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By Cate McQuaid Boston Globe Correspondent,Updated October 24, 2024,\u00a011:05 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building a pipeline from Fall River to an art world many find exclusionary and far off is personal for the married couple behind Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

FALL RIVER \u2014 Artists hungry to show their work sometimes open cooperative galleries or alternative spaces.\u00a0Brittni Ann Harvey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Harry Gould Harvey IV<\/a>\u00a0opened a museum. At their\u00a0Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a>, the museum\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0the art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is our social practice,\u201d said Brittni, FR MoCA\u2019s executive director, speaking with the Globe at the museum earlier this month. Traditional museums focus on exhibiting objects. Social practice<\/a> artists craft conceptual art projects that support the community and question old ways of thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An exterior of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art. FR MoCA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re preserving this space for art within the city. We\u2019re providing space for students to find the creative practice of their own,\u201d Brittni said. \u201cWe\u2019re also having discourse around the structures that we\u2019re all within as human beings in society. They\u2019re ever-changing and powerful. How can we be critical thinkers within that and create action?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At FR MoCA, the Harveys, who are married, aim to forge a concourse between the global contemporary art world and their struggling industrial cit\u00ady, which has gone through long cycles of boom and bust<\/a>. And it\u2019s working: They brought FR MoCA<\/a> to Paris for the invitation-only art fair The Salon by NADA & The Community<\/a> for a few days earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Installation view of FR MoCA’s Booth at The Salon by NADA & The Community in Paris earlier this month.Gabriele Abbruzzese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made great contacts with collectors, curators, and people on the boards of prominent organizations who are excited to learn about what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Brittni reported over the phone on their last day there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their booth featured artwork by professionals such as Jake Tobin<\/a> and Henry Hawk<\/a> alongside a denim jacket designed by 17-year-old Fall River resident Johnathan Pinero during a summer course at FR MoCA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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