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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 Sat. September 20, 2025 Silent Disco: S.S. moCa 9PM-12AM at moCa Cleveland $25 advance; $30 at door GET TICKETS All aboard for a sonic adventure at Silent Disco: S.S. moCa! Grab your headphones, choose your vibe, and groove to the beat of 3 live DJs—no waves, just rhythm. Close out the summer in your resort wear glamour while exploring moCa's new season of art. Then, drop anchor and dance your boat off! Interactive Art & Exhibitions: Explore moCa’s exhibitions with exclusive after-hours access. Let the cutting-edge artwork inspire your moves! Drinks: Enjoy specialty cocktails that will be available at our cash bar. Dress Code: Deck yourself out in your resort wear finest. Why Attend? This Silent Disco is more than just a party—it celebrates creativity, individuality, and connection. Dance to your own beat, immerse yourself in moCa's exhibitions, and showcase your unique style in an unforgettable setting. Don’t wait—tickets are limited, and this event WILL sell out!

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.

Jul 7-Jan 7, 2024 A soft place to land Kevin Beasley, Margarita Cabrera, Pia Camil, Cass Davis, Alexandra Kehayoglou, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kaveri Raina, Liang Shaoji, and Marie Watt Jul 7-Jan 7, 2024 ∆ A soft place to land , installation view at moCa Cleveland, 2023. Photo: Jacob Koestler ∆ A soft place to land , installation view at moCa Cleveland, 2023. Photo: Jacob Koestler A soft place to land Kevin Beasley, Margarita Cabrera, Pia Camil, Cass Davis, Alexandra Kehayoglou, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kaveri Raina, Liang Shaoji, and Marie Watt Jul 7-Jan 7, 2024 ∆ A soft place to land , installation view at moCa Cleveland, 2023. Photo: Jacob Koestler About the Exhibition A soft place to land highlights artists who use textiles to unpack personal histories and underscores the metaphorical and material importance of fiber arts in connecting these stories to broader cultural and societal narratives. Rooted in explorations of the physicality of memory, this exhibition demonstrates the ways that textiles function as, “containers of collective and individual memory, as devices capable of triggering emotional, psychological, and even physiological reactions, and as tools for expressing or retaining identity and narratives.” The artists in this international, intergenerational exhibition build upon fibrous foundations to share the moments and traditions that shaped them, elevating what may be thought of as mundane or ubiquitous objects to emphasize the immeasurable value of one’s lived experiences. Themes of resilience, homesickness, and the desire to feel connected emerge within this examination of material culture. The artwork in A soft place to land showcases the influence of place and placemaking on one’s identity, confronts intergenerational trauma and trauma associated with upbringing, and celebrates materiality as an essential tool in self-discovery. About the Artists Margarita Cabrera Margarita Cabrera A self-defined social practices artist, Margarita Cabrera ’s (she/her) work is often fueled by collaboration from community engagement to get a holistic view of social issues. Materials such as US Border Patrol uniforms and cochineal-dye are used, and transformed, to deliver a multi-tiered conversation on topics such as globalism, populism, and the migrant experience. Often in playful representation, Cabrera’s work, such as embroidered soft-sculpture potted desert plants; mimicking parrots made from found border patrol uniforms; and collaged works on paper made with cochineal dye, implores viewers to confront contentious topics by utilizing materials tied inextricably to the issue. Cabrera was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and moved to El Paso, TX at the age of 10. She received an MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY and is currently an assistant professor at the Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Kevin Beasley, Site XVI, 2022, Polyurethane resin, raw Virginia Cotton, altered t-shirts, confetti t-shirts, housedress, 74 x 55 x 2 in (188 x 141 x 5.1 cm). ©Kevin Beasley. Photo: Jason Wyche, Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York. Kevin Beasley Kevin Beasley (he/him) lives and works in New York. His practice spans sculpture, photography, sound, and performance, while centering on materials of cultural and personal significance, from raw cotton harvested from his family’s property in Virginia to sounds gathered using contact microphones. Beasley alters, casts, and molds these diverse materials to form a body of works that acknowledge the complex, shared histories of the broader American experience, steeped in generational memories. In March 2023, Beasley released A View of a Landscape , a 300-page book and double LP record, conceived as equal elements and designed together. The publication is produced in collaboration with the Renaissance Society and The University of Chicago Press. Recent exhibitions and performances include The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse , a touring exhibition curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, which traveled from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2021), to the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston (2021), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2022), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2022); and Prospect.5, New Orleans: Yesterday we said tomorrow (2021), in which Beasley began a multiyear site-specific project in the Lower Ninth Ward. Pia Camil. Photo by: Pirje Mykkänen Courtesy of Pia Camil and Finnish National Gallery Kiasma. Pia Camil Pia Camil (she/her) is a Mexican visual artist based in San Mateo Acatitlán, State of Mexico. Her work ranges widely from painting and sculpture to performance and installation. Highlighting the importance of the collective and communal, her work is often inclusive and directly engages the viewer. Camil draws inspiration from her context with a critical and political interest around commercial culture or the frenetic