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Summer 2020

Visit our new digital platform, MCASD: Digital

Teen Advisory Group is Back in Session

The Teen Advisory Group (TAG) is back in session and ready to go digital!

Engaging a diverse group of teens from across San Diego County and Tijuana. TAG brings high schoolers together to learn about the museum as a site of citizen participation, the behind the scenes, education, and exploration of social issues through the lens of contemporary art.

TAG students participating in a workshop by artist duo Chiachio & Giannone.

Family ArtLAB: Take-Home Edition

Did you notice that this summer the MCASD switched the sculptures at the Westfield UTC Mall? We are continuing this 6-year partnership to bring art and art-making experiences for families across La Jolla and all of San Diego to enjoy. Westfield UTC and MCASD is excited to bring you Family ArtLAB: Take-Home Edition inviting everyone to create a work of art inspired by the three sculptures on view.

Half assembled cardboard sculpture sit on a table with a glue stick on the side.

Family ArtLab: Home Edition-Joe Goode

What’s it like to be an intern during a pandemic?

Like most people in the United States, I had to get used to working online. My internship with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego was conducted entirely online. I was lucky enough that it wasn't canceled after schools closed down due to shelter-in-place orders. However, it meant I had to get used to an at-home set-up: having zooms every other day, using online apps for all sorts of work and communication, constantly checking my email for updates, and going to my kitchen to grab snacks whenever I pleased. It’s what I have come to call business as usual.

Education Intern sitting at a desk facing his computer working.

Family ArtLab: Home Edition-Oscar Romo

Every summer the Education & Engagement department at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego welcomes an intern, and this year is no exception. Working with members of the MCASD staff via weekly zoom meeting, Isaiah Colmenero, created a family-friendly ArtLab inspired by Oscar Romo’s artwork. Romo is an environmental engineer, professor at UCSD, Urban Studies and Planning Program in San Diego, and the watershed coordinator in Los Laureles Canyon, Tijuana.

Photo of roof made of plastic soda bottle bottoms in light blues, clear, and greens.

Continuing to Create in a Pandemic

MCASD Extended School Partnership (ESP) program presents a digital showcase of student artwork from a local high school: Altus Charter School of San Diego. Students from this school created artwork in response to their experiences a museum visit, and lessons in their classroom even after shelter-in-place orders.

Front cover of ESP Showcase with a black and white photo of a low flying plane and tree tops in the forefront.

Patrol Tours

Education & Engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents "Patrol Tours" a series of videos that offer a glimpse of our guards’ perspective on artworks on view and connecting our audiences to our digital assets.

Screen shot of the exhibition intro text "Commonplace Abstractions" with Spanish translation "Abstracciones cotidianas"

Introducing Family ArtLab: Home Edition

Education & Engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents " Family ArtLab: Home Edition introducing the work, Evening, 2019 by Tschabalala Self, giving viewers an interpretation of her artwork in a fun and dynamic activity for the family to make.

Participant holding up their portrait to the camera.

Wondering what we have in our collection? REACT to our collection through a mobile museum experience!

Here's to throwback Mondays!

Reintroducing MCASD REACT, a mobile museum experience that connects you to our collection with your reactions.

BE THOUGHTFUL.

BE HUMOROUS.

BE VULNERABLE.

BE HONEST.

BE SUGGESTIVE.

BE SINCERE.

BE CRITICAL.

BE PLAYFUL.

Have you ever had a conversation with an artwork? Start a dialogue with works in our digital collection.

Celebrating our youth partnerships in a time of uncertainty.

Amidst the decision to close the Museum to the public beginning on Saturday, March 14th and this unprecedented time that the globe is facing, came the question: how do we still showcase the work of students and teachers involved in the Extended School Partnership (ESP)? Thanks to the quick thinking, experience, and dedication of Gallery Educators Akiko Mims, Luisa Martínez, Max Lofano, and Olimpia Vazquez Ojeda, showcase installation quickly turned into an impromptu photo session.

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