Saturday, April 30 | 1 - 4pm | $15 Materials Fee

Inspired by our current exhibition, More Than Your Selfie , join us for an afternoon of Shadow Puppet Theater. Create your own self-portrait shadow puppets and props with mixed media. Then you, along with your siblings, families, and friends, will tell us your story, staged in our shadow puppet theater! All ages welcome, all children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult. Family groups encouraged, create a story together.

Elizabeth Greer has been working with elementary and middle school students for over 15 years.  She is a long-time member and past president of the Art Docents of Los Gatos. An active Maker, Elizabeth explores the intersection of art and technology in classes like rockets, digital art and photography, and LED artworks.  

Pre-registration is not required for drop-in workshops, but feel free to pay in advance via Paypal. Please select which workshop you will be attending here, no registration form submission is required.

Saturday, April 23 | 10:30am-12:30pm | $40 | Ages 7 and up

Students will fun learning how to program by using the Scratch programming language, developed at MIT. Students will be introduced to programming concepts, event-driven programming techniques, language syntax, and more.

Learn to Discover's passion is to bring high-quality technology education to students from pre-Kindergarten through and beyond beyond Grade 12. Our main focus areas are STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), design skills, and art, and may be expanded to other areas as demand and market research dictates.Space is limited and reservations are required. Pre-registration, limited to 10 students, ages 7 and up. Cost for this workshop: $40.00. Supplies and admission to NUMU are included in the workshop fee. To make your reservation, please fill out the registration form below, or contact the NUMU administrative offices at 408-354-2646.

Thursday, March 10 | 11am - 2pm | $10, admission and materials fee

Learn collage basics, freestyle collage, mandala collage, create a custom deck of transpersonal collage cards, or create your own vision board. The art of expressive collage is fun and creative for all ages and experience. You are welcome to supplement class materials with your own. No registration required, all ages welcome. 

Saturday, September 26, 2015 | 1 - 3pm | $15 

Build your own balloon blimp! Inspired by our Giants in the Sky exhibition, children and adults alike can create their own dirigibles. There will also be a demo on motorized airship models featured during the workshop, with kits available to take home. Parents with children welcome. Cost for this workshop: $15 materials fee. Please contact us at 408.354.2646 or at education@numulosgatos.org.

Saturday, September 12, 2015 | 1-3pm | $20 materials fee

This workshop will explore the basics of screen printing,  a process derived from stencil printing. We will go over screen printing basics, history, screen printed monotypes and will cover two stencil making methods: photo emulsion and hand cut stencil.

If you choose to do a hand cut stencil it would be best to have your design cut out and ready to print in order to take full advantage of printing time. Best materials for hand cut stencils are: contact paper, thin plastic transparency paper, wax paper, or laminate copy paper. Alternatively, if you want to print a larger edition (10+ prints of the same image) I can burn your image on a screen using photo emulsion for an additional $20 fee. Files should be emailed to asega.jonathan@gmail.com no later than August 29th.  Acceptable files are .tiff , .Ai or .PSD.  If you don’t want to make a design but would still like to take the class there will be a few designs that you can choose from.

Water based inks will be provided in this workshop as well as newsprint for everyone to print on. You can also bring your own materials such as t-shirts, higher quality paper, etc. This course is suitable for beginners and for those looking for a refresher. If you have any questions, please contact us at 408.354.2646 or at education@numulosgatos.com. Cost for this workshop: $20 materials fee.