Join us this month to design and craft your very own unique buttons. Choose from an array of vibrant colors and materials to bring your personalized messages to life. Wear yours with pride on shirts and backpacks or share with a friend!




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.

Creating self-portraits is an opportunity to reflect on the physical aspects of our identity. Join OMA and students from the MiraCosta College Transitions program in a portrait-making project. No experience is needed—just bring your enthusiasm! Mix, mingle, and create funky, unique portraits that celebrate you or your family.

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.

Join us for free collaborative puzzle decorating on Sunday, August 6, from 12:00-2:00 pm! Uniquely design individual puzzle pieces with various materials, and watch as we assemble them into a beautiful symbol of the Oceanside community. Supplies and snacks are always first come, first serve, and all ages are welcome! 

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.

Join OMA and Cynthia’s Artistic Expressions for a workshop celebrating plein-air painting, specifically focusing on creating stunning outdoor scenes on rocks! Let us guide you through essential techniques while exploring the nature of Oceanside for inspiration. Enjoy a relaxed and supportive atmosphere where you’ll learn how to bring your stones to life. Please feel free to bring a stone of your choice, otherwise, we will provide you with one. Unleash your creativity and join us for a workshop that rocks!

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.

Join OMA in partnership with San Diego-based arts non-profit, Art Produce, for our June Art For All: Wildflower Pinch Pots! Come craft eco-friendly planters that are filled with a variety of colorful California wildflowers seeds to disperse in your community. After filling your pot with seeds, plant or leave them in public spaces to provide food and habitat for native pollinators.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pictured: Morris Louis, Untitled, 1959.