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MOCHA Museum Programs include exhibitions, open studios, field trips, art parties, art camps, family and team workshops, and multiple hands-on art learning experiences. Children and youth can work with painting, clay, stop-motion animation, and collage as part of these programs.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 10:00am to 2:00pm
MOCHA Museum Programs take place at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland based studios and gallery. In 1988, co-founders Jill Vialet and Mary Marx committed to bringing arts education programs to East Bay schools and communities. MOCHA uses the arts as a vehicle to advocate for self-expression, culture and community-building, and the centering of youth voices through hands-on experiential arts education for Bay Area children, youth and their families, as well as arts integrated professional development and curriculum for educators.
MOCHA emphasizes outreach to culturally, linguistically and economically diverse populations in communities that do not typically have wide access to the arts. The Library Education Arts Program through Oakland and Berkeley Public Libraries aligns with MOCHA’s mission to provide meaningful arts learning opportunities to children who are at risk academically and/or reside in communities underserved by arts and cultural programming. MOCHA’s presence includes disinvested communities, public and private schools, libraries, and its Oakland based studios and gallery, and it has partnered with numerous arts and educational institutions to develop programs related to literacy, healing, and community empowerment.
MOCHA Museum Programs include curriculum aligned with VAPA state standards, Youth Development & Leadership programs for high school-aged and transitional-aged youth, and Expressive Arts, which introduces students to the nonclinical pathologies and pathways of artistic learning through activism, arts integration, and health and wellness. MOCHA uses inquiry to deepen the learning experience of children and adults to improve teaching practice and to build high quality arts programs. The organization states that its mission has expanded to deliver on the community’s most recent needs, that the arts become a fundamental part of the everyday lives of Bay Area children and youth, their families and the community, that MOCHA kids learn by making art, that it believes all children should have access to quality arts experiences and emphasizes outreach to disinvested communities, and that it believes in working with educators to provide professional development and advocate for integrating arts into learning environments.
Last updated March 29, 2026.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 10:00am to 2:00pm
MOCHA Museum Programs take place at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland based studios and gallery. In 1988, co-founders Jill Vialet and Mary Marx committed to bringing arts education programs to East Bay schools and communities. MOCHA uses the arts as a vehicle to advocate for self-expression, culture and community-building, and the centering of youth voices through hands-on experiential arts education for Bay Area children, youth and their families, as well as arts integrated professional development and curriculum for educators.
MOCHA emphasizes outreach to culturally, linguistically and economically diverse populations in communities that do not typically have wide access to the arts. The Library Education Arts Program through Oakland and Berkeley Public Libraries aligns with MOCHA’s mission to provide meaningful arts learning opportunities to children who are at risk academically and/or reside in communities underserved by arts and cultural programming. MOCHA’s presence includes disinvested communities, public and private schools, libraries, and its Oakland based studios and gallery, and it has partnered with numerous arts and educational institutions to develop programs related to literacy, healing, and community empowerment.
MOCHA Museum Programs include curriculum aligned with VAPA state standards, Youth Development & Leadership programs for high school-aged and transitional-aged youth, and Expressive Arts, which introduces students to the nonclinical pathologies and pathways of artistic learning through activism, arts integration, and health and wellness. MOCHA uses inquiry to deepen the learning experience of children and adults to improve teaching practice and to build high quality arts programs. The organization states that its mission has expanded to deliver on the community’s most recent needs, that the arts become a fundamental part of the everyday lives of Bay Area children and youth, their families and the community, that MOCHA kids learn by making art, that it believes all children should have access to quality arts experiences and emphasizes outreach to disinvested communities, and that it believes in working with educators to provide professional development and advocate for integrating arts into learning environments.
Last updated March 29, 2026.
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