Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA)

For Rising 2nd - 6th Graders

Add a little drama to the summer with this Minecraft Theater camp!

In this camp, young designers will work collaboratively to stage a play in Minecraft while learning about coding in the game.

They’ll work together to write a play, design the set, and use code in M...

Cost: $225-$250

Ages 8-13

Join us for this 2-part class in which you’ll learn to write a Choose Your Own Adventure story and tell it digitally using Scratch.

Tap into your creativity as you write a story, design characters, and storyboard in session 1. Then, in session 2, you’ll use Scratch to tell your story d...

Cost: Registration Required

Join MODA educators on the first Sunday of each month to learn about 3D Printing and 3D modeling.  From 4-6pm we invite folks that have some 3D printing experience to come in, learn more and share best practices with others that are apart of the 3D printing community. There will be a different foc...

Cost: $35-$40

Join MODA educators on the first Sunday of each month to learn about 3D Printing and 3D modeling.  From 1-3pm we invite novices to 3D printing to come learn about the basics of a browser-based 3D modeling program called Tinkercad. You will also learn what the different types of printers and materi...

Cost: $35-$40

The Exquisite Uterus Project is back at MODA! 

 

With reproductive justice continuing to be under attack here in Georgia, we’re once again joining forces to make our voices heard and to make a difference. This is not your usual protest, however. Instead of taking to the streets, we’ll add our vo...

Cost: $35-$40

Join us for a multitiered morning of Minecraft. We’ll design on the MODA server making code, structures, and games. Then, test your strategic skills with a sustainable survival challenge. Registration includes admission to our current exhibition. This 1-day vacation week camp is great for ages 7-1...

Cost: $70-$75

Here’s what we’ll be doing each day of the camp:

Day 1: 3D Design, 3D Printing, mold making

Day 2: Graphic design, vector drawing, and CNC cutting

Day 3: Woodworking, Skatepark design, concrete construction

Cost: $70-$210

Here’s what we’ll be doing each day of the camp:

Day 1: 3D Design, 3D Printing, mold making

Day 2: Graphic design, vector drawing, and CNC cutting

Day 3: Woodworking, Skatepark design, concrete construction

Cost: $70-$210

Here’s what we’ll be doing each day of the camp:

Day 1: 3D Design, 3D Printing, mold making

Day 2: Graphic design, vector drawing, and CNC cutting

Day 3: Woodworking, Skatepark design, concrete construction

Cost: $70-$210

Join us for a tour of our current exhibition, The Design of Dissent!

Our exhibitions manager, Janelle Miniter, will provide give you an overview of the exhibition and details about selected works on view.

Cost: $5-$15

We are excited to offer once a month Girl Scouts badge workshops for Daisies, Brownies, Juniors and/or Cadettes! At MODA, we believe girls can change the world! Using prototyping materials and STEAM technologies, MODA’s once a month girl scout badge workshops highlight design as an effective probl...

Cost: Free-$25

Love spoken word? MODA is teaming up with Ryan J and Nate Mask, the award-winning, spoken-word artists who tour as Nobody Like Us, But We’re Here Anyway, for an evening of poetry and spoken word at MODA!

Come prepared to be inspired as you listen and/or to take your turn at the mic.

Cost: $10-$12

This November, join graphic designer Sarah Lawrence at MODA for her Images Workshop, the fourth in her Design for Non-Designers workshop series. JPG, SVG, LOL? What’s the difference between an EPS and a PNG, and why do you need both for your brand? We’ll learn about raster and vector images, when to...

Cost: $35-$240

This Thanksgiving season join us to learn more about embroidery textures and colors that began long ago with indigenous people in Central and South America. Come learn about patterns are still being used and reproduced today as you learn the basics of embroidery. 

Cost: $35-$40

Transform a favorite (or not-so-favorite) piece of clothing with embroidery) in this workshop! Come join us and learn some basic embroidery techniques and make something old new again! Please bring in a piece of denim, cotton, linen or other cloth that can easily handle hand embroidery.  

