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, 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.
Benefactor Members are invited to join us for one Circle Event a year. Become a Benefactor Member.
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 in April of 2024.
Meet the Director’s Circle Artists
Alexander Hernandez
was NUMU's Inaugural Artist in Residence, exhibiting his work in the 2022 exhibition RETAZOS. Hernandez is a mixed-media artist who currently resides in San Francisco…
Kathy Aoki
Is an ward-winning artist whose work can be found in the collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco…
Fanny Retsek
Master Printmaker, Fanny Retsek, formerly a printer at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, one of the nation’s foremost print shops in the revival of the etching process….
Stacey M. Carter
Carter is an accomplished visual artist with a 20-year career in fine art printmaking, fine art reproduction, and artists' book/catalogue printing…
Kristin Lindseth
& George Rivera
Lindseth, a sculptor and printmaker, and her husband Rivera, a figurative painter, are also art educators…
Andrea Borsuk
Andrea Borsuk is a local artist whose work explores the notions of time and destiny…
Jenny Robinson
Robinson has a particular interest in the peculiar transience of the urban built environment…
See NUMU’s Collection in our Exhibitions!
NUMU’s rotating exhibitions means there will always be something new to see, learn, and explore. Art and History pieces from our collection can be spotted in our many galleries and exhibitions.
