New Member Welcome | Hosted by OMA Membership Council
Are you a fresh addition to our community? Come join us for our New Member Welcome! It’s a fantastic chance to enjoy complimentary refreshments, meet both new and long-standing members, discover volunteer prospects, and indulge in a private docent tour of our ongoing exhibitions. If you can’t make it this time, watch out for future New Member Welcome events on our calendar. Whether you’ve been a member for a week or a year, we’re thrilled to have you join us and embrace a stronger sense of belonging.
Transformative Currents Catalog Launch and Closing Celebration
Be among the first to own the Transformative Currents catalog. This pivotal publication documents the work of exhibiting artists as well as research presented at the 2022 Seachange Symposium, which preceded and paved the way for the exhibition in examining art’s potential to enact positive ecological change in the Pacific Ocean. Authors, curators, artists, and publisher X Artists Books’ will be in attendance to sign catalogs and join visitors in raising a toast to the final weeks of the exhibition’s presentation at OMA.
Workshop with Ana Andrade | PST ART Regional Weekend – San Diego
OMA invites our community to a free, drop-in art-making experience for all levels as part of the November 23-24 PST Regional Weekend – San Diego. Engage with Transformative Currents artist Ana Andrade for a special “microworlding” workshop.
Microworlding facilitates the building of a microscopic world using fragments of earth, and organic and inorganic materials from the environment around the region. Engaging with a different dimension that generates a sensorial experience, the attendants will make decisions, imagine possibilities, touch nature, see with another lens (4x – 10x larger) develop images with a microscope, and use their fingers (or tweezers if needed) to create their own sample tube. With this hands-on workshop, people will perform “studies” of a superorganism (which is planet earth) to make collages mixing the chosen samples and paint landscapes of a microworld.
Workshop with Marcos Lutyens | PST ART Regional Weekend – San Diego
OMA invites our community to a free, drop-in art-making experience for all levels as part of the November 23-24 PST Regional Weekend – San Diego. Engage with Transformative Currents artist Marcos Lutyens on the 23rd. Lutyens’ artwork includes installations, sculptures, drawings, films, writings, and performances. He envisions consciousness to be the sole common denominator of experience in a sea of environmental, social and technological change, and places his artistic efforts at that point of convergence.
In this workshop, participants will be guided through a brief meditation before modeling clay into oceanic forms that they visualize.
Workshop with Jane Chang Mi | PST ART Regional Weekend – South Bay/Orange County/North San Diego
OMA invites our community to a free, drop-in art-making experience for all levels as part of the November 2 PST ART Regional Weekend – South Bay/Orange County/North San Diego. Engage with Transformative Currents artist Jane Chang Mi. This workshop seeks to re-indigenize participants: departing from the museum and taking place at the Pacific Ocean just down the street, participants will build and paddle a sand canoe and consider the ocean as ancestor.
Gallery Walk Through with Fran Siegel | PST ART Regional Weekend – South Bay/Orange County/North San Diego
In this free artist meet-and-greet with artist Fran Siegel, learn about Siegel’s immersive Transformative Currents installation In Flux during a brief introduction to the artwork and her investigations into life at the edge of water and land.
It’s back! Part party, part runway show, part epic costume contest, ART AFTER DARK returns October 26, 2024.
OMA’s signature after hours event, ART AFTER DARK transforms the museum into a creative hub full of awe-inspiring wearable art costumes, live music, inspired spooky good libations, and the largest costume contest in the tri-county region. It’s the one-of-a-kind ‘art party’ of the year. This year’s event is inspired by our exhibition, Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean.
ART AFTER DARK is a 21+ event.
Tickets are going fast. Don’t wait! CLICK HERE to reserve your tickets today!
Start planning your wearable art costume!
At ART AFTER DARK, YOU are the Art! Come walk the runway, show off your creativity and enter to compete for amazing prizes at OMA’s annual costume competition where a panel of renowned judges from the worlds of fashion, art film and theater will select top prize winners. All are welcome to join in this friendly and fun costume competition!
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Street Level Volume 2.5 | Inspired by Transformative Currents
We turn our focus to our muse, the Pacific Ocean with two Oceanside born and raised acts to close out the season. Singer-songwriter Lea Love’s multi-layered artistry draws from her rich Hawaiian, Japanese, and Samoan heritage. We the Comma’s brings their unique experience and perspective as “beach boy surfers” with a personal mission to break down racial and social constructs.
Enjoy music by We the Commas and Lea Love, delicious bites, and connect with Transformative Currents curators, Cassandra Coblentz & Aaron Katzeman.
Street Level Volume 2 takes inspiration from our current exhibitions to transform OMA into a stage for the discovery of performers, DJs, and artists from down the street to all over Southern California. Bring your family, meet new friends, or roll in with your crew.
Tickets $15
Reserved Table for 4 people $100
Members: free with a personalized member code.
Members do not need to sign in to receive their member ticket. Check your e-mail to find your personalized member code from Membership Manager, Katelyn Johnson. To get information on your membership status, email membership@oma-online.org or call 760-435-3724. For additional support and general event questions, call Front Desk at 760-435-3721.
This is an all-ages event. Adults 21+ who would like to purchase additional drink tickets for alcoholic beverages must show a valid ID at check-in.
Street Level Volume 2.4 | Inspired by More Disruption: Representational Art In Flux
Inspired by our current exhibition MORE DISRUPTION: REPRESENTATIONAL ART IN FLUXwe’ve invited musicians who thrive in the improvisational and experimental space, much like our artists in the exhibition. These artists and performers find new ways to interpret and re-discover traditional ways of art making.
Enjoy music by Montalban Quintet and Nicey Nice featuring Marcelo Radulovich, food from Epic Eatz Food Truck, and connect with exhibiting artists from our “More Disruption: Representation Art in Flux” exhibition, Miguel Camacho-Padilla & David Fobes.
Street Level Volume 2 takes inspiration from our current exhibitions to transform OMA into a stage for the discovery of performers, DJs, and artists from down the street to all over Southern California. Bring your family, meet new friends, or roll in with your crew.
Tickets $15
Reserved Table for 4 people $100
Members: free with a personalized member code.
Members do not need to sign in to receive their member ticket. Check your e-mail to find your personalized member code from Membership Manager, Katelyn Johnson. To get information on your membership status, email membership@oma-online.org or call 760-435-3724. For additional support and general event questions, call Front Desk at 760-435-3721.
This is an all-ages event. Adults 21+ who would like to purchase additional drink tickets for alcoholic beverages must show a valid ID at check-in.
Street Level Volume 2.3 | Inspired by Allied Craftsmen of San Diego: Hands On Design
Inspired by our current exhibition ALLIED CRAFTSMEN: HANDS ON DESIGN we’re spending this evening focused on craft in art making and instrumentation to look at how traditional practices can inform contemporary innovation.
Be inspired by new interpretations of traditional sounds and hear from some of the artists in the exhibit to learn more about what craft means to them.
Enjoy an art demonstration by Allied Craftsmen of San Diego: Hands-on Design exhibiting artist Kathy Nida, live performances by Spiritual Wind and Los Paisanos, sounds throughout the evening by DJ Lou Niles, and food from Native Kiicha Frybread.
Street Level Volume 2 takes inspiration from our current exhibitions to transform OMA into a stage for the discovery of performers, DJs, and artists from down the street to all over Southern California. Bring your family, meet new friends, or roll in with your crew.
Tickets $15
Reserved Table for 4 people $100
Members: free with a personalized member code.
Members do not need to sign in to receive their member ticket. Check your e-mail to find your personalized member code from Membership Manager, Katelyn Johnson. To get information on your membership status, email membership@oma-online.org or call 760-435-3724. For additional support and general event questions, call Front Desk at 760-435-3721.
This is an all-ages event. Adults 21+ who would like to purchase additional drink tickets for alcoholic beverages must show a valid ID at check-in.
