Get an early taste of summer as we prepare to send out our 25th Anniversary season in style! Join us for an unforgettable Memorial Day weekend accompanying the opening of Vincent Valdez’s exhibition Just a Dream… with an Opening Preview Celebration, concert by Saul Williams, and a conversation with cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib; activations of Jeffrey Gibson’s Building 5 commission POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT by Indigenous artists Martha Redbone and MX Oops; and the return of our beloved Camp MASS MoCA. 

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Memorial Day Weekend

Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream...

On view beginning Saturday, May 24

Vincent Valdez bears witness to the world around him, chronicling America at the margins. Just a Dream… is the artist’s first major museum survey including work from over twenty years across all media. The exhibition is co-organized by MASS MoCA and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH).

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Trisha Brown Dance Company: Roof Piece

Saturday, May 24, 2 & 4:30pm

The iconic choreographer Trisha Brown's Roof Piece (1971) — a trailblazing site-specific work that forever changed the notion of dance's relationship to the environment in which it's performed — will explode across our campus, helping to bring our year-long 25th Anniversary celebration to a close by highlighting the physical structure that anchors MASS MoCA's place as one of America's (and the world's) most unique art institutions.

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In Conversation: Kristy Edmunds & Susan Rosenberg

Saturday, May 24, 3pm

In between the two performances of Roof Piece, join MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds for an insightful conversation with Susan Rosenberg. Rosenberg is the author of Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art. She is consulting historical scholar at Trisha Brown Dance Company and directs the master's degree program in museum administration at St. John's University, New York, where she is also an associate professor of art history.

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Opening Preview Celebration
Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream...

Saturday, May 24, 5:30pm

Get a first look and celebrate the opening of Just A Dream…, Vincent Valdez’s first major museum survey, co-organized with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). The exhibition spans twenty years of the artist's work across all media, addressing American politics today. Including previously unexhibited and new bodies of work, Just a Dream… is a unique opportunity to see the breadth of Valdez’s practice. The artist often works in series, with this exhibition marking the first time these chapters. Celebrate alongside exhibitions Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier, co-curated with Williams College Museum of Art, and Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, in Building 4.3.

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Saul Williams

Saturday, May 24, 8:30pm

The groundbreaking rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor Saul Williams, who burst into the public consciousness as Nuyorican Poets Café's Grand Slam Champion in 1996 and then the star of the 1998 independent hit Slam, has since toured the world with his band, opened for Nine Inch Nails, and had records produced by Rick Rubin and Trent Reznor. His performance at MASS MoCA celebrates the opening of Vincent Valdez's major exhibition Just a Dream... The two artists' politically charged work interrogates the American experience with a furious rigor and dynamism that our historical moment cries out for.

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In Conversation: Vincent Valdez & Hanif Abdurraqib

Sunday, May 25, 11am

Join artist Vincent Valdez in conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib in conjunction with Valdez's exhibition Just a Dream... The two will discuss what it means to be American today through the lens of art, politics, music, and basketball. The artists will sign books in MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store following the talk.

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MASS MoCA Benefit Dinner

Friday, May 23

Save the date - Friday, May 23, 2025. Celebrate the close of MASS MoCA's 25th Anniversary Season with us by gathering with fellow supporters and friends to raise a glass to our shared art futures. This festive benefit dinner and summer season opener will include a fresh-from-the Berkshires dinner, a first-look at Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream..., and the opportunity to experience Trisha Brown Dance Company: Roof Piece high above MASS MoCA's courtyards.

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Gallery Activations

On view through May 2026, Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT is a newly commissioned immersive installation filling MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery that follows Gibson’s highly celebrated United States representation at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. Gibson is known for creating installations, performances, paintings, and sculpture that elevate and provide visibility to queer and Indigenous communities, whose cultural narratives have been historically marginalized. Throughout the run of the exhibition, the project will host a series of performances by Indigenous creatives from across North America.

Martha Redbone

Saturday, June 21, 8pm

Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, playwright and United States Artist Fellow of Cherokee/Choctaw and African American descent. Her multi-disciplinary works share her life experience as an Afro-Indigenous woman and mother in an ever-changing world. Martha works in partnership with longtime collaborator Aaron Whitby. Their songs and storytelling give voice to issues of social justice, connecting cultures and celebrating the human spirit. Her works include several recorded albums, musical scores for Broadway and off-Broadway productions and high-energy live performances with her masterful band of funkateers.

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MX Oops

Saturday, August 30, 8pm

Multimedia performance artist MX Oops - who was invited by Jeffrey Gibson to present in his exhibition POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT - will create an evening-length event based on the concept of ecstatic aesthetics. MX Oops, master of ceremonies, will invite you, the party people, into a sound bath turned DJ set.

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Camp MASS MoCA 2025

Registration Open Now!

August 4–22, 2025

Young people entering grades 2–9 are invited to Camp MASS MoCA. For the first time, MASS MoCA is hosting a camp for middle schoolers in grades 6–9 during week 1 of camp! Participants explore the expansive campus and world-class art exhibitions and create original works of their own. Sign up early as space is limited to 20 campers each week!

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Coming Up Next

School Break Kidspace Workshops

February 17–21

Join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a series of free workshops for all ages during school break, February 17–21! Workshops will take place in Kidspace at 11am and 1pm every day, with an additional workshop at 3pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and each will focus on a different art medium and process. Come be inspired, learn something new, and make a project to take home! The ArtBar will also be open for drop-in art-making throughout the day.

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Dave Guy

Friday, February 28, 8pm

NYC trumpet player Dave Guy’s hip-hop and soul-inflected jazz conjures his influences - as much A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul as Donald Byrd and Hugh Masekela - and makes it clear why he has regularly appeared on records and onstage with the likes of Amy Winehouse, The Roots, Sharon Jones, and Al Green. See him shine at MoCA fronting his own smoking-hot band. 

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