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Description

Our artist-led tours, workshops, and residencies, invite students and teachers to explore, debate, and reflect upon the important ideas that lie at the heart of contemporary art. All programs are free for Illinois K–12 schools and teachers.

School Tours

Illinois teachers: book a tour for your students. School programs support Common Core English Language Arts Standards, and Illinois Learning Standards in the Fine Arts, Language Arts, and Social Sciences.

Teachers

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Immersive professional development and resources let teachers use the MCA as their studio, laboratory, library, and classroom.

SPACE

The School Partnership for Art and Civic Engagement (SPACE) is a multiyear creative partnership with Chicago public high schools that uses contemporary art to empower Chicago teens to create positive change in their communities.

Questions?

Email us at [email protected]
or call 312-397-3838.

Images

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Fifth graders from Skinner West Elementary School discuss a work by John Cage with a teaching artist during a free school tour. Photo: Joshua Longbrake, © MCA Chicago.
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Funding

Support for school programs is generously provided by The Crown Family; Anonymous; Citadel; Larry Gagosian; GCM Grosvenor; Harris Holdings, Inc.; James and Aimee Gray; Reyes Holdings, LLC.; BMO Harris Bank; Allstate Insurance Company; Aon; The Bluhm Family Charitable Foundation; Dr. Scholl Foundation; Goldman Sachs; Andi and Jim Gordon, The Edgewater Funds; JHL Capital Group, LLC; Gretchen Jordan; Katten Muchin Rosenman; KPMG LLP; Lefkofsky Family Foundation; William Blair & Company; Wolverine Execution Services; The Helen Brach Foundation; Northern Trust; Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas Community Fund; Anne L. Kaplan; Ambassador Louis and Marjorie Susman; Carol Prins and John Hart/The Jessica Fund; Joanie and Andy McKenna; Julie and Brian Simmons; Helen and Sam Zell; CIBC; Citi Private Bank; Illinois Tool Works; Madison Dearborn Partners; Norcon, Inc.; Richard Gray Gallery; Sidley Austin LLP; BMS, LLC; and Anne and John Kern.

Major ongoing support is provided by the Cari and Michael J. Sacks Fund for Chicago Public Schools.