In the Artist’s Studio
The Story of the Bookmobile
Date Thursday, April 29th | 5-6pm PDT via ZOOM
Cost FREE for Los Gatos Residents & NUMU Members, join today!
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Join us for a special talk and live Q&A with artist Tony May about the creation of his site-specific installation for the San Jose Museum of Art, “Variable Book Construction (Bookmobile),” (1991-1995). In this program, Tony May will trace the lineage of ideas that culminated in the creation of the Bookmobile. For many years, Tony worked with discarded books as a subject matter. His studio is layered with reclaimed material waiting to be put to good use, idiosyncratic objects, and tools that each hold their own story. May considers that an earlier function of the historic San Jose Museum of Art building was a library, just as the New Museum Los Gatos building was originally a library, and muses that the mobile “suggests that ghosts of books still hover around the building.” If you want to learn more about the story of how the Bookmobile came to be, then this is the program for you!
Tony May began his career as an artist in his native Wisconsin, and earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966. He learned the craftsmanship of carpentry and other practical skills from his father on their family farm. In 1967, May moved to San Jose, CA, where he lives and taught art at San Jose State University for over 30 years. Tony May has exhibited his meticulous paintings and conceptual, whimsical structures to international acclaim. NUMU’s exhibitions will continue that legacy, inviting visitors for a timely reflection on the details of our never more familiar quotidian surroundings with patience, reverence, and a sense of humor.
Click here to take a virtual spin through NUMU's Tony May exhibitions.
In the Artist's Studio is generously supported by the Borgenicht Foundation.
The Borgenicht Foundation works to promote the understanding of secularism as the way and hope for establishing peace in the world. In addition, the Foundation supports social justice, conservation and historic preservation, the arts, health, and education.
Major support for NUMU's virtual programs and events provided by Badger Meter, Inc. With additional program support from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
