Collecting a Moment

On view now | Gallery of California Art

Opening September 20, Collecting a Moment, a new installation displaying new additions to the OMCA collection, highlights the art and culture of the moment and illuminates history in the making. 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 that impact the communities of Oakland and California. Representing a move away from more traditional museum collecting priorities, Collecting a Moment shows some of the ways we center our institutional relationships with diverse community groups and voices.

This ongoing and changing 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.