pace of mass commodification. In an effort to gear away from industrialized labor, her practice is mostly done in collaboration with friends and specially skilled producers. Currently, her rural context is informing new ideas of the collective–the relationship of humans with nature and to other species. Camil is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Cass Davis. Photo: Gillian Fry Cass Davis Cass Davis (they/them) is a Chicago-based artist with an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their solo shows include Out of Time at Engage Projects, Revelations at University of Southern Indiana, HEARTLAND at G-CADD St. Louis, No Body on Earth But Yours with the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Of Roses and Jessamine at SITE gallery, Chicago. Davis has shown in group exhibitions and screenings at the Design Museum Chicago, IL, Bemis Center in Omaha, NE, York St. John University, UK, Tile Blush in Miami, FL, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The American Medium in NYC, UIS Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, IL, Terrain Biennial Oak Park and Springfield, IL, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago Artists Coalition, 062 Gallery, Sullivan Galleries, and the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Utah. They have been awarded the Praxis Fiber Arts Residency, HATCH Residency, Oxbow Artist's MFA Residency, Roger Brown Artist's Residency, IOTO Residency, and the Shapiro Center Eager Research Grant. They have been lecturing faculty in the Fiber and Material Studies department at SAIC. Alexandra Kehayoglou. Photo: Francisco Nocitois Alexandra Kehayoglou Alexandra Kehayoglou (she/her) is an Argentinian and Greek visual artist who works primarily with textile materials. She produces works combining textiles, sculpture and installation. Kehayoglou’s repertoire includes memories of various native and endangered landscapes that the artist has visited and desires to preserve over time. Her renowned pastizales (grasslands), fields, and shelter tapestries exhibit sublime realities which the viewer can contemplate or utilize. Her work is created from an ancient family tradition of weaving. She presented the No Longer Creek at Design Miami/Basel, decrying the decimation of the Raggio Creek in Buenos Aires. At the end of 2017, The Triennial of The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, included Kehayoglou’s work, Santa Cruz River . Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Palais de Tokyo 2022. Tiona Nekkia McClodden Tiona Nekkia McClodden (she/her) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. McClodden’s interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. Most recently, her work has explored the themes of re-memory and narrative biomythography. Her writing has been featured on the "Triple Canopy" platform in Artforum , Cultured Magazine , ART 21 Magazine , and many other publications. She is the recipient of a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.McClodden lives and works in North Philadelphia, PA, and is the Founder and Director of Philadelphia-based, Conceptual Fade, a micro-gallery and library space centering Black thought and artistic production. Kaveri Raina. Photo: Zhiyuan Yang Kaveri Raina Kaveri Raina (she/her) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011. Raina has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Chapter NY, New York; Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA; PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; Assembly Room, New York, NY; Rata Projects, New York, NY; Permanent Collection/Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX; Permanent Collection/Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX; Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Indo-American Museum, Lombard, IL; Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, NY; Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, among others. Raina is the recipient of several fellowships and awards including the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, the Ox-bow Residency Award, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship Award. She is represented by PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL. Liang Shaoji Liang Shaoji Liang Shaoji (he/him) studied soft sculpture with Maryn Varbanov at China Academy of Art. For more than thirty years, Liang has been interested in interdisciplinary creation in terms of art and biology, installation and sculpture, new media and textile. His Nature Series sees the life process of silkworms as a creation medium, the interaction in the natural world as his artistic language, time and life as the essential idea. His works are fulfilled with a sense of meditation, philosophy and poetry while illustrating the inherent beauty of silk. Selected exhibitions include: Liang Shaoji: A Silky Entanglement , Power Station of Art, Shanghai; The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (touring exhibition), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smart Museum of Art; Liang Shaoji: As If , M Woods Art Museum, Beijing; the 3rd Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, the 5th Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon the 48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Venice, and the 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (1999). Marie Watt Marie Watt Marie Watt (she/her) is an American artist. She is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and also has German-Scot ancestry. Her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings; in it, she explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling. She is represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon; Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, California; and Marc Straus Gallery in New York City, New York. Selected collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, the Crystal Bridges Museum, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and Renwick Gallery, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum. Installation Images A soft place to land . Installation views at moCa Cleveland, 2023. Photos: Jacob Koestler

