• Semi-Annual Member Shop Sale

    Gran Sala OMCA 1000 Oak, Oakland, California

    ¡Es hora de las rebajas! Únete a nosotros, tanto en persona como en línea, para la venta semestral para socios en la tienda del OMCA. Desde el viernes 5 de diciembre hasta el domingo 7 de diciembre, los socios del OMCA disfrutarán del doble de su descuento habitual en los artículos a precio normal de nuestra tienda: ¡eso supone un 20 % de descuento!

    Ventajas para los miembros
  • Spotlight Sundays: Local Short Film Showcase and Conversation with Cinemama

    Teatro James Moore 1000 Oak St,, Oakland, California, Estados Unidos

    This Spotlight Sundays, we are excited to partner with Oakland’s filmmaking community hub Cinemama, featuring two local films exploring identity, place, and resilience—themes featured in our current exhibition, Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory. Welcome to the Neighborhood (28min) follows the Howard family, who joined the growing number of African Americans moving to Berkeley during WWII. Directed by Pam Uzzell, this story examines the forces of gentrification and the resistance movement led by Mildred’s mother, Mable Howard. 

    $10
  • Member Tours: Gallery Walk with Preparator Supervisor and Taxidermist, Alicia Goode

    Galería de Ciencias Naturales de California 1000 Oak St., Oakland, California, Estados Unidos

    Join Alicia Goode, Preparator Supervisor and Taxidermist, as she leads us on a tour of OMCA’s Gallery of California Natural Sciences. The tour will showcase the beautiful and intricate dioramas, along with other displays and specimens she has helped to design and create for the Museum. This is a unique experience to learn from a professional taxidermist and museum preparator who oversees the maintenance of the permanent natural science exhibits at OMCA.

    Gratuito para los socios
  • Member Preview Hours for BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration

    Be among the first to experience BeHere/1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration—an immersive gallery installation and augmented reality (AR) experience by world-renowned media artist, Masaki Fujihata. Reflecting on the impact of Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the exhibition uses digital media to reframe how history and memory are seen and felt.

    Gratuito para los socios
  • Member Preview Opening for BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration

    SOLD OUT—Be among the first to experience BeHere/1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration—an immersive gallery installation and augmented reality (AR) experience by world-renowned media artist, Masaki Fujihata. Reflecting on the impact of Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the exhibition uses digital media to reframe how history and memory are seen and felt.

    Gratuito para los socios
  • Spotlight Sundays: Alice Street Screening with Malonga Arts Dance and Drums

    Teatro James Moore 1000 Oak St,, Oakland, California, Estados Unidos

    This month’s Spotlight Sundays highlights the story and spirit of Oakland as a nexus of community belonging and resilience in the face of rapid gentrification, themes central to Mildred Howard’s artwork and practice. We will screen the documentary Alice Street, directed by Spencer Wilkinson, which narrates how a neighborhood mural on 14th and Alice Street catalyzed a multiracial coalition to rally in protection of cultural arts and livability in Oakland. 

    $10
  • Spotlight Sundays: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

    Teatro James Moore 1000 Oak St,, Oakland, California, Estados Unidos

    For this month’s Spotlight Domingo join us for a live production of Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, an immersive one-hour play written by Tess Taylor and directed by Ciera Eis. Last West was born from OMCA’s archive of Lange’s images and notebooks and returns to bring this legendary Bay Area photographer’s stories to life. We will travel with Lange as actors perform the journey outlined in her road journals and oral histories, and witness again the California we experience today. Set against a stunning projected backdrop of Lange’s photographs, this offering is a meditation on witness, migration, and time. 

    $10