Free Third Thursday

Join us for a free evening at MOCA with galleries open late, live music by KXCI Community Radio, food by CJ’s Navajo Fry Bread, and drinks by Tap + Bottle!

This month, celebrate the University of Arizona School Garden Workshop’s Almanac Release Party with talks, recipe tastings, crafts, Pima County Seed Library, and more. The Almanac is a love letter to the Sonoran Desert, its people, and its food heritage. Through this handbook, school gardens serve as a conduit for local knowledge holders to pass on heritage to learners who themselves become knowledge holders, establishing a cycle of connections between past, present and a promising future.

 

Monthly Free Thursdays are presented in collaboration with KXCI Community Radio.

 

About the exhibitions

Only in Darkness Can You See the Stars is an exhibition dedicated to the artist Coco Fusco, whose journey through the arts is situated in her roots as a Cuban-American visual artist, writer, and public intellectual. Fusco’s work combines performance, photography, film, and archival materials to force the contradictions of colonial histories out into the dominant narrative. The exhibition gathers works that represent over three decades of research which make visible the mechanisms of violence through various modes of representation and labor.

After Heaven is a solo exhibition by artist Clifford Prince King that features a new series of photographs, a photo-installation, and a video work. In his photographs, King captures subtle, everyday moments that brim with connection, tenderness, and care and in After Heaven, the artist directs his focus to family, place, and landscape in Tucson, where he grew up, and nearby Sahuarita on his family’s ranch. With photographs of family members and self-portraits around the ranch and in the surrounding desert landscape, King traces his experience of return, made over the course of seven years during visits home.

Light as Resistance is an exhibition of paintings, drawings, video, and a site-specific wall painting by Hilma’s Ghost, an artist collective formed by Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray. Influenced by spiritual and esoteric knowledge systems, histories of abstraction, and research recovering the legacies of overlooked women artists, their name pays homage to the Swedish mystic and painter Hilma af Klint, who is now recognized as one of the first abstract artists in Western art history. Working collaboratively—with one another, with spiritual practitioners, and with unseen energies—the collective incorporates practices like ritual, divination, automatic drawing, and color magic into their artmaking process.