Free Third Thursday

Join us for a free evening at MOCA with galleries open late, live music by KXCI Community Radio, food by Reservation Sensation, and drinks! Don’t miss this lively time to gather with friends and family around art, music, and drinks; all ages are welcome!

This month, we celebrate the publication of the 2024 Sonoran Desert School Gardeners’ Almanac with talks, activities, food, 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.

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About the Exhibitions

On view in the Great Hall is DEMO, a multimedia exhibition by artists Juan Obando and Yoshua Okón that explores “astroturfing”, a marketing practice that generates artificial public demonstrations intended to appear as grassroots political movements. On view in the East Wing Galleries is 500 Places at Once, an exhibition centering poet CAConrad that features a newly commissioned collection of three-dimensional poem sculptures; and Graves for the Rain, the first solo museum exhibition by artist and musician Karima Walker who works with sound, sculpture, and durational performance to consider ecological practices and grief in response to the hydrological death of the Santa Cruz River.

Third Thursdays are presented in collaboration with KXCI Community Radio.