Terry Joshua The Pinkest Hue Nov 19, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 Terry Joshua, Symptoms of the Unsaid , 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 in. (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Courtesy the artist. Presented in partnership w/ Museum of Creative Human Art and moCa Cleveland Presented by the Museum of Creative Human Art, Terry Joshua’s first solo exhibition, The Pinkest Hue , brings together new paintings, sound, video, and writing that chronicle his journey from adolescence into adulthood. Beginning with a self-portrait as a young boy, the artist’s paintings act as a visual diary exploring the relationships that have shaped him—with his mother, lovers, God, and himself. Joshua uses his work to forge new connections with his audiences. Each painting is thoughtfully paired with a poem, journal entry, or proverb, and supported by a song to create an intimate environment that underscores the importance of relationship-building. Presented in partnership w/ About the Artist Terry Joshua Terry Joshua Terry Joshua, born to his mother S. Marie Johnson in Cleveland, Ohio, dates his earliest memory of creating art to exploring feelings he couldn’t articulate with words. Throughout his upbringing, he was immersed in poverty, often moving every couple of months to yearly. As a result, his art began to speak to and about his environment. By his teen years, Joshua had experienced various emotional and mental hardships that shaped his outlook on life. While being outspoken in school and involved in art programs, he would not put a brush to canvas until he was 18, during his junior year in high school. Although this first painting was the catalyst to his career as a visual artist, it was not a decision he chose; he recalls being forced by his art teacher to, “paint or fail.” Not only did this painting earn the artist a passing grade, but sent him on a journey into self-discovery, trauma, and confidence in his life and artistic abilities. Joshua characterizes his painting as a “visual love letter” both to those who support him and to the people that have shaped him and his perspective.

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 Mar 9, 2024 Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. Generous support for Manabu Ikeda's artist residency and programming by Flagstar Foundation. RELATED EXHIBITION: Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage About Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. Generous support for Manabu Ikeda's artist residency and programming by Flagstar Foundation. RELATED EXHIBITION: Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage Experience the artist create onsite at moCa as he develops a new monumental artwork over the course of the Winter/Spring season. Generous support for Manabu Ikeda's artist residency and programming by Flagstar Foundation. RELATED EXHIBITION: Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage

The National AIDS Memorial Quilt In conjunction with moCa’s presentation of Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. and World AIDS Day Oct 8, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 Square from The National AIDS Memorial Quilt (detail). With over 50,000 panels created by thousands of participants worldwide, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is the world’s largest community folk art project. Made up of individually created three by six-foot panels—each the approximate size of a grave—the Quilt memorializes 125,000-plus victims of AIDS and HIV-related illness. Portraits appear alongside names and dates, pictures of pets, flowers, rainbows, musical instruments, and thousands of other symbols that represent friends, lovers, and family members. Currently spanning 1.2 million square feet and weighing 54 tons, the Quilt is a powerful symbol of the AIDS pandemic and a living memorial to a generation lost to AIDS and HIV-related illness. The Quilt was conceived by long-time San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones, who in 1978 created the first panel in memory of his friend Marvin Feldman. That same year the Quilt grew to 1,920 panels and on October 11, 1987, it was exhibited for the first time on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. where half a million people visited on the opening weekend. Jones said of the Quilt, “It could be therapy, I hoped, for a community that was increasingly paralyzed by grief and rage and powerlessness. It could be a tool for the media, to reveal the humanity behind the statistics. And a weapon to deploy against the government; to shame them with stark visual evidence of their utter failure to respond to the suffering and death that spread and increased with every passing day.” This focused installation brings together two blocks of the Quilt in conjunction with moCa’s presentation of Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. and World AIDS Day (December 1). Block 0227 and Block 4506 are a poignant and beautiful tribute to the lives of Edmundo “Mundo” Meza—the artist at the center of Axis Mundo —James Brooke Shoulberg, Michael McDowell, David Caroline, Merle Long, Hugo Niehaus, John (surname unknown), John Doe, Terry David Hernandez, E. Gordon Hanna, Jorge Fernandez, Steve Brown, Ted Zak, David Lewis, Paul Mark Patinka, and Michael F. Farrell. With thousands of displays of the Quilt in locations across the globe, over 14 million people have experienced and participated in the project. To learn more about the National AIDS Memorial Quilt please visit www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt . moCa’s presentation of The National AIDS Memorial Quilt is organized by Courtenay Finn, Chief Curator, Ray Juaire, Exhibitions Director, Lauren Leving, Curator of Public Programs & Artist Residencies, Karl Anderson, Exhibition Technician, and supported by the entire moCa Cleveland staff.

