Myopia Mania is coming! Kick off MOCA’s summer season with a free outdoor party and concert – with Mark Mothersbaugh in person – to celebrate the opening of two exhibitions with Ohio roots: Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopiaand Richard Myers: Aberrations.

Myopia was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Joint presentation with the Akron Art Museum.

Meet Mark Mothersbaugh: myope, singer, visual artist, art rock revolutionary, tinkerer, songwriter, polymath, visionary. Born in Akron and best known as co-founder of DEVO, Mothersbaugh has been making raucous art since before the band’s inception, collapsing visual and musical boundaries. A fellow Ohioan, independent filmmaker Richard Myers’ Aberrations includes four dream-like films shot around Cleveland from the 1960s-80s.

SCHEDULE

• 7:00PM OPENING of Summer exhibitions
• 7:30–10PM PARTY + CONCERT on Toby’s Plaza in front of MOCA featuring a band, a performance on Mothersbaugh’s signature 6-sided keyboard, and a DJ set by Mothersbaugh himself.

Six-sided keyboard musicians: Chris Auerbach Brown, Cutty Calhoun, Megan Cox, Rob Kovacs, Peggy Latkovich, and Geoff Peterson.
Myopia Band: Ariel Clayton Karas (Violin), Cynthia Warren (Oboe/English Horn), Jennifer Ellis (harp), Geoff Peterson (keyboard), Joel Negus (double bass), and Mell Csicsila (percussion).
DJ: Mark Mothersbaugh

Sponsors

The free Opening Night Party is made possible by  

Major support for Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia is provided by , the John P. Murphy Foundation, and Clear Choice LASIK Eye.