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Cloudnova Class 2022

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In the second year of our collaboration with On, we’re highlighting educators, visual artists, and musicians with deep roots at MoMA PS1. The Cloud Novaclass represents the inherent connection between movement, art, and innovative ideas. Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Damani Pompey, jackie sumell, and L'Rain make up this year’s cohort of creators who bring people together through movement.

Get to know these artists in a series of videos exploring how each finds inspiration through engaging the body, the landscape, and their communities.

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Gabriel Gomez

Damani Pompey

A Brooklyn-native, Damani Pompey is an interdisciplinary artist who works as a movement artist and educator, freelance lighting designer, and choreographer. He has become part of the MoMA PS1 community through his Movement, Motion & Meaning classes offered as part of the On&On movement series.

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Gabriel Gomez
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Gabriel Gomez
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Gabriel Gomez

jackie sumell

jackie sumell is a multidisciplinary artist and abolitionist, working at the intersection of activism, education, mindfulness practices, and ecology for nearly two decades. jackie is a frequent collaborator with MoMA PS1—this summer, she facilitated the installation Growing Abolition in our Courtyard, which investigated the connections between plants, abolition, and healing, and this fall, she activates our Homeroom space alongside youth from the Lower Eastside Girls Club.

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Gabriel Gomez
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Gabriel Gomez
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Gabriel Gomez

L'Rain

Taja Cheek, known professionally as L'Rain, is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and curator known primarily as the lead vocalist and songwriter of her eponymous band. L’Rain has been a part of the MoMA PS1 family for years: she was formerly an Assistant Curator at the museum, where she organized performance programs including Warm Up and Sunday Sessions.

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Gabriel Gomez

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger is a Mexican artist whose first solo exhibition, Autonomous Drive is currently on view at MoMA PS1 through March 13, 2023. Her large-scale, hinged paintings propose a futurity of queer freedom, pleasure, and connection to nature.