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.
Meet the artists and curator of the newest exhibition at OMA West, a fascinating juxtaposition of works by Kelly Witmer and Mônica Lóss. Taking place at The Seabird, a boutique art resort in downtown Oceanside, you’ll enjoy light refreshments as you experience a rich visual and tactile conversation, illustrating how art can transcend cultural and material boundaries.
Gathering Light: Artist Alliance at Ashton Gallery Reception
Join members of OMA’s Artist Alliance to celebrate their most recent exhibition, Gathering Light, at Ashton Gallery @ Art on 30th in the the vibrant North Park Arts and Culture District of San Diego. Enjoy light refreshments and an artful evening as you explore a show that is luminous, bright, hopeful, reflective both literally and in concept, and reviving in spirit. Free.
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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