King School Museum of Contemporary Art

KSMoCA Presents features interviews with collaborating visiting artists and MLK Jr School students, faculty, and staff. Participating students meet once a week to learn the fundamentals of developing and recording a podcast, complete with professional recording gear and a field trip to KBOO, the local community radio station. This 10-week curriculum is developed as a sustainable/scalable model for expansion in 2018-19 with guest podcast recording professional, Saint James.

About KSMoCA: KSMoCA, King School Museum of Contemporary Art, is a contemporary art museum inside of Martin Luther King Jr School (PreK-5th) in NE Portland, OR. Founded in 2014 by Portland State University professors Lisa Jarrett and Harrell Fletcher, the project creates an unusual pairing between public school students and internationally renowned artists and their work. KSMoCA’s programs are collaboratively developed with the MLK Jr School community, PSU students, and a team of artists.

Students learn through experience about museum practice and careers in the arts by participating as curators, preparators, artists, gallerists, writers, and docents. KSMoCA reimagines the way museums, public schools, and universities can affect people, culture, and perspectives by creating radical intersections and sharing resources across organizations.