The Muckenthaler Education Department is led by Chief Education Officer, Stephannie Vicuña. She heads up a talented team that includes lead artist Willie Tabata, as well as 25 diverse Teaching Artists.

In a typical year, this impactful team instructs at 25 different sites in 10 different cities throughout the state of California, serving over 29,000 people! Truly making the arts accessible for all!

The instructors’ talents range from dance to drawing, acrylic & watercolor painting, children’s ceramics, indigenous and traditional ceramics classes, photography, jewelry, mosaics, sewing for fun and function, dramatic storytelling, animation and the digital arts, creative and song writing, musical and dramatic theater, plus many more!

We pride ourselves on offering a wide variety of art forms for all ages. We can even create a private class on-site or at your site for you or your organization! Email stephannie@themuck.org for more information.

What arts education can we expect from a Muck arts EDU class? Whether you’re a school district, a home school group or an individual, look to us… as your support system! Muck is an external platform for you to utilize for yourself and your students in both your classroom and in ours. All of our arts programming is aligned with VAPA standards and is student centered with real world application.We challenge students with SMART goals in order to prep and develop their career/college bound portfolios. Our Project Based Learning methods allow for us to come in as so much more than just a fun art program, we can provide fluidity, extension, enhancements and tangible assets to your already unique curriculum. 

At the Muck we pride ourselves in designing personalized experiences. Many of our seasoned Artists have 30+ years of experience teaching art to students of all ages, are teachers at multiple colleges and universities (Including CSUF, Saddleback, Whittier College, Otis) and have been in and out of a variety of locations working with different populations (Prisons, Community Centers, Women Shelters, Homeless Shelters, Museums, Hospitals, Transitional Living Shelters, LA and OC School Districts, Boys & Girls Clubs, Libraries, Senior Centers, Braille Institute, Special Needs organizations, Family Resources Centers) which has provided an abundance of scenarios and experience to share their knowledge with you. 

Our Teachers work directly with all populations, in a variety of settings. We offer classes specifically for a population with special needs or we work together with their families or caregivers to streamline them into our daily classes. 

We also provided 4,500 volunteer/intern hours for our aspiring teachers and teaching artist from CSUF.

Muckenthaler Outreach Programming:

1. Scholarships to Muck classes, camps (M.A.S.C & S.M.ART), and performances. 

2. Local history tours of The Muckenthaler Mansion for Elementary Schools. 

3. Free family festivals on-site at The Muck each year. 

4. Community Quincenera (presented annually for 25 shelter girls in collaboration with 8 local shelters). 

5. Fullerton School District (STEAM programs for 5th-8th grade district wide).

8. Crittenton Services for Children & Families of Southern California (14 hours contracted a week, plus 1 week of MASC). 

9. ACT Anaheim Grant programs (with 2 sites and 6 partners including Anaheim Library systems, MUZEO, Anaheim Boys & Girls Club, Project S.A.Y., CSP, and Juvenile Diversion Program). 

10. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (under contract with the California Arts Council at 2 state prisons: High Desert and Ironwood).

11. Community Services of La Habra (summer arts program). 

12. Muck @ MUZEO (free arts education programming funded by ACT Anaheim and Marshall Foundation).

13. His House Shelter (After school and preschool arts programs under a grant from the John W. Carson Foundation). 

14. Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (After school arts education in partnership with CSUF).

15. Skyview School (Arts education programming funded by California Arts Council).

16. S.M.ART - "Summer, Movement, Art" - Summer Arts Camp for Youth who are mild-moderate on the autism spectrum.

17. M.A.S.C - "Multi-Arts Summer Camp" - Summer Arts Camp for Youth ages 6 - 12.

18. O.A.P - "Older Adult Program" - Our partnership with North Orange County Community College provides free classes for students 65 years+