Cost: $35-$40

Join MODA for our upcoming members-only field trip to Switch Modern, where we will be sipping prosecco and enjoying a tour of their small exhibition entitled Design Icons of the 20th Century: Included in Museums Around the World. The exhibition includes 50+ artifacts that span from 1903-1999. These ...

Cost: Free

Designers are called on to collaborate, solve problems, and create on-demand. It's not always easy. Sometimes we cling to agendas, second-guess our ideas, fear failure, or just run dry. Creative director and improv comic Travis Sharp has discovered that the skills he has honed in the improv world fo...

Cost: $55-$60

Join us for a Design Conversation with Mailchimp’s VP of Design, Gene Lee!

Gene will present a talk about Brand Love:

Creating Brand Love

When companies have the right internal conditions in place, their brand connects more deeply with their customers. Balancing the right culture, tools, talen...

Cost: $8-$15

The second Sunday of every month is Design Club Day at the Museum of Design Atlanta, when we open our doors to the public for a free day of design for all. Let’s come together and be thankful and grateful! On November 10th we invite you to come check out our exhibit, get inspired and design your own...

Cost: Free

Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Beyoncé - these are just a few of the women you get to honor and cross stitch in this workshop. Join other feminists and celebrate awesome ladies while while learning the basics of cross stitch.

Cost: $35-$40

Join MODA for a guided tour of the exhibition Wire & Wood: Designing Iconic Guitars!

Cost: $5-$10

Join MODA for a guided tour of the exhibition Wire & Wood: Designing Iconic Guitars!

Cost: $5-$10

Join MODA for a guided tour of the exhibition Wire & Wood: Designing Iconic Guitars!

Cost: $5-$10

Join MODA for a guided tour of the exhibition Wire & Wood: Designing Iconic Guitars!

Cost: $5-$10

Join MODA for a guided tour of the exhibition Wire & Wood: Designing Iconic Guitars!

Cost: $5-$10

Join MODA for a guided tour of the exhibition Wire & Wood: Designing Iconic Guitars!

Cost: $5-$10

Join MODA as they celebrate the opening of the exhibition, Wire & Wood: The Design of Iconic Guitars!

They'll kick things off at 3 p.m. with a lecture by renowned luthier Paul Reed Smith, after which Smith will be interviewed by graphic designer, artist, and musician Ken Carbone.

Cocktails and l...

Cost: RSVP

Join MODA for a guided tour of the exhibition Passione Italiana: The Art of Espresso!

Cost: Free-$10

Join MODA for a guided tour of the exhibition Passione Italiana: The Art of Espresso!

Cost: Free-$10

On Thursday, May 30, join us at MODA for Constellations‘ monthly discussion of smart articles in our “this is not a book-club” series, Periodical. Periodically, it’s nice to read an article. We do that, then talk about it over coffee. Like a book club with less commitment. For the “Art of Espresso” ...

Cost: Free

Introductory drawing techniques, and sketching skills with a focus on geometry, scale, and spatial representation will be taught.  

Cost: $35- $40

Join Museum of Design's Assistant Director Lisa Babb as she leads a discussion on design for banned substances. Seating is limitied therefore registration is recommended. 

Cost: Free with admission

Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) welcomes Passione Italiana: The Art of Espresso, a new exhibition that explores espresso machine design and technology, while examining the social, political and cultural movements fueled by coffee and cafés throughout history. Previously on display at Kerkrade in the...

Cost: Free-$10

Join MODA and Miami Ad School at Portfolio Center for a Design Conversation with Lana Rigsby of Rigsby Hull, titled Connecting the Dots—Art. Architecture. Books. Through vivid stories and projects from her 38-year career, Lana Rigsby makes a passionate case for elegant, classical design that “sees t...

Cost: $8 - $15

Learn a new way to celebrate feminist icons!

Because these incredible people deserve to be celebrated and channeled as we contend with our current sociopolitical climate, we’re having a special edition of MODA’s subversive cross-stitch workshop where we'll be stitching feminist icons.

Cross-stit...

