shikeith Shikeith (b. 1989 in Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. He received a BA from The Pennsylvania State University (2010) and an MFA in Sculpture from The Yale School of Art (2018). His expansive practice investigates the experiences of black men within and around concepts of psychic space, the blues, and black queer fugitivity. He has shared his work nationally and internationally through recent exhibitions and screenings that include The Language Must Not Sweat , Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Notes Towards Becoming A Spill , Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Shikeith: This was his body/His body finally his , MAK Gallery, London, UK; Go Tell It: Civil Rights Photography , Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; A Drop of Sun Under The Earth , MOCA LA, Los Angeles, CA; Labor Relations, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Poland; and Black Intimacy: An Evening With Shikeith , MoMA, New York, NY. Recent awards include the Painters & Sculptors Grant from The Joan Mitchell Foundation (2019), Art Matters Foundation Grant (2020), Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2020-2021). Imani Dennison Imani Dennison is a Multi-Hyphenate Creative, born in Louisville, Kentucky. Imani graduated from Howard University in Washington, DC where she studied Political Science and Photography. Upon completing her degree at Howard, she went on to earn a certificate in Photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa. Imani has been working as a Cinematographer based in Brooklyn New York where she has lensed short films, documentaries, branded campaigns and music videos. Imani's work explores themes of surrealism, Blackness, and Fantasy. Imani also works as a Photographer and has created bodies of portraiture and documentary work exploring global Blackness. Amber N. Ford Amber N. Ford is an artist based in Cleveland, OH. She received her BFA in Photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art (2016). Interested in race, and identity, she is best known for her work in portraiture, which she considers a “collaborative engagement between photographer and sitter.” Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Kent State University, Transformer Station, SPACES Gallery, The Morgan Conservatory, The Cleveland Print Room, Zygote Press, Waterloo Arts and in outdoor public space on the Capitol Theatre Building located at the corner of Detroit and West 65th. Recent awards include Gordon Square Arts District Artist-In-Residence (2019) and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2017). Antoine Washington Antoine Washington, originally from Pontiac, MI, lives and works in Cleveland, OH. With his wife Carlise Washington, he has two children, Grayson and Luca. He earned his BA in Studio Art from Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA. His studies of black history and art at Southern inspired Washington to continue the legacy of Harlem Renaissance artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and Jacob Lawrence. Following a stroke he suffered in 2018, Washington found healing in his art. He has exhibited widely at the Cleveland Print Room, Worthington Yards, The Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Rooms to Let and Artist Archives of the Western Reserve. His public art commission with Land Studios includes his 154 years mural located in Cleveland Public Square. In 2020, Washington co-founded Museum of Creative Human Art, a non-profit organization centered on teaching art.

Title Round Michael Weil The Theory of Flux (Left + Right) , 2024 Archival print on German Etching Paper mounted to Dibond 53 3/8 x 80 inches Estimated Value Range: $5,000 - $8,000 Starting Bid: $4,000 Courtesy of SHAHEEN modern & contemporary art, Foothill Galleries and Michael Weil Michael Weil’s The Theory of Flux (Left + Right) , from his recent Grande Quatrefoils series, captures, inverts, and re-presents the balance, repetition, and patterns of nature often overlooked by man. Through his lens, Weil amplifies the natural world's inherent harmony, inviting the viewer to consider both its simplicity and complexity. As a tenured photographer, Cleveland gallerist, teacher, and PhD in Art History, Weil is a master of technique and concept, with works held in many private and museum collections such as the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Clinic. More: Michael Weil Michael Weil established Foothill Galleries in 2015 with the momentum of 30 years of camera work, photography education and art appreciation urging him on. He has a PhD in art history—with a concentration in photohistory—from Case Western Reserve University, and has taught art history at Northeast Ohio schools including Case, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cleveland State University. His artwork has been shown in exhibitions around Cleveland and has been acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Clinic, among other private collections.