What’s Next for the Momentary?

What’s Next at the Momentary?

Here are just a few of the visual and performing art experiences coming to the Momentary in 2021.

Sarah Cain: In Nature

February 13 - May 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Cain will create a site-responsive exhibition for the Momentary. Sarah Cain: In Nature will include colorful abstract works on canvas, functional floor paintings, sculpture, and a stainedglass window. Known for her brightly colored installations that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, Cain’s work moves over and off the canvas, responding to architecture at large.

ABOVE: Sarah Cain, i touched a cactus flower, 2019. BELOW: Derrick Adams, Keep Your Head Down and Your Eyes Open (detail), 2018.

Derrick Adams: Sanctuary

February 20 - June 6, 2021

From 1936 to 1967, during the Jim Crow era, Black American road-trippers referenced a guidebook, The Negro Motorist Green Book, also known as The Green Book, to identify businesses, including hotels, restaurants, state parks, beauty parlors, and nightclubs, that were nondiscriminatory and welcoming. In Derrick Adams: Sanctuary, this reference material serves as inspiration to reimagine safe destinations for the Black American traveler in an exhibition featuring mixed-media collage and sculpture.

In his continued exploration of Black refuge and leisure, and during a time when uneven law enforcement continues to negatively shape the experiences of Black Americans, Adams also offers a space to reflect on the importance, and at times political act, of having the freedom to go wherever you want.

Derrick Adams: Sanctuary is organized by Dexter Wimberly and Derrick Adams Studio. Derrick Adams: Sanctuary was originally presented at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, from January 25 to August 5, 2018, and was curated with support from MAD’s Curator of Collections Samantha De Tillio.

Diana Al-Hadid: Ash in the Trade Winds

February 27 - June 13, 2021

The Momentary presents a solo exhibition of works by Diana Al-Hadid who utilizes a wide range of materials that explore notions of memory, ruin, progress, and globalism. Diana Al-Hadid: Ash in the Trade Winds will feature several wall panels and sculptures that were created between 2018 and 2020, highlighting recent developments in Al-Hadid’s signature process of layering pigments on to classical and contemporary materials, including bronze, plaster, fiberglass, and polymer gypsum.

All these experiences will be free to the public.

Members: be on the lookout for special members-only events in 2021.

TOP: Diana Al-Hadid, Ash in the Trade Winds, 2020

Live in America Festival

October 13-24, 2021

The Momentary will host the inaugural Live in America Festival, a free, performing arts festival by Austin-based nonprofit organization Fusebox that focuses on diversity and broad US geographical representation through communal programming. The festival will present more than 300 artists from eight distinct communities across the US, its territories, and Mexico by way of 30 events that will take place over the course of two weeks at the Momentary. Bringing together a rich landscape of performances that illuminate vivid lands, peoples, and cultural traditions, the Live in America Festival will challenge who we are as a country and create a deeper sense of the connections between us. Performance, dance, music, song, food, rituals, and traditions will be shared by artists across multiple performance sites.

Live in America is supported by the Walton Family Foundation.