Cost: $30 - $50

A guided tour of MODA's Design for Good: Architecture for Everyone.

Cost: Free - $10

Everyone wants to learn how to code! Don?t know where to start? Join us at MODA to learn the basics of computer coding in our newest workshop series, Building from Scratch, where we?ll be making amazing mazes and learning skills essential to game and animation design. We?ll create a sprite (a charac...

Cost: $35

Join Core Dance for a special tour of the exhibition Design for Good: Architecture for Everyone at MODA! Participants receive free entrance and a complimentary glass of wine. MODA's opening its doors for Core Dance friends and family. Sign up to enjoy a tour of this exhibition that captures characte...

Cost: Free

Join us on Thursday, October 4 at 7pm for a Design Conversation presented by Dana Arnett, Founding Partner and Vice Chairman of VSA Partners. Arnett will give a talk titled, "Where to From Here? - a look back and a look ahead" This lecture will be held at the Hill Auditorium in the High Museum, dire...

Cost: $8-$25

The newest exhibition from the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA). Design for Good is curated by John Cary, a renowned architect, connector, writer, and speaker focused on social change with an emphasis on design and philanthropy.

Cost: Price varies

Join us on Thursday, August 23 at 7 p.m. for a Design Conversation presented by Noreen Morioka & Nicole Jacek, Co-Head of Design at Wieden+Kennedy. This lecture will be held at the Hill Auditorium in the High Museum, directly across the street from MODA at 1280 Peachtree Street N.E., Atlanta, GA 303...

Cost: $8-$15

We’re serving up Raspberry Pi at MODA, Wednesday July 18! In collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, MODA is hosting a Raspberry Jam featuring drop-in sessions, communal show-and-tell, and much more. Whether you’re interested in learning about the Raspberry Pi for the first time, want to tak...

Cost: FREE

Join us on for a workshop in which you'll learn to  embroider circuits! You heard us right —we'll use conductive thread and embroidery floss to create a embroidery design that lights up! Over the past few years, people have started making circuits in new ways using conductive materials — paints, t...

Cost: $40

Bonnie will discuss the power of imagery and the role it plays in social history. And she'll share some of the research that informs her new book, Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America. The book features hundreds of iconic, smart, angry, clever, unforgettable images and chronic...

Cost: $!5

Join us for a week of prototyping, imagining, and designing robots for space exploration using LEGO Robotics! Camp participants will learn the basics of LEGO Robotics (or expand on the knowledge they already have). LEGO Robotics is a tool that allows young designers to create robots using various LE...

Cost: $495

This event will be held at Ponce City Market which can be found at 675 Ponce De Leon Ave. N.E.  Join us for a special edition of MODA’s Queer Icon Cross-Stitch workshop! Learn all about how cross-stitch got subversive. We’ll cover some basic history with mind-blowing examples, and you’ll learn cro...

Cost: $30-$50

This event is at Ponce City Market, which can be found at 675 Ponce De Leon Ave. N.E. Grab the kids, we’ve got the coffee. Join MODA for LEGOs and Local Brew at The Shed! We’re bringing LEGOs to Ponce City Market for a day of engineering and design. Take on one of MODA’s design challenges, and pro...

Cost: $10.00

This event will take place at Georgia Public Broadcasting, which will take place at 260 14th St. N.W. "10 Parks that Changed America" tells the story of 10 visionaries who took open canvases of land and transformed them into serene spaces that offer city dwellers a respite from the hustle and bust...

Cost: $0

This is a week long camp for rising 4th to 7th grade students that runs from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily. This camp is being held at Georgia Tech's College of Design, 245 4th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332. Are you curious about space? Have you ever wondered what’s out there? Do you ever think about what...

Cost: $445-$495

Calling all Craftivists!  Join us and lend your story to an upcoming global community craftivist project called Badass HERstory, where woman-identifying and gender non-binary participants from all over the world embroider their stories on 12inx12in squares of fabric. The squares stitched in this w...

