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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. February 8, 2025 Silent Disco: moCa'ture 9PM-12AM at moCa Cleveland $25 advance; $30 at door SOLD OUT Tonight's event is SOLD OUT. Entrance only for those who have purchased advance tickets. Join us for a full night of hot dance and hotter looks as 3 DJs spin throughout moCa's iconic building. Dress to impress as we celebrate Fashion Week and bring your twist to utilitarian couture. EXCLUSIVE POP-UP EXPERIENCE 6th Street Vintage and YellowCake will present an exclusive pop - up shopping experience for attendees of Silent Disco. Get ready to fall in love with your next favorite fashion—your wardrobe will thank you! DJ Kyro DJ Yulissa DJ Zosimo Maximo HOST COMMITTEE

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Thu. April 10, 2025 Mixology NOW at moCa Cleveland moCa NOW Donor Event: Invitation Only INVITATION ONLY Celebrate art with hand-crafted drinks at this exclusive cocktail reception! This event is by invitation only to Insider & above moCa NOW Donor Members . For information on joining the moCa NOW Donor Program, visit mocacleveland.org/moca-now .

Title Round Gala Porras-Kim Vessel with lip 1 , 2017 Unglazed ceramic, graphite, steel, mahogany Two parts: approx. 7.5 x 6 x 6 inches; approx. 8 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches Estimated Value Range: $12,000 - $16,000 Starting bid: $8,000 Part of her celebrated project and multivenue exhibitions focused on LACMA’s Proctor Stafford Collection, Gala Porras-Kim’s Vessel with lip 1 embodies the artist’s ongoing examination of artifact, authorship, and meaning. Winner of the 2025 Heinz Award for Art, Porras-Kim has had solo exhibitions in Mexico City, London, Seoul, and several US cities, and has been featured in the Whitney, Gwangju, Ural, and São Paulo Biennials. A Harvard Fellow and Getty Institute Artist-in-Residence, Porras-Kim occupies a vital and singular place in the contemporary canon. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council Photo caption: Gala Porras-Kim, Vessel with lip 1 , 2017. Unglazed ceramic, graphite, steel, mahogany. Two parts: approx. 7 1/2 x 6 x 6 in; approx. 8 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Photo: Ruben Diaz. More: Gala Porras-Kim Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984, Bogotá) lives and works in Los Angeles and London. She received an MFA from CalArts and an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA. She has had solo exhibitions at MUAC Kadist, Amant Foundation, Gasworks, London, and CAMSTL, and her work has been included in the Whitney and Ural Industrial Biennials (2019), and Gwangju and Sao Paulo Biennales (2021). She was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019) and artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute (2020-22).

Title Round Simone Shubuck Heros , 2006 Lithograph, edition of 40 Framed: 19 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches Estimated Value Range: $500 - $800 Starting Bid: $200 Bidding increments: $50 More: Simone Shubuck Born in 1969, Simone Shubuck received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has had a solo exhibition with Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) in New York and has exhibited works in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Tokion, Elle, The Fader, ARTnews and is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Shubuck’s work is informed by a range of experiences, from her days as a graffiti artist in San Francisco in the early 90’s to her years as a flower designer in New York City. She professes an affinity for Viennese Secessionists and Art Nouveau practices as well as the work of such outsider artists as Edmund Monsieul and Lee Godie. Her visual style parallels her obsession with the layered sampling of hip-hop artists like Jay-Z, Dipset, Cam’ron and Young Jeezy. Another notable influence comes from her maternal grandmother and great-grandmother, who were skilled bakers and embroiderers.

Title Round Simone Shubuck Portfolio cover , 2006 Lithograph, edition of 40 Framed: 19 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches Estimated Value Range: $500 - $800 Starting Bid: $200 Bidding increments: $50 More: Simone Shubuck Born in 1969, Simone Shubuck received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has had a solo exhibition with Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) in New York and has exhibited works in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Tokion, Elle, The Fader, ARTnews and is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Shubuck’s work is informed by a range of experiences, from her days as a graffiti artist in San Francisco in the early 90’s to her years as a flower designer in New York City. She professes an affinity for Viennese Secessionists and Art Nouveau practices as well as the work of such outsider artists as Edmund Monsieul and Lee Godie. Her visual style parallels her obsession with the layered sampling of hip-hop artists like Jay-Z, Dipset, Cam’ron and Young Jeezy. Another notable influence comes from her maternal grandmother and great-grandmother, who were skilled bakers and embroiderers.

