NYAB Events - The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

“being Here…in Memory” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2016-05-07 - 2016-07-10
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) presents being Here…in Memory an exhibition and performance series curated by choreographer Marjani Forté-Saunders. being Here… in Memory...More »
Shantell Martin “Are You You”
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- Media: Illustration - Installation
- 2014-04-26 - 2014-07-27
The work of Shantell Martin is a meditation of lines; a language of characters, creatures and messages that invite her viewers to share a role in her creative process. Part autobiographical, and part dreamlike...More »
“Six Draughtsmen” Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing
- 2013-10-24 - 2014-04-06
Six Draughtsmen highlights the diverse drawing practices of six artists. Arguably the oldest of all mediums, drawing has evolved to redefine and expand its parameters in this increasingly experimental...More »
“Pattern Recognition” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2013-07-18 - 2013-10-06
Abstraction, by definition, has no overt subject matter. However, upon further inspection, deeper meaning can emerge from art that once appeared random and devoid of obvious significance. Powerful ideas...More »
"NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2012-10-18 - 2013-01-20
Be it in New York, Paris or Bamako, the world is experiencing a paradigm shift that began in Africa. Sparked by the 2011 toppling of Egypt’s thirty-year dictator, calls for revolution echo through mass...More »
"loop // An Exhibition of New Media Works" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2012-09-06 - 2012-10-07
To loop, in its most distilled expression, is to enfold or encircle. In cultural production, the act of looping is a decision to reintroduce images and sounds within a spectrum of time. loop will highlight...More »
"THE BOX THAT ROCKS: 30 Years of Video Music Box and the Rise of Hip Hop Music & Culture" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Product - Film - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2012-03-10 - 2012-05-28
MoCADA announces THE BOX THAT ROCKS: 30 Years of Video Music Box and the Rise of Hip Hop Music & Culture, an exhibition of contemporary art that celebrates the global influence of Video Music Box,...More »
"Re-Imagining Haiti" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Video installation
- 2011-01-20 - 2011-05-08
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that ravaged Haiti in January 2010, this collaborative exhibition offers contemporary work by artists who are examining the spirituality, aesthetics,...More »
"Ain’t I A Woman" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2010-07-15 - 2010-12-19
This group exhibition offers contemporary artistic depictions of women of African descent, focusing specifically on their interiority. Rather than examining women through the objectivity of their bodies,...More »
"The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-16
This exhibition, guest curated by Dexter Wimberly, will examine how urban planning, eminent domain, and real estate development are affecting Brooklyn's communities and how residents throughout the borough...More »
"They Won't Budge: Africans in Europe" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2009-10-01 - 2010-01-19
Curated by Awam Amkpa, Annalisa Butticci and Madala Hilaire - NYU Africana Studies Department Creative Consultant - Deb Willis Their stories are numerous, some similar and others flavored by particular...More »
"Perspectives: Women, Art and Islam" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Ceramics - Video installation
- 2009-06-04 - 2009-09-13
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and the Museum for African Art are proud to present Perspectives: Women, Art and Islam, an exhibition of five female artists whose major connection...More »
Samson Mnisi and Cannon Hersey "Johannesburg to New York"
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2009-01-29 - 2009-05-17
Johannesburg to New York is the first retrospective of the collaborative work between South African artist Samson Mnisi and New York artist Cannon Hersey. Combining their various perspectives on the changing...More »
"I Am a Man: Revisited" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Video installation
- 2008-09-25 - 2009-01-18
February 1968 saw 1,300 African American Sanitation workers strike to demand their right to unionize. The Civil Rights Leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., eventually came to Memphis to support the strikers...More »
"Ancient Futures" Children’s Workshop with artist Dirk Joseph
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-08-17 - 2008-08-17
"Kindred Cool" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2008-08-03 - 2008-09-14
Kindred Cool is a photography project that uses relationship between Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden and Albert Murray as an inspiration for documenting other friendships forged and fostered through a shared...More »
"Ancient Futures: The DNA of Culture & Civilization" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Other
- 2008-06-21 - 2008-09-07
A revival of the 1990s monthly Avant Yard underground art experience in Tribeca, New York, that took the New York art world scene by storm, the exhibition Ancient Futures will feature work from several...More »
Dread Scott "Welcome to America"
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2008-02-28 - 2008-06-01
Artist Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. His art begins in a radical and realistic view of American society and international civil rights crisis - seeing it as a world where...More »