Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
School and Youth Communities programming engages educators and students in the investigation and creation of vibrant learning environments. Through contemporary art, agency, and advocacy, youth alongside artists, and teachers partner with the MCA to develop, design, and ignite pathways to positive social change.
MCA Learning provides teacher professional development in 3 specific ways.
- All are specific to a reference contemporary visual art at the core.
- All offerings are in-person at the MCA.
- Instructional approaches are a combination of presentation and workshop components.
Our Teacher Institute is the museum’s most immersive professional development program where exceptional K-12 teachers come together for one year to explore what it means to critically engage students with the art and ideas of our time.
Educator Workshops are our quarterly professional development drop-in series curated to address the whole of Chicagoland educators. Providing timely high value resources to ideate and create engaging curriculum and foster responsive youth and personal development in the classroom.
We additionally are focused on sharing resources and providing workshops led by artists, cultural leaders, activists, and wellness practitioners that give teachers toolkits to manage their personal development, mental health, and capacity.
The Learning Series are one day intensive professional development opportunities that connect teachers to artists, educators and arts leaders working within Chicago’s cultural landscape. These events are built to support trends in education, responsively address skill and interest gaps by providing access to content professionals, as well as major themes from the MCA’s exhibitions.
Educator Workshop | Care Practices through Artistic Lineages, Part 1
8/10/24 10a to 12n 2hrs MCA Commons
This is the first event of a two-part workshop series. This workshop helps participants learn how they can connect with care practices through their artistic lineages. Participants are invited to research creative traditions from personal, family, and political histories to discuss how these practices can relate to care and wellbeing. Participants learn strategies to create art that is inspired by remembering these stories.
This workshop affirms the leadership of BIPOC, queer, disabled communities who preserve their legacies of care work through art. Leah Ra’chel Gipson is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar who facilitates hyperlocal community projects.
Her work explores race and gender through family history, popular media, and archives using image, sound, textile, and installation. For educators but open to all.
Educator Workshop | Care Practices through Artistic Lineages, Part 1
8/10/24 10a to 12n 2hrs MCA Commons
This is the first event of a two-part workshop series. This workshop helps participants learn how they can connect with care practices through their artistic lineages. Participants are invited to research creative traditions from personal, family, and political histories to discuss how these practices can relate to care and wellbeing. Participants learn strategies to create art that is inspired by remembering these stories.
This workshop affirms the leadership of BIPOC, queer, disabled communities who preserve their legacies of care work through art. Leah Ra’chel Gipson is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar who facilitates hyperlocal community projects.
Her work explores race and gender through family history, popular media, and archives using image, sound, textile, and installation. For educators but open to all.
Educator Workshop | Care Practices through Artistic Lineages, Part 2
9/21/24 10a to 12n 2hrs MCA Commons
This is the second event of a two-part workshop series. This workshop helps participants learn how they can connect with care practices through their artistic lineages. Participants are invited to research creative traditions from personal, family, and political histories to discuss how these practices can relate to care and wellbeing.
Participants learn strategies to create art that is inspired by remembering these stories. This workshop affirms the leadership of BIPOC, queer, disabled communities who preserve their legacies of care work through art. Leah Ra’chel Gipson is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar who facilitates hyperlocal community projects.
Her work explores race and gender through family history, popular media, and archives using image, sound, textile, and installation. For educators but open to all.
Learning Series | The Creative Classroom and Post-Quarantine Gaps, Part 1
10/5/24 10a to 12n 2hrs MCA Crown Family Room
The realities of the past four years have greatly shifted the educational landscape. Curriculum shifts, teacher shortages, and student social-emotional development gaps have all widened post lockdown.
During this two-part series, Dr. E’Toyare Williams and an arts education collaborator introduce teachers to the Adverse Childhood Experience theory and assist in finding new strategies to better understand and serve students in today’s climate.
This workshop shop plans to align with themes found in the exhibition Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence.
Dr. E’Toyare Williams
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