MOCHA Museum Programs
Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA), 1221 Broadway, LL-49, Oakland, CA 94612
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MOCHA Museum Programs include exhibitions, open studios, field trips, art parties, art camps, and family or team workshops. Children and youth work with hands-on art activities such as painting, clay, stop-motion animation, and collage.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Tuesday–Friday and 1st and 3rd Saturdays, generally 10:00am to 2:00pm
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, including children who are at risk academically and/or live in communities underserved by arts and cultural programming. MOCHA’s Library Education Arts Program through Oakland and Berkeley Public Libraries offers weekly engaging free art projects at local participating libraries and aligns with this mission. MOCHA’s presence is described in disinvested communities, in public and private schools, in libraries, and at 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.
Last updated June 28, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Tuesday–Friday and 1st and 3rd Saturdays, generally 10:00am to 2:00pm
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, including children who are at risk academically and/or live in communities underserved by arts and cultural programming. MOCHA’s Library Education Arts Program through Oakland and Berkeley Public Libraries offers weekly engaging free art projects at local participating libraries and aligns with this mission. MOCHA’s presence is described in disinvested communities, in public and private schools, in libraries, and at 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.
Last updated June 28, 2026.
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