Organized in collaboration with the Los Gatos Library, explore Los Gatos history while you sketch objects from NUMU's extensive collection of objects and artifacts. Artists of all levels are welcome to join this informal session and materials will be provided.

Organized in collaboration with the Los Gatos Library, explore Los Gatos history while you sketch objects from NUMU's extensive collection of objects and artifacts. Artists of all levels are welcome to join this informal session and materials will be provided.

Hike the Los Gatos Creek Trail with NUMU and Santa Clara County Parks, then join us at the museum for a tour of our exhibition, The Hiking Club: A Vocabulary of Yearning. Meet us at NUMU at 9:30, or at the trailhead, located at the Highway 17 overpass, at 10.

Los Gatos Museum Association (LGAA) and New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) invite you to explore Greater Bay Area Open, the juried fine-art-only competition and exhibition, at its opening reception!

Offered each season, this free-of-cost program features expert guest speakers and weekly “homework” activities that include neighborhood walks, stargazing, and nature journaling. Park interpreters facilitate the sessions and cultivate a community of homegrown naturalists.

Participants receive a certificate for completing the course, and a custom pin for completing a service project that benefits their family, neighborhood, local plants, or wildlife. County Parks staff feel inspired and grateful for the passion and curiosity that participants have contributed to each course.

Organized in collaboration with the Los Gatos Library, explore Los Gatos history while you sketch objects from NUMU's extensive collection of objects and artifacts. Artists of all levels are welcome to join this informal session and materials will be provided.

Offered each season, this free-of-cost program features expert guest speakers and weekly “homework” activities that include neighborhood walks, stargazing, and nature journaling. Park interpreters facilitate the sessions and cultivate a community of homegrown naturalists.

Participants receive a certificate for completing the course, and a custom pin for completing a service project that benefits their family, neighborhood, local plants, or wildlife. County Parks staff feel inspired and grateful for the passion and curiosity that participants have contributed to each course.

Offered each season, this free-of-cost program features expert guest speakers and weekly “homework” activities that include neighborhood walks, stargazing, and nature journaling. Park interpreters facilitate the sessions and cultivate a community of homegrown naturalists.

Participants receive a certificate for completing the course, and a custom pin for completing a service project that benefits their family, neighborhood, local plants, or wildlife. County Parks staff feel inspired and grateful for the passion and curiosity that participants have contributed to each course.

Visit the museum for a chance to meet artist Linda Simmel and explore The Hiking Club: A Vocabulary of Yearning before it opens to the public. Plus, enjoy refreshments and mingling with other guests!

Join us for the official opening of our long-awaited Collections Lab! This demonstration and prep lab will serve as a dedicated semi-public space to display artifacts, conduct conservation efforts and present public educational programs, and starting Sat, Sept 23, will be accessible to all during museum open hours. This event is reserved for VIPs.

Join NUMU in celebrating our (Un)Familiar artists, Jezrael Gandara, Kiana Honarmand, and Chelsea Stewart, and the couple behind RREVV studio, Rachel and Rigel Hunter.

Organized in collaboration with the Los Gatos Library, explore Los Gatos history while you sketch objects from NUMU's extensive collection of objects and artifacts. Artists of all levels are welcome to join this informal session and materials will be provided.

Join New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) and Mosaic America in celebrating community and the voices and accomplishments of high school artists featured in ArtNow 2023: Unarmed Truth, NUMU's 12th Annual Santa Clara County High School Exhibition. This family-friendly event will include live music and performances outside, curated by Mosaic America, art making, refreshments, and a chance to explore the exhibition in the museum. 

In celebration of Earth Day 2023, let’s come together through art, history, and music to build a community where we all belong. Mosaic America and NUMU invite you to experience traditional and contemporary practices of belonging from cultures that have made their home in our collective neighborhood of Santa Clara County. This event draws inspiration from NUMU’s current art exhibitions, featuring the contemporary stories and voices of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. This family-friendly event will include live performances and art-making for all ages.  The museum will be open with free admission for all throughout the day.

Join educators at the New Museum Los Gatos to tour the Terra Firma exhibit and learn more about our relationship to land. Participate in a fun art activity after the exhibition tour in the Museum's MakerSpace. 

