Teens Run the Museum
21Minus allows young people to organize and make serious choices about the museum.
Youth
Brave, Ambitious, and Vulnerable
Jeremy Kreusch discusses the unusual criteria for selecting members of the Teen Creative Agency.
Andy Warhol’s Balloons
One of the most fun recent installations for students was Andy Warhol's Rainforest—the silver clouds featured in the exhibition Merce Cunningham: Common Time.
Creating a Dialogue
In the early years, MCA docents challenged passive learning models, encouraging kids to ask questions.
We Don’t Have All the Answers
The MCA poses questions to visitors so that they can draw their own connections.
Not A Typical Field Trip
Students at Chicago Public Schools experience the MCA through the lens of artist-led tours, introducing new perspectives and conversations.
Seeing the World through Art
An installation by artist Gaylen Gerber sparks big-picture questions among young people visiting the MCA for the first time.
Chicago’s Schoolkids Take the Bus
A grant from Walgreens paid for the buses that brought CPS students to the MCA.