OMCA Announces Public Programs and Events for 一月 2024
12月 15, 2023
Oakland Museum of California Announces Public Programs and Events in 一月 including the start of the Inaugural season of 星期四 After Hours at OMCA, a Panel with Malaquías Montoya and other artists from Special Exhibition Por el Pueblo, the final weeks of Into the Brightness, and expanded Gallery Chats featuring artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD
星期四 After Hours at OMCA
星期四, 一月 11 — 星期四, 三月 28, 2024 | 5—8 pm
The Oakland Museum of California introduces 星期四 After Hours at OMCA – a weekly night out at the Museum rich with cocktails, culture, and community. Visitors are invited to mingle at Town Fare Café by Chef Michele McQueen and enjoy drinks and light bites against a backdrop of music, or explore the galleries which come alive at night with a mix of pop-up performances, chats, live drawings, and more– just for adults!
星期四 After Hours programming is included in the cost of General Admission for Museum Guests and Free for Museum Members. Visitors do not require a ticket to enter Town Fare. For more information, please visit our website at museumca.org.
Major support for 星期四 After Hours at OMCA is provided by The Oakland Museum Women’s Board.
星期四, 一月 11 | 5-8 pm
Sketchboard Live Drawing and Gallery Chats in Gallery of California Arts
Bring your sketch pads and appetites to the kick off of 星期四 After Hours at OMCA. Mix and mingle over delightful cocktails prepared in OMCA’s Town Fare Café. After bites and beverages, head over to the Gallery of California Art for live drawing sessions hosted by Sketchboard, a BIPOC figure drawing collective, curating eclectic, diverse, and affordable events in the Bay Area over the last 10 years.
Programming in the galleries is included in the cost of General Admission for Museum Guests and Free for Museum Members. Town Fare Café will be open to visitors until 8 pm.
星期四, 一月 18 | 5—8 pm
Game Night & Pop-up Performance in Gallery of California History
The Gallery of California History will come alive with can’t-miss pop-up performances in the Gallery of California History. In between pop-up performances and strolls through OMCA’s award-winning galleries, stop by Town Fare for Game Night.
Programming in the galleries is included in the cost of General Admission for Museum Guests and Free for Museum Members. Town Fare Café will be open to visitors until 8 pm.
星期四, 一月 25 | 5—8 pm
Sketchboard Live Drawing and Gallery Chats
Pack your sketch pads and appetites! Delight in a special Town Fare menu in OMCA’s cafe, Town Fare by Chef Michele McQueen. After bites and beverages, head over to the Gallery of California Natural Sciences for a live drawing session hosted by Sketchboard, a BIPOC figure drawing collective, curating eclectic, diverse, and affordable events in the Bay Area over the last 10 years.
Programming in the galleries is included in the cost of General Admission for Museum Guests and Free for Museum Members. Town Fare Café will be open to visitors until 8 pm.
Spotlight Sundays: Exploring Intergenerational Chicanx Dialogue around Art and Practice
星期日, 一月 21, 2024 | 1—2 pm | James Moore Theater
This event is sliding scale ($1—$30) visit museumca.org/event/ for more information.
Artists from the Special Exhibition, Por el Pueblo: The Legacy and Influence of Malaquías Montoya, along with other community members will come together to unpack potent issues around intergenerationality in Chicanx art and practice in an open forum discussion. The panelists will feature Malaquías Montoya himself along with other Por el Pueblo artists including Elyse Doyle-Martinez, Israel Campos and Juan Fuentes. The conversation will be moderated by the Director of Mission Cultural Center, Martina Ayala. The event will also include a call-to-action table with resources and a representative from the organization, Brown Issues. Through civic engagement and narrative change, Brown Issues fosters youth in becoming change agents by advocating for healing processes and the mobilization of the next generation of Brown leaders.
Gallery Chats at OMCA
Gallery Chats ~
Saturdays, 1—3 pm | OMCA Great Hall and Galleries of California Art, History, and Natural Sciences
Member Gallery Chats ~
Second Saturdays, 12— 1 pm | OMCA Great Hall Only
Special Edition Gallery Chats ~
First Wednesdays, 12—1 pm | Special Exhibition Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity
Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD
Gallery Chats at OMCA takes an informal approach to the traditional museum tour. Visitors are invited to chat, ask questions, and connect in the galleries with our OMCA facilitators who combine content knowledge with lived experience to encourage meaningful dialogue and fresh interpretations of our Special Exhibitions and Galleries of California Art, History, and Natural Sciences.
Weekly Gallery Chats take place in our Special Exhibitions and our Galleries of California Art, History, and Natural Sciences every 星期六 from 1 to 3 pm and are included with Museum and Special Exhibition admission. No reservation necessary.
OMCA Members have access to special Member Gallery Chats every second 星期六 of the month from noon to 1 pm.
In addition to weekly 星期六 Gallery Chats, artists from Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD have hosted Special Edition Gallery Chats are at noon to 1 pm every first 星期三 throughout the duration of the show and will host the final edition 一月 3 before the exhibition closing on 一月 21.
OMCA Architecture Walk and Talk
First 星期日 of Each Month at 1 pm
Walk through OMCA’s landmark building and gardens with members of the Council on Architecture and learn about the history, design, and evolution of this award-winning structure with guides who are passionate about OMCA and Oakland.
No reservations or tickets are required. Walk and Talk begins near the Mid Level ticketing desk and lasts approximately one hour.
If you’d like to visit OMCA’s Galleries or Special Exhibitions, please purchase a ticket online in advance or at the ticketing desk on the day of your visit.
