Friends,

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers as we attempt to recover artifacts from the fire that has devastated MOCA’s archives at 70 Mulberry Street.

For 40 years, MOCA has preserved and protected 85,000 artifacts. Those artifacts are now in jeopardy.

In response to your overwhelming support and inquiries as to how you can help, we welcome your support as we anticipate a long road ahead.

On 1/29/2020, we kicked off the first stage of the recovery effort and retrieved at least 100 boxes from our archives with artifacts that appear salvageable but these are a fraction of the entire collection.

On 1/31/2020, the second stage of retrieval and recovery began. Initial assessment is 80% of what we retrieved is wet but appears salvageable. 3D paper sculptures from our Fly to Freedom collection of paper sculptures created by survivors of the Golden Venture were retrieved. Condition unknown. The sculptures were exhibited in 2017 in MOCA's exhibition FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures.

MOCA now understands more fully the extraordinary expense and work to repair, recover, and rebuild its Collections and Archives. We're indebted to Comrise who will generously match dollar for dollar all funds raised for MOCA Archives Fire Recovery via GoFundMe. Thank you!





- The MOCA Team

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Thank you to all those who have offered to volunteer their expertise, services, time or manpower. To volunteer for the recovery effort, please email us at firerecovery@mocanyc.org . We continue to compile a list of volunteers and resources for recovery. Once we assess the condition of our archives, we will better know what our immediate needs are and will reach out.

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These are the other organizations affected by the fire at 70 Mulberry Street. Please contact them directly to see how you can help.

Chen Dance Center

Chinatown Manpower Project

Chinatown Senior Center

United East Athletics Association