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One of the strongest natural desires we all have is freedom of expression.

The MOCAH experience offers the often overlooked and under represented classes of our youth a chance to acknowledge themselves through art.
The MOCAH experience provides artists and non-artists alike with the opportunity to discover their own artistic sensibilities through hands-on art experiences that encourage and nurture the creative process.

Participants work alongside professional artists to create our public art projects and programs.
Students and community members involved in the MOCAH experience play a vital role in the reclamation and preservation of their own community.

The infusion of art, history and culture stimulates community pride, stewardship and neighborhood revitalization.
The MOCAH experience places the public in public art by engaging the community in the creation of our art projects. These projects help transform our neighborhoods into cultural and artistic destinations.

The impact that these projects have on the community are long lasting and reach broad and diverse audiences.

African American Cultural and Heritage Facility

April 26th, 2012

Keep Austin Weird is a tagline the City of Austin proudly brags about as they support its artistic community and its citizens, which the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston was only too honored to add more public art to its cultured spaces. The City commissioned President and CEO, Reginald C. Adams, to install a mosaic mural at its newly constructed, African American Cultural and Heritage Facility on East 11^th St, near Interstate 35. Reginald led his team of Studio Artist in mounting this memorial honoring the descendants of William Detrick Hamilton, the civic leaders that helped develop Austin’s east end community, and expressing the future scape of its citizens.

The installation took place the week of November 5, 2012 and parting the project was sweet sorrow but once the MOCAH staff presented the mosaic mural to the City of Austin and its Stakeholders. The tears of joy that some expressed gave the exit journey back to Houston a sense of pride as MOCAH adds yet another lasting legacy of cultural unity.

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