65th Annual White Elephant Preview Sale
星期日, 一月 28, 2024 | 10 am – 3 pm | 333 Lancaster St. Oakland, CA 94601
The 65th annual White Elephant Sale (WES), a Bay Area tradition and the largest rummage sale in Northern California, returns at the end of 一月 and flows through 2月 and the first week of 三月. Organized by the Oakland Museum Women’s Board, the White Elephant Sale is the biggest annual fundraising event benefiting OMCA. The first opportunity to shop is at the Preview Sale on 一月 28, 10 am – 3 pm. For more information, visit whiteelephantsale.org.
Press invited to cover with advance RSVP; please email [email protected] to coordinate your coverage.
Final Weeks of Into the Brightness: Artists with Creativity Explored, Creative Growth, & NIAD
Final exhibition date: 一月 21, 2024
In collaboration with three profound Bay Area institutions, Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD celebrates myriad works from contemporary artists with developmental disabilities. From painting to sculpture to multimedia, these world-renowned artists are producing work of incredible power, exuberance, humor, complexity, and joy.
Into the Brightness presents a variety of dynamic perspectives from the artists’ personal experiences of the world. This original, collaborative exhibition is the largest museum exhibition in over a decade featuring artists from the three local organizations – Creativity Explored in San Francisco, Creative Growth in Oakland, and NIAD (Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development) Art Center in Richmond. Exhibition closes 星期日, 一月 21.
Currently On View
Por el Pueblo: The Legacy and Influence of Malaquías Montoya
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探索奇卡诺艺术家马拉基亚斯-蒙托亚（Malaquías Montoya）的生活影响，他作为公共服务艺术家、活动家和社区领袖的遗产激励着奇卡诺社区内外的年轻一代。蒙托亚的海报、平面印刷品和壁画突出了政治和社会正义问题，在近五十年的时间里帮助确定了奇卡诺人的身份。
马拉基亚斯-蒙托亚的活动根基和社区纽带可以追溯到他作为一个农民工家庭的儿子的童年，以及他与家庭长辈、教师、艺术家等的亲密关系。Por el Pueblo：马拉基亚斯-蒙托亚的遗产和影响 》邀请参观者思考蒙托亚深入合作的艺术创作过程、对社区的关注以及跨代参与。
本次展览将通过照片、历史和家族简历、艺术家的早期作品以及受蒙托亚影响的多代艺术家（包括胡里奥-萨尔加多、伊莉丝-多伊尔-马丁内斯、莱斯利-洛佩斯、伊斯雷尔-坎波斯和阿雷利-埃尔南德斯）的当代艺术作品，探讨成为长者的意义。展出时间：2023 年 10 月 6 日至 2024 年 6 月 30 日。
进入光明：来自《创意探索》、《创意成长》和NIAD的艺术家们
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与湾区三家深厚的机构合作，Into the Brightness：来自 Creativity Explored、Creative Growth 和 NIAD 的艺术家们的无数作品。从绘画到雕塑，再到多媒体，这些世界知名的艺术家们的作品充满了不可思议的力量、活力、幽默、复杂和欢乐。
Into the Brightness展示了来自艺术家们对世界的个人体验的各种动态视角。这个原创性的合作展览是十多年来最大的博物馆展览，参展艺术家来自三个当地组织--旧金山的 "创造力探索"、奥克兰的 "创意成长 "和里士满的NIAD（通过艺术发展培养独立能力）艺术中心。
参展艺术家包括 Saul Alegria、Peter Cordova、Tranesha Smith-Kilgore、Marlon Mullen、Dorian Reid、William Scott、Dinah Shapiro、Nicole Storm 和 Marilyn Wong。展览将持续到 2024 年 1 月 21 日。
OMCA儿童：自然游乐空间
加州自然科学画廊
在新设立的 "OMCA 儿童：自然游戏空间"（OMCA Kids: Nature Playspace）里，小学员们可以尽情释放他们的好奇心和想象力。该游乐空间位于加州自然科学画廊内，主要针对 2 至 5 岁儿童及其家人和看护人的独特需求。
游戏对每个孩子的健康发展至关重要，游戏室为每个人提供了一些东西--从建筑材料和以自然为主题的拼图到激发创造力、好奇心和快乐的实践活动。我们最年轻的博物馆参观者还可以发现那些在奥克兰的溪流、山丘和后院安家的动物。这个游戏空间为家庭提供了一个有趣、安全的游戏场所，并与其他家庭建立社区。
只要有18岁以上的成年人陪同，12岁及以下的游客可以免费进入OMCA参观。
About The Oakland Museum of California
加州奥克兰博物馆（OMCA）讲述了构成加州的许多故事，为人们之间更多的联系、信任和理解创造了空间和背景。通过其包容性的展览、公共项目、教育举措和文化活动，奥克兰博物馆将加州人聚集在一起，并激发对我们州的艺术、历史和自然环境对我们自己和彼此的启示的进一步理解。OMCA拥有超过190万件物品，将其多学科的艺术、历史和自然科学藏品与第一人称的叙述和通常不为人知的加利福尼亚的叙述结合起来，所有这些都在其11万平方英尺的画廊空间和7英亩的校园内。博物馆是湾区的一个领先的文化机构，也是研究和了解加州动态文化和环境遗产的资源，供来自该地区、该州和世界各地的游客参观。
游客信息
The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is at 1000 Oak Street, at 10th Street, in Oakland. Museum admission is $19 general; $16 seniors and students with valid ID, $12 youth ages 13 to 17, and free for Members and children 12 and under. There is a $6 charge in addition to general admission pricing for special exhibitions in the Great Hall. OMCA offers onsite underground parking and is conveniently located one block from the Lake Merritt BART station, on the corner of 10th Street and Oak Street. An accessibility ramp is located at the 1000 Oak Street main entrance to the Museum.