Feb 2-May 26, 2024 Andrea Bowers Exist, Flourish, Evolve Feb 2-May 26, 2024 ∆ Andrea Bowers, Rights of Nature I, 2022, neon. Photo: Glen Cheriton, Impart Photography ∆ Andrea Bowers, Rights of Nature I, 2022, neon. Photo: Glen Cheriton, Impart Photography Andrea Bowers Exist, Flourish, Evolve Feb 2-May 26, 2024 ∆ Andrea Bowers, Rights of Nature I, 2022, neon. Photo: Glen Cheriton, Impart Photography LA-based artist Andrea Bowers bears witness in her work, drawing attention to and inspiring movement around the most urgent issues of our time. Her drawings, sculptures, installations, and films chronicle and preserve history as it occurs, documenting collective action and amplifying the labor and lived experiences of activists dedicated to socio-political change. Developed through an ongoing partnership with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and activist Tish O’Dell, Exist, Flourish, Evolve is a new, multi-site, multimedia campaign that builds awareness and action around the dangers facing Lake Erie and all of the Great Lakes ecosystems. It features a monumental neon sculpture installed on a waterfront balcony of the Great Lakes Science Center; a documentary investigating the impact of factory farming on Lake Erie’s ecosystem; and a presentation in moCa’s Lewis Gallery that includes a newly-created drawing of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, first-of-its-kind legislation protecting an entire US ecosystem that is part of the global Rights of Nature Movement. Bowers was raised in the small town of Huron, Ohio and spent her childhood on the shores of Lake Erie, connecting to the lake itself like a member of her family to be cared for, cherished, and protected. Yet, Lake Erie and its watershed are abused and endangered by corporate practices such as contaminant dumping, toxic runoff from industrial farming, and the introduction of non-native invasive species. Exist, Flourish, Evolve demands justice for the Great Lakes, urging us to prioritize the preservation of our natural ecology over industrialization and capitalism. Within moCa’s gallery, a timeline connects Bowers’s new and recent artworks with historical facts and archival materials using two catastrophic climate events as bookends to Bowers’s life thus far: the 1969 fire on the Lake Erie-connected Cuyahoga River (a result of oil slicks covering the water) and the massive 2014 algae bloom that blanketed Lake Erie and invaded Toledo’s water systems, preventing residents from using tap water. From the Maumee to the Cuyahoga, the works in Exist, Flourish, Evolve come together to share the histories of our water, demonstrate the interconnectedness of ourselves and our natural world, and remind us, as Dr. Vandana Shiva states, “nature is not out there; we are a part of it.” Commission sponsorship provided by Generous support from Chuck & Char Fowler, Joanne Cohen & Morris Wheeler, and Nicholas & Erin Reif Community Partners: About the Artist Andrea Bowers. Courtesy Fondazione Furla Andrea Bowers (b. 1964, Ohio) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been recording and amplifying the work of activists present and past for more than two decades. Her multi-media practice includes drawing, video, sculpture, and installation work that foregrounds the experience of the people who dedicate their time and energy to the struggle for gender, racial, environmental, labor, and immigration justice and those who are directly affected by systemic inequality. Over time, her different bodies of work have become a document of the changing language, prerogatives, and dynamics of social justice movements. In 2021 a major mid-career survey of Bowers’s work curated by Michael Darling and Connie Butler opened at the MCA Chicago and traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2022. Other recent solo exhibitions include Grief and Hope , Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany and Light and Gravity , Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany. In September 2022, Bowers opened a solo exhibition including both new and existing work at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano as part of an exhibition program organized by the Fondazione Furla. Bowers is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto, and Jessica Silverman Gallery. Installation Images Andrea Bowers, Exist, Flourish, Evolve. Installation views at moCa Cleveland, 2024, and Great Lakes Science Center exterior, 2024. 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 .

