Registration for the Hip Hop Teen Workshop is closed. Attend our FREE Youth Party on Friday, March 12 to see a performance by Progressive Arts Alliance All Stars and the debut of film by Shaw High School in response to iona rozeal brown's exhibition.

Mix and mingle with fellow art enthusiasts as you take in the winter/spring exhibitions.

OPENING NIGHT TALK WITH iona rozeal brown / 6-7pm

FAMILY ART STUDIO / 7-9pm

A special place for kids to make art of their own, while enjoying the opening night excitement. Treats provided by Whole Foods: Cedar Center.

MEMBER VIP LOUNGE / 7-9pm

MOCA Members enjoy VIP treatment, a signed exhibition poster, and a complimentary cocktail, with exclusive access behind the velvet rope.

What are Hoochie Puti? Where is HEZ? Why does Yoshi ride a Big Wheel? These and other questions will be answered in an interview between artist iona rozeal brown and exhibition curator Megan Lykins Reich. Additional questions provided by the students who worked with brown on her January 2010 residency will round out the discussion.

MOCA's Director's Circle*, Corporate Council* members and exhibition sponsors are invited to join the Board of Directors for a celebratory preview of MOCA's winter/spring exhibitions.

RSVP required by January 21st. Contact Andrea Kormos at akormos@mocacleveland.org or call 216.421.8671 ext. 21 for additional information

MOCA Cleveland will be closed on Jan. 1

MOCA Cleveland will close early at 3pm. Happy New Year!

MOCA Cleveland will be closed on Dec. 25.

MOCA Cleveland will be closed on Dec. 24

MOCA's Director's Circle* and Corporate Council* members are invited to Julian Stanczak's studio for a cocktail reception and tour.

*$500 giving level and above

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Visit MOCA at this event to celebrate the season.  Gallery talks, art activites and refreshments will be provided. 

For further information, visit UCI's website at: http://www.universitycircle.org/
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Join MOCA for Cleveland’s hippest holiday shopping experience. Regional and national artists come together to showcase a variety of jewelry, fine art, and one-of-a-kind gifts for everyone on your list.

Co-produced with Heidi Lingg of Lingg Productio

Join MOCA for Cleveland’s hippest holiday shopping experience. Regional and national artists come together to showcase a variety of jewelry, fine art, and one-of-a-kind gifts for everyone on your list. 

Sale continues on Saturday, Nov. 21 from 11am-5pm. 

Co-produced with Heidi Lingg of Lingg Productio

Inventing Israel Visually: Early 20th-Century Art in Jewish Palestine in collaboration with Cleveland State University

Focusing on the period prior to Israel’s founding, distinguished art historian Larry A. Silver will discuss how Jewish artists initially formulated styles of art and modes of expression for this potential state. Silver currently serves as the Farquhar Professor of Art at The University of Pennsylvania.

The CIM New Music Ensemble will give a concert of contemporary works, to complement MOCA Cleveland's fall exhibition.  Works by Toru Takemitsu and Jacob Druckman will be presented on this recital, which is the first of two performances by CIM's NME this season.

6:30 pm - Tour our galleries and catch our fall exhibitions Hugging and Wrestling and Julian Stanczak: Recent Work

7 pm - Performance start time

8 pm - Post-concert receptio

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Ori Gersht is one of the most renowned Israeli artists living today.

His internationally acclaimed works in photography and video are poetic, visually enthralling, and often fraught with complex, underlying contradictions.  In this lecture, Gersht will speak about his work in Hugging and Wrestling in relation to life in Israel today, connecting his exploration of history, memory, and metaphor. He will discuss the relationship between photography and reality and the dialects of remembering, erasing, and forgetting. Gersht will also screen and speak about Evaders, 2009, his most recent video about Walter Benjamin’s tragic attempt to escape Nazi Germany. Throughout , Gersht will reflect upon photographic practice today, its relationship to the art of the past, and its key role as one of the most important means of artistic expression in contemporary art. 

Ori Gersht’s work has been shown in major international museums including the Tate Britain, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as numerous international commercial galleries. His work is in many prestigious public collections including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the Tate in London.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1967. Gersht received an MA in Photography from the Royal Collect of Art, London; and a BA (with Honors) in Photography, Film & Video from the University of Westminster, London. He lives and works in London.

Join us for MOCA's third Annual College Night.  Case Western Reserve University's Graduate Art History Association will again be taking entries for a juried slideshow.  More details forthcoming, so stay tuned!

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Laura Hoptman, the Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York speaks about seven artists that she thinks are producing some of the most exciting work today.

Laura Hoptman is the Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, where she curated the exhibitions Tomma Abts (2007) and Elizabeth Peyton (2008-09), as well as co-curating the museum’s opening exhibition Unmonumental, (2007). Her previous positions include Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, and Curator of the 54^th Carnegie International. Hoptman is a frequent contributor to various art magazines including Parkett and frieze.

MOCA's Curator's Circle* members are invited to attend a private reception for the Fall 2009 Nesnandy + Schwartz Visiting Curator prior to his/her public lecture.

*$150 giving level and above

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Stop by after work for a happy hour at MOCA. Bring a friend, a coworker, or a date to see MOCA's fall exhibits and socialize with art lovers.

Teachers are invited to tour University Circle this fall to learn about the many opportunities available for their students.  At MOCA, teachers will receive resource guides, tour the fall exhibition, enjoy refreshments and sign up for transportation subsidies.  Representatives from the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Sculpture Center will also be at MOCA.

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Accompanying MOCA Cleveland's PULSE exhibition, Julian Stanczak: Recent Work, Contemporary Conversations will feature a public dialogue between internationally renowned artist Julian Stanczak and esteemed collector Neil Rector.  Join us for an intimate afternoon of conversation about Stanczak's most recent paintings as well as his forty year career.

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MOCA's Annual Members' Breakfast!  Enjoy a continental breakfast with fellow MOCA members and Cleveland Institute of Art alumni.

Free for MOCA members and CIA alumni

Space is limited - you must reserve your seat.

RSVP by September 28 to 216.421-8671 x55

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Artist panel moderated by Margo Ann Crutchfield, Senior Curator

Peter B. Lewis Gallery

Free and open to the public

Co-sponsored by the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage

Andrea Meislin, New York gallerist and expert on Israeli artists joins artists Rona Yefman and Natan Dvir to discuss their work, life, and contemporary culture in Israel.

Rona Yefman is a young photographer, video and installation artist from Tel Aviv who received the prestigious Israeli New Creation Prize in 2007. Yefman has a BFA, in Photography & Video, from the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem (1999), and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts (2009.) She

lives and work in New York City and Tel Aviv.

Andrei Meislin is an art historian, former Associate Curator of Photography at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and now, New York gallerist who specializes in contemporary Israeli artists.  She represents two of the artists in Hugging and Wrestling: Rina Castelnuovo and Barry Frydlender.

Natan Dvir

A documentary and editorial photographer, Natan Dvir recently received the Houston Center for Photography Fellowship (2009) for his project Shelter, which portrays the global plight of refugees and displaced peoples. Dvir received his Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) at Tel Aviv University in 1998. His work has been featured in numerous international publications and has been exhibited in Israel, Europe, South America and the United States. He is currently based in New York City.