Creative Sips: Night of Art + Spirits
This is a first-come, first-serve event!
The theme for this Thursday, August 6 will be
Automatic drawing/Stream of Consciousness.
Zena's presentation will start at 4:15p.
RSVP required to shop@umamimart.life
Come one, come all to the Umami Mart bar where artists gather to drink socialize, draw and splash paint on canvases and just as importantly – drink! Come experience the joy of creation and intoxication 1st Sundays 4pm to 6:30pm!
Join Zena Organista who will be your host and guide throughout the evening focusing on a specific subject. Zena is an interdisciplinary instructor specializing in scientific + fantastical illustration, print media and Neon works. She graduated from SAIC in 2018 covering various media subjects with a love for the natural world. She hopes these monthly gatherings will bring together creatives and friends in an evening of making, socializing and sipping delicious spirits.
About Zena O
Zena is an artist residing in Oakland, California. Her practice consists of various media, including large-format painting + drawing, print media, sculpture, and neon. Her current work explores the collaborative nature of life and death. The interdisciplinary series captures the emergence of life while death seeps into the image through decay or physical obstructions. She approaches the animal archetype as a central subject for many of her compositions. The characteristics of the animal are expressed through an exaggerated form, mutations, and extra appendages. These alterations imply the complexities and challenges the animal experiences in the attempt to thrive. Other works illustrate vivacious streams of consciousness images composed of smaller undulating life forms. Her heavily detailed work reveals a meticulous process that can be perceived as both meditative and ritualistic.
*Bring your own materials encouraged
WHAT: Creative Sips
WHEN: Once a month 4-6:30pm, next one will be August 6, 2026
ADMISSION: $30 Venmo or cash to Zena plus one drink minimum at the Umami Mart bar. RSVP required to shop@umamimart.life
WHERE: Umami Mart
4027 Broadway
Oakland CA 94611