Circle Members
NUMU’s Circle Members are a philanthropic group of art, history, and culture enthusiasts who make a meaningful impact in the community through their support of New Museum Los Gatos. They are a unique and ardent group of individuals, dedicated to ensuring that the museum achieves a lasting legacy of quality exhibitions and related programming by providing significant and sustained support.
Each Spring NUMU offers a series of studio visits where we will be able to appreciate art together exclusively for Circle Members.
Kathy Aoki, Beauty in Landscape (2022), Intaglio print.
Director’s Circle members enable NUMU to expand its reach within the community as a place where active and imaginative minds can flourish. They are the museum’s partners in the stewardship of the art and history of Los Gatos and the surrounding region. In appreciation, each year, Director’s Circle Members receive a limited edition artwork by a Bay Area artist, commissioned specifically for them. Two pieces from the commission are also made for the museum: one stays in the Permanent Collection, and the other is used for fundraising. In this way, the Director’s Circle program not only supports personal collecting but also helps to build NUMU’s Permanent Art Collection.
2023 Director’s Circle Artist
Kiana Honarmand, posing with On Edge, on view in (Un)familiar, and A Shadow in the Depth of Light, the series which her Director’s Circle artwork will be a continuation of
Kiana Honarmand
Kiana Honarmand is an Iranian artist whose work delves into the complexities of her cultural identity, the violation of women's rights in Iran, and the Western perception of the SWANA identity. In 2012, she relocated to the United States to pursue her MFA at Penn State University. Currently based in the Bay Area, Kiana's work has been featured and reviewed in publications such as the Washington Post, Hyperallergic, Voice of America, and SHOUTOUT LA. Kiana’s art has been exhibited in numerous renowned venues nationally and internationally. These include the Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; NUMU New Museum, Los Gatos, CA; VisArts, Rockville, MD; Moving Poets Novilla, Berlin, Germany; HAMZIANPOUR & KIA, Los Angeles, CA; Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA; Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA; Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany; and many others.
Circle Members will be joining Kiana for a studio visit Sat, May 4, 2024.
Levels & Benefits
Curator’s Circle
Free admission for TWO members + TWO guests
NARM program benefits (North American Reciprocal Museum) at over 1,000 participating institutions
Invitations to members-only previews, programs, and events
Free admission to select public programs
Five complimentary guest passes
Private exhibition tour with friends/family (upon request, up to 10 guests)
Complimentary ArtNow exhibition catalog
Invitation to Circle events (artist studio tours, and/or tours of private and public collections)
Facility rental discount (exclusions apply)
Fully tax-deductible
$1,000/year
‡ Must host a professional artist’s website
Director’s Circle
Includes Curator’s Circle member benefits, PLUS:
Limited edition commissioned artwork
$2,250 tax deductible
