North County institution celebrates milestone with new exhibitions, a gala and a fresh outlook
It’s hard to blame her. She became the Executive Director of Oceanside Museum of Art back in 2016 at a time of uncertainty for the North County institution. She says the museum had made some “challenging leadership choices” and, at the time of her hiring, was in a “precarious financial position.”
She adds that this reflected how art served as something of a respite for people who were struggling at the time. But Mingalone keeps it real when she points out that many people in the community were skeptical about having an art museum, fearing that it might lead to gentrification of what was a working-class, semi-conservative, military-heavy area of San Diego County.
“OMA has always viewed its primary mission as supporting contemporary San Diego artists,” said Sandra Dijkstra. “Among local museums, OMA is one of the few local museums which has consistently supported our local artists.” “The experience at OMA was incredibly supportive and they gave a tremendous amount of creative freedom,” Kendricks says, who adds that the exhibition was a “game-changer” for him and that the museum also worked with him to develop concurrent programming, such as spoken-word events.
When Mingalone moved from Massachusetts in 2016, she says that she really wanted to reemphasize and reiterate the museum’s primary function of showcasing regional artists who haven’t had a large scale exhibition before. First, Mingalone had made a point of expanding the museum’s permanent collection. The appropriately titled “A Growing Collection,” which opens March 5, reflects this mindset, and features, according to the museum, the “most noteworthy works donated to the collection in the last five years, providing visitors a fresh and exciting visual experience that explores the art and stories of Southern California artists.
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