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
Taste of Art: Drawing With Expression
As part of our Refresh and React series, join Robin Douglas to invigorate your creative spirit by exploring the expressive drawing techniques perfected in the tradition of Chinese landscape painting. Connect to art making as a meditative practice through marking making with wet and dry techniques, and follow your creativity to create captivating imagery, both expansive and petite. 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: Wu Guanzhong, Banyan and the Sea, 1997.
Two-Day Workshop: Exploring Composition and Design
Be a part of our Refresh and React series and invest in the fundamentals shared by all artists, no matter if you are a seasoned pro or early on in your creative development. Join Robin Douglas for a two-day workshop to take a fresh look at your work by revisiting the basics and gain a deeper understanding of what holds a work of art together to spellbind the viewer. With a focus on the intersection of creativity and the underlying elements and principles of design, create unique and expressive compositions of still life, landscape and abstraction. 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.
image above: Lee Krasner, Combast, 1965 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
Two-Day Workshop: Remarkable Painting Techniques
Be a part of our Refresh and React series and invest in the fundamentals shared by all artists, no matter if you are a seasoned pro or early on in your creative development. Join Robin Douglas for a two-day workshop to take a fresh look at your work by revisiting the basics and expand your repertoire of multiple painting techniques by using multiple layers, overlapping and transparent washes, impasto, glazes, hard edge and more inventive processes. With an emphasis on the study of color in nature, 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.
image above: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881.
Two-Day Workshop: All About Color
Be a part of our Refresh and React series and invest in the fundamentals shared by all artists, no matter if you are a seasoned pro or early on in your creative development. Join Robin Douglas for a two-day workshop to take a fresh look at your work by revisiting the basics and experiment with vibrant, glowing colors and unique combinations inspired by the color palette of many masterpieces throughout the ages, including Vincent van Gogh, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and more. 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.
