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.
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.
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.
To RSVP, please email Katelyn Johnson, Membership Manager at membership@oma-online.org.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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Inspired by our current exhibition 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.
This program was curated by Lou Niles, Executive Director of the Oceanside International Film Festival; Oceanside Cultural District Steering Committee Member; beloved DJ for 91x longest-running show, Loudspeaker; Executive Producer at Love Machine Films and champion of the San Diego music scene.