Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, better known by its acronym, MOCA, is a contemporary art museum located in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1968 by Marjorie Talalay, Agnes Gund, and Nina Castelli Sundell as The New Gallery, the museum was renamed the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in 1984. In order to exand its exhibition space, in 1990 the museum moved to its present location, a 20,000 square foot former Sears store on Carnegie Avenue that is now part of the Cleveland Play House complex. In 2002, CCCA changed its name to Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.

Works by such artists as Andy Warhol, Christo, and Claes Oldenburg are regularly shown, and past exhibits have featured art by Jim Hodges and Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, among others. The museum places a special focus on artists from Greater Cleveland and the rest of Northeastern Ohio. During the course of its three annual exhibition seasons, MOCA presents works by emerging local artists throught the PULSE series, and works by local female artists under 30 through the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series.

In December 2005, MOCA announced that it had received a $2.1 million grant from the George Gund Foundation^[1] to help fund a capital campaign to build a new museum in University Circle.