MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORIAN ARTS
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Mission Statement
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uses the visual and performing arts as a point of departure for exploring new artistic production across a variety of disciplines. Through exhibitions and programming, MoCADA incites dialogue on pressing social and political issues facing the African Diaspora and fosters a dynamic space for social justice and the creation and continuous evolution of culture.
About This Cause
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) was born from our Founder Laurie Cumbo’s graduate thesis on the feasibility of whether an African museum could contribute to the revitalization of Brooklyn. Inspired by the DuSable Museum, the oldest museum dedicated to African American history in the U.S., Ms. Cumbo launched MoCADA in 1999 in a building owned by the historic Bridge Street AWME Church in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Twenty years later, MoCADA’s mission has grown through three programmatic arms (Exhibitions, Education, and Community) that use the visual arts as a point of exploration through the cultural experience of the African Diaspora. Through new artistic productions across a variety of disciplines, MoCADA creates unique experiences that expand beyond the traditional “museum” concept to incite dialogue on pressing social and political issues facing the African Diaspora. MoCADA is a dynamic, safe space for the continuous evolution of culture. Each year MoCADA works collaboratively with over 30 arts organizations, local businesses, artists, educators, community leaders, and agencies to make the arts an integral component of neighborhood development and economic sustainability. MoCADA accomplishes this through a museum without walls approach, delivering arts events and social justice efforts directly to the people through on and off-site programs in neighboring venues, such as public housing, small businesses, parks, other public spaces, on social media, and at MoCADA.org. MoCADA now reaches over 200,000 people each year.