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Statement of Purpose:

18th through 20th century California painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, and decorative arts; permanent collection and special exhibitions.

MISSION STATEMENT:  http://www.museumca.org/about/index.html

Museum with three major disciplines of which Art is one. The others are Natural Sciences and History. All are devoted to California.

Highlights & Collections:

• The Dorothea Lange Archive (her negatives, prints and journals);
• California arts and crafts movement including Arthur and Lucia Mathews;
• Bay Area figurative painters;
• sculpture and painting from the Bay Area throughout the 19th and 20th centuries;
• landscape from early 1800s to present;
• California impressionism;
• photo realism; fine craft including jewelry, wood, fiber, glass; early 19th c. realism; contemporary installations; graphics; photography.

CALENDAR of EVENTS for the coming season:

Banished. Courtesy ITVS.

The Oakland Museum of California honors the art, strength, and faith of African Americans, in California and nationwide, with a series of Black History Events, January 8-February 25, 2008. Visit www.museumca.org for details.

PROGRAMS

Tuesday, January 8, 6:30-9 p.m. FILM
Banished. (90 min.) Filmmaker Marco Williams visits three towns that forcibly expelled their entire African American populations after the Civil War, and interviews descendants of families who left their communities and property behind as they fled for their lives. In the still all-white towns (Pierce City, MO; Harrison, AK; and Forsyth County, GA) the echoes of racial injustice continue to reverberate. Film followed by a panel discussion.

Presented by the Oakland Museum of California, ITVS Community Cinema, KQED, and the Oakland Film Office. Film followed by panel discussion. Free event with free parking in museum garage (entrance on Oak Street).

Sunday, January 20, 12-5 p.m. BLACK HISTORY CELEBRATION
MLK, Jr. Celebration: Faith in California. Honoring the legacy of Dr. King, representatives of religious movements not traditionally followed by African Americans (Black Buddhists, Hare Krishnas, and Muslims) discuss the mix of cultural and spiritual practices. Enjoy the stirring melodies of South African freedom songs by Vukani Mawethu, a local choir. Visit the new photography exhibition, Trading Traditions: California's New Cultures, which captures how new Californians work, play, and celebrate together. Hands-on activities for the whole family. Free admission made possible by Target.

Friday, February 1, 5-9 p.m. FIRST FRIDAYS AFTER FIVE
Many Cultures, One Night, Your Museum. Party at the Oakland Museum of California's FIRST FRIDAYS AFTER FIVE! Join us for a special celebration of Black History Month with live zydeco music, dancing, curator tours, special exhibitions, a talk by black feminist lesbian Jewelle Gomez about her activism, spoken word artists Sistahs Wid' Gaps, African American memoirist Adam David Miller, shopping, yoga, and more. Full cash bar-museum store and café open. All ages welcome.

Tuesday, February 5, 6:30-9 p.m. FILM
Iron Ladies of Liberia. (60 min.) In this intimate biography, filmmakers Henry Ansbacher, Jonathan Stack, and Daniel Junge go behind the scenes with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first freely elected female head of state. Film followed by panel discussion. Free event with free parking in museum garage (entrance on Oak Street).

The ITVS Community Cinema Series at the museum features sneak previews of films scheduled for upcoming broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens; the series is a collaboration among the City of Oakland, Oakland Film Office, Oakland Museum of California, KQED, and ITVS.

Sunday, February 17, 2 p.m. BLACK HISTORY EVENT
Lonny Shavelson, co-curator and photographer of the Trading Traditions: California's New Cultures exhibition, leads a discussion with Caribbean historian Val Serrant, Tomi Seon of the "Islands of Fire" dance company, and Don "Little Cloud" Davenport from the Black Native American Association, on their respective communities' contributions to California history.

Sunday, February 24, 1-4 p.m. CHILDREN and FAMILY
Family Explorations! African-American Rhythms On and Off the Canvas. Join in a lively exploration of African American art, music, and spoken word in celebration of Black History Month. Families can participate in art projects while musicians from UpSurge Jazz perform pieces inspired by African American art, enjoy a storytelling performance with Children's Cultural Connection, and a special presentation by an artist included in the Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA exhibition. Included with museum admission.

Monday, February 25, 10:30 a.m. BLACK HISTORY PANEL
The History of African American Migrant Women During World War II. Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, chair of the history department at St. Mary's College in Moraga, leads a discussion about the struggles and successes of thousands of African American women who moved to the East Bay during WWII to work in the region's war industries. Betty Reid Soskin, community liaison to the Rosie the Riveter World War II/Home Front Project in Richmond, is among the panelists. Free.

Hours:

Admission & Directions:

• One block from the BART (rapid transit) station--Fremont or Pleasanton Line, Lake Merritt Station. We're at Oak and 10th Streets.
• We're also four blocks from Highway 880. Jackson St. exit going south, Oak St. exit going north.

Key Personnel:

Dennis M. Power, Executive Director.

• Philip Linhares, Chief Curator of Art.
• Harvey L. Jones and Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curators of Art.
• Arthur Monroe and Joy Walker, Registrars.
• Claudia Kishler, Rights & Reproductions.
• Karen Nelson, Interpretive Specialist
• Lori Anderson, Webmaster

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