Artists in Residency
Bring innovative visual arts programming in your school with a MOCHA teaching artist. Our programs provide students of all ages opportunities to build their creative, academic, and social skills through in-depth, hands-on visual arts programming.
Our teaching artists design and implement age appropriate and engaging art lessons for the classroom setting for each school site. We collaborate with your staff & classroom teachers to create curriculum to fit the needs of your students and school. The MOCHA art program provides a professional teaching artist, site specific art lesson design, all prepared art supplies for each lesson and program management and supervision.
Additionally, teaching artists can participate and support Family/Community art events and school site art exhibitions. MOCHA can provide professional development workshops for classroom teachers to develop their visual arts practice for their classrooms and grade level.
Days & Times
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MOCHA provides in-school, after school, and summer residencies.
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Length of residencies can last from a few weeks to an entire school year.
Price
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Residency costs are based on the length of the residency as well as the number of sessions per classroom.
Art Lessons
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Art residencies provide opportunities for educators and students to immerse themselves in various media, techniques and projects that they may not otherwise be exposed to, such as: clay, sculpture, print-making, book arts, and collaborative works of art, to name a few.
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We incorporate the following art education tools: Teaching for Understanding, Making Learning Visible and Studio Habits of Mind.
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Lessons are typically centered around a specific topic and can be customized to highlight a class project or curriculum unit that may support language arts, social science, science and mathematics curricula and are tied to the California State Visual Art Standards.
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MOCHA supports students with limited abilities to express a range of ideas and emotions.
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Students participating in MOCHA programs gain skills in: constructive communication, creative and critical thinking, confidence and collaboration.