Mix and mingle with fellow Cultural Cohort members, artists, and young professionals in the OMA network. Enjoy the unique eateries and beverages inspired by local artist, Brady Wilmott, currently exhibiting Buck Wild at KNVS, and try your luck in winning a giveaway!
Not an OMA member? You are still welcome to join us.
Members free, Visitors $5
Member Market
Join us for our Member Market!
Support OMA, local artists, and shop at our Museum Store on Saturday, April 15, 12:00-2:00pm. Members are invited to enjoy complimentary mimosas and receive door prizes such as exclusive discounts while they browse through unique local goods.
Not an OMA member? You are more than welcome to join us regardless.
Yoga at the Museum
Delve and Oceanside Museum of Art are pleased to present a donation-based yoga class to mark International Women’s Day and raise money for refugee girls.
Join us at the museum to move your body, connect with your breath, and make a difference. No yoga experience is necessary. This class will feature beginner-friendly poses with options for more experienced yogis. Please bring a mat and a small blanket if possible, though loaner mats will be available.
Please visit Delveif you have questions about the class or waiver and learn where your tax-deductible contribution will go.
General Public $20
AI Generated Art: A Panel Discussion
Moderated by Greg Klamt
A flood of generative AI (artificial intelligence) tools are transforming how we create words and images. Art and design—and other fields—are in upheaval due to apps like MidJourney, Dall-E, and others. Anyone with any level of experience or talent can now create high-quality images in seconds from a text prompt. Organized by independent curator Vallo Riberto, this panel will explore the questions – What is this technology, and what is it not? Is it really art? How does it impact careers, culture, aesthetics, ethics, and the law? How do we adapt?
Join us for a panel discussion with digital art professionals:
Memo Akten, PhD, Stephen Burns, Kaz Maslanka, and Larry Vogel.
General Public $15, OMA Members $10, Artist Alliance $5
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Pictured: Greg Klamt, A Puce Moose Lets Loose With a Chartreuse Goose and an Obteuse Mongoose, 2023.
Greg Klamt is a multi-media artist and designer from Oceanside, CA who explores story-making through art, design, music, animation, words, theatre, code, and other expressions. His digital art has been in galleries, exhibitions, and publications and won numerous awards and his music recordings have received international acclaim. With over 40 years of digital art experience he combines a fascination with the human mind, social change, culture, history, philosophy and the intersection of art and technology.
Kaz Maslanka
Kaz Maslanka has been involved in the arts for more than 50 years and has been pioneering mathematical visual poetry since the early 1980’s. He has a strong international presence not only on his blog “Mathematical Poetry” but also with exhibitions of his work that has been validated by the disparate institutions of mathematics and poetry. He currently lives in San Diego California and serves on the advisory board for the San Diego based “Sonic Arts Studio” a group of composers and musicians devoted to the development and proliferation of microtonal music. He also served on the advisory board of the Bronowski Art and Science Forum in Del Mar, California.
Larry Vogel
Larry Vogel describes himself as an artist who uses the medium of photography as well as sculpture, painting, and ceramics. He has been an exhibiting artist for over forty years and is currently represented by the Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA. New explorations into the world of Artificial Intelligence have generated new works which Vogel describes as a collaborative experience. This collaboration results in photo-composited works created by combining AI generated images with photographs drawn from Vogel’s extensive body of image files. Vogel says, “This is truly a new frontier of creativity for me!”
Larry Vogel, and his partner Barbara Runge co-chair the Artist Alliance, an affiliate group supporting artists with exhibition and learning opportunities through the Oceanside Museum of Art. Membership and more information about Artist Alliance can be found here.
Memo Akten
Memo Akten is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, researcher and computer scientist from Istanbul, Turkey, currently based in Los Angeles. He explores the tensions between ecology, technology, science and spirituality; studying intelligence in nature, intelligence in machines, perception, consciousness, neuroscience, physics and (philosophies of) spirituality, ritual and religion. He uses code as his craft to create images, sounds, films, large-scale responsive installations and performances. He received his PhD from Goldsmiths University of London, specializing in creative applications of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning with Meaningful Human Control, and in this field he is considered one of the world’s leading pioneers. He is currently Assistant Professor of Computational Art and Design at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Stephen Burns
Stephen Burns (www.chromeallusion.com) is a digital artist and author of books on being creative with your digital tools. He is an Adobe AEL (Adobe Educational Leader) as well as an AdobeCommunity Expert and has taught digital creativity internationally. He is an Instructor at Goldenwest College and Santa Monica College and Coast College and Studio Arts of Los Angeles. He worked as a Pro-Artist for WACOM Technologies and he is the president Of Photoshop Users Group (www.sdphotoshopusers.com) which is currently the largest Adobe Photoshop Users group in the country. You can view the Facebook section by clicking here.
