Public Opening: Fall East Wing Exhibitions

Join us to celebrate the opening of MOCA’s East Wing exhibitions, CAConrad: 500 Places at Once and Karima Walker: Graves for the Rain, with food by Chiquillo, drinks, and music!

At 8pm, Karima Walker performs as a part of her exhibition Graves for the Rain.

About the exhibitions

500 Places at Once is an exhibition centering poet CAConrad that features a newly commissioned collection of three-dimensional poem sculptures, along with a reading room with publications from Fivehundred places, a small press established by the artist Jason Dodge.

Graves for the Rain is 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. Through recurring performances, Walker builds up an earthen sculpture and an immersive audio piece, accumulating layers of alluvial soil and sound over the course of the exhibition.

Image Credit: Karima Walker, Graves for the Rain performance process documentation, 2023. Photograph by Karima Walker. Courtesy of the artist.