Chilly temps and early sunsets got you down? Stop into Alison Pebworth’s “Cultural Apothecary” any day from 12–3pm to sip Golden Root tea out of an artist-designed drinking horn and connect with the community around you!

This custom tea was created in collaboration with herbalists Rebecca Guanzon and justin adkins of Wild Soul River in Williamstown, and is served at a counter designed to encourage connection, curiosity, and exploration as antidotes to division, loneliness, and isolation.

“Zora is not interested in embracing the flag to secure the bag,” says Terence Washington, Curatorial Exchange Initiative fellow and curator of Zora J Murff: “RACE/HUSTLE,” on view in B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building beginning December 6.

“‘RACE/HUSTLE’ brings together photographs, sculpture, participatory work, and didactic installation to argue that Black people have been given a limited — and limiting — set of proposals for finally getting free. At the same time, we ask a question that implicates us all: if you knew you had the tools and the information to get free, would you really want to do it?” continues Washington.

Sharing an interest in artistic representations of climate change, artist Ohan Breiding and writer Lisa E. Bloom will be in conversation this Saturday, November 8, discussing Breiding’s multimedia exhibition "Belly of a Glacier," on view in Building 4.3!

Comprised of a photographic assemblage and experimental documentary, the exhibition functions as a moving eulogy for the soon-to-be-extinct Rhône Glacier. The work weaves together Breiding`s experiences growing up visiting the glacier, footage of the first funeral held for a glacier, depictions of animals living on and around the Rhône, and scientific research into the history that glaciers preserve to illustrate the ways that our bodies and their futures are inextricably linked to the natural world.

This week marks one year of Jeffrey Gibson’s “POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT” being on view — and we’re celebrating with a few highlights from the exhibition`s recent gallery activations and from visitors.

Over the past year, this vibrant exhibition has transformed MASS MoCA’s B5 gallery into a living dialogue — where color, sound, movement, and identity come together to challenge and expand our sense of belonging. Gibson envisions this exhibition as an open invitation to other Indigenous creatives — a space where difference isn’t just acknowledged, but celebrated.

How do we relate to each other — and to our devices — in a world shaped by rapidly advancing technology?

“Technologies of Relation,” on view beginning February 21, brings together twelve artists who explore our digital lives with nuance and urgency. Moving beyond the binary of “good” or “bad” tech, this exhibition embraces both connection and critique: how A.I. and algorithms can unite us, but also how they can exclude, erase, and oppress.

These artists expose the colonialist logic embedded in corporate-developed technologies while imagining futures that are inclusive and liberatory.

There’s just one week left to experience Steve Locke’s evocative exhibition “the fire next time” before its last day on view, November 8.

Dubbed “one of the most powerfully affecting contemporary art experiences I’ve ever had” by Murray Whyte in the Boston Globe, “the fire next time” has awed and moved audiences since its opening last year, shedding light on the uniquely American forms of violence directed at Black and queer people. Don’t miss your last chance to glimpse this exhibition in MASS MoCA’s Robert W. Wilson Building.

In the spirit of Halloween, we`re taking a look at some of the spookiest works in our galleries, Anna Ting Möller`s "In Tandem" and "Slut Station," on view in "Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust"

These works use kombucha scoby, also known as "mother," to evoke the look and feeling of skin. Over the course of their time on view, these works will change as the scoby remains in our galleries exposed to the elements, creating ephemeral sculptures/installations/performances that challenge conventional notions of life, death, lineage, and care.

Randi Malkin Steinberger`s "The Archive of Lost Memories" turns collecting into an art of remembrance. Over years of searching flea markets and online archives, Steinberger has gathered a trove of found photographs, slides, and tintypes — images once discarded, now rediscovered.

Using various materials such as thread, nail polish, and abstract gestures, Steinberger transforms these fragments of others’ lives into vibrant works that bridge past and present, each item becoming both an object and a question about memory, loss, and the stories we choose to tell.

Visitors can peer through the windows of Building 6.1A during gallery hours, or step inside when the artist is in to witness her process through November 2.

“I create images as instruments to probe the past in order to reveal an immediacy to what is occurring today. I am alarmed by the denial of history. I will continue to create counter-images to impede the social amnesia that includes our fateful desire to repeat it.” — Vincent Valdez

Following the opening of his exhibition last May, Vincent Valdez returns to MASS MoCA on November 1 for a public conversation with Curator Evan Garza about his first career survey, “Just a Dream…”

Together, Valdez and Garza will explore the cultural and personal forces that shape the works in the exhibition, examining uniquely American values and legacies, and unpacking the ways in which cultural differences make us more interconnected than we’re often led to believe.

After the talk, Valdez will be in @redevstoremassmoca to sign copies of the “Just a Dream…” exhibition catalogue.

MASS MoCA members are also invited to join Garza for a members-only tour of “Just a Dream…” on November 8 — visit the link in our bio to RSVP.