NUMU Members, join us for an exclusive Curator Tour from 5-6 PM! Become a member today. Afterward, everyone is invited to celebrate our new exhibition, Made of Memory, with refreshments & mingling at a free, public reception.
In this exclusive event for NUMU Members, artist Holly Lane and curator Helaine Glick will give a private tour of Holly's solo shows at the museum: Not Enough Time to Love the World and In the Artist's Studio.
In this exclusive event for NUMU Members and supporters of Boundaries, exhibition curators Allison Railo (NUMU) and Margaret Luo (genARTS) will discuss how a juried exhibition comes to fruition and the work on view.
New Museum Los Gatos is pleased to present its annual Winter Celebration on Saturday, November 4th from 12pm-4pm. Since opening in the Los Gatos Civic Center in June 2015, NUMU has hosted biannual events to celebrate the opening of new exhibitions, and showcase the variety of supporting programs and activities that take place in the museum galleries and the MakerSpace and Atelier studio spaces.
During the November 4th Winter Celebration, visitors are invited to tour two recently opened exhibitions, Waterlines and Art & The Environment: The Paintings of Andrew P. Hill. NUMU will also unveil the new Los Gatos History Gallery, an interactive exhibit space dedicated to history and created to inspire and empower people to make Los Gatos’ richly diverse past a meaningful part of their contemporary lives.
Curator and artists-led talks and tours will take place throughout the day.
Click here for the November 4th programming schedule.
Art-making is also a big part of the day’s events. Visitors are invited to join the fun in NUMU's MakerSpace and Celebrate el Dia de los Muertos. Kids and adults will enjoy decorating traditional sugar skulls with royal icing, beads, and colored foil.
New Museum Los Gatos is pleased to present its annual Summer Celebration on Saturday, June 24, 12pm-4pm. Since opening in the Los Gatos Civic Center in June 2015, NUMU has hosted summer and fall events to celebrate the opening of new exhibitions, and showcase the variety of supporting programs and activities that take place in the museum galleries and the MakerSpace and Atelier studio spaces.
During the June 24th Summer Celebration, visitors are invited to tour two new exhibitions, Power of the Page: Artists’ Books as Agents for Change and Abstracts From Life: Bay Area Figurative Past and Present, and (July 25th) closing exhibitions, Cement Prairie: The History and Legacy of the 1952 American Indian Urban Relocation Act and Back From Extinction: Muwekma Ohlone’s Heritage, History, and Legacy. NUMU curators will be available to answer questions and lead tours of the art and history exhibitions.
Visiting artist Michele Théberge will spend the day at the museum engaging visitors in her interactive art installation, Seeds of Hope that seeks to amplify the hopes and dreams of all people living in America. Théberge introduced this project as part of 100 Days Action. She will invite museum visitors to share their thoughts and aspirations and translate them into painted paper seeds that will be added to the Seeds of Hope wall installation in the museum. NUMU will continue to collect stories from museum visitors throughout the summer and the artist will return periodically to add visitors’ contributions to the installation that will remain on view through mid-September.
New this year is a mini Market Place featuring local artists and makers who will be selling their works and wares at the museum, including jewelry from local artist Kathryn Janoff, Native American jewelry from the collection of former Indian Store owner, Janice Benjamin, natural dyed textiles from NUMU MakerSpace instructor Zoe Umholtz, and artists' books and other original works from NUMU Store vendor, Rae Trujillo.
Art-making is also a big part of the day’s events. Power of the Page exhibiting artist, Michelle Wilson will lead a project for kids and adults to create activist posters on hand-pulped paper. This fun and stimulating art project is a continuation of Wilson's ongoing “Books Bombs” community installation series.
Visitors will also be invited to observe a Native American Ti Pi painting demonstration. Local Ti Pi maker, Jesse Salcedo made the TI Pi on view in the Cement Prairie exhibition in NUMU’s history gallery. Salcedo’s Ti Pi is featured at the annual Stanford Pow Wow and various pow wows around the Bay Area. Salcedo mixes common Indian imagery in a modern context to show the merging of traditional and contemporary design. Artists from NUMU’s MakerSpace and Atelier Studio programs will participate in the painting demonstration.
Admission to the Summer Celebration is free for NUMU members and visitors under 18 years of age. General admission pricing applies to all other visitors.
Come help NUMU and the Los Gatos Library identify historic photographs of Los Gatos! Join us for light refreshments and music as we search through unidentified photographs from the Los Gatos Library's archives, and unidentified objects in NUMU's permanent collection.
Free with admission!
