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Museum Of Contemporary Visual Art ✨ The First Art Museum in Northern DFW Metroplex
🎨 Exhibiting Masters — Past & Present
🌱 Nurturing Emerging Artists
📚 Celebrating Child Art & Illustrators

Founded in February of 2015,
​ our parent foundation has embarked on a twofold mission:
1. Honor the works of today’s master visual artists, whose vision and technique can transform our lives as we re-experience our world through their eyes.
2. Celebrate the works of the great children’s book illustrators and the reasons behind their techniques and dig deeper into the world of Child Art and children’s perception of their environment. To accomplish this purpose, we are establishing
the Museum of Contemporary Visual Art
​& Collections of Child Art.

INFINITE MINDSArt ExhibitionA celebration of neurodivergent creativity and expression.MOCVA is proud to present Infinite...
10/04/2026

INFINITE MINDS
Art Exhibition

A celebration of neurodivergent creativity and expression.

MOCVA is proud to present Infinite Minds, an exhibition featuring the work of talented neurodivergent artists and celebrating creativity in all its forms.

Featured Artists:
Abigail Langton
Bryce Carroll
Amanda Skluzacek
Trinity Hughes
Emily Luzier
Bryan Vinh Tiger Nguyen
Athena Brent
Leah Castanon
Matthew Azevedo

Exhibition Dates:
October 6 – November 7, 2026

Artists’ Reception:
October 17, 2026
4:00–6:00 PM

MOCVA
1201 E. 15th St., Suite 304
Plano, TX 75074
www.mocva.org

In partnership with All My Friends and with support from the City of Plano.

Art belongs to everyone. The museum belongs to everyone.

Give Us Rest with Your PeaceThis work grew out of my experience as a refugee in the Netherlands. In 2001, my family and ...
09/15/2026

Give Us Rest with Your Peace

This work grew out of my experience as a refugee in the Netherlands. In 2001, my family and I entered the refugee system and lived for about four years at the historic Isabellakazerne in Vught, near Kamp Vught. The former military barracks had housed soldiers during World War II and was later used to accommodate refugees.

Many people there spent long periods waiting, unable to work and living with uncertainty, isolation, and emotional strain. Life often felt suspended, with no clear sense of what the future would bring.

In this sculpture, the figures appear worn, hollow, and almost emptied, yet they continue to hold and support one another. For me, this connection represents the trust that can grow between people during difficult times.

Even when circumstances do not change, trusting someone beside us can bring a sense of safety and peace.

Peace does not always come when hardship ends. Sometimes it comes through the trust we place in one another.

When You Took My Life,You Didn’t Know That I Could FlyI created this work after the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan in Tehra...
09/15/2026

When You Took My Life,
You Didn’t Know That I Could Fly

I created this work after the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan in Tehran, on June 20, 2009. Her death, and the images that circulated of the final moments of her life, deeply affected me.

In the image that stayed in my mind from that day, the blood on the ground seemed to take the shape of a bird. That image became the starting point for this sculpture.

The bird rising at the top of the work represents, for me, a spirit separating from the body and becoming impossible to stop. A person may take another person’s life, but they cannot erase the memory, presence, and impact that person leaves behind in the world.

For me, this bird carries both grief and freedom. It is a reminder that even after violence and death, something of a person can continue to fly.

Soheyla Rashidyan
Stoneware, 2009
H 14” × W 17” × D 9”
On View at MOCVA | Museum of Contemporary Visual Art

The Hand MillSoheyla Rashidyan, 2015Stoneware with Iron Oxide11 × 10 × 11 in.Inspired by traditional Iranian hand mills,...
09/13/2026

The Hand Mill
Soheyla Rashidyan, 2015
Stoneware with Iron Oxide
11 × 10 × 11 in.

Inspired by traditional Iranian hand mills, this work recalls a simple domestic tool once used to grind grains and other foods. Ingredients were placed on a concave stone surface, while a smaller handstone was moved back and forth to crush and grind them.

Grinding stones have a long history in Iran, with archaeological examples reaching back to the Neolithic period. In northern Iran, including Gilan, hand mills also became part of everyday food preparation, particularly for making rice flour.

On view at MOCVA | Museum of Contemporary Visual Art

Rhyton in the Shape of a BirdSoheyla RashidyanInspired by the long tradition of rhyta and zoomorphic vessels in ancient ...
09/13/2026

Rhyton in the Shape of a Bird
Soheyla Rashidyan

Inspired by the long tradition of rhyta and zoomorphic vessels in ancient Iran, this work reimagines a form in which vessel and sculpture become one.

Rhyta were vessels often made with two openings, one for filling and another for pouring or drinking. Many took the form of animals, birds, or mythical creatures.

Bird-shaped ceramic rhyta dating to the early first millennium BCE are known from northern and northwestern Iran. The Metropolitan Museum of Art also holds an example titled Rhyton in the Shape of a Bird from the same period and region, featuring a bird-like body, incised decoration, and a pouring spout.

The exact use of these vessels is not always clear, though some may have been used in special or ritual contexts. This work is not a historical replica, but a contemporary interpretation of that ancient tradition.

Year: 2016
Medium: Stoneware (terracotta)
Dimensions: Approx. H. 4.5 × W. 8.5 × D. 5 in

On View at MOCVA | Museum of Contemporary Visual Art

EarthsongIn this work, the earth is more than soil and matter; it is a living presence with its own sound, movement, and...
09/13/2026

Earthsong

In this work, the earth is more than soil and matter; it is a living presence with its own sound, movement, and memory.

The twisting forms, birds, and openings that resemble musical instruments or horns suggest a hidden music flowing through nature.

Earthsong explores the inner connection between human beings and the natural world; a place where, if we pause and truly listen, we can feel the rhythm of life in silence, in the wind, and in the breath of the earth.

Medium: Stoneware with Iron and Copper Oxides
Dimensions: H. 13 × W. 11 × D. 9 in
Artist: Soheyla Rashidyan

On view at MOCVA | Museum of Contemporary Visual Art

Vision Dream, 2022Sometimes, when life feels uncertain, imagination gives us another place to go.Not to escape reality, ...
09/13/2026

Vision Dream, 2022

Sometimes, when life feels uncertain, imagination gives us another place to go.
Not to escape reality, but to keep hope alive and to imagine what might still be possible.

This sculpture is about that moment when emptiness begins to turn into a new vision.

Stoneware with bronze and copper oxide
Soheyla Rashidyan

This series is inspired by the long tradition of zoomorphic, or animal-form, vessels in Iran, a tradition that reaches b...
09/13/2026

This series is inspired by the long tradition of zoomorphic, or animal-form, vessels in Iran, a tradition that reaches back thousands of years and continued through many historical periods. Some of the most distinctive examples, especially animal-shaped ewers, became highly developed during the Seljuk period and in important ceramic centers such as Kashan.

In these works, I reinterpret that ancient idea in my own visual language, allowing an ordinary vessel to gradually take on character, movement, and the presence of a living creature.

LukeLuke was once a wooden chair, about 150 years old, a chair that generations had sat on. Over the years, whenever it ...
09/05/2026

Luke

Luke was once a wooden chair, about 150 years old, a chair that generations had sat on. Over the years, whenever it broke, someone chose to preserve it, with a nail, a piece of wood, a patch. No one simply threw it away. That persistence, and the simple effort to preserve something ordinary, became the inspiration for Luke.

In this work, none of the marks of time have been hidden. The scratches, repairs, and traces of the years are all still there. What was once an old chair has now become a character.

The radio, suitcase, and books stay with him, not simply as objects, but as memory. The suitcase represents a readiness to leave, not out of necessity, but out of a desire to see, discover, and experience. The radio carries the sound of the past, and the books represent what he has learned and what still remains unfinished.

The rooster and hen are signs of the tomorrow that always comes. Each morning, before sunrise, their voices remind us that life is beginning again. Together, the suitcase, the radio, the rooster, and the hen complete the story: the past is with us, tomorrow is calling, and we are always ready to move forward.

Luke’s story is not simply about an object or a sculpture. It is about the value of preserving what remains. Every mark from the past has value because it has become part of what we are. Luke reminds us that life does not always begin again from nothing; sometimes it takes shape by bringing together pieces that, on their own, might have been the end of a story.

UPDATED POSTER ✨Museum of Contemporary Visual Art (MOCVA) presentsINFINITE MINDS ART EXHIBITIONA Celebration of Neurodiv...
09/04/2026

UPDATED POSTER ✨

Museum of Contemporary Visual Art (MOCVA) presents

INFINITE MINDS ART EXHIBITION
A Celebration of Neurodivergent Creativity & Expression

📅 Exhibition Dates:
October 6 (Tue) – November 7 (Sat), 2026

🎉 Artists’ Reception:
October 17, 2026
4:00–6:00 PM

📍 Museum of Contemporary Visual Art (MOCVA)
1201 E. 15th St., Suite 304
Plano, TX 75074

🌐 www.mocva.org

Sponsored by All My Friends, LLC, with support from the City of Plano.

We look forward to welcoming you to Infinite Minds, a celebration of neurodivergent creativity, imagination, and expression.

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