Ready, set, create! miniMakers are your opportunity to dive into different art mediums once a month at MOCA. Workshops are for families with children ages 6-12, designed around artists, art history, and current MOCA Exhibitions. 

Inspired by the figures and theatrical energy in Geoffrey Holder’s paintings, families will use mini posable figures to explore how a body can tell a story through gesture, posture, and movement. Participants will pose a figure, make a simple observational drawing, then use color and collage to turn it into a bold imagined performer, character, or scene.

To see each workshop, click "Show Individual Events" below.

We ask that participants register all children as well as adults in their group, it helps our staff know how many seats to prepare, thank you!

Ready, set, create! miniMakers are your opportunity to dive into different art mediums once a month at MOCA. Workshops are for families with children ages 6-12, designed around artists, art history, and current MOCA Exhibitions. 

In 1982, Geoffrey Holder designed the costumes and set for Dance Theatre of Harlem's Firebird trading the ballet's icy palette for the heat of the Caribbean: electric orange, deep green, and vibrant magenta. Kids build their own layered wing and feather shapes assembled into a small hanging mobile that spins and catches the light, the way Holder's costumes danced on stage.

To see each workshop, click "Show Individual Events" below.

We ask that participants register all children as well as adults in their group, it helps our staff know how many seats to prepare, thank you!

Ready, set, create! miniMakers are your opportunity to dive into different art mediums once a month at MOCA. Workshops are for families with children ages 6-12, designed around artists, art history, and current MOCA Exhibitions. 

Geoffrey Holder spent his life capturing dance in motion, as a performer, choreographer, and costume designer who thought constantly about how the body and fabric move together on stage. Kids build a simple paper figure with jointed, movable limbs — arms, legs, maybe a head — using brass fasteners at each joint, then pose it mid-movement to capture a single frozen moment of dance.

To see each workshop, click "Show Individual Events" below.

We ask that participants register all children as well as adults in their group, it helps our staff know how many seats to prepare, thank you!

Ready, set, create! miniMakers are your opportunity to dive into different art mediums once a month at MOCA. Workshops are for families with children ages 6-12, designed around artists, art history, and current MOCA Exhibitions. 

Celebrate the color, creativity, and history of Carnival with a hands-on costume-making session! Kids will design and build their own mini costume piece using feathers, fabric scraps, sequins, and other festive materials. Along the way, we'll explore Carnival's roots in the African diaspora and its role as a powerful tradition of self-expression, resistance, and celebration across the Caribbean and beyond.

To see each workshop, click "Show Individual Events" below.

We ask that participants register all children as well as adults in their group, it helps our staff know how many seats to prepare, thank you!

Ready, set, create! miniMakers are your opportunity to dive into different art mediums once a month at MOCA. Workshops are for families with children ages 6-12, designed around artists, art history, and current MOCA Exhibitions. 

Geoffrey Holder worked across mediums his whole life: painting, costume and set design, choreography. He was always open to new ways to bring a story to life visually. As we say goodbye to the current exhibition, kids channel that same spirit, bringing its stories and imagery to life through diorama-building and shadow puppetry. Using recycled boxes, cut-outs, and simple materials, kids construct a small scene inspired by the exhibition, then create shadow puppets to act it out using light and shadow…much like Holder used costume, set, and stagecraft to conjure whole worlds.

To see each workshop, click "Show Individual Events" below.

We ask that participants register all children as well as adults in their group, it helps our staff know how many seats to prepare, thank you!