Annual Fund

When you contribute to the MCA’s Annual Fund, you enable the museum to showcase the work of living, and often local, artists.

Donations to the MCA Annual Fund ensure that contemporary artists and their ideas reach a wide audience—making a gift to the Annual Fund helps the museum shape art history.

Here are a few examples of artist-led programs that are thriving because of your support:

Artist Residencies, inaugurated in 2010, give visitors yearlong access to artists’ varied creative processes.

Teaching artists can frequently be seen guiding students on tours and leading conversations about key concepts in contemporary art.

Family Days open the museum for the whole family as a space to experiment, with art activities designed and led by contemporary artists.

Teen Creative Agency (TCA) engages 25 Chicago-area 15–19-year-olds, through a two-year program. Meeting weekly with artists, curators, and MCA staff, the TCA also creates events like 21Minus—a showcase for young artists 21 years and under.

Educators are supported at the MCA through workshops, salons, and the yearlong Teacher Institute, which connects teachers with peers and practicing artists to develop innovative contemporary curricula and online resources for teachers.