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Sat. May 17, 2025 moCa Connect Returns 9PM-1:30AM at moCa Cleveland $25 advance; $30 at door GET TICKETS moCa Connect returns this May! moCa CONNECT is back with an experience you don't want to miss. This signature event brings together art, music, culture, and creative game-changers for a night of bold ideas and electric energy. Special Guest: Filmmaker Coodie Simmons Director of Netflix's jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, & ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Benji DJ Lineup & Entertainment NicNacc DJ Walk Gumbo About Coodie Simmons Coodie Simmons, a visionary filmmaker from Chicago, first gained prominence through his unique ability to merge storytelling with soulful, documentary-style visuals. After moving to New York in 2002, Coodie teamed up with Chike Ozah to form the award-winning directing duo, Coodie & Chike. Coodie’s most recognized achievements to date include Kanye West’s Through the Wire music video and Netflix's *jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy , the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Benji , the NAACP Image Award-winning Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champ and the acclaimed look into the life of NBA player Stephon Marbury in A Kid From Coney Island .

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda May 10, 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.

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

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Thu. May 21, 2026 In Response w/ Art Therapy Studio 6-7:30PM at moCa Cleveland $5 SIGN UP In Response invites you to engage contemporary art as a starting point for mindfulness, reflection, and meaningful connection at moCa Cleveland. Facilitated by Art Therapy Studio, each session begins with guided time in the galleries, where participants closely observe select works from the exhibitions on view and engage in thoughtful group discussion. Grounded in slowing down and intentional observation, the experience creates space for presence, curiosity, and shared insight. Following the gallery engagement, participants transition into an accessible, hands-on art-making experience focused on process rather than perfection, encouraging creative response, emotional awareness, and self-expression. Offered on the third Thursday of each month until July 2026, the series is designed to be welcoming to both first-time and returning participants, with a consistent structure that fosters ease and belonging. No prior art experience is needed; come as you are, and respond in your own way. A $5 reservation hold will be refunded at check-in. Please note: Eventbrite's processing fees are non-refundable.

Title Round Michael Loderstedt Lief Eriksson Viking Settlement, L’Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland , 2002 C-print 46 x 66 inches Courtesy of the artist Estimated Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,500 Michael Loderstedt is an artist, writer, poet, and educator whose work pays particular attention to the geography and natural phenomena of particular sites and events that define histories, actions, and understanding of our world. Working across printmaking, photography, and installation, Loderstedt often considers the intersections between man and machine in relation to nature, reminding us of nature’s simultaneous vulnerability and durability. In this work, Loderstedt captures a quiet expanse on a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the only confirmed Norse (Viking) settlement in North America that dates to around 1000 CE. Likely a temporary base camp for exploration rather than a permanent colony, the site provides tangible proof of pre-Columbian transatlantic contact between Europe and North America. +sign up to proxy bid return to auction menu More: Michael Loderstedt Michael Loderstedt (b. 1958; lives and works in Cleveland, OH) received his BFA in printmaking from East Carolina University and his MFA from Kent State University. Working across photography, printmaking, artist books, and installation, he has exhibited at venues including SPACES (Cleveland, OH), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA), and regional institutions in Northeast Ohio, and his work is held in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Akron Art Museum, and the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany, among others. Loderstedt is Professor Emeritus at Kent State University and has been an important presence in the Cleveland art community as both an artist and educator.

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more 12-1PM Fri. October 10, 2025 Sips, Strings & Sights RSVP at moCa Cleveland Free to all The Music Settlement, moCa Cleveland, and Phoenix Coffee invite you to a midday sensory experience blending experimental music, fresh coffee, and contemporary art. This free lunchtime event features a live performance by harpist Stephan Haluska, musician and instructor at The Music Settlement, alongside saxophonist AJ Kluth, a collaborator of TMS. Set within moCa’s current exhibition by artist Beverly Semmes, the performance will take place in front of her striking installation of four monumental dresses. We are excited for this dynamic interplay between sound, sculpture, and space. Free & Open to the Public! What to expect: Enjoy locally brewed Phoenix Coffee, some original compositions, and moCa’s open gallery space. Perfect for art lovers, music enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a creative break in the heart of University Circle.

Title Round Doug Sanderson Arcane Image , 2022 Acrylic, hand-painted enhanced silk screen 18 ½ x 12 inches Courtesy of the artist Estimated Retail Value: $3,000 Doug Sanderson has long explored the “Flower of Life” motif—an ancient symbol tied to sacred geometry and the underlying structures of space and time. Drawn to its mysterious, esoteric resonance, he pairs this imagery with a refined command of color and abstraction, creating works that are both visually striking and emotionally charged. Influenced by the precision and richness of Mughal miniatures, Sanderson builds layered compositions that reveal increasing depth and complexity over time. His surfaces reward sustained looking, unfolding subtle rhythms and nuances with each encounter. Critic Douglas Max Utter points to the layered complexity of Sanderson’s work: “As subtle rhythms and nuances of application come into focus, so too does the artist’s poetic and intuitive strength, creating an overall impression of intense, significance-laden activity [that] generates an almost audible aesthetic ‘hum,’ like a metaphysical machine shop.” Sanderson’s recent work also incorporates the butah (boteh) motif—an early precursor to paisley—extending his interest in enduring symbols connected to life, continuity, and transformation. +sign up to proxy bid return to auction menu More: Doug Sanderson Douglas Sanderson (b. 1942) is a painter whose career includes early exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery (New York, NY) and John Weber Gallery, as well as a 1985 exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art. More recent solo presentations have included William Busta Gallery (Cleveland, OH) and Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (Oberlin, OH). Sanderson’s long career in abstraction has also been recognized through honors including the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.

For more than 50 years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) has played a vital role in the city’s cultural landscape. moCa is a conduit and catalyst for creativity and inspiration, offering exhibitions and programs that provide public value and make meaning of the art and ideas of our time. The art, artists, and the people that activate our space keep moving art forward. Stop by to connect with art now and share what you think. About For more than 50 years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) has played a vital role in the city’s cultural landscape. moCa is a conduit and catalyst for creativity and inspiration, offering exhibitions and programs that provide public value and make meaning of the art and ideas of our time. The art, artists, and the people that activate our space keep moving art forward. Stop by to connect with art now and share what you think. About moCa mission The Building Staff & Jobs Board News Contact Us

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Sat. August 1, 2026 Family Canvas: Art in Nature 12-2:30PM at moCa Cleveland Free to all SIGN UP This monthly program welcomes Metroparks naturalists each month at moCa as they facilitate interactive workshops focused on nature-based themes. Each session features three nature stations inside moCa and outside our front door in Cleveland Metroparks’ Mobile NatureTracks, alongside an immersive artmaking experience led by Wave Space Studio. Observe, reflect, and create while exploring the shared ground between ecological systems, contemporary art, and everyday experience. The program is connected to the exhibitions currently at moCa Cleveland, with a strong thematic anchor in Ohio Now: State of Nature . Participants are encouraged to consider how artists and naturalists alike use observation, experimentation, and curiosity to understand the world around them. Developed in partnership with moCa and the Cleveland Metroparks. Family Fun supported by PNC. Support for this program: