As part of our Two-Day Workshop series, join Robin Douglas to investigate both inner and outer landscapes. Be inspired to create dream-like compositions similar to the works of artists like Salvador Dalí, Dorothea Tanning and Paul Klee, as well as OMA’s current exhibition A Kind of Heaven. All supplies for your original artwork will be provided and artists of all levels are welcome.
Members $70, Visitors $100
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: Dorothea Tanning, A Very Happy Picture, 1947
Join Robin Douglas to create one-of-a-kind monoprints in this exciting, hands-on workshop. Make your mark with this quick and spontaneous technique and build upon layers of color and texture like artists Helen Frankenthaler and Louise Nevelson. Expect to work on a couple of pieces at once to create a diptych. Enjoy appetizers and drinks during a brief presentation before creating an original work of art. All materials provided.
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.
Pictured: Helen Frankenthaler, Weeping Crabapple, 2009.
Two-Day Workshop: Multiple Surface Exploration
Explore the depth and texture of a variety of printmaking exercises on several levels from mono prints, etching, collagraphs and other techniques. Join Robin Douglas for a two-day workshop to create single and multiple prints on cloth and paper in the vein of Paul Gauguin, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Rauschenberg. all supplies for your original artwork will be provided and artists of all levels are welcome.
members $70, visitors $100
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: Glen Alps, Collagraph #1, 1956
Community Art Days: Living (Art) History
Get the most out of your Free First Sunday experience at OMA by creating your very own work of art inspired by some of the fresh creations on display at the museum. Join artist Trinh Mai to explore how art can be a thread that connects our family histories through memory and storytelling. This workshop will be open to all ages and will encourage the creation of collaged artworks using family photos for artists to hang in their homes and to keep their loved ones in sight, in mind, and in heart. Whether you are an aspiring professional or exercising your artistic abilities for the first time, Free First Sundays are the perfect time to be creative at OMA.
Free
Limited space is available. This workshop is open to all ages but children must be accompanied by an adult.
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.
Plein Air Paint Out At Buccaneer Beach
Open to artists at any level, join OMA’s Artist Alliance for this non-instructed opportunity to paint en plein air with peers at Buccaneer Beach in Oceanside. Join fellow Artist Alliance members at Coffee and Conversation after to share your work over a cup of coffee until 2:00pm.
Artwork pictured by Lydia Velarde.
Gala
It was just over twenty five years ago when what started as the dream of a handful of citizens became the reality of an entire community. OMA hosted its first official exhibition in the historic Irving J. Gill building in 1997. This coming year, 2022, is the 25th anniversary of this momentous occasion.
To acknowledge this historic milestone, OMA friends and supporters will be hosting a 25th Anniversary Gala at The Seabird Resort in Oceanside, California on Saturday, February 26, 2022. The Gala will launch a year of festivities, both small and large, as we bring people together to celebrate the transformative power of art.
Film Screening: A Choice of Weapons
“I might have turned to the gun or the knife, but by then I had chosen the camera.”
– Gordon Parks
Join us in-person at Oceanside Museum of Art for a free community screening of the film A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (99 minutes). Presented in partnership with Oceanside Public Library and the North County African American Women’s Association, the film explores the power of images in advancing racial, economic, and social equality as seen through the lens of Gordon Parks, one of America’s most trailblazing artists, and the generation of young photographers, filmmakers, and activists he inspired. From the 1940s through the 2000s, Parks’ bold and revealing body of work captured the intersections of art, race, class and politics across the United States, documenting civil rights and social justice as part of the everyday experience.
Free copies of the book A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks will be given away by Oceanside Public Library while supplies last.
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks is a co-production of Kunhardt Films and HBO. Film for this screening provided by Kunhardt Film Foundation.
Free
Due to an overwhelming response, we are currently at full capacity for this event. However, we are actively exploring the option of a dual screening. To learn more, please join our Waitlist.
Taste of Art: Composition and Impact
As part of our Refresh and React series, join Robin Douglas to connect to art on a multi-sensory level by exploring the essential question – what makes a work of art work? Dive deep into the work of artists like Gustav Klimt, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Wassily Kandinsky to dissect the dominant and subdominant parts of their unique compositions to inspire the elements of your own painting working to create one stunning image. All supplies for your original artwork will be provided and artists of all levels are welcome.
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.
image above: Gustav Klimt, Der Kuss, 1907
Taste of Art: Lush Landscapes
As part of our Refresh and React series, join Robin Douglas to tap into your artistic senses by exploring the lush jungle scenes and landscapes inspired by the dreamy works of Henri Rousseau. Immerse yourself in green leaves and grasses, blue sea water and orangish purple skies to paint your own paradise. All supplies for your original artwork will be provided and artists of all levels are welcome.
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.
image above: Henri Rousseau, Exotic Landscape in Africa, 1910
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