Healing Justice: Exploring Public Art Practices Sympoium

Saturday, April 29, 2023 | 10 am - 4:30 pm | Garden and OMCA Campus | Masks are encouraged.

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Launched in 2016, the Exploring Public Art Practices Symposium is a biennial, one-day conference that brings together California artists from a range of practices to investigate the power of art in the public realm. Hosted at the Oakland Museum of California, presenting artists include grantees of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Open Spaces program and beyond. Presenters discuss the unique ways they engage and work in communities, and how they challenge the concept of place. This Symposium inspires conversations while facilitating meaningful discussions about the opportunities and challenges of working in public space.

Join us for a day of performances, presentations, and conversations that will explore public art practices that are pushing the boundaries of what it means to heal in the midst of challenging times. Hosted at the Oakland Museum of California, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Exploring Public Art Practices Symposium is a biennial, one-day conference that brings together California artists from a range of practices to investigate the power of art in the public realm.

This year’s theme, HEALING JUSTICE, offers a poignant and timely topic to the Symposium. After three years of a global pandemic, ongoing racial unrest, climate disasters, and a divisive political landscape, these public artists are turning to practices that offer us opportunities to engage in communal healing.

Tickets

• General admission $25
• OMCA Members $20

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Accessibility:

The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible, welcoming, and inclusive of our community. Assistive listening devices and wheelchairs are available for checkout on a first come, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations, like American Sign Language (ASL), Cantonese, Spanish or another language interpreter, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event.