Oakland Museum of California

This Saturday, find out what candidates have to say about their commitment to cultural life in Oakland and its role in the Town’s recovery and future. Join in virtually on Sunday, October 6, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. with Azucena Rasilla, Cultural Reporter for The Oaklandside, who will moderate the forum. Attendance limited. Please register using the following link https://lnkd.in/dfSiJwUm To Be Announced - Districts 1, 3 and 7 Hosted by a coalition of arts leaders & organizations and Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission

Find out what candidates have to say about their commitment to cultural life in Oakland and its role in the Town’s recovery and future. Join in virtually, on Sunday, October 6: 10:00 - 11:30 am with Azucena Rasilla, Cultural Reporter for The Oaklandside who will be moderating the forum. Attendance limited. Please register using the following link https://lnkd.in/dfSiJwUm To Be Announced - Districts 1, 3 and 7 Hosted by a coalition of arts leaders & organizations and Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission

Shop exclusive merch inspired by our major exhibition, Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples at the OMCA Shop! Members receive 10% off full-priced items in-store and online! 🎨🌟 https://shop.museumca.org/ #ShopOakland #OMCA ⁠

We’re excited that the 2024 Oakland Style, presented by our friends at Visit Oakland @visitOakland is coming up October 9-13! ✨️⭐️💃🕺⭐️✨️ Oakland Style will feature culinary experiences, art walks, fashion shows, musical performances, haute couture moments, vintage shopping, and so much more. Check out the full calendar of stylish happenings throughout The Town. Be sure to check out A Taste of Style October 12 with specialty food and fashion show featuring creatively styled vintage looks from the Oakland Museum Women's Board famed and beloved White Elephant Sale. For more info: https://lnkd.in/gTzv5uH4

OMCA is excited to celebrate the 30th Annual Día de los Muertos Community Celebration! ✨️💀🌺💀✨️ Join us at OMCA, Sunday, October 27, and enjoy hands-on activities, tasty food, dance and music groups, colorful ofrendas, and ceremonia bring the community together for this healing tradition. View community-created ofrendas throughout the OMCA gardens paying homage to loved ones and support local artisans by purchasing Día de los Muertos goods for your home altar at our mercado. Since the first celebration, OMCA's Día de los Muertos has grown and revitalized our relationships, bringing together communities from Oakland and the Bay Area. Our celebration brings together danza, diverse artists and traditional ofrenda-makers, pan de muerto and tlaxcalli (tortilla) makers and music from diverse regions in Mexico and Latin America. Feel free to bring your own picnic! Buy your ticket online or limited tickets will be available at the door. 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/gGQJdwFb #OMCA #DíadelosMuertos #OaklandCelebration #Ceremonia 📸: Christine Cueto

You can now see our new installation, Collecting a Moment, displaying contemporary additions to OMCA’s collection! 🖼️ Featuring selected works and objects that represent the art and culture of the time, we invite you to check out works by Dalbert Castro, Katherine Sherwood, Katy Grannan, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Karen May, as well as objects including a 1940s costume worn by dancer Fei Ying, and a bullhorn and Anti Police-Terror Project mask owned by Cat Brooks. The works in the installation are the result of OMCA’s new collecting process that seeks to respond to timely issues and move away from more traditional museum collecting priorities. Collecting a Moment is included with regular Museum admission. 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/drRW2fRh #OMCA #CollectingaMoment

We are excited to announce that we are adding a new feature to our Gallery of California Art! 🏛️🖼️🏛️ Opening tomorrow, September 20, Collecting a Moment, a new installation displaying recent additions to the OMCA collection features a selection of contemporary works and objects that represent the art and culture of the times. We invite you to check out works by Dalbert Castro, Katherine Sherwood, Katy Grannan, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Karen May, as well as objects including a 1940s costume worn by dancer Fei Ying, and a bullhorn and Anti Police Terror Project mask owned by Cat Brooks. The works in the installation are the result of OMCA’s new collecting process that seeks to respond to timely issues and move away from more traditional museum collecting priorities. This ongoing and evolving installation will reveal some of the many ways California artists, activists, and others claim cultural space, question societal norms, gain power, and engage the larger questions of our time. Collecting a Moment is included with regular Museum admission. For tickets and information, visit www.museumca.org. 📸: Katherine Sherwood, Olympia, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles. © Katherine Sherwood #OMCA #CollectingaMoment #MuseumsAcquireResponsibly

Calling all food and fashion enthusiasts! 📣 OMCA is thrilled again to be part of A Taste of Style, a celebration of Oakland's finest Michelin Recommended Restaurants. Get tickets for Saturday, October 12, 2024, at Bloc15 where Chefs from eight of Oakland’s MICHELIN-recommended restaurants will each prepare a stylish dish inspired by famous artists. Attendees can enjoy a fashion show featuring creatively styled vintage looks from the Oakland Museum Women's Board's famed and beloved White Elephant Sale. Cocktail and Hors d'oeuvre reception, four-course dinner with wine pairings, and fashion show to benefit Oakland Art Murmur and Oakland Museum of California. https://lnkd.in/gwusGwvm #oaklandstyle #oaklandloveit #oaklandevents

"If we ourselves do not preserve, record, analyze, interpret, and articulate our history, who will? " —Margaret ‘Margie’ Terrazas-Santos Come celebrate Oakland Orgullo and see our major exhibition, Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples and experience intergenerational, feminist, queer, and Xicanx-Indigenous artworks now on view in our Great Hall. ✨️🖼️✨️ #OMCA #Calli #XicanxArt #OaklandOrgullo 📸: Kamiko Fujii

Hey, California web surfers! 🕸️🏄🕸️ Starting today, OMCA is excited to launch a substantially expanded, publicly accessible collections website sharing more than 300,000 objects from our collections focusing on the art, history and natural sciences of California! (Insert cyber mega horn noise here) 📣 The new site’s enhancements include: ●Enhanced search capabilities and results filters ● User-friendly comment capability ● Regularly refreshed content cadence Start searching today!🧑💻🖥️🖱️ https://lnkd.in/g5m78Yfy