Big Family Day is the museum’s largest all-ages program of the year, a free afternoon of making, observing, and talking about art. Museum visitors are invited to explore artworks in the galleries with MOCA classroom partnership students and make exhibition-related art outside with MOCA artist-educators. The MOCA Educator team collaboratively designed and facilitated the following self-guided art making activities inspired by new works on display from the permanent collection
Photos by Sean MacGillivray, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum visitors are invited to explore MOCA’s permanent collection through the eyes of youth at the culminating celebration of Contemporary Art Start (CAS), MOCA’s yearlong classroom partnership program. Specially trained 4th–12th-grade students lead conversations and hands-on activities that encourage visitors of all ages to look closely and think deeply about the works. The MOCA Educator team wrote scripts and trained students to teach museum visitors about specific artworks on display and guide them in small art-making activities inside the galleries.
Photos by Sean MacGillivray, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
MOCA Family Projects encourages visitors of all ages and ability levels to make art at MOCA and beyond. Museum visitors are invited to unleash their creativity with self-guided art activities that will help them learn more about works of art on display at the museum. The MOCA Educator team collaboratively designed and piloted this self-guided art making station located in the Reading Room at MOCA’s Grand Avenue location. Inspired by Carlos Cruz-Diez’s immersive work Cromosaturación (1965/2012), museum visitors are invited to experiment with color and light using film gels and a Lightbox, then create their own custom color sunglasses.
Photo by Sean MacGillivray, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles