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.
2024/23 Director’s Circle Artist
Marie Cameron
Marie Cameron is an imaginative realist oil painter and mixed media assemblage artist working out of her dream studio Los Gatos, California. Focusing on the themes of hope and beauty in the face of loss regarding our relationship to the environment and to each other.
Born out of the pandemic, her #morerainbows! series of silk embroidered rainbows on vintage photographs and post cards were created out of a desire to reconnect with hope and a deep need to find the rainbow in herself, in one another and in the world once more.
Born in New York City, and raised in Maine and Nova Scotia, she earned her BFA with distinction at Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick where she minored in sculpture and majored in painting. She was awarded a prestigious Canada Council Grant and worked in giftware design and children’s book illustration while maintaining her art practice. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late nineties, she became heavily involved in the local art community, exploring writing art and curating.
Her award-winning work has been exhibited and collected internationally and featured in many publications, galleries and museums, including the Museo Diocesano, Triton Museum of Art, Marin MOCA, SOMArts, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Santa Clara University Dowd Gallery, Las Laguna Gallery, Sanchez Art Center, Vargas Gallery, NUMU, Whitney Modern, Arc Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Curated, de Young Museum of Art, Cabrillo Gallery, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Jen Tough Gallery, Blue Line Arts, ICA San José, Euphrat Museum of Art and Luna Gallery.
Marie has exhibited at NUMU on numerous occasions, both in group shows (GBAO, Waterlines, Art in the Time of Corona, Boundaries) and as a solo artist in Critical Masses, A Very Low Tide.
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
