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SUMMARY:MASS MoCA From Home
DESCRIPTION:Can’t make it here in person? Join us on January 23 as we open the digital doors into our galleries and onto our stages with the launch of an online hub for all (virtual) things MASS MoCA. Explore the Sol LeWitt galleries with an all-new interactive 3D tour\, tune in to community pop-up performances (available to watch for only a limited time as we kick things off!)\, get your creative juices flowing with classic ArtBar specials\, and experience MASS MoCA in a way that’s almost as good as being here.\n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-from-home/
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T150000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
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SUMMARY:Camp MASS MoCA
DESCRIPTION:Young people entering grades 2–9 are invited to Camp MASS MoCA. We are hosting both middle school age camps (grades 6–9) and camps for grades 2–5. Participants explore the expansive campus and world-class art exhibitions\, meet exhibiting artists\, and create original works of their own.\nWeek 1: August 3–7\, 2026 \nCardboard Everything!\nAugust 3-7\, 2026\nGrades 2–5\nCamp Teaching Artist: David Waxman \nSign up here \nCardboard is a versatile and abundant material. It can be used to easily make large-scale works of art to fill space and make an environmental impact through recycling. Repurposing is an essential element of MASS MoCA’s philosophy\, operations\, and architecture. This camp will explore the merits and fun of creating collaborative and sustainable art. \nThe week will kick off with instruction in cardboard crafting techniques and tours of the MASS MoCA campus and workshops. Campers may create wearables\, vehicles\, everyday objects\, instruments\, creatures\, sculptures\, and sets out of cardboard. Project design will be camper-driven with instructor support. There will be room for individual exploration as well as a culminating group installation. \nLet’s push the limits of your imagination and build an immersive installation together! \nWeek 2: August 10–14  \nFrom Roots to Rallies: Celebrating home\, identity\, and connection through collaborative art\, movement\, and play\nAugust 10-14\, 2026\nGrades 2–6\nCamp Teaching Artists: Helen Tocci and Donna Costello \nSign up here \nAt Camp MASS MoCA\, we will engage with the joy and spirit of the natural world that surrounds us and lives within us. Inspired by Amanda Lovelee’s immersive environmental art project  Homecoming we will use movement\, partner acrobatics\, spoken word\, and visual art design to explore ideas of home\, identity\, and migration\,  creating messages of connection and hope. We ask: what are our roots? What do we leave behind and what do we return to? Campers will collaborate to devise a public sharing that may look like an immersive performance\, a pep rally\, a party\, a social action… or maybe all of the above?! \nAssociated Exhibition: Amanda Lovelee\, Homecoming \nFrom the Air: Animation and projection\nAugust 10-14\, 2026\nGrades 6–9\nCamp Teaching Artists: Shayna Strype with Nick Diamant \nSign up here \nIn this weeklong workshop\, participants will explore animation\, projection\, and performance. Using an animation technique called pixelation\, students will animate each other frame by frame in real space\, turning themselves into animated characters and the architecture of MASS MoCA into living animation sets. Inspired by Laurie Anderson’s current exhibition\, participants will project their animation and film experiments onto unexpected surfaces\, including sculptures they create themselves. The workshop will culminate in an installation for families and museum visitors\, where students will present a collaborative piece blending film\, sculpture\, and animation. \nAssociated Exhibiting Artist: Laurie Anderson \nWeek 3: August 17–21 \nWeaving Utopia: A rhapsody of theater\, stories\, and collective action\nAugust 17-21\, 2026\nGrades 2–5\nCamp Teaching Artists: Helen Tocci and Donna Costello\n \nSign up here \nLet’s create a world built on connection\, repair\, and care! Inspired by Jimena Sarno’s Rhapsody\, campers will explore the creative tools of words\, sound\, movement\, and craft traditions. Through assembling stories\, social dances\, sound design\, and visual artifacts\, campers will weave ideas into action and bring their collective vision to life. The week culminates in an interactive installation where these creative sparks ignite! Pop-up performances\, community collaborations\, and improvisatory happenings will find a home amongst the art and architecture of MASS MoCA. \nAssociated Exhibition: Jimena Sarno\, Rhapsody \nCamp: Connected – Stories\, tools\, and the ways we belong\nAugust 17-21\, 2026\nGrades 6–9\nCamp Teaching Artists: Shannon and Abby Rebelo from BIC Works \nSign up here \nCamp: Connected — Stories\, tools\, and the ways we belong is a one-week creative summer camp for middle school students who are curious about people\, ideas\, and how we connect. Through art\, conversation\, hands-on making\, and an inspiring exhibition experience\, campers explore how humans have used tools and stories to build community — from the earliest inventions to the world they live in today. This is not a tech camp focused on screens or coding\, but a people-centered experience that invites reflection\, creativity\, and imagination. Campers share ideas\, ask big questions\, create original work\, and envision kinder\, more caring ways to connect with others — building confidence\, empathy\, and a deeper sense of belonging along the way. \nAssociated Exhibition: Technologies of Relation \nHours\n9am to 3pm\, Monday to Friday \nMeals\nMASS MoCA provides a daily healthy snack for campers (included in registration fee). Campers should bring their own lunch or purchase boxed lunches from Lickety Split for an additional fee. Information on boxed lunches is sent the week before camp. \nCancellation policy\nThrough June 30 – 50% refund\nAfter June 30 – no refund \nContact\n413.664.4481 or campmm@massmoca.org \nCost\n$450 non-members\n10% discount for MASS MoCA members\nNot yet a member? Become one here. \nScholarships\nOne full scholarship per camp is available for students from North Adams Public Schools\, North Berkshire School Union\, Hoosac Valley Public Schools\, and Pittsfield Public Schools. We will also consider requests from homeschool students. To apply for a scholarship\, please email campmm@massmoca.org with your child’s name\, age\, school\, camp week(s) preference\, and contact information by April 30 to enter the scholarship lottery. We will follow up to request simple documentation on your family’s annual income and family size to determine eligibility. To ensure your spot in camp regardless of receiving a scholarship\, register and you will receive a refund if selected. \nWaitlist\nIf the week your camper wants to join is full\, please email campmm@massmoca.org with the subject line “Waitlist Request.” Please identify the number of spots you would like to hold\, names of your campers\, your email and phone number\, and we will notify you in the case that a spot opens up. Camp MASS MoCA cannot guarantee admission to campers on the waitlist. \nSupport for Camp MASS MoCA is provided by the Ruth E. Proud Charitable Trust and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Arts Build Community Initiative. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/camp-mass-moca-2026/
LOCATION:MASS MoCA\, 1040 MASS MoCA Way\, North Adams\, MA\, 01247\, United States
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CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Public Program,Winter/Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:Curator Tour: Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE
