OC Art Guide
Global

Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds brings together over 80 artworks from MOCA’s renowned collection, demonstrating how artists create their own worlds through their art–building networks, circles, and mythologies.

March 9, 2025 – September 20, 2026
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Los Angeles, CA

First Look: New Acquisitions at Bowers Museum celebrates the Museum’s ongoing commitment to collecting and sharing the world’s arts and cultures. Featuring an annually rotating selection of objects acquired over the past decade from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, this dynamic exhibition showcases the rich diversity of the Museum’s growing permanent collection.

August 30, 2025 - Ongoing
Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, CA

California Bounty is the first curatorial interpretation of the museum’s distinguished painting collection since 1994.

Ongoing
Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, CA

Our mission to bring artists together in wonderful destinations to be inspired by their surroundings and the creativity that comes from working in small enrichment groups. Workshops and retreats are designed to provide guests with an ideal environment for creating art while enjoying themselves to the fullest. Our unique locations have been selected for its fantastic weather, sensational scenery, rich tapestry of historical towns and villages, not to mention the cuisine and wines of these regions.

Year-Round

France

SALINARA is an Art Farm + Retreat Center offering Inspiration and Community, where people from all walks of life could share their passions. We "thoughtfully" organize and host workshops/masterclasses from our 18th century farmhouse in Sicily.

Year-Round

Sicily, Italy

Bluebird Studios is “The Atelier of the West” and our goal is to provide our guests with a warm, welcoming gathering place in an open, comfortable, and well-equipped studio space for the study of traditional fine arts under the guidance of professional artists.

Year-Round

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Conveniently located at Imperial Highway and Yorba Linda Boulevard, in the same center as Mimi's Café and Polly's Pies, our comfortable local area offers plenty for parents to do while kids are in class.

Ongoing
Art Steps
Yorba Linda, CA

At Mission Art Center students will get all important techniques of drawing and painting. We are dedicated to giving our students the finest art instruction available.

Ongoing
For the current class schedule, visit website.
Mission Art Center
Orange, CA

The Art Studio LLC is guided by the belief that artists are made, not born. Our highly skilled instructors are dedicated to offering children, teens and adults, in all levels of proficiency, an art education.

Ongoing
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The Art Studio LLC
Westminster, CA

This ongoing class is designed to help each individual with the information and process to take your work to a higher level. For the most part we will be using photos to work from and learning not to just copy, but to interpret!

Weekly,
​Every Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Online

An in-depth installation of Andy Warhol, opening May 26, 2021, features 26 works (11 on view for the first time at The Broad), including Mao (1973), 40 Gold Marilyns (1980), and a major new acquisition, Liz [Early Colored Liz] (1963).

Ongoing
The Broad
Los Angeles, CA

This educational monthly art event, held on the first Thursday of every month from 6 – 9pm, celebrates the diverse cultural art scene of Laguna Beach and is free to the public.

Ongoing
First Thursday of every month
6 – 9 pm

Laguna Beach, CA

First Thursday of Each Month
6-9 pm.
Artist Eye Gallery
Laguna Beach, CA

Ongoing, uninstructed figure drawing workshop in the Los Angeles area hosted by Jennifer McChristian

Ongoing
Monday and Thursday evenings from 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Saturday mornings from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Los Feliz Art Studio
Los Angeles, CA

Our state of the art facility, founded by Kevin A. Myers, enables us to offer a unique, exciting and creative environment for the independent clay artist.

Ongoing
For the current class schedule, visit website.
Muddy's Studio
Santa Ana, CA