For the first time, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, invites audiences to experience its South Florida Cultural Consortium exhibition through artist-led group tours, offered on select dates and times each month. These intimate walkthroughs pair participating artists with curators, offering visitors a deeper, more personal understanding of the work on view. Grounded in dialogue and firsthand perspective, each tour opens new pathways into the exhibition, shaped by the artists’ own insights, processes, and lived connections to the work.
Born in 1985 in Mountain View, NC, Jen Clay earned a BFA from UNCC Charlotte and an MFA from UFL in 2014. Clay produces fiber-focused installations, performances, and artist books, often incorporating sewn messages, tactile textures, and immersive environments. Clay’s sewn textiles depict non-human figures inspired by cosmic horror and hallucinatory experiences, exploring mental health through approachable, tactile works. Jen has exhibited work in the Norton Museum of Art, MOCA North Miami, and Miami Light Box. Notable installations include Soft Sanity (2019) and Welcome to You&Me (2019), designed for neurodiverse audiences and a quilt-composed video game and installation at Locust Projects (2023), supported by a Knight Arts New Work Award. Their interactive quilt Soft Night, Watching is currently on view at the Ackland Art Museum through June 2026. Jen Clay is based in South Florida and represented by Baker-Hall Gallery.