The "Text/ile Library" in "Jimena Sarno: Rhapsody" invites viewers into a space where textiles can be read as much as they are seen. A play on the words “text” and “textile,” both rooted in the Greek word "textere," meaning to weave — Sarno honors the medium as a carrier of knowledge, memory, and identity.

Scaled to the dimensions of the Sarno`s own studio, the floor within the space is marked with tape outlining tools like a loom and pottery wheel — offering a glimpse into the process that brought these works to life.

Recently on view, “Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE” is a call looking for an answer.

Using photography, collage, and, for the first time, installation, Murff hopes to move viewers to examine the roots of the freedoms promised by official narratives in the United States through his work, revealing the ways that definitions of freedom can shape or hurt those seeking it.

On this #InternationalChoreographersDay, we’re taking a look at both our recent past and near future with groundbreaking choreographer and artistic director of TRIBE arts collective, Shamel Pitts!

In 2022, in collaboration with Jacob’s Pillow, TRIBE took to the Hunter Center stage for the sold out world premiere of “Touch of RED,” a piece that reimagines the boxing ring from a space of duels to one of duets.

Since, Pitts has continued creating work in his “RED Series,” and will return to MASS MoCA to present its fourth work, “Marks of RED,” an Afrofuturistic meditation on the “womb space,” at a work-in-progress showing on March 7, co-presented by Jacob`s Pillow.

Want your story to shape the art in our galleries? Stop by “Alison Pebworth: Cultural Apothecary” on your next visit and add your buried dreams to the tendrils dripping from the exhibition’s central heart sculpture!

By entwining the previously buried dreams of visitors, Pebworth hopes that their co-mingling will bring them one step closer to taking root, to fruition.

Seen through a recent visitor’s lens, these film photographs offer a unique perspective of MASS MoCA — capturing some of the architecture, light, and scale in analog form.

Plan your next visit through the link in our bio, and don’t forget to tag us in the photos you take along the way!

📸: Chad Daniel Horner

Searching for winter fun for a young artist in your life during school break? MASS MoCA’s Museum Educators have you covered, and are offering a week of free art-making workshops in Kidspace at 11am and 1pm every day from December 29–January 2!

Drawing inspiration from the work on viewing our galleries, workshop offerings include: Crafting Our Future with Nina Keneally and Erick Ramos-Jacobo, Cardboard Collagraph Printmaking with David Waxman, A Lesson in Painting with Donald Jackson, Becoming a Weaver with Beth Davis, and Building Zoetropes with Heidi Whitus.

Signups and more details at the link in our bio!

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re reflecting on the past year and past exhibitions.

In Anish Kapoor’s sculpture "Untitled" (2012), a vast, mirrored surface bends light, space, and perception — at times reflecting the viewer back in fragments, and at other times making them disappear entirely. This work is described by Kapoor as “active,” and "to be in various states of becoming."

We’re carrying this same sentiment into 2026 — may the new year bring you moments of reflection, transformation, and space for becoming.

Our annual January Community Free Day is coming up in just a month! Chock full of activities for all kinds of art lovers, like art-making in Kidspace, MASS MoCA Connections tours, and a performance of "boiling rain" by devyn emory, MASS MoCA is the place to be on January 24.

Register in advance at the link in our bio to secure your spot!

Community Free Day is made possible by MountainOne (@MountainOne), MASS MoCA`s Lead Community Sponsor

Mark your calendars — January 4 is the last day to experience three visitor-favorite exhibitions!

Take in Jason Moran’s immersive exploration of Black jazz histories in "Black Stars: Writing in the Dark," Ohan Breiding’s poetic meditation on glaciers and care in "Belly of a Glacier," and "Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust," where Anna Ting Möller, New Red Order, and Nguyễn Duy Mạnh use the aesthetics of disgust to examine survival, contamination, and power.

Plan your visit at the link in our bio.