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MoMA Marks the Nation’s 250th Anniversary with a Dynamic Summer Program and Membership to Celebrate Community and Creativity
June – August 2026
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art will mark the nation’s 250th anniversary with a series of summer programs and a free membership for New York State arts educators.
An exhibition on the Museum’s third floor will feature folk art collected by one of MoMA’s three founders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. It will highlight America’s vibrant tradition of vernacular art-making, and the key role that folk art played in MoMA’s early history. A film series focused on immigration and the American dream will reflect on the historically unprecedented movement and mixture of peoples that has inspired creativity in the US. Honoring the American ideal of “one out of many,” a collective art-making project will invite visitors to collaboratively create a work of art that will be hung on the walls of the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium, representing the community of individuals who have come together at the Museum. To encourage creativity among future generations and beyond the walls of MoMA, today the Museum launched a complimentary two-year membership, available to New York State arts educators teaching pre-K through grade 12.
“This mix of programming, and the launch of a new membership intended to inspire arts educators, will underline and explore how vital creativity and community are to our nation, and how they will continue to shape what it can become,” said Christophe Cherix, The David Rockefeller Director, MoMA.
American Folk Art: Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller is made possible by Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III.
Art Educator Membership is made possible by Candace King Weir.
Wish Quilt: An Interactive Activity is made possible by Paula Crown.
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Images
Joseph Pickett. Manchester Valley. 1914-18?. Oil with sand on canvas, 45 1/2 x 60 5/8″ (115.4 x 153.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Attributed to Abraham Huth. Birth Certificate for Nancy Loeffler. Probably Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, c. 1805. Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 12 1/4 x 15 3/16” (31.1 x 38.6 cm). The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Gift of the Museum of Modern Art.
Two Children. c. 1810. Oil on white pine panel, 18 5/8 x 22” (47.3 x 55.9 cm). The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Gift of the Museum of Modern Art.
Decoy: Crow. Probably Detroit, Michigan, 1900. Carved and monochromed Atlantic white cedar, 5 x 13 1/2 x 3 1/4″ (12.3 × 8.2 × 34.9 cm). The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Gift of the Museum of Modern Art.
Elie Nadelman. Woman at the Piano. c. 1917. Wood, stained and painted, 35 1/8 x 23 1/4 x 9″ (89.2 x 59.1 x 22.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Philip L. Goodwin Collection. © Estate of Elie Nadelman
Charles Sheeler. Bucks County Barn. 1932. Oil on board, 23 7/8 x 29 7/8″ (60.6 x 75.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
Weathervane: Snake. Possibly Connecticut, c. 1850. Sheet iron, 8 3/4 × 29 3/4″ (22.2 × 75.6 cm). The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
Edward Hicks. The Peaceable Kingdom. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1832-34. Oil on canvas, 17 1/4 × 23 1/4″ (43.8 × 59.1 cm). The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Gift of David Rockefeller.
Wheat Stack. 1825-1850. Oil on glass, 11 13/16 x 9 1/2” (30 × 24.1 cm). The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Gift of the Museum of Modern Art.