Outreach Support /
WOMEN ON THE RISE!
This innovative program provides training in art history, creative writing, reading, and art to at-risk teen girls at centers for alternative education in Miami-Dade County. After studying the lives and work of important female artists, students are encouraged to develop a critical understanding of art by creating their own works and writings to boost their self-esteem and cultural pride. Students will also work with female artists in the community and experiment with a variety of media to make self-portraits and images that tell the stories of their lives. This program includes field trips to MOCA exhibitions and meet with female arts professionals.
MOCA ART CORPS
MOCA's new outreach program serves teen and young adult males by exposing them to contemporary art and encouraging them to use self-expression as a tool for better communication and empowerment. Modeled after MOCA's successful Women on the Rise! program, Art Corps utilizes readings, visual presentations of artists' work, language-building discussions and hands-on activities that realte to artwork . Partners include Homestead Jobs Corps Center, Miami Job Corps Center, and The Village Residential Treatment Center.
HeART to HeART
MOCA works closely with mentally and physically disabled children, youth, and adults throughout the community through partnerships with Jewish Community Services (JCS) of North Miami, North Miami Beach Senior High School's Project FIT: Friends in Training program, and Miami-Dade County Public Schools ESE program (for children with special needs). HeART to HeART is a unique, year-round program consisting of weekly and bi-weekly 90-minute workshops that comprise of a tour of MOCA exhibitions and related hands-on art project designed to increase participant's social cognitive and motor skills. MOCA is the only south Florida museum that has an ESE educator provided by the public school systems, who designs and leads tours of the museum’s exhibitions and arranges transportation for all available special needs school children in the Miami-Dade County public school system. This is part of the Art Treks program supported by the visual arts department of the MDCPS Division of Life Skills.