Join MOCA and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection for a unique, collaborative and limited-time educational programme. The programme builds off of MOCA’s fall exhibitions featuring Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ Diaries After a Flood and the McMichael’s Art2Go Haida Manga Studio, an in-classroom programme.
Booking
Booking with MOCA and the McMichael is done and paid for separately with each institution with additional discounts and special pricing applied. Booking options are listed below.
The full-day programme includes the Art2Go Studio programme at your school in the morning followed by a visit to MOCA in the afternoon. The programme is offered Wednesday – Friday.
Can’t make a full day of it? Not a problem!
Educators who book this Guided Tour + Studio Activity at MOCA Toronto will then receive the same discounted offering of McMichael’s Art2Go Haida Manga Studio programme to make use of at a later date. Booking this programme also provides access to a 15% discount on any McMichael school program to be used within the 2024-2025 school year.
MOCA School Visit
This fall/winter season, book your visit to MOCA in which Art Educators lead your students for a tour and optional studio activity. Participants will have the chance to learn about Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas exhibition Diaries After a Flood, featuring large-scale watercolour paintings, installations and mixed-media artworks. Tours at MOCA are interactive and conversational and run 1 hour long. Recommended for Grades 1–12, offered Wednesdays through Fridays.
Inspired by MOCA’s exhibition Diaries After a Flood, this studio activity will explore the mediums ink and watercolour painting. Students will have the opportunity to illustrate their imaginations and own stories while responding to Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Haida Manga, a mixture of North Pacific Indigenous narratives and frame lines and Japanese cartooning.
McMichael Art2Go Haida Manga Studio
Grades 4-12
Developed in collaboration with Haida artist and author Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, this 2.5 hour studio explores the aesthetic and narrative function of the Haida formline in combination with popular manga cartooning techniques. Using a conceptual frame designed by Yahgulanaas specifically for this project and inspired by his creative process, students will work with watercolours and sharpies to creatively respond to an important moment in their own lives adding their story to this collective storytelling project.
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA)
The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) presents rotating exhibitions that prioritize twenty-first-century artistic production, primarily through commissioning of new work. Artists, partnerships, experimentation, and reciprocal initiatives are at the centre of MOCA’s mission as a locally rooted and internationally connected organization. Focused on core values promoting equity, inclusion, access, courage, and responsibility, MOCA fosters active participation and engagement to serve as a welcoming cultural hub in the hyper-diverse city of Toronto.
Inspired by MOCA’s exhibition Diaries After a Flood, this studio activity will explore the mediums ink and watercolour painting. Students will have the opportunity to illustrate their imaginations and own stories while responding to Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Haida Manga, a mixture of North Pacific Indigenous narratives and frame lines and Japanese cartooning.
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Located on 100 acres of forested land along the Humber River, the McMichael is a major public gallery uniquely devoted to collecting the art of Canada.
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is located on the original lands of the Ojibwe Anishinaabe and Huron-Wendat People. It is uniquely situated along the Carrying Place Trail which historically provided an integral connection for Indigenous people between Ontario’s Lakeshore and the Lake Simcoe-Georgian Bay Region.
The McMichael’s permanent collection consists of over 7,000 artworks by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, their contemporaries, and First Nations, Métis, Inuit and contemporary artists who have contributed to the development of Canadian art.