DESCRIPTION:Join Curator and Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow Terence Washington for a members-only tour of Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE.\nIn RACE/HUSTLE\, Zora J Murff shows\, through photographs\, collages\, and\, for the first time\, installation works\, that the pursuit of liberation is\, in part\, a struggle against a desire for what merely looks like liberation. The Perfect Slave (after Jared Sexton) (2022) is a glitchy image of President Barack Obama’s official headshot that makes him look like a masked bandit. In Gas Money (Affirmation #1) (2019)\, Andrew Jackson peeks out from a folded $20 bill being passed from one Black hand to another. One of two participatory works\, Master’s Tools/Master’s House (Exclusion and Extraction) (2025)\, bluntly signifies how the art museum itself is part of the cultural arm of white supremacy and state power. RACE/HUSTLE reminds us that race\, capital\, and imperialism structure much of our relationships to one another and ourselves. At the same time\, they are not absolutely powerful. What does it take to resist? What does it take to desire to resist? \nAttendees can expect insights into Murff’s works\, and to learn more about the books that inspired the exhibition. After the tour\, Washington will lead a conversation in the Research and Development Store with author Ben Passmore about his graphic novel Black Arms to Hold You Up. Tickets to this conversation are free to members\, and available here.  \nLearn more about the exhibition here. \nMeet in the lobby upon arrival. Space is limited\, and RSVP is required. Log in to register\, or RSVP to members@massmoca.org. If you have any questions please contact the Membership team at members@massmoca.org or 413.664.4481 ext. 5. \nNot a member? Join now to attend. MASS MoCA members enjoy free museum admission\, ticketing discounts\, invites\, and more. \nRACE/HUSTLE is part of MASS MoCA’s Curatorial Exchange Initiative (CEI) which is generously supported through a leadership gift from Sarah Arison and the Arison Arts Foundation\, Michi Jigarjian\, Denise Sobel\, the Teiger Foundation\, and Anders Schroeder. Additional support is provided by the Director’s Catalyst Fund\, with generous contributions from Greg and Anne Avis\, Kelly and Bill Kaiser\, Steve and Lisa Jenks\, Bob Gold\, and an anonymous donor.\n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/curator-tour-zora-j-murff-race-hustle/
LOCATION:B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Featured,Members Event,Public Program,Summer 2026
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book ClubBen Passmore
DESCRIPTION:It’s the summer of 2020\, and downtown Philly is in flames. “You’re not out in the streets with everyone else?” Ronnie asks his ambivalent son\, Ben\, shambling in with arms full of used books: the works of Malcom X\, Robert F. Williams\, Assata and Sanyika Shakur\, among others. “Black liberation is your fight\, too.”\nSo begins Black Arms to Hold You Up (Pantheon)\, a boisterous\, darkly funny\, and sobering march through Black militant history by political cartoonist Ben Passmore. \nFrom Robert Charles’ shoot-out with the police in 1900\, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s\, to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and 2020\, readers will tumble through more than a century of armed resistance against the racist state alongside Ben — and meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the movement whose stories were as tragic as they were heroic. Deeply researched\, vibrantly drawn\, and bracingly introspective\, Black Arms to Hold You Up dares to find the answer. \nJoin Passmore and Terence Washington\, Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow\, MASS MoCA\, to discuss the book\, which is also featured in the exhibition Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE. \nCan’t make the event? Pre-order a copy of Black Arms to Hold You Up and we’ll get your book signed for you. \nAbout the Artist\nBen Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole\, as well as the Eisner Award-nominated and Ignatz Award-winning comic collection Your Black Friend. He also wrote and illustrated Sports Is Hell\, collaborated with Ezra Claytan Daniels on BTTM FDRS\, and has contributed to The Nib and The New York Times. Black Arms to Hold You Up was named a New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2025 and a NY Public Library Best Book of 2025. He lives in Philadelphia. \nAbout the Graphic Novel Book Club\nIn the past 40 years\, comics have gone from an underground\, alternative\, and niche concern to being used as a tool for learning in primary schools across the country and critiqued in universities the world over. Many of us first experience “reading” images in the sequential format of graphic novels before ever entering a museum. Join our quarterly book club centered around the art of the graphic novel. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/graphic-novel-book-club-ben-passmore/
LOCATION:R&D Store
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Talk,Calendar Page,Featured,Research & Development,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T180000
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SUMMARY:The Chalet
DESCRIPTION:With riverside regulars and friendly new faces\, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet.\nYou know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live music and “The Chalet\,” a bar created by artist Dean Baldwin for the 2013 group exhibition Oh\, Canada. \nWith riverside regulars and friendly new faces\, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet — in the midst of the museum\, to the hum of local music\, under the Berkshire stars. Free and open to all. \nFull Chalet schedule: \nJuly 9: DJ Night with DJ Mella and Cooper Gangemi \nJuly 16: DakouDakou\, with opener Minqi Wang \nAugust 6: The Noisy\, with opener Diana Daniels \nAugust 13: MASS MoCA Staff Perform Live — plus a MASS MoCA staff maker market! \nAugust 20: The Jetties\, Star Family Singers\, Lily Too\, and Daisy Newkirk \nAugust 27: Drag Night — with local drag and MC/DJ Hairy Debbie \nSeptember 3: House Sparrow\, Ciarra Fragale\, and a beginner Line Dancing Lesson with the Berkshire County Line Dancers \nLead support for The Chalet is provided by Salt Point Canned Cocktails \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-4/
LOCATION:Courtyard D
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Concert,Featured,Performance,Performing Arts,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260814T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260814T110000
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SUMMARY:North Adams Public Library Art Workshops
DESCRIPTION:This co-presentation takes place at our neighboring North Adams Public Library (74 Church St.\, North Adams\, MA)\, not at MASS MoCA.\nJoin MASS MoCA Museum Educators for free art workshops at the North Adams Public Library. Designed for children 12 years and younger\, the workshops will include a storytime and art-making project related to one of the exhibitions on display at the museum. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/north-adams-public-library-workshops-3/
LOCATION:North Adams Public Library\, 74 Church St
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T113000
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CREATED:20260410T142336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T162212Z