Organized in collaboration with the Los Gatos Library, explore Los Gatos history while you sketch objects from NUMU's extensive collection of objects and artifacts. Artists of all levels are welcome to join this informal session and materials will be provided.

Interested in trying figure drawing for the first time or brushing up on your skills? Join us for Live Figure Drawing and a glass of wine! Participants will reference a live model in various poses for different time periods. This class is uninstructed— the model will have a schedule of poses that they will go through for the entirety of the class.

Did you know Los Gatos has an Art Museum? Learn about the Muwekma Ohlone and other exhibits with our friends over at NUMU. They will bring over some of the hidden museum items that aren't on display. This event will conclude over at the Museum for those who want to join in on a tour.

Organized in collaboration with the Los Gatos Library, join NUMU educators at the New Museum of Los Gatos to tour the exhibition Reclamation: Art and Culture of the Muwekma Ohlone and learn more about our region's First People. Participate in a fun activity after the exhibition tour!

Interested in trying figure drawing for the first time or brushing up on your skills? Join us for Live Figure Drawing and a glass of wine! Participants will reference a live model in various poses for different time periods. This class is uninstructed— the model will have a schedule of poses that they will go through for the entirety of the class.

Performing in character as the “Curator of the Museum of Historical Makeovers,” Kathy Aoki will give a humorous lecture on “Koons Ruins,” the estate of imagined art collector Dorothea Vadas James who sets out to destroy the works of world-famous artist Jeff Koons. Known for her fictitious academic excellence, Aoki will reveal the historical underpinnings of the estate, the twists and turns that led to collector James’ quiet fury, and the mission of the Save the Public Eye Foundation that currently manages the estate. Suspension of disbelief is highly recommended, but not required.

Come early or stay late to immerse yourself in Kathy Aoki’s exhibition Koons Ruins at the James Estate in the Mike and Alyce Parsons Gallery at NUMU. This satirical, museum-style installation features prints, paintings, and a peephole diorama that tell the story of “Koons Ruins.” Koons Ruins at the James Estate is sponsored in part by the Borgenicht Foundation and Wanda Kownacki.

Interested in trying figure drawing for the first time or brushing up on your skills? Join us for Live Figure Drawing and a glass of wine! Participants will reference a live model in various poses for different time periods. This class is uninstructed— the model will have a schedule of poses that they will go through for the entirety of the class.

Organized in collaboration with the Los Gatos Library, join NUMU educators as they walk us through artist Marie Cameron’s show, “Critical Masses, A Very Low Tide,” which presents views of human impact on our delicate ecosystem. After the gallery viewing, we will create artworks of our own in the Museum’s Makerspace based on the theme of protecting our oceans and our planet.

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Interested in trying figure drawing for the first time or brushing up on your skills? Join us for Live Figure Drawing with Sean Boyles. Participants will reference a live model in various poses for different time periods and receive instruction from San Jose artist, Sean Boyles.

Interested in trying figure drawing for the first time or brushing up on your skills? Join us for Live Figure Drawing. Participants will reference a live model in various poses for different time periods. This class is uninstructed— the model will have a schedule of poses that they will go through for the entirety of the class.

Interested in trying figure drawing for the first time or brushing up on your skills? Join us for Live Figure Drawing. Participants will reference a live model in various poses for different time periods. This class is uninstructed— the model will have a schedule of poses that they will go through for the entirety of the class.

Interested in trying figure drawing for the first time or brushing up on your skills? Join us for Live Figure Drawing with Sean Boyles. Participants will reference a live model in various poses for different time periods and receive instruction from San Jose artist, Sean Boyles.

NUMU is excited to partner with the Vivace Youth Chorus to bring music to the museum and Los Gatos families. This Family Musical Workshop will be led by Katherine Carmona Arbelaz and feature fun and engaging folk songs with rhythm and movement activities.

Get to know both the New Museum of Los Gatos and the Los Gatos Library in this fun event. We will discover the art of college together by admiring picture book illustrations that employ the use of collage, by touring the Museum's art exhibitions, and finally, making our own collage art in the Museum's lounge.

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