Category Archives: Curatorial

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PIXELATING: INDIE FILMS IN BLACK

PIXELATING: INDIE FILMS IN BLACK MoCADA and Black Public Media (BPM) present Pixelating: Indie Films in Black, a series of screenings held in the month of February in honor of Black History Month. Screening throughout various venues in Brooklyn and New York City, this film series … Read More

Feed Your Head: African Origins of The Scientific Aesthetic

FEED YOUR HEAD: The African Origin of The Scientific Aesthetic

Feed Your Head: The African Origins of the Scientific Aesthetic Curated by Kalia Brooks, Director of Exhibitions November 17, 2011 – February 25, 2012 Feed Your Head joins together two visual artists with a physicist and ethnomathematician to explore the aesthetic convergence of science and … Read More

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PIXELATING: Black in New Dimensions

PIXELATING: Black in New Dimensions Curated by Zemen Kidane, Isissa Komada-John, & Jabari Owens-Bailey MoCADA’s 2011-2012 Curatorial Fellows November 17, 2011 – February 25, 2012 If one gets close enough, zooms in to get an intimate look, can the color black become pixelated? Pixelating is … Read More

Alejandro Guzman "El Santero"

AIOP Ritual

Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL(New York) AiOP 2011 Guest Curators: Trinidad Fombella, El Museo del Barrio and Kalia Brooks, MoCADA   ART IN ODD PLACES PRESENTS 2011 FESTIVAL RITUAL       OCTOBER 1-10, 2011 on 14th Street, NYC    Rituals on 14th Street … Read More

Founder Laurie Cumbo and Isissa Kohmada-John

MoCADA at Verge Art Fair

MoCADA and The Curatorial Fellows Take Verge Art Brooklyn by Storm From March 3 to March 6, the Curatorial Fellows successfully curated their first space at the Verge Art Brooklyn Fair. The three day event drew local, national, and international artists and galleries to Dumbo. … Read More

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There Is No Looking Glass Here: Wide Sargasso Sea Re-imagined

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, in partnership with Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation and Deutsche Bank Art are delighted to present There is No Looking Glass Here: Wide Sargasso Sea Re-Imagined.  This group exhibition presents eleven different artistic interpretations of the acclaimed, but obscure … Read More

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African Rhythms / American Echoes

BAMart and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA) have partnered again to produce an intimate exhibition coinciding with the 2010 DanceAfrica Festival.

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THE CURATORIAL FELLOWSHIP

THE CURATORIAL FELLOWSHIP ________________________________________ The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA) announces the recipients of the inaugural 2011 – 2012 Curatorial Fellowship Brooklyn, New York, May 9, 2011 – Today MoCADA is thrilled to announce the inaugural recipients of the museum’s Curatorial Fellowship. The … Read More