Each season, SMMoA features a Free Family Day workshop led by fascinating artists who present projects with themes that relate to the exhibitions on view. These drop-in workshops are open to people of all ages

Cause for Creativity is the museum's highly acclaimed workshop series in which the Santa Monica Museum of Art encourages its public to “make art and make a difference.” Past Cause for Creativity workshops have inspired participants to make re-useable shopping bags; raise their awareness on the global water crisis; and brought shoes to children in third-world countries.

Click here for a video of Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts - our recent event that drew over 200 participants for a bike flag workshop and cultural bike tour through the city of Santa Monica.

Cause for Creativity is sponsored by the City of Santa Monica, HBO, and Whole Foods Santa Monica.

Park Studio takes interdisciplinary art education outside museum walls and into the community. This free program is held annually during the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District's spring break. Contemporary artists lead workshops, art history lessons, and field trips to cultural sites. Park Studio is open to middle and high school students residing or attending school in Santa Monica. SMMoA presents this program in partnership with the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department and the Thelma Terry Center at Virginia Avenue Park.

To participate in Park Studio, you must be a middle or high school student residing or attending a school in the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. Students enrolled at Santa Monica's Olympic High School may receive a full semester credit toward a high school diploma.

Park Studio is funded, in part, by the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Community Access and Participation grants and the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.

To view our current exhibit and an archive of our past programs, go to www.parkstudio.org

For more information, please contact Asuka Hisa, asuka.hisa@smmoa.org or 310.586.6488 x118

During exhibition opening receptions, the museum hosts hands-on, studio workshops for the enjoyment and elucidation of its young visitors. Reservations and a nominal fee required.

Emerging Artists Family Workshops offer the chance for SMMoA's audience to meet, learn, and work with exciting contemporary artists. The featured artist presents his/her work and leads a project especially conceived for the workshop. Open to people of all ages, these workshops bring out the emerging artist in everyone.