New Member Welcome Event
Member: Free
New Member Welcome Event
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.
If you have any questions, please email Katelyn Johnson, Membership Manager.
Ticket Prices:
Member: Free
Art for All Activity | Matrix Multiplied
Join OMA’s Free First Sundays for Art for All! Each month, 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.
For this special Art for All, we’re thrilled to welcome the MiraCosta College Print Club in conjunction with the Matrix Multiplied exhibition. Participants can create simple silk screen prints on tote bags and cardstock (all materials provided), exploring repetition, layering, and the fundamentals of printmaking alongside emerging artists.
Whether you’re new to art or have your own creative flow, Art for All is the time to let your imagination soar. Visit our current exhibitions to spark your creativity! 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. All levels welcome!
Ticket Prices:
Free
Taste of Art Workshop | Printmaking Techniques
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.
Printmaking Techniques
Many techniques of this art form will be demonstrated; choose your favorite technique or try all of them. Try both mono printing and multiple layers techniques printed on quality handmade paper with a variety of vibrant inks.
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!
Ticket Prices:
Adult: $65
Member: $50
Space is limited. Register today!
Studio Arts Workshop | Multiple Printmaking Techniques
Join us 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, you will explore different media, techniques and subjects found in an artist’s studio. After a brief slide presentation for inspiration and context the session will continue with demonstrations.
Multiple Printmaking Techniques
In conjunction with OMA’s exhibition featuring 20 contemporary printmakers, this studio will explore a variety of techniques on quality papers and other surfaces. Mono printing as well as multi-layered processes will be explored with several hand-pulled prints.
This full day workshop held from 10:00am–2:00pm is meant to get you in the art making groove and develop new approaches to seeing and creating artworks. 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 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.
Ticket Prices:
Adult: $100
Member: $70
Space is limited. Register today!
FEBRUARY | Artist Alliance Quarterly Critique
Artist Alliance members, along with their guests, are welcome to engage in a group art share and critique, aimed at fostering professional growth. Not yet part of the alliance? No worries, you can join either before the event or on-site!
Ticket Prices:
Artist Alliance Member: Free
Coffee And Conversation With OMA Artist Alliance | Origin Stories: What Shaped Your Artistic Voice?
Relax over a steaming cup of coffee while engaging in lively conversations with local fellow artists and explore the captivating exhibitions at OMA for free. OMA’s Artist Alliance extends a warm invitation to sculptors, painters, photographers, and artists of all backgrounds to join in the experience.
Origin Stories: What Shaped Your Artistic Voice?
Explore the experiences, places, or people that formed your visual language.
Audience Takeaway: A short journaling prompt to reflect on their own creative beginnings.
Presenter Prompt: Tell a story from your early life that still influences your art today. Presenter to be determined*
*Please submit your name and website to cathy@artstudiosandiego.com to be selected as a presenter.
Ticket Prices:
Artist Alliance Member: Free
SPECIAL EVENT | Swell Plates Dinner at 24Suns
Join us for an intimate, extended evening at 24Suns, where art, conversation, and cuisine unfold together over the course of a thoughtfully paced experience.
Through a dynamic blend of artist insight and immersive culinary creativity, you will experience OMA like never before.
Sunday, February 1, 2026, 5:30PM–7:30PM PST | 24Suns, 3375 Mission Ave, Oceanside, CA 92058
$120 per person
Exhibiting artist Francisco Eme will share the stories, ideas, and inspirations behind Francisco Eme: Future Rituals & La eco-resistencia, offering insight into a practice that bridges ancestral knowledge, science, and contemporary media, inviting guests into a slower, more contemplative way of engaging with his work as they enjoy an elegant five-course dinner by 24Suns Co-Founder and Chef Nicholas Webber.
You will be guided through the creative intentions behind each course, including the Swell Plates dish inspired by Francisco’s exhibition at OMA, which pairs smoked pork rib with locally sourced wahoo shaped into a T-bone form, unified by a fermented fennel “souherb” crafted from foraged coastal herbs. Together, the artist’s reflections and the chef’s storytelling create a layered, immersive experience, one that connects art, ecology, and Oceanside’s landscape through dialogue, flavor, and shared presence.
An extension of Visit Oceanside’s Swell Plate Series.
Black History Month Community Conversation
BEYOND THE BUS: JO ANN ROBINSON AND THE REAL STORY OF THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
The North County African American Women’s Association, Oceanside Public Library, and Oceanside Museum of Art are partnering to present a special Black History Month program on February 21. The free event will take place from 2:00–5:00pm at Oceanside Museum of Art.
Attendees will experience a free play reading of “The Black Women Did it” by Anita Yellin Simons performed by local actors with a special narrator, Ted Lange (“Isaac” from “The Love Boat”). Following the reading, there will be a community discussion led by Dr. India Pierce, Black Studies professor at MiraCosta College. A reception will follow.
Attendees must register for free tickets prior to the event.
Ticket Prices:
Free
This event is currently at capacity, but we’d love to welcome more guests if space opens up. A waitlist line will open in person 15 minutes before the event, and we’ll begin offering any available spots at 2:00pm on a first come, first served basis to those who are present when called. Please note that waitlisted guests are not guaranteed admission to the panel. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to info@oma-online.org.
