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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

Group of children sitting and kneeling in a gallery raise hands as if to answer a question
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; GCM Grosvenor; the Harris Family Foundation; Reyes Holdings, LLC.; 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; Katten Muchin Rosenman; KPMG LLP; Liz and Eric Lefkofsky; William Blair & Company; Wolverine Execution Services; The Helen Brach Foundation; Northern Trust; Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas Community Fund; Anne L. Kaplan; Carol Prins and John Hart; Helen Zell; CIBC; Citi Private Bank; Illinois Tool Works; Norcon, Inc.; BMS, LLC; Ariel Investments; Walton Street Capital, LLC; Betsy and Andy Rosenfield; and Lois and Steve Eisen.

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