![]() Join us for a #TBT look at MOCAtv videos and previously produced video footage, shared through our social channels for a screening night at home! ![]() ![]() This series is led by MOCA's team of curators. Look back and reflect on MOCA’s history, past exhibitions, initiatives, programs, and permanent collection, and see how all of these efforts relate to our present offerings and future initiatives. Whether renewing your membership, ordering delivery from local independent businesses, or donating goods and services to those that could use it the most, Giving Tuesday will highlight ways we can all help sustain and strengthen our communities. MOCA will share ways that we can come together to support our communities in need. It is fun for all and particularly helpful for homeschooling! Join our team of MOCA educators as they lead different family friendly activities through interactive workshops, virtual Talking Tours, and classroom curriculum discussions. MOCA Education makes education more collaborative, inclusive, and learner-centered, and nurtures intellectual growth through transformative experiences with contemporary art. See below for a full schedule of offerings: ![]() We hope to continue to provide hours of meaningful, creative, and fun opportunities for all of us to connect during this moment of physical distance. The museum has created new and daily series that is available on and across MOCA’s social media platforms: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. The museum hopes to keep the mural up for a few years, and then use the building as a canvas for “another amazing piece of art,” says Byrne.With MOCA’s temporary closure, we wanted to offer you a virtual way to stay connected and build community. While some art can be intimidating to the uninitiated, Byrne says the public has responded well to the mural it has even served as the backdrop for a few wedding party portraits. People want to be close to it, they want to take a picture of it.” “Maser’s work is very much rooted in art history and design, but it’s also personable. “He started doing it illegally-tagging walls, creating these secret projects-but now, he’s commissioned to make art all over the world,” explains Byrne. It was really fun, other than the 90-degree heat.”īyrne says Maser’s origin as a graffiti artist influenced the museum’s decision to work with him. “Then, the MOCA staff and some artists here in Virginia Beach worked alongside him. “Maser was on site with us for two weeks last July,” says Byrne. Maser, who is MOCA’s current artist-in-residence, painted the mural last summer. “We wanted a huge, dynamic block of color and pattern to get people to look at our building, and to immediately know what we were all about,” says Byrne. Sporting wide swaths of bright colors, lines and angular shapes, it’s no accident that the mural is painted on the back of the MOCA building facing I-264. Visitors may walk inside the sculpture and interact with it in a tangible, unusual way. The other two components are an entertainment stage, which Maser recently completed, and a three-dimensional sculptural installation, finished in the spring. “The mural is actually part of a three-part project we’re doing in partnership with the Virginia Beach Office of Cultural Affairs, and the ViBe Creative District,” Byrne explains. The mural, created by Ireland-born artist Maser, is part of a series of works designed to pique the public’s interest in the city’s evolving art identity, says Alison Byrne, MOCA’s director of exhibitions and education. The geometric patterns covering the exterior of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Virginia Beach came to bear through one artist’s vision and a community’s collaboration. The Maser mural, painted on the back of the MOCA building, faces I-264 in Virginia Beach.
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