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MoCADA Films: …Of Her Beauty

AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, Terence Nance’s explosively creative debut feature, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY, produced in partnership with MoCADA Museum, documents the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman as it teeters … Read More

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MoCADA Films: Native Sun

Native Sun Native Sun is short film, produced as part of the MoCADA Films initiative, and shot in Ghana, West Africa, in 2010. The film was directed by Blitz the Ambassador and Terence Nance, and follows an imaginative young boy as he travels alone from … Read More

View of Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776 - 1876 at the African American Museum in Philadelphia

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Perspectives on Philadelphia: Art, Culture and Curatorial Practice On Friday, May 6 MoCADA’s Curatorial Fellows embarked on a Curatorial Intensive to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MoCADA’s Director of Exhibitions, Kalia Brooks and Director of Education, Ruby Amanze, both of whom hail from the city of brotherly love, … Read More

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LIVE: RIP the Runway

WEBISODE VIDEO: SOUL OF BROOKLYN’S “RIP THE RUNWAY” FASHION SHOW Dope Files was in the building for Soul of Brooklyn’s Rip The Runway show in Fort Greene yesterday evening, founded by Laurie Cumbo. It was a celebration of African fashion designers in order expose them … Read More

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Changing “The Master Plan”: Hybridity in Black Art and Design

Changing “The Master Plan”: Hybridity in Black Art and Design Parsons School of Design at The New School hosted its first international conference on the state of Black culture in art and design education this past weekend. The lens of day two of the conference … Read More

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Beauty, Power, and Liminality

A conversation on Black Beauty movements from the Lecture Series Beauty and the Black Body To be misrepresented, one’s image is falsified, distorted, warped, loaded, and perverted.  How does that image get corrected, when is one represented? On Saturday February 19, Rutgers University Newark addressed … Read More

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Emerging Curatorial Models: MoCADA’s Curatorial Fellows Attend The Now Museum Conference

From Thursday, March 10 to Sunday, March 13, Independent Curators International, the New Museum, and the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center collaborated to present an international conference, The Now Museum: Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models. The conference drew a … Read More

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CAA Conference

On Friday, February 11th, we had our first experience in the field as Curatorial Fellows at MoCADA. We attended the 99th annual College Art Association (CAA) Conference at the Hilton New York in Midtown, Manhattan (http://conference.collegeart.org/2011/). The atmosphere was lively, with artists and scholars bustling … Read More