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SUMMARY:Family StorytimeAugust 15\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Families with children up to age 6 are invited to join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a storytime and related exploration in the galleries. Each storytime features a different children’s book about contemporary art\, creativity\, and/or the themes of the exhibitions on view. Meet in Kidspace at the designated time\, and a brief gallery walk-through and discussion of the art will follow.\nThis month’s Family Storytime theme is Technologies of Relation\, and exhibiting artist Roopa Vasudevan will be present to discuss her work with families in attendance. \nFree to attend and space is limited. RSVP to reserve your spot. \nPlease note that caregivers should stay with their children at all times. Older siblings are welcome to attend. At this time we cannot accommodate large groups in storytime. To arrange a group visit to the museum and discuss educational components that could be included please contact studentgroups@massmoca.org. \nUpcoming Dates and Selected Exhibitions:\nSaturday\, September 19 – MASS MoCA History & Buildings \nThis program is presented in partnership with the North Adams Public Library. \nPhoto: Liz McCarthy \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytimeaugust-15-2026/
LOCATION:Kidspace
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Kidspace,Public Program,Winter/Spring 2026
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SUMMARY:Zora J Murff Performs George Jackson’s Blood in My Eye — cancelled
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this event has been cancelled. If you would like to further engage with Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE\, curator Terence Washington will be leading a tour of the exhibition on August 13 at 3pm\, followed by a conversation with author Ben Passmore about his graphic novel Black Arms to Hold You Up in the Research and Development Store at 5pm on the same day.\nAn in-exhibition reading of Blood in My Eye by artist Zora J Murff\nGeorge Jackson\, Black Panther and founding member of the Black Guerrilla Family\, finished writing Blood In My Eye only days before his death in the San Quentin Prison. Published after his death\, the text quickly became a key reference for the political theorists within the Black Liberation Movement. The text informs Murff’s visual artworks that examine how systems of domination interlock and how their injurious effects are normalized and made invisible in everyday life. \nZora J Murff’s in-exhibition reading of Blood In My Eye ends at 2:30pm and is followed at 3pm by a conversation between Murff and curator Terence Washington in the Research & Development Store. The two will discuss the text in relation to Murff’s exhibition\, RACE/HUSTLE\, and its effect on generations since its publication. \nGet a copy of Blood In My Eye by George Jackson here. Learn more about the exhibition here. The program is free with museum admission. Purchase admission ahead of time here. \n  \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/zora-j-murff-performs-george-jacksons-blood-in-my-eye/
LOCATION:Zora J Murff Gallery 6.2
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T180000
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SUMMARY:The Chalet
DESCRIPTION:With riverside regulars and friendly new faces\, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet.\nYou know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live music and “The Chalet\,” a bar created by artist Dean Baldwin for the 2013 group exhibition Oh\, Canada. \nWith riverside regulars and friendly new faces\, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet — in the midst of the museum\, to the hum of local music\, under the Berkshire stars. Free and open to all. \nFull Chalet schedule: \nJuly 9: DJ Night with DJ Mella and Cooper Gangemi \nJuly 16: DakouDakou\, with opener Minqi Wang \nAugust 6: The Noisy\, with opener Diana Daniels \nAugust 13: MASS MoCA Staff Perform Live — plus a MASS MoCA staff maker market! \nAugust 20: The Jetties\, Star Family Singers\, Lily Too\, and Daisy Newkirk \nAugust 27: Drag Night — with local drag and MC/DJ Hairy Debbie \nSeptember 3: House Sparrow\, Ciarra Fragale\, and a beginner Line Dancing Lesson with the Berkshire County Line Dancers \nLead support for The Chalet is provided by Salt Point Canned Cocktails \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-5/
LOCATION:Courtyard D
CATEGORIES:Concert,Performance,Performing Arts,Summer 2026
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260821T190000
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SUMMARY:Roomful of Teeth
DESCRIPTION:Be the first to hear Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth’s new work-in-process performance of The Puerto Rico Experiment at MASS MoCA.\nGrammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth is thrilled to return to MASS MoCA to create a new concert-length work with Puerto Rican–born composer Angélica Negrón and Brooklyn-based indie electronic transnational band Balún. \nThe Puerto Rico Experiment is a new song cycle built from a series of sonic vignettes for voices surrounded by a mosaic of acoustic and electronic textures. Drawing on the expressive possibilities of the human voice\, reimagined Caribbean folk traditions\, and layered electronic textures\, the work creates a unique sound world that moves between history\, memory\, and a speculative future. \nCreated in collaboration with four Puerto Rican poets – Roque Raquel Salas Rivera\, Nicole Delgado\, Mara Pastor\, and Ashley Pérez García – each song reflects on a specific historical moment or site of experimentation. These include mass sterilization campaigns\, the imposition of English in early twentieth century public schools\, Monsanto’s open field GMO trials\, UFO sightings in Lajas\, the Arecibo Observatory\, and the United States Navy occupation of Vieques. Alongside these histories\, the cycle imagines new experiments for the near and distant future\, inviting audiences to envision decolonial possibilities and alternate realities through collective social dreaming. \nThe Puerto Rico Experiment reclaims the idea of experimentation as a collective artistic act\, transforming the performance space into a site of historical reflection and embodied memory\, radical listening\, and shared imagining where past and present converge and new cultural and political possibilities can be rehearsed in real time. Be the first to hear this new work-in-process on August 21. \nJoin us immediately following the performance in the Hunter Center for a conversation and Q&A with composer Angélica Negron\, Roomful of Teeth Artistic Director Cameron Beauchamp\, and musicians from both Roomful of Teeth and Balún. Hear about the inspiration for The Puerto Rico Experiment and come with your questions about this impactful new work! \nCommission and development support for The Puerto Rico Experiment provided by The Democracy Cycle\, a program of Perelman Performing Arts Center | PAC NYC and Civis Foundation. Generous funding for Roomful of Teeth’s residency at MASS MoCA also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. \n          \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/roomful-of-teeth-6/
LOCATION:Hunter Center
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Concert,Featured,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T150000
