Gifts to the MOCA Fund for Education directly support a dynamic ecosystem of award-winning programs, including:

• Contemporary Art Start (CAS): MOCA’s flagship classroom partnership for grades 3–12, 130 teachers serving 5,000 students across Los Angeles County.
• MOCA Teens: year-long, paid internships that provide creative experiences and museum training for a select cohort of high school juniors and seniors.
• Family Programs: engaging more than 50,000 local families each year through creative spaces designed for kids, bilingual gallery and activity guides, and Sunday Studio events.
• Talking Tours: educator-led, conversation-based exhibition tours that invite questions, shared looking, and deeper engagement with the art on view.

Individuals, foundations, and corporations are invited to support the MOCA Fund for Education with a gift of any size in support of MOCA’s education programs. Public donor recognition begins at gifts of $5,000.

For more information about becoming a MOCA Fund for Education donor, please contact [email protected].

MOCA’s education programs are made possible by generous endowment support from the W. M. Keck Foundation and The Hearst Foundations.

Education programs at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Education with lead funding provided by Terri and Michael Smooke. Major funding is provided by the MOCA Projects Council. Generous funding is provided by an anonymous donor. Additional funding is provided by Kristen Boggs Jaeger and Jeff Jaeger, The David and Linda Shaheen Foundation, Berry Stein, and Daryl and Robert Offer.

Photo by Sean MacGilivray.