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Museum of Children’s Art Programs offers exhibitions, open studios, field trips, art parties, art camps, and family or team workshops. Children and youth can work with painting, clay, stop-motion animation, and collage as part of these hands-on activities.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Tuesday–Friday and 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10:00am to 2:00pm
The Museum of Children’s Art Programs were founded in 1988, when co-founders Jill Vialet and Mary Marx committed to bringing arts education programs to East Bay schools and communities. The organization’s mission states that it uses the arts as a vehicle to advocate for self-expression, culture, community-building, and the centering of youth voices through hands-on experiential arts education for Bay Area children, youth, their families, and arts-integrated professional development and curriculum for educators. Its programs include weekly free art projects at participating libraries through the Library Education Arts Program in Oakland and Berkeley Public Libraries, museum programs that engage all ages, youth development and leadership programs for high school-aged and transitional-aged youth, and an Expressive Arts program that introduces students to nonclinical pathologies and pathways of artistic learning through activism, arts integration, and health and wellness, using Social Emotional Learning, the Community Resilience Model, and Making Learning Visible. MOCHA’s presence extends into disinvested communities, public and private schools, libraries, and its Oakland-based studios and gallery, with an emphasis on outreach to culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse populations in communities that do not typically have wide access to the arts, including children at risk academically and those in communities underserved by arts and cultural programming.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: Tuesday–Friday and 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10:00am to 2:00pm
The Museum of Children’s Art Programs were founded in 1988, when co-founders Jill Vialet and Mary Marx committed to bringing arts education programs to East Bay schools and communities. The organization’s mission states that it uses the arts as a vehicle to advocate for self-expression, culture, community-building, and the centering of youth voices through hands-on experiential arts education for Bay Area children, youth, their families, and arts-integrated professional development and curriculum for educators. Its programs include weekly free art projects at participating libraries through the Library Education Arts Program in Oakland and Berkeley Public Libraries, museum programs that engage all ages, youth development and leadership programs for high school-aged and transitional-aged youth, and an Expressive Arts program that introduces students to nonclinical pathologies and pathways of artistic learning through activism, arts integration, and health and wellness, using Social Emotional Learning, the Community Resilience Model, and Making Learning Visible. MOCHA’s presence extends into disinvested communities, public and private schools, libraries, and its Oakland-based studios and gallery, with an emphasis on outreach to culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse populations in communities that do not typically have wide access to the arts, including children at risk academically and those in communities underserved by arts and cultural programming.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
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