2024–2030 Strategic Plan
MASS MoCA’s origin story centers on the epic adventure of transforming an abandoned factory site in North Adams, Massachusetts, into the largest multidisciplinary contemporary art museum in North America.
Our history will serve us well as we navigate the evolving questions (and responsibilities) posed to art and cultural institutions today, which have shifted dramatically from those that gave rise to MASS MoCA’s start-up years. We are traversing a markedly different time, and while every era can claim its distinguishing features, ours involves carrying the rather heavy baton of putting things back together after the unprecedented impacts of the global pandemic, the compounding challenges of climate change, a deeply divided democracy, inconceivable wealth concentration (also mirrored in our cultural institutions), our national reckoning with systemic race inequality, and a diminishing societal confidence in our public institutions.
Twenty-five years on, MASS MoCA continues to be an organization steeped in the exchange of ideas, and forging uncommon bonds through the making and sharing of art in all of its forms. We have become an economic and cultural anchor within our rural community, and are an indispensable home to the artistic practices that underpin a creative and thriving democracy.
MASS MoCA is a place that moves at the pace of beautiful possibilities, and to ensure our vitality and dynamism as we embrace the next chapter ahead, we welcome you to explore and engage with the goals and aspirations of our 2024-2030 Strategic Plan.
Kristy Edmunds
Director, MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA’s 2024-2030 Strategic Plan was authored through the input of many voices over a two-year period including the Board of Trustees, MASS MoCA staff, artists, community stakeholders, members and donors.