Est. 2020
Artists Harry Gould Harvey IV and Brittni Ann Harvey grew up native to the South Coast region of Massachusetts. They established their studios in Fall River full time in 2020 after years working and showing both across the United States and abroad. In October of 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for community space was paramount. Both artists felt the need to have their art practices extend beyond the solitude of the studio, and as a result their individual work gave way to the collaborative social practice that is the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (FR MoCA).
The nature of FR MoCA from the beginning of its inception was experimental. The initial exhibition location was on the ground floor of an active textile mill, a setting very relevant to the industrial history and still current manufacturing reality of the city. A positive response from the community and youth of the city and region catalyzed the project to continue and develop.
In October 2023, FR MoCA moved to its permanent location at 44 Troy St. in Fall River. This current space provides the platform for FR MoCA’s exhibitions, supplemental programming, and youth engagement. Always free and open the public.
Mission
The Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art connects the global contemporary art world to the working class community of Fall River, MA through exhibitions, educational outreach and artistic research. FR MoCA views the role of art in society as a crucial social science at the forefront of new ideas. We work to preserve space for the artistic process and its outputs as a means of creating discourse in relation to place and the community, as well as gain new insights into pedagogy, ecology, technology and conflict as they relate to local industrial and lived realities.
Leadership
Brittni Ann Harvey
Co-Founding Director
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Brittni Ann Harvey (b. 1992, RI) is a sculptor and textile-based artist and educator living and working in Fall River, MA. She has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge), NOW: Gallery (Lima), Someday (New York), and Anthony Greaney (Somerville), among others. Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art and holds a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Harry Gould Harvey IV
Co-Founding Director
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Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991) draws inspiration from the ecological fabric of his native South Coast Region, deconstructing the building blocks of empire and illuminating the weight of anonymous labor. Foraging materials from downed trees, destroyed Gilded Age mansions, dilapidated factories, and gutted Gothic churches, Harvey creates mystical and diagrammatic drawings housed inside hand-built wood frames akin to reliquaries and large-scale sculptural installations that evoke lost histories of marginalized artisanship and backbreaking toil in the name of American industry and luxury. Harvey lives and works in Fall River, MA.
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