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SUMMARY:Educator Professional Development — SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Due to popular demand\, this program is at capacity and sold out\nA free day of professional development workshops for PreK–12 educators\nJoin Rebecca Cuscaden Marvin\, MASS MoCA’s Senior Manager of Education and Family Programs\, and facilitators for a free professional development day of workshops for PreK–12 educators. Workshops will provide ways to enhance your students’ learning through arts integration activities and techniques such as Visual Thinking Strategies\, Universal Design for Learning\, and activity-based teaching. \nTopics of focus will include how to utilize free arts resources\, museum visits\, and arts integration strategies to increase student engagement\, curiosity\, and understanding\, as well as student development of 21st-century skills such as critical thinking\, problem-solving\, and communication. Coffee\, lunch\, and gallery admission will be provided. \nEducators will have the opportunity to receive five PDPs in the area of visual arts for participation. Lesson plans and resources will be provided after the workshops with the opportunity to complete additional work off-site to receive another five PDPs. \nAgenda \n10–10:30am: Welcome\, Coffee & Introductions \n10:30am–12:30pm: Teaching Contemporary Art with Larger-than-Life Artists \n12:30–1pm: Lunch Break \n1–3pm: Arts Integration to Support STEM Learning \nEducators are then welcome to stay at the museum until 5pm for self-guided exploration. \nWorkshop Descriptions \nTeaching Contemporary Art with Larger-than-Life Artists \nInstructors: \nMakda Amdetsyon\, Art21 Education Coordinator \nRebecca Cuscaden Marvin\, Senior Manager of Education and Family Programs \nCo-facilitated by MASS MoCA and Art21\, this workshop will discuss strategies for incorporating contemporary art in your teaching\, both within the classroom and in museum galleries. This session will consider how artists like Louise Bourgeois and James Turrell explore colossal ideas in their works through form\, aesthetics\, and place. We will share free Art21 resources that you can use to incorporate these artists into your classroom lesson plans\, as well as to support your students before and after museum visits. We will also visit works by both artists in the museum and share MASS MoCA’s pedagogy of how to engage students in deep discussions about these artists\, their works\, and the larger-than-life concepts they explore. \nArts Integration to Support STEM Learning \nInstructors: \nRebecca Cuscaden Marvin\, Senior Manager of Education and Family Programs \nBeth Davis\, Lead Museum Educator \nArts integration is a proven practice that supports student achievement and is particularly beneficial when applied to STEM (Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, and Math) curricula. Utilizing MASS MoCA’s exhibitions that feature STEM topics\, we will demonstrate our pedagogy and how contemporary art can be used to increase student curiosity and engagement in these subjects. Through discussions and hands-on activities we will explore how incorporating visual art into your lesson plans can help students visualize and understand complex and challenging topics in an innovative way. In addition to supporting curricular connections\, we will also examine how this approach can help students develop a broader understanding of these topics as well as strengthen their 21st-century skills\, including critical thinking\, problem-solving\, and communication. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/educator-professional-development-day-2/
LOCATION:B11.2 Swing Space
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T201814Z
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SUMMARY:The Chalet
DESCRIPTION:With riverside regulars and friendly new faces\, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet.\nYou know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live music and “The Chalet\,” a bar created by artist Dean Baldwin for the 2013 group exhibition Oh\, Canada. \nWith riverside regulars and friendly new faces\, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet — in the midst of the museum\, to the hum of local music\, under the Berkshire stars. Free and open to all. \nFull Chalet schedule: \nJuly 9: DJ Night with DJ Mella and Cooper Gangemi \nJuly 16: DakouDakou\, with opener Minqi Wang \nAugust 6: The Noisy\, with opener Diana Daniels \nAugust 13: MASS MoCA Staff Perform Live — plus a MASS MoCA staff maker market! \nAugust 20: The Jetties\, Star Family Singers\, Lily Too\, and Daisy Newkirk \nAugust 27: Drag Night — with local drag and MC/DJ Hairy Debbie \nSeptember 3: House Sparrow\, Ciarra Fragale\, and a beginner Line Dancing Lesson with the Berkshire County Line Dancers \nLead support for The Chalet is provided by Salt Point Canned Cocktails \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-6/
LOCATION:Courtyard D
CATEGORIES:Concert,Performance,Performing Arts,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
CREATED:20260408T155335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T144601Z
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SUMMARY:Jay Jurden
DESCRIPTION:A night of comedy from Jay Jurden\, one of the sharpest and most original comedic voices working today\nJay Jurden is the star of the new Hulu comedy special Yes Ma’am\, a breakout hour that solidifies him as one of the sharpest and most original comedic voices working today. Based in New York and originally from Mississippi\, Jurden has become a national standout thanks to his precise writing\, magnetic presence\, and a point of view that is both deeply personal and universally funny. \nJurden is a four-time guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and has also appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, The Late Late Show with James Corden\, Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents\, and HBO’s High Maintenance. He was a staff writer for Apple TV+’s Emmy-nominated The Problem with Jon Stewart\, bringing his distinctive comedic insight to one of television’s most influential political-comedy series. \nIn 2022\, Jurden was named one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch\, and his debut comedy album Jay Jurden Y’all premiered at #1 on iTunes. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, Vulture\, Teen Vogue\, McSweeney’s\, and Marvel’s Voices: X-Men #1\, showcasing a range that extends well beyond stand-up. Jurden was also featured on Vulture’s Comedians You Should and Will Know list and selected for the prestigious Just For Laughs “New Faces.” \nJurden tours nationwide\, selling out clubs and theaters with an electric\, high-precision act that continues to resonate across audiences. \nPlease note: This show may contain explicit content \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/jay-jurden/
LOCATION:Club B10\, 1040 MASS MoCA Way\, North Adams\, MA\, 01247\, United States
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CATEGORIES:Comedy,Summer 2026,Upcoming Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T180000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
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SUMMARY:The Chalet
DESCRIPTION:With riverside regulars and friendly new faces\, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet.\nYou know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live music and “The Chalet\,” a bar created by artist Dean Baldwin for the 2013 group exhibition Oh\, Canada. \nWith riverside regulars and friendly new faces\, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet — in the midst of the museum\, to the hum of local music\, under the Berkshire stars. Free and open to all. \nFull Chalet schedule: \nJuly 9: DJ Night with DJ Mella and Cooper Gangemi \nJuly 16: DakouDakou\, with opener Minqi Wang \nAugust 6: The Noisy\, with opener Diana Daniels \nAugust 13: MASS MoCA Staff Perform Live — plus a MASS MoCA staff maker market! \nAugust 20: The Jetties\, Star Family Singers\, Lily Too\, and Daisy Newkirk \nAugust 27: Drag Night — with local drag and MC/DJ Hairy Debbie \nSeptember 3: House Sparrow\, Ciarra Fragale\, and a beginner Line Dancing Lesson with the Berkshire County Line Dancers \nLead support for The Chalet is provided by Salt Point Canned Cocktails \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/the-chalet-7/
