Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Archive collection

Collection

Identifier: Spec-Coll-00080

Staff Only

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland website archive

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Scope and Contents

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Archive is the institutional record of the organization and the contemporary artists whose work has been curated for exhibit in their galleries. The archive consists primarily of administrative office files, artist files, exhibition files, reports, exhibit catalogs, publications, clippings, audio visual materials and marketing materials.

Dates

Creation: 1968-2014

Biographical / Historical

The Museum of Contemporary Art(moCa) - Cleveland was founded in 1968 by Marjorie Talalay, Nina Sundell and Agnes Gund as The New Gallery to showcase contemporary art and introduce it to Clevelanders with the works of cutting edge artists such as Christo, Jasper Johns, and Laurie Anderson. In 1974, the New Gallery became a non-profit, and in 1984, changed its name to Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. In 2002, the organization’s name was changed to Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland.