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Twenty Years of Art, Community, and Creative Exchange

Twenty Years of Art, Community, and Creative Exchange

Community Opening

The Museum reopens with exhibitions of Detroit-based artists, Carole Harris, Martha Mysko, and Olayami Dabls, whose practices have profoundly shaped the city’s…

Olayami Dabls + Jova Lynne

As part of the museum’s reopening, please join us for a special conversation between MOCAD’s Artistic Director + Co-Director, Jova Lynne, and artist, curator…

Talking Shop: Martha Mysko on Retail Therapy

Artist Martha Mysko and Susanne Feld Hilberry Curator Isabella Nimmo will hold an informal in-gallery conversation exploring Mysko’s new body of work in her so…

Carole Harris + Taylor Renee Aldridge

Join us for a conversation on This Side of the River, an exhibition exploring the innovative textile practice of Detroit-based artist Carole Harris. The progra…

Family Day

Let’s look, make, and connect at MOCAD! Explore the artworks and materials in Olayami Dabls: Detroit Cosmologies. Make your own beads inspired by texture…

Care in Action: A Harm Reduction Gathering

Join us for an evening dedicated to mutual aid and public health as we explore the vital role of harm reduction in our community. This gathering serves as a to…

Our City, Our Rights: A Guide to Community Advocacy

Navigating the complexities of civic systems requires more than just knowledge—it requires a community. This workshop provides a clear-eyed guide to individual…

Family Day

Let's look, make, and connect at MOCAD! Explore the artworks Carole Harris: This Side of the River and fully experience her tactile textures with touchable…

Curator Tour: Spring Season

Join curatorial assistant, Brianna Ramsey, for a guided tour of MOCAD’s spring exhibitions. Situated within our main building’s galleries, you’ll be guided thr…

Curator Tour: Spring Season

Join curatorial assistant, Brianna Ramsey, for a guided tour of MOCAD’s spring exhibitions. Situated within our main building’s galleries, you’ll be guided thr…

Community Opening

The Museum reopens with exhibitions of Detroit-based artist…

Olayami Dabls + Jova Lynne

As part of the museum’s reopening, please join us for a spe…

Talking Shop: Martha Mysko on Retail Therapy

Artist Martha Mysko and Susanne Feld Hilberry Curator Isabe…

Carole Harris + Taylor Renee Aldridge

Join us for a conversation on This Side of the River, an ex…

Family Day

Let’s look, make, and connect at MOCAD! Explore the a…

Care in Action: A Harm Reduction Gathering

Join us for an evening dedicated to mutual aid and public h…

Our City, Our Rights: A Guide to Community Advocacy

Navigating the complexities of civic systems requires more…

Family Day

Let's look, make, and connect at MOCAD! Explore the art…

Curator Tour: Spring Season

Join curatorial assistant, Brianna Ramsey, for a guided tou…

Curator Tour: Spring Season

Join curatorial assistant, Brianna Ramsey, for a guided tou…

Explore

Olayami Dabls: Detroit Cosmologies

MOCAD presents Olayami Dabls: Detroit Cosmologies, the firs…

Carole Harris: This Side Of The River

Carole Harris: This Side of the River is the first comprehe…

Martha Mysko: Retail Therapy

MOCAD presents Martha Mysko: Retail Therapy, the artist’s f…

Loris Gréaud: Cortical* Smoke+Mirrors

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit presents Cortical*Sm…

Pat Phillips: Prime Mover

MOCAD presents Prime Mover, the first solo museum exhibitio…

rootoftwo: Anyspace? Whatever.

In Anyspace? Whatever. creative studio rootoftwo present an…

Karyn Olivier: Bend, Break, Mend

Bend, Break, Mend is a solo exhibition of Trinidad-born, Br…

Mary-Ann Monforton: Heart Land

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit presents Heart Land…

Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art

“The need to articulate where exactly the Black avant-gard…

The Gun Violence Memorial Project

The Gun Violence Memorial Project (GVMP) creates a space fo…

GIRLHOOD

The Detroit Artists Market (DAM) is thrilled to announce a…

ASMA: Wander + Pursuit

The work of ASMA seeks to eliminate the dichotomies between…

Read + Watch + Listen

Statement on GAZ

Is My Mind A Machine Gun?

Kinship: The Legacy of Gallery 7

Solidarity: First Your Liberation and Then Mine

Take Me Home

Black Porches

Baku 1977

Portal Fire: Shrine of the Torchbearer

On Beat with RJ

TOWARDS THE UNKNOWABLE: CLARE GATTO AND KARA GÜT

Intimacy Mod

Knock Into Two Cocked Hats At Cobo