Cost: $5-$15

This event will be held at Peachtree Branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System which can be found at 1315 Peachtree St. N.E.  Join us MODA and the Peachtree Branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System on Wednesday, June 20 for a talk about the background, history, programming and f...

Cost: $0

This is a week long camp that runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. This camp is being held at The Lovett School, 4075 Paces Ferry Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30327. Advanced Designing & Coding with Minecraft will challenge campers to design and manage their own multiplayer server and improve on design skills ...

Cost: $495

Go beyond an Hour of Code™ this summer and learn the ins and outs of coding logic using Blockly-based programming. Blockly, Google’s visual programming library, is a user-friendly visual programming language which uses digital blocks that ‘snap’ together to represent various code concepts like seque...

Cost: $225-250

Dissent collars, popularized by the notorious RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsberg), proclaim her dissenting opinion on supreme court majority decisions. After taking inspiration from dissent collars the dissent collars made by Roxana Alger Geffen on view in our Making Change exhibition, we’ll be creating our o...

Cost: $35-40

Join us in the gallery to learn how to crochet basketball nets for empty hoops in your neighborhood! Learn crocheting by participating in a national community craftivism project, NCAA Net Works. In this project — which is featured in MODA's current exhibition, Making Change: The Art and Craft of Act...

Cost: $20-$25

This event will be at Switch Modern, which can be found at 670 14th Street NorthwestAtlanta, GA, 30318 Please join us for a trip to Switch Modern where we’ll be immersed in a world of furniture, lighting, and accessory design that spans the past 100 years of modernism.  Our visually engaging tour ...

Cost: $0

Everyone is talking about Design Thinking, but what’s it all about? Join us for a Design Thinking sprint (no experience necessary!) that will show you how designers think and familiarize you with the basics of the Design Thinking process. We’ll start with an overview of the Design Thinking process...

Cost: $50-$60

How does who you are impact the way you lead? As much as we want to believe that leadership is simply a set of skills we can acquire, the ability to lead people successfully is actually rooted in the awareness and acceptance of our personal identity. We must be able to lead ourselves first – a task ...

Cost: $0

Have you ever wanted to learn how to think like a computer? Do you want to code on the computer screen and off the screen in real life? Check out this week of coding fun at MODA’s Digital Building Blocks camp! Go beyond an Hour of Code™ this summer and learn the ins and outs of coding logic using ...

Cost: $225-250

This is a week long camp that runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. This camp is being held at The Lovett School, 4075 Paces Ferry Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30327. Can’t get enough Minecraft? Curious how to take your gaming skills to the next level? MODA’s Designing & Coding with Minecraft camp will challeng...

Cost:

This camp is being held at Georgia Tech's College of Design, 245 4th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332. Do you love LEGOs and robots? Do you like to take pictures and film the world around you? Have you ever wondered how movies are made? Discover how to make your own short film at MODA’s LEGO Robotics for ...

Cost: $445-495

Join us June 9th for a deep dive into zinemaking. In this class, we will work together to create one amazing 5.5” x 8” zine. We’ll start the class with some creative exercises to help guide our zine making. You can design one or ten pages! We will be using collage, found image/text, crayons, old j...

Cost: $15-20

Craftivism is a worldwide movement that operates at the intersection of craft and activism. Across the globe, artists and crafters armed with traditional materials like yarn, glue guns, quilt patterns, sewing needles, X-ACTO knives, and other tools are using their hands to protest social and politic...

Cost: $0-10

Craftivism is a worldwide movement that operates at the intersection of craft and activism. Across the globe, artists and crafters armed with traditional materials like yarn, glue guns, quilt patterns, sewing needles, X-ACTO knives, and other tools are using their hands to protest social and politic...

Cost: $0-10

Be transported through interactive installations to a place of play in urban environments. Visitors will feel encouraged to engage in play in their day-to-day lives.

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10

The Museum of Design Atlanta presents an exhibition curated by internationally-renowned designer, writer and brand strategist Debbie Millman. The exhibition examines the role of typography in how we live and create our lives, including everything from texts to tattoos and household goods. The works ...

Cost: Free-$10