🧯🌿 🎨 Black Spaces & Good Fire: Native Lands -- OMCA (with Lunch)

🧯 🌿 🎨 Black Spaces & Good Fire: Native Lands -- OMCA (with Lunch)

🔆 After viewing the two current exhibitions (described below) we'll gather for lunch in the museum cafe. For those who care to stay beyond lunch, OMCA's permanent exhibits are a delight.

▪︎ Meet at 11 am sharp at the ticket entrance to the Oakland Museum. (Lake Merritt BART station)
▪︎ PLEASE don't be a no-show. If your plans change, remember to update your RSVP prior to the event.
▪︎ A late cancelation will count as a no-show.
▪︎ A limited number of free museum passes are available on Discover & Go.

🔆 Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain navigates the braided histories of displacement, resistance, and resilience within Black American communities in the East Bay. Through new commissions in art, architecture, and archival research, the exhibition traces how these communities have creatively resisted dispossession and reimagined spaces of home and belonging.

🔆 Good Fire: Tending Native Lands This immersive exhibition explores how Native communities in Northern California have used controlled fire—also called “good fire” or “cultural burning”—to care for the land and sustain traditions for millennia. Organized in collaboration with Native Northern California fire practitioners, artists, ecologists, and cultural leaders, the exhibition reframes fire as an essential tool for supporting healthy ecosystems and vibrant communities.