designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshops Feb-May 2024 moCa Cleveland is partnering with designExplorr and Dr. Jacinda Walker to demonstrate the power of design to a new generation. Explore how a professional designer approaches problems, designs solutions, and find out what a career in design might look like. It’s time to unlock your creative potential—the world needs your ideas! In these workshops developed by designExplorr, Dr. Jacinda Walker—facilitator, and founder of designExplorr—will help you design and create something from your own imagination. Join us across select Saturdays from Feb-May 2024. Family Fun on moCa Saturdays supported by PNC 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. DesignExplorr accomplishes this mission through collaborating on educational youth programs, coordinating diversity-building initiatives, and connecting stakeholders to resources. Find out more at designexplorr.com and Instagram . Related Events: ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. Feb 17, 12-4PM ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. Mar 09, 12-4PM ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. Mar 30, 12-4PM Offsite at designExplorr Experiential Learning Center 3800 Euclid Ave. ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. Apr 13, 12-4PM ▶ designExplorr Design Learning Challenge Workshop Sat. May 11, 12-4PM

Getting to Know: Finnegan Shannon Artist residency Dec 2022-Dec 2023 Left: Finnegan Shannon Finnegan Shannon is a Brooklyn-based artist who makes work about access and disability cultures. Their practice prioritizes expanding accessibility within and outside of cultural institutions. Some of their recent work includes Anti-Stairs Club Lounge , an ongoing project that gathers people together who share an aversion to stairs; Alt-Text as Poetry , a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; and Do You Want Us Here or Not , a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces that explore the need and desire to sit and rest. During this residency, Shannon and moCa Curator Lauren Leving will co-curate a group exhibition that will intervene creatively in moCa’s Lewis Gallery, opening summer 2023. Creating virtual and in-person programming, Shannon also will connect their work with a variety of audiences by designing new Creative Toolboxes, moCa’s ongoing delivery-based program where art-making materials and creative prompts are made available through community-based partners to residents in the neighborhoods around the museum. The Getting to Know Residency is generously sponsored by Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, with additional support from Char and Chuck Fowler. About the Getting To Know Residency In January 2021, moCa launched a new residency called Getting to Know, designed to support a non-local contemporary artist working in social practice in a long-form project with moCa and our community that allows for repeat engagement, extended exploration, and the development of new work. Getting to Know artists have included Chicago-based fiber artist Aram Han Sifuentes (2021-22) and Brooklyn-based Finnegan Shannon. Related Exhibition ▶ Don't mind if I do

Cleveland CROWN Convention Mar 23, 2024 REGISTER TODAY New this year, moCa hosts the Cleveland CROWN Convention , a celebration and honoring of the natural hair experience. The Saturday event brings people together around an experience that is celebrated worldwide, and especially cherished by many individuals from the Black community. Cleveland CROWN Convention centers around fostering a greater sense of connectedness through shared experiences, panel discussions, food, and memorable exchange. SCHEDULE: 12-4PM Curated portrait environment led by artist Amber N. Ford Vendors Food Trucks Live DJ sets by LockDown DJs Memorable exchanges 2-3PM Panel Discussion w/ Yana of GLO Locs, Dayja of Coko's Crown, and Professor, Master Barber. Moderated by DJ Mstk of LockDown DJs VENDORS: Coko's Crown GLO Locs LT2 XOXO Zekeipro Poor Sunshine FOOD TRUCKS: Feeed Myyy Bellyyy Samurai Dynasty Media Sponsorship: Recognizze Studios About REGISTER TODAY New this year, moCa hosts the Cleveland CROWN Convention , a celebration and honoring of the natural hair experience. The Saturday event brings people together around an experience that is celebrated worldwide, and especially cherished by many individuals from the Black community. Cleveland CROWN Convention centers around fostering a greater sense of connectedness through shared experiences, panel discussions, food, and memorable exchange. SCHEDULE: 12-4PM Curated portrait environment led by artist Amber N. Ford Vendors Food Trucks Live DJ sets by LockDown DJs Memorable exchanges 2-3PM Panel Discussion w/ Yana of GLO Locs, Dayja of Coko's Crown, and Professor, Master Barber. Moderated by DJ Mstk of LockDown DJs VENDORS: Coko's Crown GLO Locs LT2 XOXO Zekeipro Poor Sunshine FOOD TRUCKS: Feeed Myyy Bellyyy Samurai Dynasty Media Sponsorship: Recognizze Studios REGISTER TODAY New this year, moCa hosts the Cleveland CROWN Convention , a celebration and honoring of the natural hair experience. The Saturday event brings people together around an experience that is celebrated worldwide, and especially cherished by many individuals from the Black community. Cleveland CROWN Convention centers around fostering a greater sense of connectedness through shared experiences, panel discussions, food, and memorable exchange. SCHEDULE: 12-4PM Curated portrait environment led by artist Amber N. Ford Vendors Food Trucks Live DJ sets by LockDown DJs Memorable exchanges 2-3PM Panel Discussion w/ Yana of GLO Locs, Dayja of Coko's Crown, and Professor, Master Barber. Moderated by DJ Mstk of LockDown DJs VENDORS: Coko's Crown GLO Locs LT2 XOXO Zekeipro Poor Sunshine FOOD TRUCKS: Feeed Myyy Bellyyy Samurai Dynasty Media Sponsorship: Recognizze Studios

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda Mar 8, 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.

Erykah Townsend "Happy" Holidays Jun-Dec 2025 Erykah Townsend, Look Mom, I’m a Woman Now! , 2021. acrylic, oil, modeling paste, and toy witches on panel, 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm.). Courtesy the artist About the Exhibition Multimedia conceptual artist Erykah Townsend draws from pop culture to unpack connections between innocence and absurdity. During her time as moCa’s Artist-in-Residence (July-December 2022), she began creating a new body of work that explores consumerism’s influence on Western mainstream holidays. This work, to be displayed in her upcoming solo exhibition, "Happy" Holidays, critiques how consumerism has changed the ways we celebrate holidays. Artwork highlighting the chaos of Black Friday and the neighborly sport of holiday decorating satirizes a culture of one-upmanship and demonstrates a shift in values that prioritizes material objects over human relationships. moCa AIR is supported by Margaret Cohen & Kevin Rahilly. ​ “Happy” Holidays is supported by The Satellite Fund, administered by SPACES and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program. About the Artist Erykah Townsend Erykah Townsend , also known as E.T., is a conceptual artist from Cleveland, Ohio. Her art boldly confronts and questions the role of pop culture in our lives. She states, “I use pop culture as a medium itself—exploring the spaces it fills in our lives and the inquiry of how real are the imaginary." Through reflective and humorous narratives, Townsend references art history and critiques consumerism and western culture, using characters, cultural icons, and objects as allegories for her criticism. In addition, her work includes elements from their original sources, providing the audience with a fresh and sentimental encounter. Townsend received her BFA in painting from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2020.

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda Feb 18, 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.

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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.

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