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Learn

MOCA is committed to animating and interpreting our exhibitions through workshops, tours, and programmes. Our Learning team is made up of artists and educators who strive to ensure contemporary art is fun, engaging and accessible. We welcome you to join us to learn and create!

Community

Learn more about all of our community offerings designed with the community in mind. These programmes are low-cost or free and welcome visitors of all ages. MOCA Learning offers a range of workshops, drop-in tours and events that bring people together to ask questions, discuss and make something new.

Teachers and Educators

Visit MOCA with your class and discover contemporary art! Learn, discuss, and engage with either guided or self-guided tours, or book a studio session for a hands-on art-making experience. Our educational programs introduce students to viewing and discussing art, encouraging questions and conversations. MOCA’s exhibitions change twice a year, offering educators the unique opportunity to explore new tours each semester.

MOCA’s educational visits are designed for elementary, secondary, and post-secondary students as well as for community groups.

Youth Council

MOCA’s Youth Council provides young artistic professionals the opportunity to learn, build skills, and create events for their peers. This programme runs each fall and spring semester, and welcomes teens aged 15-19 into the museum. MOCA’s Creative Youth fosters the next generation of creatives, educators and leaders.

This Month's Learning Activity

TD Community Sunday: Experimenting with Oozing Oobleck

With Germaine Liu, Christopher Willes
May 2, 2021

Art Cart

MOCA’s Art Cart launches on Saturday, October 16 on a monthly basis!

For the first Art Cart, you can participate in a range of activity prompts to engage with artworks from the GTA21 exhibition located on the ground floor, always free to the public, from 12 pm to 4 pm. The prompts are suitable for all ages.

Be sure to check back to see when Art Cart takes place in November.

I Spy at MOCA

See the museum in a whole new way with this I Spy activity. Throughout your visit to MOCA, try and find all of these things, checking them off as you go. 

The search will take you all over—and even outside—the museum.

Learning at Home

An ongoing collection of hands-on art activities, which can be enjoyed from home or school. Suitable for all ages.

TD Community Sunday: Night Walk Reading and Workshop by Illustrator Ellie Arscott
TD Community Sunday: Relief Printmaking with Alexa Hatanaka
TD Community Sunday: Cities Within – A Mandala Workshop with Sheniz Janmohamed
TD Community Sunday: Pasta Making with Jess Maiorano from Pasta Forever
TD Community Sunday: Little Islands with Emmie Tsumura
TD Community Sunday: Experimenting with Oozing Oobleck

Did you know…?

MOCA’s home at 158 Sterling Road is a heritage building! It’s official name is the Tower Automotive Building. Can you guess what this building used to be before it was converted into a museum?

When it was built in 1919, the Tower Automotive Building was one of the tallest buildings in Toronto.  What do you think is the tallest building in Toronto today?