Free Third Thursday
Thursday, October 17, 2024 from 05:00pm to 09:00pm
Museum Of Contemporary Art
265 South Church Avenue
Join us for a free evening at MOCA with galleries open late, live music by KXCI Community Radio, food by Reservation Sensation, and drinks by Tap + Bottle!
This month, we celebrate the publication of the 2025 Sonoran Desert School Gardeners’ Almanac with talks, activities, food, and more. The Almanac is a love letter to the Sonoran Desert, its people, and its food heritage. Through this handbook, school gardens serve as a conduit for local knowledge holders to pass on heritage to learners who themselves become knowledge holders, establishing a cycle of connections between past, present and a promising future.
About the Exhibitions
On view in the Great Hall is DEMO, a multimedia exhibition by artists Juan Obando and Yoshua Okón that explores the practice of “astroturfing”—a marketing ploy that generates fake public demonstrations intended to appear as grassroots political movements. On view in the East Wing Galleries is 500 Places at Once, an exhibition centering poet CAConrad that features a newly commissioned collection of three-dimensional poem sculptures; and Graves for the Rain, the first solo museum exhibition by artist and musician Karima Walker who works with sound, sculpture, and durational performance to consider ecological practices and grief in response to the hydrological death of the Santa Cruz River.
