Join the Clark, MASS MoCA, and nbCC Educators at the UNO Drop-In Art Club, a free weekly art program for youth ages 8 to 19! Taking place every Wednesday from 3:30 to 4:30pm, the Drop-In Art Club offers a supportive environment where young artists can ...
This summer, MASS MoCA expands its one-hour long, Museum Educator-led public tours along the following themes. All tours are conversation and inquiry-based, encouraging participation while also providing important content and context about the art on ...
Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34. Free to all
Families with children up to age 6 are invited to join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a storytime and related exploration in the galleries. Each storytime features a children’s book about contemporary art, creativity, and/or the themes of the ...
NAACP Monthly Branch Meeting: Please remember there is a NEW Zoom link for all branch meetings going forward. All members will receive email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting. If you are not a member and wish to attend, send a request to ...
You know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live performances and a bar designed from objects in artist Dean Baldwin’s 2013 exhibition Oh, Canada. With riverside ...
Offering new ways to grasp the meanings and implications of Black freedom, James B. Haile III invites us to reimagine history and memory, time and space, and our identities and ourselves. An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative ...
SNACKTIME is Philadelphia’s beloved seven-piece band with soul, funk, punk, hip hop, and rock influences.They began by performing free shows in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square in the summer of 2020. After attracting huge crowds in the park, the band ...
Members are invited to join MASS MoCA staff for a summer picnic. Discover a lesser-known corner of the museum’s expansive, creative campus. Hear about the history of the site and MoCA’s plans for the future. See MASS MoCA from a new perspective, hang ...
Join MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store for an intention-filled evening of magical rituals for every season of the zodiac, from Erica Feldmann, owner and founder of the Salem-based store HausWitch. Even if you’re not ready to commit to a black ...
Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for free afternoon art workshops at the North Adams Public Library! Designed for children ages 12 and younger, the workshops include a storytime and art-making project related to one of the exhibitions on view. Free to all
SNL mainstay Sarah Sherman has become the standard bearer of weird and unhinged hilarity for the legendary show, amplifying its cultural relevance. As a champion of the outsider, she’s full of love; as a keen observer and critic of hypocrisy and anyone ...
Set during the early years of Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war, We Walked On immerses readers in the landscape of war, weaving political unrest into everyday life. With Hisham, a thirty-year-old Arabic teacher, and Rita, his fourteen-year-old student, ...
Explore fresh insights into Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT with new content added to the exhibition’s Resource Room. Additions focus on highlighting the many contributors to the exhibition, including the Indigenous creatives Gibson ...
Members are invited to tour its beloved Outdoor Exhibitions, including Stephen Vitiello’s All Those Vanished Engines, Franz West’s Les Pommes d’Adam, Taryn Simon’s The Pipes, and James Turrell’s C.A.V.U. (Skyspace). Explore MASS MoCA's campus and learn ...
Guster and The Mountain Goats take to MASS MoCA’s Courtyard D stage to light up the summer with a night of rock 'n roll. Hear why Boston.com says Guster is “back in a big way,” and Pitchfork declares that “few working artists have accumulated a richer ...
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival has transformed MASS MoCA into a genre-bending musical utopia for innovative composers and performers for the past 24 years. Over three weeks, every corner of our galleries and outdoor spaces will come alive with ...
The first biography of legendary and influential British punk band The Raincoats, who were instrumental in the origins and longevity of Rough Trade Records, were lauded by Nirvana and Sleater-Kinney, among others, and have long been revered by those in ...
Explore Amy Yoes’ drawing implements in a drop-in activation to create artworks on paper in Yoes’ Hot Corners exhibition. Stay for a couple minutes to make a few remnant tracings, or join us until 4pm to dive deep and execute a series of drawings in ...
NAACP Monthly Branch Meeting: Please remember there is a NEW Zoom link for all branch meetings going forward. All members will receive email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting. If you are not a member and wish to attend, send a request to ...
Intimate, entertaining, and beautifully crafted, Six Walks is a resounding tribute to the ways walking in nature can inspire us all. On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a ...
Spend a summer evening in the Hunter Center with comedian/actor/director/writer/fashion icon/fill-in-the-blank-because-he-does-it-all Julio Torres as he returns to MASS MoCA for the first time since his 2016 High Mud Comedy Fest debut! From SNL staff ...
Dan Nadel presents the first biography of Robert Crumb — one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century — whose iconic, radically frank, and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and ...
Skate Haven founders J. Joseph and Steve Roberts give a public talk on skateparks as public art, and the need for more functional cities. Skate Haven builds upon their presence at MASS MoCA in 2023, creating an enhanced set of workshops that facilitate ...
Now in their 16th year, the multiple Grammy Award–winning vocal group Roomful of Teeth returns to MASS MoCA to explore new sounds and expand their adventurous repertoire. Frequent collaborator William Brittelle joins the group to workshop Millennium ...
Skate Haven, a grassroots organization that uses skateboarding as a vehicle for positive impact, will transform MASS MoCA’s Courtyard D into a pop-up skatepark for a skate jam featuring clinics, a best trick contest, and product giveaways. The space ...
Wild Soul River owners Rebecca Guanzon and justin adkins host a late summer foraging workshop inspired by Alison Pebworth: Cultural Apothecary. Guanzon and adkins will provide an overview of ancestral knowledge and ways of the “honorable harvest” (a ...
Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan is an icon of the ’90s lesbian DIY comics scene, a patron saint of those who wonder if going off the deep end is the only sane response to life in modern America. One of the funniest, sharpest, and most unexpectedly warm ...
Pre-K–12 educators are invited to join MASS MoCA’s Senior Manager of School Programs and facilitators for a free professional development day. Workshops will explore ways to enhance your students’ learning through arts integration activities and ...
Multimedia performance artist MX Oops — who was invited by Jeffrey Gibson to present in his exhibition POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT— will create an evening-length sound bath turned DJ set based on the concept of ecstatic aesthetics. Diving into ...
A book is a portal, a technology that enables a reader to cope in an unjust world. Books structure rituals; books bring back the dead. Join us as we say goodbye to our beloved Like Magic exhibition and conduct a one-day-only sale of the Like Magic ...
NAACP Monthly Branch Meeting: Please remember there is a NEW Zoom link for all branch meetings going forward. All members will receive email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting. If you are not a member and wish to attend, send a request to ...
Lake Street Dive has pushed the possibilities of pop music as a unifying force, not only through their eclectic sound—a boldly original cross-pollination of soul, folk, jazz, classic pop, and more— but through the five-piece’s all-embracing ethos which ...
Set against the foothills of the beautiful Berkshire mountains, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival with the best in bluegrass and roots music filling the fields, courtyards, and galleries of MASS MoCA (gallery admission included with all ...
NAACP Monthly Branch Meeting: Please remember there is a NEW Zoom link for all branch meetings going forward. All members will receive email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting. If you are not a member and wish to attend, send a request to ...
NAACP Monthly Branch Meeting: Please remember there is a NEW Zoom link for all branch meetings going forward. All members will receive email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting. If you are not a member and wish to attend, send a request to ...
NAACP Monthly Branch Meeting: Please remember there is a NEW Zoom link for all branch meetings going forward. All members will receive email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting. If you are not a member and wish to attend, send a request to ...
