MOC is proud to support:
avery r. young
avery r. young is an interdisciplinary artist, award-winning teaching artist, co-director of arts collective Floating Museum, and Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate.
Brendan Fernandes
Brendan Fernandes is a Canadian contemporary artist who examines issues of cultural displacement, migration, labor, queer subjectivity, and collective agency through interdisciplinary performance that use installation, video, sculpture, and dance.
Faheem Majeed
Faheem Majeed is an artist, educator, curator, community facilitator, and co-founder/co-director of the arts collective Floating Museum.
Floating Museum
Floating Museum is an art collective that creates new models exploring relationships between art, community, architecture and public institutions. Using site-responsive art, design, and programming, they explore the potential in these relationships, considering the infrastructure, history, and aesthetics of a space.
Tonika Lewis Johnson
Tonika Lewis Johnson is a 2025 MacArthur Genius Fellow, 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow, and Chicago-based artist whose work examines segregation and spatial justice through projects such as the Folded Map Project and Inequity For Sale. She is Co-Founder of the Englewood Arts Collective, a collective of artists born and raised in Greater Englewood who use creative interventions as an economic driver for community revitalization on Chicago’s South Side.
Yvette
Mayorga
Yvette Mayorga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work links feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to colonial art history and racialized oppression through the guise of using pink as a weapon of mass destruction. She fuses confectionary labor with found images to explore the meaning of belonging. Mayorga holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.