Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MoCA GA)
Images Courtesy of Ato Ribeiro and MoCA GA
Atlanta Art Week Event:
Ato Ribeiro: Under Her Canopy, artist talk in conversation with Camille Bacon | Midtown
Friday, October 6, 2023 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
75 Bennett St NW, Atlanta, GA 30309
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is located at 75 Bennett Street. We encourage visitors to enter the historic TULA building through the largest black canopy. MOCA GA is located on the lower level in suite M-1. There are staircases to the left.
About:
Ato Riberio will be giving an Artist Talk on his solo 2022/2023 Working Artist Project exhibition. The Talk is FREE to the public as it is an educational program. MOCA GA provides refreshments and our signature goldfish.
About the Exhibition: “Marking the 20th anniversary of my relocation to Atlanta from Accra, Under Her Canopy serves as a reflection of the people, the histories, and the cultural fabrics that I continue to learn from and share in. These works are a collection of stories, fragmented and fused together with room for the addition of narratives to come. This exhibition also celebrates the many ways that women—within my family, and beyond—continue to enable and inspire my creative practice. This assemblage of histories pays homage to my great (x3) grandmother Priscilla (Marshall) Young, interactions with griots and my desire to share space and stories with Madan Sara in Haiti. The materials that make up these works are the same ones that make up the hard and soft woods hidden behind white gallery walls. Here, they are optimistic for the future because they know from whence they came.”
About Ato Ribeiro: (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media, including sculptural instillation, drawing and printmaking. He was born in Philadelphia, PA. and spent the formative years of his life in Accra, Ghana. He is currently serving as a 2022/2023 MOCA GA Fellow, was the 2017
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Emerging Artist Award recipient, Artist in Resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, and received Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, ME. His work is in the permanent collections of the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, the Mercedes-Benz USA Headquarters, Detroit Institute of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum and some private collections. He earned his B.A. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his M.F.A. in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
About MOCA GA: Our mission is to collect and archive significant, contemporary works by the artists of the state of Georgia. To place our artists in a global context, the Museum’s exhibitions include Georgia artists and artists from around the world. Our programs promote the visual arts by creating a forum for active interchange between artists and the community.
MOCA GA was founded in 2000 and presented its first exhibition in 2002. In recognition of a void in the Atlanta-area art institutions, MOCA GA was devoted to the contemporary arts in Georgia. MOCA GA has grown from 250 works by 110 Georgia artists to more than 1,300 works of art. The permanent collection continues to expand in size and depth by 50-100 pieces per year due to generous donations from our corporate sponsors and individual donors.MOCA GA is a central leader in the arts in Georgia through investment in the community and preservation of the legacy of the past, present, and future of local art. The museum opens an average of 15 exhibitions each year and presents work that is dynamic, challenging, and innovative. MOCA GA encourages engagement and exchange between artists it features and the community it serves through regularly scheduled artist talks and other public programming.
Hours of Operation:
Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Saturday:12:00 PM - 5:00 PM