Let’s join together to create something special: a vibrant pride flag made entirely out of pom poms! Stop by Art For All to learn how to make colorful yarn pom poms with artist Katie Ruiz. These will then be added to OMA’s pride flag, which will be displayed at the museum this June in a celebration of Pride Month alongside the city of Oceanside.
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!
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.
Free First 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!
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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.
Free First 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.
Join us at our printmaking workshop with our March partner: Able ARTS Work! Be introduced to block printing and print a portrait of Frida Kahlo, created by Able ARTS Work’s resident artist, Timothy Holmes. The teaching artists will show you how to use brayers to ink the blocks, then use printing presses to pull your own Frida Kahlo print to take home.
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!
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.
Studio Arts with Robin Douglas | Colors of the Grand Canyon: Meditating On Nature with David Hockney and Ben Chambers
Many artists such as Ben Chambers and David Hockney have used the Grand Canyon as the ideal model of nature. The magnificent colors and shapes, the grandeur and energy of this natural phenomenon will be the inspiration in this studio. Join Robin Douglas for this all-day immersion starting with art slides for inspiration, light snacks, and art making.
What is Studio Arts?
Join us every other month for Studio Arts, when OMA transforms into an artist’s studio, offering skill-building workshops led by distinguished professor and arts educator Robin Douglas. Inspired by world-renowned artists, and practicing artists with exhibitions at OMA, you will explore different media, techniques, and subjects found in an artist’s studio. This full day workshop held from 10:00am-3:00pm is meant to get you in the art-making groove and develop new approaches to seeing and creating artwork. Whether you have a lifetime practice or are new to expressing yourself, we exchange ideas and techniques in a supportive and challenging environment. Students of all levels are welcome to stretch their creative muscles and build community with us. All supplies and light refreshments for each workshop are included in the cost. A break for lunch and a relaxed discussion will occur midday. Please bring your own bagged lunch or feel free to visit one of the restaurants close by on our provided list.
Members $70, Visitors $100
Member? Sign in to your account to receive your discount.
Pictured: David Hockney, A Closer Grand Canyon, 1998.
Studio Arts with Robin Douglas | Exploding Abstract Expressionism: Action Painting with Jackson Pollock and Morris Louis
Morris Louis and Jackson Pollock, let the paint’s energy direct the mixing and composition. The action painting and color field process uses the paint viscosity for somewhat spontaneous paintings. Work large on raw canvases unstretched. Join Robin Douglas for this all-day immersion starting with art slides for inspiration, light snacks, and art making.
What is Studio Arts?
Join us every other month for Studio Arts, when OMA transforms into an artist’s studio, offering skill-building workshops led by distinguished professor and arts educator Robin Douglas. Inspired by world-renowned artists, and practicing artists with exhibitions at OMA, you will explore different media, techniques, and subjects found in an artist’s studio. This full day workshop held from 10:00am-3:00pm is meant to get you in the art-making groove and develop new approaches to seeing and creating artwork. Whether you have a lifetime practice or are new to expressing yourself, we exchange ideas and techniques in a supportive and challenging environment. Students of all levels are welcome to stretch their creative muscles and build community with us. All supplies and light refreshments for each workshop are included in the cost. A break for lunch and a relaxed discussion will occur midday. Please bring your own bagged lunch or feel free to visit one of the restaurants close by on our provided list.
Members $70, Visitors $100
Member? Sign in to your account to receive your discount.
Studio Arts with Robin Douglas | Vivacity, Verve, and Vigor: The Energetic Architecture of Georgia O’Keeffe
From New York City to Santa Fe, O’Keeffe studied and captured the intrigue of architecture. Simplified but never simple her work will inspire this studio. Subtle colors and high contrast, calm to dramatic, your work will have its own unique energy. Join Robin Douglas for this all-day immersion starting with art slides for inspiration, light snacks, and art making.
What is Studio Arts?
Join us every other month for Studio Arts, when OMA transforms into an artist’s studio, offering skill-building workshops led by distinguished professor and arts educator Robin Douglas. Inspired by world-renowned artists, and practicing artists with exhibitions at OMA, you will explore different media, techniques, and subjects found in an artist’s studio. This full day workshop held from 10:00am-3:00pm is meant to get you in the art-making groove and develop new approaches to seeing and creating artwork. Whether you have a lifetime practice or are new to expressing yourself, we exchange ideas and techniques in a supportive and challenging environment. Students of all levels are welcome to stretch their creative muscles and build community with us. All supplies and light refreshments for each workshop are included in the cost. A break for lunch and a relaxed discussion will occur midday. Please bring your own bagged lunch or feel free to visit one of the restaurants close by on our provided list.
Members $70, Visitors $100
Member? Sign in to your account to receive your discount.
Pictured: Georgia O’Keeffe, Radiator Building Night New York, 1927.
Studio Arts with Robin Douglas | Dare to Dot: Pointlism inspired by George Seurat and the Australian Aborigines
Australian Aborigines and George Seurat knew the power of the dot. Create your own masterpiece using a variety of colors and round shapes in this month’s studio. Using methods of color theory and spirituality. Join Robin Douglas for this all-day immersion starting with art slides for inspiration, light snacks, and art making.
What is Studio Arts?
Join us every other month for Studio Arts, when OMA transforms into an artist’s studio, offering skill-building workshops led by distinguished professor and arts educator Robin Douglas. Inspired by world-renowned artists, and practicing artists with exhibitions at OMA, you will explore different media, techniques, and subjects found in an artist’s studio. This full day workshop held from 10:00am-3:00pm is meant to get you in the art-making groove and develop new approaches to seeing and creating artwork. Whether you have a lifetime practice or are new to expressing yourself, we exchange ideas and techniques in a supportive and challenging environment. Students of all levels are welcome to stretch their creative muscles and build community with us. All supplies and light refreshments for each workshop are included in the cost. A break for lunch and a relaxed discussion will occur midday. Please bring your own bagged lunch or feel free to visit one of the restaurants close by on our provided list.
Members $70, Visitors $100
Member? Sign in to your account to receive your discount.
Free Panel Discussion | The Herstory of Black Women in the American West: Renowned Historian, Experts, and Descendants
Renowned historians, descendants, and experts in the field will explore the struggles, triumphs, and significance of the brave African American women who made a life on the frontier. The free in-person panel discussion will include themes in the lives of prominent figures like Biddy Mason, who became one of the first citizens and landowners in Los Angeles in the 1850s and 1860s.
Speakers in the panel include; Dr. Kevin Waite (Associate Professor- Modern American History, Durham University), Angela Wilkinson (Biddy Mason descendant), Shawntai Mitchum (Ph.D. student with a background in Black Feminism, University of Southern California), Jackie Broxton (Executive Director of the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation), and Moderation by Edwina Williams (Professor in the Department of Sociology, MiraCosta College).
Free panel discussion. Limited capacity. RSVP to save your spot.
Panelists selected by NCAAWA and OPL.
Moderator Angela Wilkinson
Angela Wilkinson was born Angela Rona in Martinez, Ca to Herbert Israel And Ruby Lean Rona, and was the
second oldest of 8 children, 5 Girls, and 3 Boys. Angela has 2 Children, 1 Boy and 1 Girl, and 2 Grandchildren a
Boy and a Girl one 14 yrs old and one 15 yrs old. Angela’s father passed away 5 yrs ago in June 2017. Her 3rd
great-grandmother was Hannah (Dorn) Smith–Embers.
Ancestry of Angela Wilkinson
Hannah Dorn-Smith was born into Slavery in 1822, and that little was about Hannah only that she grew
up in the household of Rebecca Dorn whose family of Plantation owners had dozen of slaves who tended
to crops and the needs of the household.Amongst the slaves owned by Rebecca Dorn's – Smith family was Hannah and Biddy Mason. As far as we
know, Hannah was purchased by her brother and given to Rebecca when Rebecca married Robert May
Smith (it is said that Robert Smith’s Family were poor farmers) so when Robert Smith Married Rebecca
Dorn, he acquired her wealth. (Rebecca's Family gave Hannah as a gift to help Rebecca with her needs
of the household and Rebecca due to Rebecca being sickly. Hannah and Biddy became the closest of Friends
throughout their lives, and It was said that Biddy was long time owned by Robert Smith.
Hannah like Biddy Mason, became an expert horsewoman and midwife and responded to all calls of the
day or night in addition to all and to the Mormons who settle at the Mormon Fort Colony settlement in
California in 1851, which was located where the San Bernardino Court House is Today.
Hannah married a slave by the name of Tobe Embers (which Tobe Embers had a brother by the name of
Grief Embers), (the Embers brothers from which I was told was the property of Bishop William Crosby at
that time). Hannah and Tobe had 8 Children from ages of newborn to 17 yrs old and one grandchild age
2 yrs old. Amongst her children, one married a Man born into slavery in 1848 by the name of Israel Beal
in December of 1870. Israel Beal played a significant role in the development of the City of Redlands
and the building of the original Big Bear Dam in the San Bernardino Mountains. The Daughter was
Martha Embers Beal, my 2nd great grandmother, who's granddaughter was Beatrice Isabel Beal –
Crosby, My Father's (Herbert Israel Rona's Mother) my Grandmother.
it was not known what happened to Hannah after she and Biddy attained their Freedom from Judge
Bejamin Hayes of Los Angeles.
We still to this day do not know where she is buried. It has been said by some that she might have
moved from California. but this has not been confirmed.