Comic Con Teen Neon Cosplay Party Mar 1, 2024 GET TICKETS $10 Fee waiver available. Lake Erie Ink is partnering with moCa to kick off the 12th Annual Kids’ Comic Con weekend. Teens will mix and mingle with local graphic illustrators, explore the museum, create and fill their bellies with treats and comic inspired mocktails. It is highly encouraged to come in costume. Registration is required. Hosted by CandiBee Cosplay. Sponsored by the Cleveland Institute of Art. About GET TICKETS $10 Fee waiver available. Lake Erie Ink is partnering with moCa to kick off the 12th Annual Kids’ Comic Con weekend. Teens will mix and mingle with local graphic illustrators, explore the museum, create and fill their bellies with treats and comic inspired mocktails. It is highly encouraged to come in costume. Registration is required. Hosted by CandiBee Cosplay. Sponsored by the Cleveland Institute of Art. GET TICKETS $10 Fee waiver available. Lake Erie Ink is partnering with moCa to kick off the 12th Annual Kids’ Comic Con weekend. Teens will mix and mingle with local graphic illustrators, explore the museum, create and fill their bellies with treats and comic inspired mocktails. It is highly encouraged to come in costume. Registration is required. Hosted by CandiBee Cosplay. Sponsored by the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda Mar 30, 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.

Museum of Creative Human Art x moCa Institutional Residency Jul 2021-Jun 2022 Installation of the exhibition Stina Aleah: "Helping" Hands in the Lewis Gallery. In July 2021, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) and the Museum of Creative Human Art (MCHA) co-created and launched an institutional residency project. This residency is designed to explore how organizations of different sizes but with similar missions and commitments can work collaboratively in space and programming, learn from one another, and mutually advance goals of equity, education, and creativity. MCHA is a new art world change agent focused on presenting a diversity of artists, creative spaces, perspectives, programs, and activations intended to serve and inspire mission-aligned Black creators. moCa has been both conduit and catalyst for contemporary artists for more than 50 years, supporting and sharing the art and ideas of our time through artist first exhibitions, programs, special projects, and publications. During this residency, MCHA is curating its ambitious exhibition program at moCa’s building with assistance from moCa’s team. moCa and MCHA are creating joint programming for audiences of all ages that springboards from each exhibition and the residency concept-at-large. This institutional residency reinforces MCHA and moCa’s shared missions to advance and improve humanity through art. Ultimately, MCHA and moCa hope that the project could model new approaches to long-form, shared space organizational partnerships that provide both autonomous and collaborative work that prioritizes equity, education, and creativity. Generous support from Margaret Cohen & Kevin Rahilly, The Cleveland Foundation, and the Callahan Foundation Related Exhibitions ▶ Where We Overlap ▶ Honey Pierre: Bloodlines ▶ Ryan Harris: Sincerely, Us ▶ Terry Joshua: The Pinkest Hue ▶ Lawrence Baker: Taking Another Look ▶ Stina Aleah: "Helping" Hands ▶ Aawful Aaron by Aaron D. Williams

Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda Apr 19, 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 May 11, 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.