Title Round Zak Prekop Untitled , 2008 Oil and paper on canvas 36 x 30 inches Estimated Value Range: $13,000 - $16,000 Starting Bid: $6,000 Zak Prekop’s use of whites and pale greens in this untitled painting evokes the meditative works by Masters like Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman. Prekop's subtle gradations of color invite slow, close looking, offering a metaphor for nuance and quiet complexity. Prekop holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has had solo shows at places like Maxwell Graham Gallery, Galería Marta Cervera, and Shane Campbell Gallery. He is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Columbus Museum of Art, and MoMA, among others. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opens a major solo show of his work this June. Courtesy of SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art. More: Zak Prekop Zak Prekop (b. 1979, Chicago) is a Hudson Valley-based painter known for his intricate, nonrepresentational works. He holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a degree from Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany, and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Prekop’s solo exhibitions include Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain (2022); Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL (2019); and Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo, Japan (2014 and 2019). His work is held in collections at the Walker Art Center, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. Notable group exhibitions include Greater New York at PS1, Long Island City, NY (2005); Basic Matters: Substance in Contemporary Art at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2023); and File Under Freedom at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2022).

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Sat. July 11, 2026 Art in the Open: Nature Walk & Artist Talk 6-8:30PM OFFSITE: Garfield Park Reservation 11350 Broadway Ave. Garfield Heights, OH free w/registration SIGN UP Designed as a slower, immersive encounter with art and landscape, this program invites participants to engage contemporary art through guided exploration of Cleveland's park system. Each session begins with a nature walk led by Cleveland Metroparks staff at Garfield Park Reservation, offering participating guests time to observe ecological systems, seasonal change, and the sensory qualities of the landscape. The walk will be followed by an artist talk and hands-on activities led by moCa's Ohio Now: State of Nature exhibiting artist, Charmaine Spencer. These workshops are free and family-friendly, with the goal to create space for reflection, dialogue, and making a direct relationship to the environment. Presented in partnership w/ moCa Cleveland and Cleveland Metroparks.

Thank you for attending this year's Palate/ette event in support of moCa Cleveland! Your generosity and spirit made for a wonderful evening of art and conversation. Spot yourself in your hues-of-blues in the gallery below. Photos by Natasha Herbert Photography and Asia Simmons.

Jul 16-Dec 31, 2022 Renée Green Contact Jul 16-Dec 31, 2022 ∆ Renée Green: Contact . Installation view at moCa Cleveland, presented in partnership with FRONT International's 2022's second iteration, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows. Photo: Field Studio ∆ Renée Green: Contact . Installation view at moCa Cleveland, presented in partnership with FRONT International's 2022's second iteration, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows. Photo: Field Studio Renée Green Contact Jul 16-Dec 31, 2022 ∆ Renée Green: Contact . Installation view at moCa Cleveland, presented in partnership with FRONT International's 2022's second iteration, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows. Photo: Field Studio What is “contact” now? For FRONT 2022 , Cleveland-born artist Renée Green has conceived Contact , her first major exhibition in the city, which occupies all of moCa Cleveland’s public spaces and radiates out into the city with workshops and film screenings. A contrapuntal exhibition, Contact weaves together Green’s own works–some newly commissioned by FRONT 2022–with a vast array of invited participants with whom she’s been in conversation through the years. This relates to Green’s accretive way of working, developing exhibitions by modifying and subsequently re-presenting works and ideas in relation to other contexts. And while Contact coincides with FRONT 2022, the endeavor was initially conceived in 2019 and will continue through the end of the year, resonating with the triennial’s attempt to break the three-month exhibition format. Engaging with moCa Cleveland’s unique architecture, this exhibition establishes a spatial, sonic, and cinematic conversation between multiple artworks and agents. Green’s pioneering aesthetic practice connects with two of the triennial’s key themes: a focus on the expanded role of artists as collaborative practitioners and the idea that the processes of artmaking can create essential bridges between people. In addition to Green, Contact features the art, thinking, and voices of a diverse ensemble of artists and practitioners, including John Akomfrah, Marcel Broodthaers, Cinematic Migrations Workshop, Free Agent Media, Laura Serejo Genes, Lina Gopaul, Derrick Green, Index Literacy Program, Gabriel Kahan, David Lawson, New Humans, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Suneil Sanzgiri, Sense LA, Smoking Dogs Films, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Ian Soroka, Mika Tajima, and Pedro Zylbersztajn. Renée Green’s exhibition Contact is presented in partnership with FRONT International 2022’s second iteration, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support provided by Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP. Additional support provided by Michelle Shan Jeschelnig and Richard Jeschelnig, and the Anselm Talalay Photography Endowment. About FRONT Launched in 2018, FRONT International is a contemporary art exhibition that presents artist commissions, performances, films, and public programs across Northeast Ohio every three years. The 2022 edition, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows , embraces art as an agent of transformation, a mode of healing, and a therapeutic process. The title is an homage to “Two Somewhat Different Epigrams,” a 1957 poem by Langston Hughes, who moved to Cleveland in his childhood and maintained an artistic connection to the region. A tender, brutal, and provocative prayer, the poem meditates on the inseparability of joy and suffering. Amid a time of ongoing tragedy and loss, FRONT 2022 explores how artmaking can heal us—as individuals, as groups, and as a society. Spanning over twenty-five sites in Cleveland, Akron, and Oberlin, the exhibition bears witness to interlocking personal and public crises while emphasizing collaborative creative processes, partnering closely with institutions across the region, and connecting artists with local communities. Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows features over ninety regional, national, and international artists. Starting with how daily practice allows individual artists to cultivate liberation, the triennial also demonstrates how aesthetic pleasure—sharing joy through movement, music, craft, and color—can bring different people together. Finally, the exhibition suggests ways that contemporary art can speak with power, showing us how to recognize and reimagine the invisible structures that govern our lives. For more information, visit FrontArt.org .

