Mark your calendar for downtown's destination New Year's Eve bash. The MOCA NYE PARTY is an event for the movers and shakers, the artists and innovators, and anyone who likes to kick off the New Year in style. Net proceeds of MOCA NYE PARTY benefit the educational programs, public events and gallery exhibitions that make our Jacksonville a regional leader in contemporary art.

Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking,  organized by Princeton University Art Museum, will be on view at MOCA through January 13, 2019. This exhibition focuses on a revolutionary period in the artist's printmaking career, between 1984 and 1999, when Stella executed four ambitious print series, each of which was named after a distinct literary work: the Passover song Had Gadya,  a compilation of Italian folktales,  the epic American novel Moby-Dick, and the illustrated The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.

Free films to the public at MOCA every other Thursday night. Since 1999, Movies On The House has screened scores of films free for all of the UNF Community; films that help contribute to the important cultural discussions of our time. MOTH celebrates the best in alternative cinema. This fall MOTH will screen films both on campus, and at MOCA Jacksonville free for the public to enjoy. Join us on October 25th at 7 p.m. for MOCA's upcoming film Flight of the Red Balloon.

Visit the exhibition, Gideon Mendel: Drowning World  to view the premiere of Mendel's 5-channel video, Deluge, among other powerful photographs and site specific installations that address the global impact of natural disasters. The Drowning World project, which began in 2007 includes Mendel's photographs of flood zones throughout the world-ranging from Jacksonville, FL to Brazil and Nigeria, among others. 

Our latest Project Atrium artist, Claire Ashley, mines the language of painterly abstraction, monumental sculpture, slapstick humor, and Pop Art to transform ordinary materials into inflatable painted sculptures. At MOCA Jacksonville, Ashley creates fictional, humorous bodies, including a supersized cartoon-style hand that reaches down to touch visitors, to expose dramatic shifts in scale between sculpture and viewer.