Community and School Programs
MOCA Jacksonville strives to provide quality programs that build meaningful partnerships with area schools and community organizations in effort to support art education.
Art with a Heart for Children
Art With A Heart For Children embraces sick or injured children with a personalized art experience that enhances the healing process and brings joy and hope to patients and their families.
MOCA Jacksonville and Art with a Heart have partnered to provide children at Wolfson Children’s Hospital and Nemours Children’s Clinic with an opportunity to explore their creativity through the medium of black-and-white photography. Museum educators promote creativity, provide instruction, and offer encouragement during these outreach sessions.
Project: Preschool
Every month preschoolers from Community Connections visit MOCA Jacksonville. Museum educators provide these children with specialized tours and hands on art making activities. These tours have been designed to focus on art, literacy, language and movement providing these young children with a multi-sensory and interdisciplinary approach to learning.
Senior to Senior
MOCA’s Senior to Senior program paired residents from Beauclerc Manor with visual art students from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. MOCA organized a trip in which high school students visited Beauclerc Manor and interviewed some of the senior citizen residents. Students then documented the seniors’ memories through the medium of black and white photography and returned to Beauclerc Manor with their pictures to share the motivation and inspiration for their imagery. Together students and senior citizens created two works of art using collaged photographs that represent their memories. These moving works of art were displayed as collaborative diptychs in The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Education Gallery last spring. MOCA Jacksonville has recieved funding to expand this valuable program for another year.
Voice of the People
As a collaborative content production project, MOCA’s Voice of the People will provide students from S.P. Livingston Elementary School with an opportunity to interpret art and create mp3 audio files. In a three-part process, students will work with MOCA Jacksonville staff to create audio interpretations of works of art on display that increase understanding and interpretation through writing and critical thinking skills. Additionally, a limited number of students will be selected to continue their art education experiences with free admission to MOCA’s Summer Camp with transportation to and from S.P. Livingston Elementary School.
Voice of the People is funded in part by the Chartrand Foundation and the Gasper and Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation.