Cause for Creativity is SMMoA's highly acclaimed workshop series in which the museum encourages people 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.

Cause for Creativity is sponsored by HBO, Nordstrom, and the City of Santa Monica
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Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts, Vol. 2
Sunday, August 22, 2 - 9pm
(Cultural bike tour registration is full)

Reduce your dependency on oil and pedal on over to SMMoA for our second annual Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts event offering a spoke card art workshop, cultural bike tour, and exhibition closing party. Enjoy a scenic ride through Santa Monica featuring stops for music and theater along the way. Return to SMMoA for additional bike-themed festivities, performances, food trucks, live silkscreening, and more.

- Participation in the ride and festivities is FREE. 
- Spoke card art workshop is FREE for SMMoA members and $5 for non-members.

For more information about Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts, vol. 2, Click Here.

Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts, vol. 2 is made possible in part by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, HBO, and Nordstrom.

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.
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Park Studio: RING
Opening Reception: May 15, 2010 @ 7pm
Exhibition Dates: May 15 - August 21, 2010

This year, Park Studio partners with the Los Angeles Opera’s Ring Festival. Working with artist Gordon Bowen and his Arts Re-Foundry, participants will learn to cast bronze sculptures inspired by themes of Richard Wagner’s opera Der Ring des Nibelungen. A final exhibition titled Park Studio: RING will be on view this summer at SMMoA. Field trips to the museum, and to the LA Opera to see an opera dress rehearsal and behind the scenes complement the program. Projects will also be featured online at www.parkstudio.org.

For information about the LA Ring Festival, visit www.ringfestivalla.com

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

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.

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Free Family Day: What's with Alberto?
Saturday, September 25
2–5 pm

Participants make creative projects that explore the science, art, and happy accidents, found in the work of Alberto Burri.

Come to Free Family Day and stay in Santa Monica for GLOW along Santa Monica’s beaches from 7pm – 3am.  Discover 20 original projects created for just one night.

FREE Admission
Recommended for ages 5 to adult

To register, email education@smmoa.org with subject header “What’s with Alberto?” or call 310.453.9184

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.

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.