Dr. Kevin Waite
Dr. Kevin Waite is an associate professor of history at Durham University (UK) and the author of West of Slavery:
The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (UNC, 2021). West of Slavery won the 2022 Wiley-Silver Prize
from The Center for Civil War Research and was a finalist for three other book awards: the Lincoln Prize, the
SHEAR Manuscript Prize, and the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize from the Journal of Global Slavery. It was named one of
the "11 books that shaped how we think about California," by Boom: A Journal of California and one of the "Five
Best Books" ever written on the Civil War in the Far West by the Civil War Monitor. Kevin is currently writing a
history of the life and times of Biddy Mason, a formerly enslaved woman who helped build Black Los Angeles.
His articles have appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, Slate, The New
Republic, and The Washington Post, among others.
Shawntae Mitchum
Shawntae Mitchum (she/her) is an Associate Faculty member in the Sociology Department at MiraCosta College,
and Co-Creator/Coordinator of their very first campus-based Black Community Ally Training (BCAT). She is
working on her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Southern California and her current research project is
centered on the impact of the Summer 2020 racial uprisings on the experiences of Black higher education
professionals who engage in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work. After the completion of her Ph.D, she
hopes to continue her teaching career while advancing racial justice in higher education through research, policy, and practice.
Shawntae grew up in Oceanside, California, and spent most of her younger days living on Camp Pendleton. Her
father, Kevin Brown, is a United States Marine Corps Veteran who served over 20 years. She attributes her
success in life to her parents, Kevin and Donine, and the many mentors she has at MiraCosta College who all
pushed her to pursue academic excellence. As a first-generation college student, she has encountered many
barriers to higher education that she hopes to one day eliminate for students who look like her and come from
communities that are overlooked and underserved.
Jackie Broxton
Los Angeles native, Jackie Broxton serves as the President and CEO of the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation.
The Foundation created in 2013 provides services and support to both current and former foster youth in Los
Angeles County. Educated locally in Los Angeles City Schools Jackie developed a love of history and African
American History specifically in middle school. That love has grown over the years. Currently, Jackie is
completing a series of six one-act plays on conversations between Biddy Mason and other early Los Angeles
settlers. She is a 40-year member of First AME Church in Los Angeles where she has served in a variety of
leadership positions. She has been recognized by the Black Faculty and Staff of Los Angeles Community College
Association for her leadership within the foster care community. She is also a Community Outreach Director for
the Long Journey to Freedom an international research project examining the life of Biddy Mason. Additionally,
she is a founding member of 3FN, Faith Foster Families Network, an inner faith collaborative seeking to provide support to the foster youth and families impacted by the foster care system. She is the mother of one daughter,
Felicia Martin Hill, the Director of Media and Promotions for Essence Magazine and the grandmother to 2 boys,
Isaiah age 20, the lead character, Jace Carson in the Apple TV Series, Swagger, and Christian, age 13 a budding
writer.
Taste of Art | Let’s Get Textural: Landscapes and Still Lifes with Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn
Matisse's textures, patterns, colors, and compositions; all of these elements influenced California artist Richard Diebenkorn and his groundbreaking 20th century paintings. Come and paint beautiful still lives, landscapes, and interiors based on the styles of these artists. Join Robin Douglas for appetizers and drinks before creating your own masterpiece.
What is Taste of Art?
Kick off your weekend with a bite-sized happy hour version of our renowned Studio Arts workshops. Gather with friends in an artistic space designed to amplify your creative side. Join arts educator Robin Douglas, as we dip our toes into the work of celebrated artists over drinks and nibbles, followed by a rapid demonstration of their styles. You’ll then be guided to interpret these artists and create your own singular, spectacular work of art. We’ll help you express your unique style and ensure you have a blast doing it.
All levels of experience are encouraged to participate. OMA provides food, drinks, and supplies; all you have to do is get yourself out of work, grab your friends, and have fun!
Members $50, Visitors $65
Members will need to sign in online to receive their discount.
Taste of Art | It’s a Jungle Out There: Winter Tropics with Henri Rosseau
Lush green landscapes, colorful flowering plants, and peeping monkeys, all part of Rousseau’s compositions will be the theme of these paintings. Large sweeping brush strokes painted on canvas will be used to create these tropical paintings. Join Robin Douglas for appetizers and drinks before creating your own masterpiece.
What is Taste of Art?
Kick off your weekend with a bite-sized happy hour version of our renowned Studio Arts workshops. Gather with friends in an artistic space designed to amplify your creative side. Join arts educator Robin Douglas, as we dip our toes into the work of celebrated artists over drinks and nibbles, followed by a rapid demonstration of their styles. You’ll then be guided to interpret these artists and create your own singular, spectacular work of art. We’ll help you express your unique style and ensure you have a blast doing it. All levels of experience are encouraged to participate. OMA provides food, drinks, and supplies; all you have to do is get yourself out of work, grab your friends, and have fun!
Members $50, Visitors $65
Members will need to sign in online to receive their discount.
Limited space is available. This event will be held onsite at OMA in compliance with CDC, state, and county guidelines. Sanctioned social distancing will be followed and masks that cover both the nose and mouth are required to be worn at all times.
Pictured: Henri Rousseau, Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo.
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