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    OMCA reopening postponed

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    OMCA in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

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Black Lives Matter Murals

Art for the Movement Guiding Principles

OMCA is involved in a partnership to preserve, steward, and present the artwork and murals being created at this moment, and the efforts underway, including our role, are included below.

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Updates

OMCA opening postponed due to COVID-19

Due to Alameda County's shift to Purple Tier, the Oakland Museum of California’s plans to reopen on November 20 to Members and November 27 to the general public will now be postponed.

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An Introduction to Dorothea Lange’s Personal Archive

Posted by Cheyenne Matthe... on24Jul

OMCA Curator Drew Johnson talks about the power of Dorothea Lange’s photography and how her archive came to OMCA.

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Skeleton doll with words reading: 26th Virtual El Día de los Muertos Community Celebration, October 25, 2020
November 18, 2020

The Power of Partnership

OMCA’s El Día de los Muertos Volunteer Committee Steps Up to Help us Share the Tradition Virtually
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Black and white image of a grown man's hands and a small child's hands
August 7, 2020

Explore Five Rare Dorothea Lange Photos From Her Studio Portrait Series

Discover Lange’s lesser-known photographs and more on OMCA’s new Dorothea Lange Digital Archive, launching August 10.
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Paul S. Taylor, Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, circa 1935. © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
July 31, 2020

How OMCA is making Dorothea Lange’s archive available for all

Want to know how OMCA digitizes Dorothea Lange’s work? Photographic Collection Cataloger Ellis Martin takes us behind the scenes.
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