The first edition of MACA Parking Club, selected in the CERCLES call by IVAJ and the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, was a pilot project that opened the museum doors to adolescents from a fresh and disruptive perspective. Far from the conventional visit, the proposal transformed the spaces of MACA—including its parking lot—into a creative laboratory where the everyday became art and where young people could reclaim the museum as a place of their own.
The images from this edition reflect a process full of energy and freedom: graphic interventions that overflowed the paper to occupy walls and frames; collective collages and self-portraits constructed with irony and humor; installations that mixed everyday objects with cultural symbols; improvised performances in the museum halls, where participants rewrote scenes based on works by artists such as Joan Miró; and actions in public space that brought the experience outside the halls.
Parking Club established itself from its first edition as a horizontal meeting space, where each participant found an active and creative role. The methodology, based on experimentation and collaborative work, allowed adolescents to express themselves through multiple languages—from audiovisual to graphic, from installation to performance—and to explore questions of identity, memory, power and image in dialogue with contemporary art.
The result was much more than a series of artistic productions: a space of trust and belonging was generated, a cultural club in which young people could experiment, make mistakes, play and create without hierarchies, reaffirming that the museum can be a living, open place in constant transformation.
MACA is a living and dynamic museum, which is why the educational team has offered complementary activities since its inception to showcase the creative processes and references of contemporary art. Each year the museum renews its proposals for the different levels of formal education. These are projects related to the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. The ultimate goal of the different proposals is to promote the construction of a critical perspective, learn to observe the works, enjoy the information that can be useful for understanding and appreciating each piece, and have the necessary keys so that each student can face contemporary art without inhibitions.Since its opening, the museum's educational team has committed to inclusive education. Throughout the year, multiple projects are developed for attention to diversity and social awareness, whose purpose has been and is to promote effective integration and real accessibility for all to art, culture, and the museum. To this end, the museum regularly organizes programs, projects, guided visits, and workshops for groups with physical, psychological, sensory, intellectual, or mental functional diversity, as well as for groups in situations of social vulnerability.We are fully convinced that attention to all audiences should be a priority, and in that way we plan and organize educational activities in order to serve all people.All projects are developed and directed by museum educator and mediator Ester García Guixot.
