Moca museum opening hours5/16/2023 This article was originally published on August 16, 2022. With reporting from The Associated Press. “We deserve as much support from the museum as the artists do.” “They have made it seem as though there needs to be a choice made between supporting programming and the artists, and supporting workers, which I think is a very unfair comparison to be making,when the workers are the people who are helping to create the art, interpret it and present it,” Elliott said. In a social media post, the union asked people planning to visit the museum on Friday not to cross the picket line and to reschedule their visits. “For economic and budgetary reasons, the museum cannot commit to a guarantee of substantial multi-year wage increases at this time,” Wright said. The museum is offering a $16 per hour minimum with no guaranteed increases in 20, the union said. The union wants a minimum hourly rate of $18 in the contract’s first year and raises over the next two years bringing that to about $20 per hour. Two-thirds of unionized workers at the museum make less than $15.50 per hour, according to the union. The museum will remain open during the one-day strike, with managers filling in at key posts, a spokesperson said. The workers, citing low pay and job insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic, formed the union early last year, joining the staff of other renowned museums who have unionized, including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The union, affiliated with the United Auto Workers Local 2110, represents about 100 full- and part-time workers, including curators, educators, administrative staff, visitors services, custodial and other workers. “Considering the creativity and care MASS MoCA leadership has put into developing proposals that are innovative, equitable, and address the root causes of employees’ concerns-whether they’re represented by the union or not-this characterization is not only disappointing, it's incorrect.” “By saying MASS MoCA is bargaining in bad faith, the union is saying that MASS MoCA is intentionally and knowingly sabotaging the legal bargaining process,” museum spokesperson Jenny Wright said in an email. She described the museum’s bargaining tactics as “antagonistic.” School tours, corporate tours, and other group tours will continue by appointment throughout the week. “We've been in negotiations now for almost a year and we decided to go on strike because of a lack of progress at the table and the museum's failure to bargain in good faith,” Maro Elliott, the museum's manager of institutional giving and a member of the union’s bargaining committee, said in an interview. Hours at 215 Centre Street Beginning on October 27, 2022, MOCA will welcome the general public only on Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM ET and two hours before any in-person programming. Friday, according to a statement released Monday. The MASS MoCA workers have scheduled a strike and picket outside the museum from 8 a.m. Unionized workers at North Adams' Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, frustrated with the progress of contract negotiations, have authorized a one-day strike for later this week. On display for the first time together anywhere in this part of the country are “Narcissus Garden” - an expansive room of bowling ball-size reflective steel orbs - and “Where the Lights in My Heart Go”- a walk-in multireflective cube spotted with seemingly infinite light.īoth pieces are on loan from Westporters Derek and Lauren Goodman.MASS MoCA, in the city of North Adams. The opening corresponded with the exhibit of two renowned installations by artist Yayoi Kusama. The organization is 100 percent privately funded. “Now we can run multiple programs in multiple rooms at the same time,” she said. “We have quadrupled our size, which was really the point,” Innes said, noting while the previous space on Riverside Avenue was beautiful, “It was almost like trying to do all that programming in a one-room schoolhouse.” The 1926 building, which was part Martha Stewart’s former studio, was over a year in renovation - part of a six-acre parcel that allows the rejuvenated organization to comfortably house exhibits and offering education classes and events.
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