Community Day: Summer 2025

It’s MASS MoCA’s annual Free Day, when we swing open the doors for an extensive program of art-making, gallery, tours, and pop-up performances. Come for elevator music (played live), and stay for Nick Cave in the big gallery.

What to Expect
Plan to spend the day! You’ll find pop-up music performances, a Sol LeWitt photo booth, art projects for the entire family happening throughout the museum, and dance performances in the galleries. Then grab a ticket for Steven Bernstein’s The Universal Melody Brass Band and join us in the Hunter Center at 8pm.

Events

11am-3pm Meta museum moment: Lickety Split lattes available in Spencer Finch’s brand new exhibition, Cosmic Latte
in Building 8.2 (next to the second floor Sol LeWitt galleries)

12-12:45pm Drop-in conversation with artist Hope Ginsburg
12:45-1:05pm Guided meditation with Hope Ginsburg
in Explode Every Day

2:30pm Kidspace Artist Residency Ceremony
Ribbon-cutting for artists Huckleberry Elling and David Lane and local student collaboration
in Kidspace

2:45pm Berkshire Dance Theatre
2nd-floor gallery

3:30pm dysFUNKcrew
2nd-floor gallery

4-4:45pm Drop-in conversation with artist Hope Ginsburg
4:45-5:05pm Guided meditation with Hope Ginsburg
in Explode Every Day

5pm Human Sculpture
in Kidspace

5:30pm Performance and workshop with the Williams College Step Team
in Nick Cave: Until

Tour Schedule

• 11:30am Curator-led Tour
• 12pm Nick Cave: Until
• 12:30pm Museum History Tour
• 1pm Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder
• 1:30pm Nick Cave: Until and Kidspace (for families)
• 2pm Sol LeWitt
• 2:30pm Curator-led Tour
• 3pm Sarah Crowner: Beetle in the Leaves and Sol LeWitt
• 3:30pm Curator-led Tour
• 4pm Nick Cave: Until
• 4:30pm Museum History Tour
• 5pm Explode Every Day
• 5:30pm Sol LeWitt
• 6pm Kidspace (for grown-ups)

Sponsored by Berkshire Gas, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and The Berkshire Eagle

photo by Kaelan Burkett