LOCATION:Courtyard D
CATEGORIES:Concert,Performance,Performing Arts,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T170000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
CREATED:20260408T155411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260611T134326Z
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SUMMARY:Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their ShapeKelli Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Join Kelli Anderson\, the author of Alphabet in Motion\, an immersive introduction unlike any other to the history of typography\, in pop-up form\, in the R&D Store!\n“No disrespect to all the fine novels I read this year\, but the work of literature that delighted me most is a pop-up book.” – Ron Charles\, The Washington Post \nWith an interactive cover\, 17 pop-ups and hands-on activities throughout\, Alphabet in Motion (Katherine Small Gallery) is an immersive introduction unlike any other to the history of typography and letter shapes. Join us in the R&D Store for an evening with the book’s creator\, Kelli Anderson\, moderated by MCLA Professor of Art Melanie Mowinski. \nEver wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor\, email client\, or design app\, and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual? \nType history is often technical and always visual. It is therefore challenging to fully explain in text or in diagrams alone. This paper engineering feat provides a sensory inroad for curious readers to grasp how typography has morphed through history (and how lettering can convey a point of view or philosophical stance). If you look carefully\, you can see the history of the world — from the Bronze Age to the Information Age — in the microcosm of type. \nCan’t make the event? Pre-order a copy of Alphabet in Motion and we’ll get your book signed for you. \nKelli Anderson is a graphic designer\, paper engineer\, educator and author who uses design magic to connect people with the hidden talents of everyday things. Her previous publications include This Book Is a Camera (MoMA)\, which transforms into a working camera\, and This Book Is a Planetarium (Chronicle)\, which houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100\,000 copies. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/kelli-anderson-alphabet-in-motion-how-letters-get-their-shape/
LOCATION:R&D Store
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Research & Development,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T170000
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CREATED:20260408T155426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260714T122138Z
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SUMMARY:three six fiveLucy Ives
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with the creator of three six five\, a generative guide to exploring the writerly self\, moderated by Lauren Levato Coyne.\nIn three six five\, writer Lucy Ives presents prompts\, acts\, and divinations for both aspiring and experienced authors. Her collection of writing exercises opens the door to a new world of possibilities to imagine\, think\, remember\, and write. In this inspiring book talk\, Ives traces the lineage of Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit and Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style\, and invites the reader (and writer) to learn and unlearn; to mine memory and forgetting; to enter impossible spaces and create new ways of telling time; to inhabit multiple\, other and conflicting perspectives; to discover the elasticity of language and its constraints; to write by drawing\, walking\, and listening\, and by being distracted. \nThough there are 365 exercises for writing in this inexhaustible compendium for writing\, three six five is not simply a book of writing exercises. It is a “how-to” book of questions rather than answers\, a diary of contemplation and imagination\, an ars poetica of expanding possibility\, a tarot deck of acts instead of images\, a book of bending hours\, a diary of contemplation and imagination\, and an antidote to consumption in the shape of care and attention. \nCan’t make the event? Pre-order a copy of three six five and we’ll get your book signed for you. \nLucy Ives is a novelist\, poet\, and critic. Her essay collection\, An Image of My Name Enters America\, won the 2024 Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. She has taught at Brown\, Cornell\, and New York Universities and received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. \nLauren Levato Coyne is an artist\, writer\, and educator who teaches drawing at Williams College and is a visiting critic at RISD. Her writing is published internationally and can be found in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Art; Boston Art Review; Berkshire Eagle; Brooklyn Rail; Sculpture Magazine\, among others. She is the 2026 recipient of the AICA-USA Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/lucy-ives-three-six-five/
LOCATION:R&D Store
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Research & Development,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
CREATED:20260519T140856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T180151Z
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SUMMARY:Son Lux
DESCRIPTION:With mmeadows\nAcross nearly two decades\, Son Lux has earned its reputation for splendor and sweep\, but the artists’ ninth studio album Out Into (release date: September 18\, 2026) is something different: a punchy suite of tactile\, detail-minded songs born from dazzling moments of collective improvisation.\n“We’re going places we’ve never gone before in terms of energy\, attitude\, color\,” founder Ryan Lott says. “And it all comes from having reverence for those initial sparks\, for treating the voice memo version of the idea as the most sacred iteration.” \nThese first-thought-best-thought strategies might come as a surprise to anyone who’s followed Son Lux’s recent adventures through Hollywood’s starrier corridors. Composing the Oscar-nominated soundtrack for Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2022 and Marvel’s Thunderbolts* in 2025 has been painstaking work — and while it may have broadened the band’s panoramic vision beyond the margins of a cineplex screen\, it also made Lott\, Bhatia\, and Chang yearn to craft a Son Lux album that felt more immediate\, more direct. And so Out Into finds Son Lux in a paradoxical zone between big and small\, spontaneous and refined\, experimentally-minded and pop-spirited. “We always want to walk that line of strangeness and familiarity in a way that’s exciting for the listener\,” says Chang\, “because it’s exciting for us.” \nRelated Video Installation:\nSon Lux and Alex Cook: Out Into Us (Slow Down)\nOn view beginning Saturday\, September 12\, 2026\nLearn more. \n \nAbout the artists: \nFrom the start\, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made\, and reconstruct it from a molecular level. What began as a solo project for founder Ryan Lott expanded in 2014\, thanks to a kinship with Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia too strong to ignore. The trio strengthened their chemistry and honed their collective intuition while creating\, releasing\, and touring six records\, including Brighter Wounds (2018) and triple album Tomorrows (2021). The result is a carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites that largely eschews genre and structural conventions. And yet\, the band remains audibly indebted to iconoclastic artists in soul\, hip-hop\, and experimental improvisation who themselves carved new paths forward. \nDistilling these varied influences\, Son Lux searches for equilibrium of raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions. Son Lux scored A24’s Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once for which they were nominated for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA. The full score album features new collaborations with Mitski\, David Byrne\, Randy Newman\, and Moses Sumney\, among others. They recently scored Marvel Studios’  Thunderbolts* and Bassam Tariq’s upcoming Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/son-lux-2/
LOCATION:Hunter Center
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Concert,Fall 2026,Performing Arts,Upcoming Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T190000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T193405Z
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SUMMARY:Open Studios at MASS MoCA
DESCRIPTION:Get to know the current Studios at MASS MoCA artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation\nMark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation! Each event will take place in Building 13 and Building 34. As always\, this event is free and open to all. \nDirections to the Studios: \nB13: When you park in the main visitor lot at MASS MoCA\, Building 13 is right in front of you. You’ll see Gary Lichtenstein Editions on the first floor. Enter through the side door (on the end of the building farthest from Rt. 2) and take the stairs or elevator to the second floor. \nB34: Located across from Bright Ideas Brewery in the front entrance courtyard of MASS MoCA’s campus\, next door to Bigg Daddy’s. When looking out from Bright Ideas\, just head straight and then to the left up the ramp to the Studios entrance (black door). \nAbout the Studios at MASS MoCA: \nSince 2015\, the Studios at MASS MoCA residency program has hosted over 1\,000 artists and writers at all career stages\, income levels\, and geographic locations on its North Adams campus surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire mountains. The residency program runs year-round\, hosts up to 10 artists at a time for stays of 2 or 4 weeks\, and primarily seeks applications from visual artists (painters\, sculptors\, installation artists\, photographers\, video/new media artists\, fiber artists\, printmakers\, etc.) and writers in all literary disciplines. Artists from any nationality are encouraged to apply. Learn more. \nThe Studios at MASS MoCA’s 2025-26 Season has been made possible in part by the Leonard & Ruth Horwich Family Foundation\, the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation\, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust\, and an anonymous donor. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/open-studios-at-mass-moca-24/
LOCATION:B13 & B34\, 1040 MASS MoCA Way\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Summer 2026,The Studios at MASS MoCA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T170000
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SUMMARY:The Emilys & Daytime Moon Heather Abel & Kerri Schlottman
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the release of two new\, unrelated works of literary fiction that concern themselves with nature and the environment\, women’s intuition\, and love of all kinds in a rapidly changing world.\nIn Heather Abel’s The Emilys\, a mother becomes obsessed with finding the cure to a mysterious ailment that is spreading throughout her New England town in this kaleidoscopic novel about love’s capacities to embrace change. \nEve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children in Massachusetts while her husband pursues his music career in New York City\, she’s frustrated\, bored\, and above all\, lonely when she runs into Demeter\, a childhood friend with whom she shared one transformative summer. Demeter is as beautiful and charismatic as Eve remembers\, but she’s also distraught. Demeter’s daughter\, like a growing number of others\, young and old\, cannot go outside during the day. No one knows why\, and doctors are skeptical that these people — soon dubbed Emilys\, after a famously reclusive local poet — are telling the truth. How will we learn to live in an altered world? How will we keep each other safe? And when the darkness comes\, how will we find joy? \nArtfully narrated\, Kerri Schlottman’s Daytime Moon (Unnamed Press) is an unforgettable journey through hidden stories\, the depths of women’s secrets\, the shimmering fluidity of memory\, and the magic of transmutation. \nYears ago\, Isa ran away from one coast to the other and never looked back\, but when her brother Cole unexpectedly shows up on her stoop\, she’s convinced that it’s time to go home. Back in the California desert\, Isa is swept up in her former life of late-night drag races by the Salton Sea\, beers with the locals\, and haunting reminders of the twin sister she lost\, and the mother she never got to meet. Traveling up and down California highways\, through desert and forest\, roaring coastline and border towns\, Isa will follow the signs so delicately woven into the fabric of her life — a name\, a constellation\, a painting\, a gleam of recognition on the water’s surface. If she can piece them together\, she just might reunite the shattered remains of her beloved family. \nCan’t make the event? Pre-order copies of The Emilys and Daytime Moon and we’ll get your book signed for you. \nAbout the artists: \nHeather Abel is the author of the novel The Optimistic Decade. She lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts with her husband and teenagers and teaches creative writing at Smith College. \nKerri Schlottman is a writer of literary fiction novels. Her Tell Me One Thing was named a Storytrade Finalist\, a PenCraft Fiction Award Winner\, an American Book Fest Finalist\, and a Shelf Awareness Best Book This Week. Kerri works to support artists\, performers\, and writers in creating new projects and is a part-time graduate professor at NYU in arts administration. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/the-emilys-by-heather-abel-daytime-moon-by-kerri-schlottman/
LOCATION:R&D Store
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Public Program,Research & Development,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T113000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
CREATED:20260410T142850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T142850Z
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SUMMARY:Family StorytimeSeptember 19\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Families with children up to age 6 are invited to join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a storytime and related exploration in the galleries. Each storytime features a different children’s book about contemporary art\, creativity\, and/or the themes of the exhibitions on view. Meet in Kidspace at the designated time\, and a brief gallery walk-through and discussion of the art will follow.\nThis month’s Family Storytime theme is MASS MoCA History & Buildings \nFree to attend and space is limited. RSVP to reserve your spot. \nPlease note that caregivers should stay with their children at all times. Older siblings are welcome to attend. At this time we cannot accommodate large groups in storytime. To arrange a group visit to the museum and discuss educational components that could be included please contact studentgroups@massmoca.org. \nUpcoming Dates and Selected Exhibitions:\nSaturday\, October 17 – Daniela Rivera: Hacia cuando (To When) \nThis program is presented in partnership with the North Adams Public Library. \nPhoto: Liz McCarthy \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/family-storytimeseptember-19-2026/
LOCATION:Kidspace
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Kidspace,Public Program,Winter/Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
CREATED:20260421T150049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T143512Z
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SUMMARY:Madison Cunningham Ace Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Grammy-award winner Madison Cunningham in the Hunter Center for a night of folk music following the release of her latest album\, Ace.\nWith support from Julia Cumming \n \nDepending on the game\, an Ace can be the highest or lowest card\, zero or infinity. A breakup feels similar—one path crumbles\, while all others remain infinitely possible. How do you write about heartbreak when you’re going through it? Ace\, Grammy award-winner Madison Cunningham’s third record for Verve Forecast\, tracks every part of it: falling out of love\, having your heart broken\, and then falling in love again. Co-produced by Cunningham and Robbie Lackritz (Feist\, Rilo Kiley\, Bahamas\, Peach Pit)\, the fourteen-track album is honest and full of heart\, even as it breaks. \nAce builds off of the success of Revealer (2022)\, a darkly funny portrait of an artist that won Cunningham her Grammy for “Best Folk Album\,” but it is a different record. A slow burn until it wasn’t. It follows a period of writer’s block. On Revealer and her debut album Who Are You Now (2019)\, Cunningham says that she was writing songs about heartbreak\, but they weren’t about her heartbreak. They were sketches\, observations. Cunningham wanted Ace to be emotions first. Heartbreaking and lush and bold. Cunningham’s first single from Ace\, “My Full Name\,” was released to praise by PASTE who calls the lyrics\, “simultaneously sprawling and intimate\,” recalling “an ancient work of poetry.” \nOn Ace\, which Cunningham serves as co-producer\, she wanted piano to move into the foreground. “I wanted it to feel like a mountain peak\,” says Cunningham\, “I wanted Ace to feel like a mountain we built together.” Ace is a record that feels alive and lush in all the ways Cunningham hoped for when she started writing. It is a record of mastery and honesty. Cunningham loves every single song on it. You can tell. \n  \nAbout Julia Cumming:  \nDrop the needle on Julia Cumming’s solo debut Julia and the very first notes you hear are her voice. A clear\, and unadorned declaration of stepping out on her own. Within seconds\, she sings her agency into being\, fingers meet the piano keys\, striking just the sparest of chords. As the hi-hat kicks in\, Julia sweetly recites a litany of ways that she has been told she’s too much or not enough\, wrapped in halcyon production that has echoes of Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick. Album opener\, and debut single “My Life” packs a punch in a warm embrace. A belted-out proclamation of liberation — doubters\, misogynists\, and the industry be damned. Not only is she not too much\, but she has always been enough.This thesis statement of a song was the key that unlocked a creative door that New York City-born multi-instrumentalist\, singer\, songwriter\, and Sunflower Bean’s bassist\, Julia Cumming\, had been waiting for since her teens.  \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/madison-cunningham-ace-tour/
LOCATION:Hunter Center
CATEGORIES:Concert,Performance,Summer 2026,Upcoming Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T200000
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CREATED:20260714T201957Z
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SUMMARY: FreshGrass Presents |  Lucinda Williams and her band
DESCRIPTION:Multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams and her band take to the Hunter Center stage on tour with their latest record\, World’s Gone Wrong\nMASS MoCA Member Pre-Sale begins Wednesday\, July 15 at 10am\nGeneral On-Sale begins Friday\, July 17 at 10am \n \n“My dad\, as a poet\, always told me to never censor myself – that’s one of his cardinal rules of creative writing\,” Williams says. “That became my motto which I’ve stuck by all these years.” Miller Williams’ advice clearly is born out on Lucinda’s powerful eighteenth studio album\, the provocative World’s Gone Wrong. “I felt a sense of urgency in making this record\,” she adds. \nFilled with gut-wrenching topical songs\, the album’s ten tracks were written and recorded in a blast of collaborative creativity as Lucinda and her cowriters ­– primarily husband/manager/co-producer Tom Overby and guitarist Doug Pettibone – grappled with events transpiring during the spring of 2025. A whole other album had been in the works\, but that “urgency” to address our current cataclysmic situation motivated Lucinda and company to cut World’s Gone Wrong in direct response. “Music is a powerful weapon\,” she points out. “I want this record to make people aware\, wake them up. I like to push people’s buttons.” \n World’s Gone Wrong aims to give courage to listeners who are – as the title track says – “lookin’ for comfort in a song.”And that’s what Lucinda fans have come to depend on over the past 45 years – since her sophomore album Happy Woman Blues\, in 1980. With a back catalog of remarkable albums\, including 1998’s game-changing Car Wheels on a Gravel Road\, three Grammy awards\, and countless accolades\, including Time Magazine naming her America’s Best Songwriter in 2001\, Williams is one of our most revered artists\, beloved for her singular vocals and extraordinary songs. And in these troubling times\, we need the light she shines on World’s Gone Wrong more than ever before. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/freshgrass-presents-lucinda-williams/
LOCATION:Hunter Center
CATEGORIES:Concert,Fall 2026,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T215547
CREATED:20260709T135710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260714T144436Z
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SUMMARY:HUG: Devendra Banhart
DESCRIPTION:Witness a special musical collaboration in action as the trio behind Hug brings their deeply intuitive creative partnership to the stage.\nThe three musicians who wrote and recorded Hug — Devendra Banhart\, Gyan Riley and Noah Georgeson — are not related by blood\, but they sure act like it. Whatever it is that connects these three\, you can hear it in their banter as much as you can in their music. The record is almost like a bait and switch: You read the spine and — especially if you’re familiar with the work of Devendra or Gyan or Noah — you think\, this is a guitar trio. But Hug doesn’t particularly sound like any of these artists\, and if it’s a guitar trio\, then it’s one without too many guitars. Hug is more than the sum of its parts — because these artists know how to play with each other. \nAbout the artists:  \nHug members Gyan Riley and Noah Georgeson grew up together in the New Age enclave of Nevada City\, California\, bonding over a shared obsession with classical guitar before their musical paths led them to influential careers in experimental\, folk\, and contemporary music. Years later\, they met Devendra Banhart\, whose similarly unconventional upbringing and early devotion to music made him a natural creative counterpart. Written and recorded organically over three weeks\, Hug reflects the trio’s lifelong affinities\, blending folk\, ambient\, and experimental traditions with field recordings\, spiritual references\, and a sense of childlike play. The album is filled with echoes of their shared histories — from Sanskrit chants paired with unexpected lyrics to musical ideas first conceived decades earlier — creating a work that feels both deeply rooted in the past and open-ended\, as though it is the beginning of an ongoing conversation. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/hug-devendra-banhart/
LOCATION:Hunter Center
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Concert,Fall 2026,Fall 2026,Performing Arts,Upcoming Performance
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T130000
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SUMMARY:Hacia Cuando: An Opera
DESCRIPTION:Hacia Cuando: An Opera is a cross-geographical experimental opera-performance created in the mode of an exquisite corpse. The work brings together the creative practices of Jenny Olivia Johnson\, composer and sound artist based in Los Angeles; Javier Bustos\, Argentinian experimental luthier and sound artist; Sebastián Muirhead\, Chilean opera singer and stage director; and Chilean-American visual artist Daniela Rivera.\nSharing authorship\, the collaborators developed the piece through a process in which lyrics\, sonic material\, and conceptual propositions circulated among them. Working across distance\, each artist responded to and transformed the others’ contributions\, allowing the work to unfold dialogically rather than hierarchically. \n\nThe resulting audiovisual opera-performance aims to activate and complete the millenary and global tradition of fresco. Through live performance (voice\, experimental instruments\, moving image\, and spatial intervention) the work treats fresco not as a fixed image\, but as a living process\, one that is temporally and materially completed through embodied activation. \n\nThis program will be followed by a short conversation with the artist and contributors in the Research & Development Store. Purchase your tickets ahead of time here. \nDaniela Rivera: Hacia Cuando (To When) has been supported by a grant from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Artist’s Resource Trust. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/hacia-cuando-an-opera/
LOCATION:B4.3\, 1040 MASS MoCA Way\, North Adams\, MA\, 01247\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Fall 2026,Public Program,Research & Development
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T150000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Daniela Rivera
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Research and Development Store for a conversation between Daniela Rivera\, Chilean-American visual artist of Hacia Cuando (To When);  Evan Garza\, Curator; Jenny Olivia Johnson\, composer and sound artist based in Los Angeles; Javier Bustos\, Argentinian experimental luthier and sound artist; Sebastián Muirhead\, Chilean opera singer and stage director. \nThe group will discuss the exhibition and its translation into an opera. \nJoin us before or after for Hacia Cuando: An Opera. Purchase your tickets ahead of time here. \nDaniela Rivera: Hacia Cuando (To When) has been supported by a grant from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Artist’s Resource Trust. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-daniela-rivera/
LOCATION:The Research & Development Store
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page,Fall 2026,Public Program,Research & Development
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T190000
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CREATED:20260807T150150Z
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SUMMARY:Roz Chast & Jason Adam Katzenstein
DESCRIPTION:“I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard. Everyone not named Martha Stewart will recognize themselves in The Two Saddest Kitchens” — Ruth Reichl\nTwo hilarious\, celebrated cartoonists visit MASS MoCA to discuss a highly relatable subject — kitchen anxiety: Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein are both longtime New Yorker cartoonists with their own unique drawing styles\, huge followings \,and legions of loyal fans. Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? spent over a hundred weeks on the NYT bestseller list and sold more than 150\,000 hardcovers; Katzenstein’s fan base pulls from his magazine work as well as TV and graphic novels. \nIn The Two Saddest Kitchens: A Comics Conversation\, the kitchen is the “heart of the home\,” or at least it’s supposed to be. When Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein admitted to having kitchens that were far from shiny beacons of homemaking\, they knew they couldn’t be the only ones who left the dishes to soak for a little too long. That even when the countertops look tidy\, there is often madness lurking at the back of the refrigerator… The Two Saddest Kitchens pulls back to the curtain on our hilarious\, all-too-relatable kitchen realities. Chast and Katzenstein will bring their kitchen-based\, witty neuroses to the Hunter Center in an evening that will include an interview with MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds. \nPurchase a ticket and book combination to save on The Two Saddest Kitchens and get it signed by Chast and Katzenstein in the lobby after the talk. \nCan’t make the event? Purchase The Two Saddest Kitchens: A Comics Conversation here and we’ll get it signed for you! \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/roz-chast-jason-adam-katzenstein/
LOCATION:Hunter Center
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Book Talk,Fall 2026
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SUMMARY:Earl Sweatshirt + MIKE Home on the Range Tour 
DESCRIPTION:With harrison (SURF GANG) & Anysia Kym\n“Indie rap’s favorite friendship” (NPR) takes the Hunter Center stage for one unforgettable night after the release of their collaborative album Pompeii // Utility with support from harrison (SURF GANG) and Anysia Kym\n \nAbout the artists: \nEarl Sweatshirt\nFor over a decade\, Earl Sweatshirt has captivated fans with his virtuosic storytelling\, lyrical depth\, and generous vulnerability. Emerging at just 16 from the incendiary Odd Future collective\, he quickly distinguished himself through dense introspection\, off-kilter cadences\, and a brooding intellect that belied his youth. Across critically acclaimed albums like Doris\, I Don’t Like Shit\, I Don’t Go Outside\, Some Rap Songs\, Sick!\, and Voir Dire\, Earl has cemented himself as a definitive poet chronicling growth\, self-discovery\, and the moods of a generation. His new album Live Laugh Love (LLL) reflects a profound inner shift and meditative processing of his life as a father and artist in his 30s\, weaving spiritual symbolism\, personal responsibility\, and poetic nuance into a surrealist contemplation of chaos and connection. Through steady\, palpable growth and moments of joy and laughter\, LLL boldly confirms Earl’s evolution into an artist embracing his journey\, however imperfect\, and grounding himself in resilience\, creativity\, and enduring honesty. \nMIKE\nOver the years\, MIKE has built a rock-solid catalog that\, like the work of our best\, has reflected the multidimensional truths of his life. He has chronicled the pain of losing his mother\, he’s shown himself climbing out of a funk\, and\, in more recent history\, he’s gotten more comfortable beating his chest about being a leader at the top of his food chain. \nOn MIKE’s newest album\, Showbiz!\, he sets out to strike the perfect balance between everything he’s done in his career thus far. He teeters more actively between moments of introspection\, intoxicating self-confidence\, and motivational conversations in his head\, both thematically and sonically. There’s a seesaw effect\, a clear sign that over the past few years of non-stop touring and ascending in his career\, the rapper has felt a constant back-and-forth that he’s still trying to get a solid handle of. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/earl-sweatshirt-mike-home-on-the-range-tour-with-harrison-surf-gang-alysia-kym/
LOCATION:Hunter Center
CATEGORIES:Concert,Fall 2026,Performance
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