Oakland Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) tells the many stories that comprise California, creating the space and context for greater connection, trust, and understanding between people. Through its inclusive exhibitions, public programs, educational initiatives, and cultural events, OMCA brings Californians together and inspires greater understanding about what our state’s art, history, and natural surroundings teach us about ourselves and each other. With more than 1.9 million objects, OMCA brings together its multi-disciplinary collections of art, history, and natural science with the first-person accounts and often untold narratives of California, all within its 110,000 square feet of gallery space and seven-acre campus. OMCA is a leading cultural institution of the Bay Area and a resource for the research and understanding of California's dynamic cultural and environmental heritage for visitors from the region, the state, and around the world.www.museumca.org
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Sep 30, 2026
Tyler GreenGUEST
Well, that's the problem.
Tyler GreenGUEST
Also, who could assemble the resources to do it in a meaningful, authoritative way? I mean, there are places that if they had the budget to do it, I would have a lot of faith in the Oakland Museum of California's ability to do that show.
Tyler GreenGUEST
There's little reason to expect SFMOMA, which should do that show, to do it.
Tyler GreenGUEST
I mean, they're busy showing cause and whatnot.
Michelle DonatiHOST
Her current book project chases tales of women who shapeshift into owls and witches from South Texas.
Mitti HicksHOST
Rachel was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she grew up attending Day of the Dead celebrations at the Oakland Museum of California.
Mitti HicksHOST
Rachel, welcome to the VIA podcast.
Michelle DonatiHOST
Thank you very much.
Maysoon WazwazHOST
Oh, and I was also going to say, apparently Dorothea Lange was like the photographer, was like the hired like US photographer document.
Kate RhodesHOST
Yeah, they have a bunch of her photos from that period at the Oakland Museum.
Kate RhodesHOST
It's kind of a weird thing
Maysoon WazwazHOST
to do.
Britt BradleyGUEST
That's wise.
Britt BradleyGUEST
I think immediately when you're talking about multiple frames, I had the privilege of working with the Dorothea Lange archive at the Oakland Museum.
Britt BradleyGUEST
And a lot of people are very familiar with Migrant Mother, but don't know that Migrant Mother is actually, I believe, the eighth negative in that series.
Britt BradleyGUEST
She took seven more images prior.
Katherine WhitneyGUEST
And then when we're developing an exhibition, we wanna know about our audience, the people who are coming to our institutions, and we can workshop ideas.
Katherine WhitneyGUEST
So this is not an art example, but for example, the Oakland Museum of California wanted to do an exhibition about water and watersheds.
Ben DavisHOST
Mm-hmm.
Katherine WhitneyGUEST
And watersheds are kind of tricky.
Miriam HornGUEST
I had a neighbor.
Miriam HornGUEST
When I was a little girl, he was my best friend's father, who was the ecology curator at the Oakland Museum, which was a really new concept, where he had the idea that the museum should be a walk across the state of California.
Miriam HornGUEST
And instead of just seeing animals separated from where they were from, you would see this whole interdependent ecosystem that they lived in.
Miriam HornGUEST
And so he took us all over California collecting animals.
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