Title Round Jessica Mein obra trinta e um , 2013 Collage 41 x 34 inches Estimated Value Range: $3,000 - $4,500 Starting Bid: $1,500 Bidding increments: $250 Jessica Mein (b. 1975, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian artist whose work spans across drawing, animation, and physical investigations of discarded billboards, often from her hometown of São Paulo, and hand-printed hemp bags from Dubai. Her art challenges traditional boundaries between image, surface, and structure, frequently questioning the very materials that support her creations. More: Jessica Mein Artistic Practice Mein’s work is deeply rooted in labor and construction, which is reflected in her use of the Portuguese word obra (meaning both "work of art" and "construction site") to describe her practice. She often repurposes images from obsolete billboards, especially in the context of São Paulo’s ban on outdoor advertisements, where the works subvert censorship by recycling these materials for new purposes. Mein’s process includes unthreading, puncturing, and unraveling canvas and fabric, reminiscent of the work of Lucio Fontana, to reveal the raw, structural elements behind the image. This deconstruction reveals the object's physicality, turning the artwork into both a finished product and a site of ongoing creation. Mein also engages with the notion of tramas —a Portuguese word signifying both tapestry and entanglement —which relates to her intricate manipulation of materials. In her series Obra Quarenta e Quatro , the artist explores systems of production through obsolete billboard fragments transferred to hemp, a slow and labor-intensive process. Through her unthreading, cutting, and imprinting processes, Mein creates abstract compositions that juxtapose the image and its material base, emphasizing the relationship between surface and structure. Notable Works and Exhibitions Mein has exhibited widely in solo and group shows across the world, with notable exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio (New York), Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City), The Julia Stoschek Foundation (Düsseldorf), and the Drawing Center (New York). Her solo exhibitions include Obras at Simon Preston Gallery (New York) and Tramas at Galeria Leme (São Paulo), where she presented new wall-based works and large-scale spatial structures that further explore the boundaries between image and support. About the Artist Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Mein’s work investigates the intersection of physicality, urban spaces, and the rapidly disappearing materials of the past. Drawing inspiration from the outdated billboard structures of São Paulo and the hand-printed hemp bags found in Dubai, Mein focuses on the obsolescence of visual culture and the labor-intensive production of images. Her artistic investigations emphasize the tension between the rapidly changing world of digital imagery and the slow, deliberate handcraft of her own work. Currently residing in Dubai, Mein is a resident artist in the A.i.R. program run by Art Dubai, Delfina Foundation, and Tashkeel. Selected Collections The Museum of Modern Art, New York Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo