Museum Of Contemporary Art Toronto and McMichael Partnership Programs
Join the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection for a limited-time educational program.
This programming opportunity builds off of MOCA’s fall of exhibition featuring Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ Diaries After a Flood, on view from September 8, 2024 through January 26, 2025, and the McMichael’s Art2Go Haida Manga Studio, a longtime classroom favourite developed in collaboration with Yahgulanaas.
Each institution offers an opportunity for students to engage with Yahgulanaas’ work and provides teachers with the ability to create a holistic learning experience.
Teachers will be able to book the programs separately as two half-day engagement, or as one full-day program.
MOCA School Visit
Grades 1 to 12
Location:
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, 158 Sterling Rd. Toronto, Ontario
Program Length:
45-minute tour, 60-minute artmaking activity (optional)
Fee:
$150, which admits up to 15 students and $10 per additional student thereafter
Capacity:
A maximum of 30 students per day
Dates Offered:
September 8, 2024 – January 26, 2025, Wednesday – Friday
This fall/winter season, book a school visit to MOCA and let professional art educators lead your students on a guided tour and through an optional studio activity. Participants will learn about Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ exhibition Diaries After a Flood, featuring large-scale watercolour paintings, installations, and mixed-media artworks. Each interactive tour runs for approximately one hour.
Recommended for Grades 1–12, offered Wednesdays through Fridays.
Inspired by MOCA’s exhibition Diaries After a Flood, this studio activity will explore ink and watercolour painting. Students will have the opportunity to illustrate their 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 to 12
Location:
Your classroom
Program Length:
2.5 hours
Fee:
$16* with provided discount code
Capacity:
30 students per session
*This promotional pricing will be offered from September 2024 through June 2025, with a booking of the MOCA program. During the MOCA registration you will be given a promotional code to activate this discount.
Developed in collaboration with Haida artist and author Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, this 2.5-hour studio explores the aesthetic and narrative function of the Haida formline in combination with popular manga cartooning techniques. Using a conceptual frame designed by Yahgulanaas for this project, students will work with watercolours and ink pens to creatively respond to an important moment in their lives, adding their story to this collective storytelling project.
Additional Value
Booking this program with the McMichael will grant an additional 15% discount off of any McMichael school program to be used within the 2024-2025 school year.
Combination Full-day Program
This full day of engaging programming includes the Art2Go Haida Manga Studio program in your classroom, followed by a visit to MOCA in the afternoon.
Location:
Your classroom and MOCA, 158 Sterling Rd. Toronto, Ontario
Program Length:
Art2Go: 2.5 hours
MOCA Visit: 45-minute tour, 60-minute artmaking activity
Fee:
Art2Go: 16$ per student with provided discount code
MOCA Visit: $150, which admits up to 15 students and $10 per student thereafter
Capacity:
30 students per day
Offered:
September 8, 2024 – January 26, 2025, Wednesday – Friday
Booking
Bookings with MOCA and the McMichael are completed and paid for separately with each institution. Additional discounts and special pricing will be applied. Booking options are listed below.
To book your MOCA visit, please click the link below:
To book your McMichael Art2Go Haida Manga Studio, please click the Booking Information button below and select MOCA Partnership on the Inquiry Form.
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.