The Kokoon Arts Club, sometimes spelled Kokoon Arts Klub, was a
Bohemian artists group founded in 1911 by
Carl Moellman,
William Sommer and
Elmer Brubeck to promote
Modernism in
Cleveland,
Ohio.[1][2] Moellman had been a member of
New York City's Kit Kat Club, which served as inspiration for Kokoon. From 1913 to 1946 Kokoon's annual Bal-Masque balls scandalized Cleveland with risqué activities, provocative art, and nudity, and was sometimes humorously referred to as the "Cocaine Club". A fierce rivalry stood between Kokoon and the more conservative
Cleveland Society of Artists.