Parents can explore OMA’s current exhibitions while the little ones go downstairs to the Van Hunnick Education Center and get creative. Stories, music, and other activities get kids ready to create their own masterpiece to take home. For May the kids with explore and discuss shadows, colors, and feelings as they make a silhouette and use watercolors to decorate it.
Instructor: Corinna Stocker
Parents can explore OMA’s current exhibitions while the little ones go downstairs to the Van Hunnick Education Center and get creative. Stories, music, and other activities get kids ready to create their own masterpiece to take home. For the April project kids will learn about Earth Day and recycling, decorate a recycled pot, and plant a tiny garden for mom.
Instructor: Corinna Stocker
Join OMA at the James Hubbell/Ilan-Lael Foundation Open House and Studio Tour as our education department hosts a creative project at the home of James and Anne Hubbell in Julian. OMA will be set up at the new Art Center, James Hubbell’s latest project on the property. The project is included with your admission ticket. Come and be inspired by art, architecture and nature in a way you won’t soon forget.
Tickets can be purchased online here.
$50 general admission, $30 student (under 22) and military (with i.d.), $40 seniors (65 and older), children 12 and under are free.
Park your car and catch the shuttle at:
Julian Station/Wynola Farms Marketplace
4470 Hwy 78
Julian CA 92036
Two-day class: Tuesday & Thursday, April 5 & 7, 1:00–4:00pm. Mono printing, collographs and relief printing will be utilized to create unique prints in single and multiple editions.
Instructor: Robin Douglas
Come create in a studio environment using provided recycled materials and other art supplies. Projects for all ages will offer inspiration, or you can bring your own ideas/work-in-progress and just enjoy the group’s collaborative energy.
$5 per adult (includes 2 children under 18). Free museum admission!
Hand-carved rubber stamps of your own design are a wonderful addition to an artist’s personal toolbox. Create a few designs to be used again and again for journaling, scrapbooking, fabric surface design, and mixed media. Instruction includes developing images and understanding how they will translate as a stamp followed by carving the designs into small reusable printmaking blocks.
Instructor: Jane LaFazio
Materials List
Students MUST bring:
Supplied by OMA, but you may bring your own:
Art museums are considered cathedrals of the late 20th century and beginning of the 21st. Major collections of art will be explored along with their benefactors, exhibitions, and museums.
Billions of dollars are spent each year on the collection of art by the wealthy and powerful. These elite art collectors are nothing new. The most influential people of Europe have bought or stolen art for centuries. Thanks to kings and conquerors, the treasures of the Louvre and other art museums did not appear by accident.
This presentation will explore the early 20th century collection of Dr. Albert Barnes of Philadelphia and contrast that with the contemporary 21st century artwork collected by Eli Broad of Los Angeles. Both men exemplify a vision for the artistic creativity of their time. The Barnes Collection has more Renoirs than the entire city of Paris. His diverse collections of old masters and Impressionism cannot be priced. Eli Broad collects one work of contemporary art each week. He has over $2.2 billion worth of art as of 2015.
Lecturer: Robin Douglas
OMA is having a garage sale to clean out our closets and storage rooms to make room for more art! Join us for this fun event as a volunteer, donor, or savvy bargain shopper! We’ll have some great items for sale! Interested in donating some of your own gently used treasures? Call (760) 435-3721 for details.
Hedda Gabler is arguably one of the most complex and intriguing female characters ever written. The mesmerizing tale of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage and driven by a need for power and freedom will inspire art for this upcoming exhibition.
Artist Alliance submissions deadline: April 25
Exhibition reception: June 9
A flood of Biblical proportions on the mighty Mississippi provides the dramatic backdrop to this gripping, edge-of-your seat adventure as well as inspiration for the works in the exhibition. Adapted from the William Faulkner short story, Old Man, Way Downriver reveals an unlikely pair of souls who are bound together by the forces of nature, and who struggle to overcome their fears and prejudice in order to survive harrowing experiences.
Artist Alliance submissions deadline: March 7
Exhibition reception: April 21