First Fridays: In Gallery: Tiffany E. Barber Tour of MONUMENTS

February’s First Friday programming will include free admission all day, a guest DJ between the hours of 6 and 8pm, along with Talking Tours throughout the day and a special tour by scholar and curator Tiffany E. Barber.

Admission to MONUMENTS is free on the first Friday of every month, with extended opening hours from 11am until 8pm. Though admission is free, tickets are required and capacity is limited. Advance reservations are recommended.

Dr. Tiffany E. Barber is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets, and award-winning documentaries. Her work spans abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, film, and the ethics of representation, focusing on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. Her latest curatorial project, a virtual, multimedia exhibition for Google Arts and Culture, examines the value of Afrofuturism in times of crisis. Dr. Barber is currently Assistant Professor of African American Art at UCLA as well as curator-in-residence at the Delaware Contemporary. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, she was Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware. She has completed fellowships at ArtTable, the Delaware Art Museum, the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, and the Getty Research Institute. Dr. Barber is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize.

The program is presented as part of First Fridays at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, offering special programming and free admission to special exhibitions on the first Friday of every month.