Administrative Coordinator About Department: Engagement Status: Full-time, Exempt As Northeast Ohio's premier site for contemporary art, moCa advances the critical role that art and artists play in our world. Grounded in Cleveland and engaged in the global cultural ecosystem, we focus on art now to open and connect people to new possibilities. Our work culture is passion-driven, inclusive, fast-paced, collaborative, and fun. We value and support an enterprising staff who anticipate and react nimbly to change, embrace new opportunities, embrace and learn from failure, and face challenges responsibly and thoughtfully. moCa is the people who help to realize its mission and each employee has agency and accountability for moCa's success and value to our community and audiences. The Administrative Coordinator (AC) is responsible for logistics and administrative support in primary service to the Engagement and Operations departments. A primary responsibility of this role is staff scheduling, event and daily attendance tracking, procedural documentation and policy tracking, and Learning Session planning and clerical support for moCa’s Engagement Guide (EG) program, which focuses on welcoming and orienting onsite learners (visitors), supporting and customizing their experience, nurturing dialogue, caring for the art and architecture, and contributing innovative ideas to enhance future onsite experiences. The AC also serves as a primary onsite Engagement Manager-on-Duty, modeling best practices for EG behavior, supervising rotations and breaks, supporting learner and EG questions and needs, and ensuring public museum spaces and amenities are staged, complete, and available. In addition, the AC is responsible for specific office and administrative responsibilities that contribute to the success of moCa’s Engagement and Operations teams and collaborative work across the whole museum. ENGAGEMENT GUIDE COORDINATION : Coordinates, sets, maintains, and tracks seasonal EG schedule for all museum shifts, Learning Sessions, weekly communications, and lead pre and post shift meetings as directed by the Visitor Engagement Director; Serves as onsite EG Engagement Manager-on-Duty during moCa’s public hours, modeling EG best practices, partnering with the Security Coordinator and Operations Director to ensure the museum is fully staffed and supported during public hours, coordinating and supporting break schedules and rotations, and help to address EG and learner needs or concerns Draft, update, and/or coordinate information or materials for EG procedural guides, communication materials, and best practices documentation and attend cross-departmental team meetings to receive and share information related to EG program activity and goals Coordinate with onsite staff to monitor and maintain accessibility, appearance, and cleanliness of all public areas while enforcing security and safeguarding policies that ensure the safety of audience members, artworks, and spaces DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION : Assists the Visitor Engagement Director with data collection and analytics, including event and visitation surveying Assists with production (using design templates from the Marketing department) of printed and digital engagement and audience-directive materials and the set-up, attendance tracking, and teardown of public events as requested and appropriate Tracks Shop sales & monitors stock inventory Helps upkeep, organize, restock, and record keep the Practice Lab spaces, activities, materials, and creative responses. OFFICE SUPPORT : Answers the moCa telephone, directing calls appropriately, and returning moCa voice mails Monitors and helps maintain office supplies and administrative organization Creates and maintains the kitchen duty schedule and kitchen inventory Provides other administrative and office support as requested and directed PREFERRED LENGTH AND TYPE OF EXPERIENCE : 1 year+ experience with supply ordering and inventory management 1 year+ experience with scheduling a team of 10-15 people 1 year+ experience in customer service including both in-person and verbal and written communications KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES : Motivated, reliable, responsible, and professionally-oriented Demonstrable interest in museum engagement Upholds obligations and follows established procedures Proficiency using Google applications (email, docs, drive, calendar), Microsoft Office software, and handheld transceivers Effective written and verbal communication skills in English PHYSICAL DEMANDS : Employee will be required to move through the office and multiple floors of the museum regularly, possibly standing for periods of time in galleries that have concrete floors Employee frequently will be required to actively listen and exchange information in-person, by phone, by handheld transceiver, and by computer Employee will be required to work weekends and occasional evenings Beyond hours in which moCa is open to the staff and public, employee may be required to work occasional early mornings or evenings for special events, with notice WORK ENVIRONMENT : Daily schedule during exhibition seasons: Wednesday-Friday, 9AM-5:30PM and Saturday-Sunday, 10AM-5:30PM Daily schedule during Spring/Summer installation museum breaks: Monday-Friday, 9AM-5PM Eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits Eligible for 403(b) Savings Plan 2 weeks paid vacation, 13 paid holidays Reports to Visitor Engagement Director DIRECT REPORTS: Engagement Guides (when acting as Manager-on-Duty) Curious and open-minded lifelong learners who enjoy new ideas and perspectives Inspired by and interested in contemporary art and culture Committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility Responsive, flexible, and adaptive to regularly changing content and needs Self-starters who are enterprising in their time and resource management Respectful, collaborative, caring team players $38-48K Interested candidates should email a PDF resume and a separate PDF cover letter to ngrave@mocacleveland.org using the subject line: "moCa Ad Application” Questions may be directed to this email address. Applicants should not reach out directly to moCa staff with materials or questions. moCa & its workforce Job objective Duties & responsibilities Minimum qualifications Benefits Reporting relationship All moCa staff are expected to be Salary range To apply To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The duties above are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of the Kohl Executive Director to assign other tasks of a similar nature or level of responsibility nor does it imply an employment contract The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform their essential duties. 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Studio Access w/ Manabu Ikeda May 25, 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 May 12, 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.