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The artist is in! Seamless exhibiting artist Jordan Bruner will be set up in the atrium all weekend. Working across pai...
05/29/2026

The artist is in!

Seamless exhibiting artist Jordan Bruner will be set up in the atrium all weekend. Working across painting and animation, Bruner's work centers on women, animals, and imagined places, blending joy, tension, and humor through bold color and carefully constructed compositions.

Drop in today, Saturday, or Sunday to see what she's working on and join the art activity nearby—paint an animation frame that Bruner will scan and transform into an animation!

What happens when an artist, a landscape designer, an art therapist, and a botanical garden all work toward the same goa...
05/28/2026

What happens when an artist, a landscape designer, an art therapist, and a botanical garden all work toward the same goal?

At the Virginia MOCA Art + Design Convening on June 13, Brendan Baylor, Assistant Professor of Art at Old Dominion University and Kelly Morse of 70 | 30 Design Studio share the story of Soundings, a socially engaged art project housed in a converted shipping container with a vegetated roof at Norfolk Botanical Garden, and what the process of making it revealed about the messiness and magic of true interdisciplinary collaboration.
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VIRGINIA MOCA ART + DESIGN CONVENING
SATURDAY, JUNE 13 | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM

Join us for this one-day convening inspired by Seamless: Art and Design and the opening of Virginia MOCA’s new home. This full-day conference style gathering brings together artists, designers, architects, and creative practitioners for featured conversations, concurrent breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect, exchange ideas, and celebrate local creative work, exploring how creative disciplines can share ideas and solve problems together

What goes on behind gallery walls? On June 13, get a closer look at how exhibitions come together. Grab your tickets now...
05/27/2026

What goes on behind gallery walls? On June 13, get a closer look at how exhibitions come together. Grab your tickets now!

Dave Culpepper, Virginia MOCA Gallery & Exhibitions Manager, will pull back the curtain on what it takes to present art in a contemporary museum—from working with curators and artists to building and designing moveable gallery walls, hanging artworks, and getting the lighting just right. It’s the work most visitors never see, but experience every time they step into a gallery.

After the session, you’ll walk away with a clearer sense of everything that happens before an exhibition opens, and the collaboration behind it all.
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Virginia MOCA Art + Design Convening
SATURDAY, JUNE 13 | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM

Join us for this one-day convening inspired by Seamless: Art and Design and the opening of Virginia MOCA’s new home. This full-day conference style gathering brings together artists, designers, architects, and creative practitioners for featured conversations, concurrent breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect, exchange ideas, and celebrate local creative work, exploring how creative disciplines can share ideas and solve problems together.

Meet Seamless: Art and Design exhibiting artist Jordan Bruner during her residency at Virginia MOCA! This Thursday throu...
05/27/2026

Meet Seamless: Art and Design exhibiting artist Jordan Bruner during her residency at Virginia MOCA!

This Thursday through Sunday, Bruner will take over a mobile studio in the atrium, creating new work in conversation with the fabulous animations that are on view in the exhibition. Stop by while she’s in town to say hi and see what she’s working on!

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jordan Bruner is an artist and filmmaker whose work spans painting, printmaking, ceramics, and animation. She received her BFA in kinetic imaging from VCU before moving to New York to pursue a career in animation.

Her work has appeared at CADAF Miami and in installations commissioned by the MTA Arts & Design program in New York City. Her animated films have screened internationally, including at Pictoplasma and the LA Film Festival. She has collaborated with clients such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Warby Parker, and Eve Ensler, and received the Art Directors Club Young Guns Award in 2013.

Bruner returned to Richmond, Virginia in 2019, where she continues her studio practice.

Just checked the forecast and it's giving a 100% chance of "wait this place is actually so cool." Come spend your rainy ...
05/22/2026

Just checked the forecast and it's giving a 100% chance of "wait this place is actually so cool."

Come spend your rainy weekend at the new Virginia MOCA. Open Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine.

Ron Thompson, principal and creative director at Italic Studio is leading a breakout session at the Virginia MOCA Art + ...
05/22/2026

Ron Thompson, principal and creative director at Italic Studio is leading a breakout session at the Virginia MOCA Art + Design Convening exploring the process of bringing a complete identity system to life across architecture, graphic design, illustration, and signage, using a major real-world client as the anchor.

ITAL/C is a design studio founded by like-minded designers with a shared visual aesthetic and values for a more collaborative and streamlined process. ITAL/C values design first and foremost, but their services and capabilities extend beyond most traditional studio labels. The studio specializes in building brands from the ground up and in leading established brands in new directions.

Select clients include: Teach for America, Warby Parker, Ten Thousand, Marriott, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Headspace, and many more.

Two legends, one conversation. Only at the Virginia MOCA Art + Design Convening on June 13. Get your tickets now! In FRO...
05/21/2026

Two legends, one conversation. Only at the Virginia MOCA Art + Design Convening on June 13. Get your tickets now!

In FROM THE STREETS TO THE STUDIO, Virginia MOCA Senior Curator Heather Hakimzadeh leads a conversation with world-renowned artists and designers Andy Howell and Eric Haze about what it actually looks like to build a creative career that refuses to stay in one lane.

ANDY HOWELL, Virginia Beach native and co-founder of New Deal Skateboards, helped define the visual language of street skating before going on to create work for McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, and the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series.

ERIC HAZE shaped the visual identity of hip-hop’s golden era, designing iconic logos and album art for the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy.

Both exhibiting artists in Seamless: Art and Design, they’ve have spent decades working across disciplines and industries.
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Virginia MOCA Art + Design Convening
SATURDAY, JUNE 13 | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM

Join us for this one-day convening inspired by Seamless: Art and Design and the opening of Virginia MOCA’s new home. This full-day conference style gathering brings together artists, designers, architects, and creative practitioners for featured conversations, concurrent breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect, exchange ideas, and celebrate local creative work, exploring how creative disciplines can share ideas and solve problems together.

Join us for opening reception of Suzanne Stevens: Retrospective this Saturday in the ViBe Creative District. Free and op...
05/20/2026

Join us for opening reception of Suzanne Stevens: Retrospective this Saturday in the ViBe Creative District. Free and open to the public.

Virginia MOCA is proud to present a retrospective exhibition honoring artist and educator Suzanne Stevens and celebratin...
05/20/2026

Virginia MOCA is proud to present a retrospective exhibition honoring artist and educator Suzanne Stevens and celebrating more than 45 years of her teaching and creative impact at the Museum.

The exhibition highlights the evolution of Stevens’ practice while underscoring the emotional sensitivity and technical skill that define her work. Through luminous landscapes, intimate portraits, and studies of the natural world, the exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to experience the depth and range of an artist whose work has inspired audiences and students alike for decades

Join us to celebrate Suzanne Stevens this Saturday at our Satellite Gallery in the ViBe Creative District! 💐 The event is free and open to the public.

On view:
May 23–October 11, 2026

Opening reception:
Saturday, May 23,
11:00 AM–1:00 PM
📍 Virginia MOCA Satellite Gallery at Towne Pavlion II, 600 22nd Street, Virginia Beach

Life lately. 🫶 The first 30 days at the new Virginia MOCA went a little something like this. Thanks for being here with ...
05/19/2026

Life lately. 🫶

The first 30 days at the new Virginia MOCA went a little something like this. Thanks for being here with us. We feel right at home in our new museum, and hope you do, too.

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5811 Wesleyan Drive
Virginia Beach, VA
23455

Opening Hours

Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

(757) 425-0000

Website

http://www.virginiamoca.org/

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