It’s back! Put a spin on a MOCA tradition— help welcome the New Year by making handmade decorations to liven up the Museum. Join teaching artist Yu Rong in transforming our space with colorful creations, which will be on display through our annual Lunar New Year Family Festival!

快来参与MOCA的装饰庆典！请你一起来迎接新年，亲手制作各种装饰，打造一个生机勃勃的华人博物馆。让我们的空间充满你多彩的创意，并将这些作品在春节家庭聚会上展示给大家！

FREE— no RSVP required, simply show up!

We’ll be having double the fun on Saturday, January 14th with a MOCACREATE and a MOCAKIDS Meet & Greet! Also join us for a MOCAKIDS Lunar New Year Meet & Greet with Author Katrina Moore & Illustrator Xindi Yan. Click here for more information!

Yu Rong is a painter and product designer who has exhibited paintings and wine goblet designs in the US, UK, Italy, and the Czech Republic. She was born in Sichuan and currently lives in New York City. Yu is interested in designing products that are fun to use and creating paintings that are natural and true. She is currently a teaching artist at the Hope Garden Center and MOCA, as well as a member of the CREATE Council on the Arts in the Catskills New York and at Ceres gallery, a feminist, not-for-profit, alternative gallery in New York City dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. You can learn more about her here: www.yurong.work!

MOCACREATE is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts under Governor Kathy Hochuls’s Regional Economic Development Council Initiative.