Lunch Hour Virtual Series | Art Road Trips: The Art and Architecture of New Museums
The architecture of art museums is like a beacon calling to people almost like a cathedral to see what is so valuable inside. 21st Century architects have pushed the limits to bring us an overall aesthetic experience while viewing masterpieces. Come around the world to explore these innovative art museums and their magnificent contents.
These lectures will explore the art, artists, architecture, and architects around the world who have created environments that challenge, entertain, inspire, and delight us.
REGISTRATION LINK COMING SOON
These informal drop-in workshops are open to all ages. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. All materials are provided free of charge, while supplies last.
Lunch Hour Virtual Series | Art Road Trips: The Art and Architecture of New Museums
The architecture of art museums is like a beacon calling to people almost like a cathedral to see what is so valuable inside. 21st Century architects have pushed the limits to bring us an overall aesthetic experience while viewing masterpieces. Come around the world to explore these innovative art museums and their magnificent contents.
These lectures will explore the art, artists, architecture, and architects around the world who have created environments that challenge, entertain, inspire, and delight us.
REGISTRATION LINK COMING SOON
These informal drop-in workshops are open to all ages. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. All materials are provided free of charge, while supplies last.
Lunch Hour Virtual Series | Art Road Trips: The Art and Architecture of New Museums
The architecture of art museums is like a beacon calling to people almost like a cathedral to see what is so valuable inside. 21st Century architects have pushed the limits to bring us an overall aesthetic experience while viewing masterpieces. Come around the world to explore these innovative art museums and their magnificent contents.
These lectures will explore the art, artists, architecture, and architects around the world who have created environments that challenge, entertain, inspire, and delight us.
REGISTRATION LINK COMING SOON
These informal drop-in workshops are open to all ages. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. All materials are provided free of charge, while supplies last.
First Free Sunday | Art For All
OMA welcomes friends and neighbors on Free First Sundays to join in Art For All, our fun hands-on art-making experience led by artists and cultural partners from our community. Whether you’re new to art or have your own creative flow, Art For All is the time to let your imagination soar.
Each month OMA invites community partners to create an art-making experience for all levels. Participants are encouraged to spark inspiration by visiting current exhibitions. Explore different art-making materials through creative projects at each session while learning from local and regional artists. Check back each month to see what we’re up to next!
REGISTRATION LINK COMING SOON
These informal drop-in workshops are open to all ages. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. All materials are provided free of charge, while supplies last.
First Free Sunday | Art For All
OMA welcomes friends and neighbors on Free First Sundays to join in Art For All, our fun hands-on art-making experience led by artists and cultural partners from our community. Whether you’re new to art or have your own creative flow, Art For All is the time to let your imagination soar.
Each month OMA invites community partners to create an art-making experience for all levels. Participants are encouraged to spark inspiration by visiting current exhibitions. Explore different art-making materials through creative projects at each session while learning from local and regional artists. Check back each month to see what we’re up to next!
REGISTRATION LINK COMING SOON
These informal drop-in workshops are open to all ages. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. All materials are provided free of charge, while supplies last.
First Free Sunday | Art For All
OMA welcomes friends and neighbors on Free First Sundays to join in Art For All, our fun hands-on art-making experience led by artists and cultural partners from our community. Whether you’re new to art or have your own creative flow, Art For All is the time to let your imagination soar.
Each month OMA invites community partners to create an art-making experience for all levels. Participants are encouraged to spark inspiration by visiting current exhibitions. Explore different art-making materials through creative projects at each session while learning from local and regional artists. Check back each month to see what we’re up to next!
REGISTRATION LINK COMING SOON
These informal drop-in workshops are open to all ages. Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. All materials are provided free of charge, while supplies last.
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