AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People
MOCA Celebrates the exhibition opening during Miami Art Week
Chana Sheldon, Nelson Stevens, Wadsworth Jarrell, Sherman Beck, Carolyn Mims Lawrence and Jae Jarrell
Clark Reynolds and Bill Fontana
Petra Brennan, Jonelle Demby and Aysha Preston
Kavi Gupta and Kyoko Tamura
Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell and Jeffreen Hayes
Nelson Stevens
Nigel Freeman, Wadsworth Jarrell and Larry Jones
James Cole, Tanya Wilson-Sejour, Gregory Gay and Larry Spring
Artists Napoleon Jones Henderson and Nelson Stevens
Jeffreen Hayes, Chana Sheldon, Patricia Joseph and Mayor Smith Joseph
Dennis Leyva and Clark Reynolds
Napoleon Jones Henderson and Nelson Stevens
Wallis Tinnie, Dinizulu Tinnie and Napoleon Jones Henderson
Gerald Williams
Sam Sheldon, Vanessa Ressler and Gary Ressler
Wadsworth Jarrell
Abbie Lipton and Samantha Mozdzierz
Michael Elliott, Rosie Gordon Wallace, Roy Wallace and Dimmy Herard
Shirley Lehman and William M Lehman
Paul Bazile and Alix Desulme
The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) was packed with supporters and art aficionados for the opening of “AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People.” Guests enjoyed cocktails and canapés and danced under the stars to the sounds of Wendy Pederson and Jim Gasior from New World School of the Arts and a New World School of the Arts Jazz Ensemble followed by DJ Epps. Curator Jeffreen M. Hayes and founding and early members of AFRICOBRA, Sherman Beck, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Carolyn Mims Lawrence, Nelson Stevens and Gerald Williams, were on hand for the celebration, along with MOCA’s new director Chana Budgazad Sheldon. The groundbreaking exhibition commemorates the Chicago-based AFRICOBRA Collective’s 50th anniversary. It will be on view through April 17.