PROGRAM DETAILS:
Date Sunday, February 2, 2025
Time 11-11:45 AM
Location NUMU | 106 E. Main Street, Los Gatos, CA, 95030
Cost Free with Registration for Free First Sunday
Artists Trinh Mai and Shirin Towfiq will be giving insight into their works on view in Made of Memory in a public tour, free with registration for the museum’s Free First Sunday! Don’t miss this chance to ask your questions and take a deeper dive into their art.
Enjoy free general admission on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is required. The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there! Plus join us for a free guided history tour from 2-2:30 PM.
Trinh Mai is a California-based visual artist who works with a breath of natural, traditional, and inherited media that hold histories of their own. Her work examines the ways in which past weaves into present within our refugee and immigrant communities, while documenting the ways in which our nuanced experiences—communal and personal—are shared among all of humanity, then and now. Mai continues visiting academic and arts and cultural institutions, and diverse communities nationwide to speak about her art practice and engage communities in creative storytelling. Her art practice is driven by the desire to document memory, coupled with the desire to help usher us into communal healing and an enduring hope that might help ground us in a fractured world.
Shirin Towfiq
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Shirin Towfiq is an interdisciplinary artist working with an emphasis on installation, sculptural photography, textiles, and printmaking. Drawing from her positionality as a second-generation Iranian refugee, her artwork explores the complexities of belonging and placemaking through archival research and intergenerational communication with a diasporic lens. Towfiq focuses on everyday practices of belonging and visual culture, as produced by migrants, and her artwork reflects on the traces of diaspora to investigate cultural memory, history, and temporality.
