Detroit’s MOCAD Reopens with a New Vision and a New Kind of Leadership
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), founded after a long grassroots effort and opened in 2006, reopened in April following an eight-month renovation as it approaches its 20th anniversary. Artistic director Jova Lynne and chief operating officer Marie Madison-Patton, serving as co-directors, are framing the museum’s new direction as “A Practice of Multiplicity,” emphasizing artists’ full lives and community ties. Renovations included major infrastructure updates such as an HVAC system, a new Learning Studio near the entrance, a café redesigned as a multi-use programming space, and a façade opened more directly to the street. The reopening is inaugurated by surveys of Detroit artists Olayami Dabls and Carole Harris, with Harris’s exhibition titled “This Side of the River.”
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