Join us for an evening of stories and conversation with Jamis MacNiven. MacNiven says he has been a gear in the clockwork of Silicon Valley for so long he used to pound acorns. Now he pounds out pancakes and tall tales at Buck's Restaurant of Woodside. A few years ago, he became friends with the owners of the largest airship in the world: the 246' Zeppelin Eureka, a hybrid dirigible. From that perch he conceived of and has written a book about lighter than air travel titled California From 500 Feet - A Story of the Coastline.
Free with admission!
Jenny Robinson was raised in Borneo, and studied for her BFA in Printmaking in the United Kingdom. After moving to San Francisco in 2001, she became fascinated by structures displaying a sense of strength and energy, but ignored, threatened by the passage of time, to ultimate defeat by corrosion and decay. Her work is concerned with depicting how these giant structures appear, not through a sense of romantic yearning for the past, but by responding to location and documenting how they appear to her now, in the moment. The monoprint process enables her to create images that are drenched and heavy with dark ink. She uses deeply saturated colors and textures, not only to reveal the surfaces of the structures, but also to permeate the emptiness around them. The physical nature of, and energy involved in making large format monoprints imbues the work with the frank monumentality of its subject matter. Drawing is a crucial and integral part of her practice and this direct engagement enables her to emphasize the essence of the moment and stay true to the emotional reaction of that specific time and place.
Robinson has exhibited widely, both nationally and abroad. Her work can be found in many collections, including the Library of Congress Graphic Arts Collection, Washington DC; The Achenbach Fine Print Collection, San Francisco; The British Arts Council Collection and The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK. She is an Artist in Residence at the Kala Institute of Art, Berkeley and a regular visiting artist at universities and presses throughout the United States. Robinson is a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE) London and the Los Angeles Printmaking Society (LAPS). Gallery representation includes: the Davidson Gallery, Seattle; Warnock Fine Arts, Palm Springs; Vertical Gallery, Chicago; Gallery 72, Omaha NE and the Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
Greater Bay Area Open presented
Location: 106 E Main St, New Museum Los Gatos
Saturday, August 1 from 1 - 3 pm
The Los Gatos Art Association is proud to present the upcoming juried fine art show: Greater Bay Area Open at NUMU, New Museum Los Gatos. The exhibit was juried by esteemed artist and teacher Peggi Kroll-Roberts of Angels Camp, and resulted in 66 pieces of artwork in 2D and 3D. Artist submissions originated from the greater Bay Area, spanning Walnut Creek to Pebble Beach. The exhibit opens August 1st and runs through August 30th at NUMU, New Museum Los Gatos. A public reception with the artists will take place on Saturday, August 1st from 1pm to 3pm.
For more information on the Los Gatos Arts Association please click here
Stacey Carter was born in Cape May, NJ and received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. In 1991 Carter moved to San Francisco, CA where she currently lives and works. Through creative observation, Carter's work offers insight into the changing urban environment. Her artworks are layered multi-media compositions based on photographs, which are then transformed using a unique combination of skilled printmaking techniques and spontaneous expressionistic painting.
For over fifteen years she has made work that draws from the site of her studio: the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. After working on paintings based on her photographs from this same source, she came across 30 negatives of the airship the USS Akron in Sunnyvale in 1932. Her mind was transported to the time of the ships and the airships, the marvelous engineering and the heroically ordinary workers who built and operated and maintained the day-to-day activities of the giant vessels. In these paintings she aims to create a sense of scale, give the viewer an appreciation of the achievements the workers and freeze time, allowing individual histories to be recalled and shared once more. Layered and compositionally rich, her body of work is a study of how experiences define one's environment; it is an acknowledgement of what has passed and its importance to the present.
Carter has exhibited her mixed media paintings and works on paper in a solo and group shows at galleries and museums throughout the United States, including George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco; the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA; and the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA. She has been the recipient of many awards and honors including a residency at the Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts; the Golden Image Award of Excellence in Serigraphy from the International Screen Printing and Graphic Imaging Association; a Trustee Award selected by artist Nathan Oliveira for the National Steinbeck Center; and a nomination for the Fleishhacker Foundation’s prestigious “Eureka Fellowship Award”. Major commissions include an ongoing series of paintings for the NFL team Baltimore Ravens.
Free with admission. Talk begins at 7:00pm.
Join New Museum Los Gatos for an evening of discussion and book signing with Gary Singh, author of the The San Jose Earthquakes and columnist for Metro Silicon Valley. Hear the incredible story of the rise, fall and resurrection of this legendary team. Meet the man who helped bring them back: Ned Zuparko, and Earthquakes royalty, players: Chris Dangerfield and Johnny Moore. Books for sale at the event.
Autographs from the players!
Admission is $5.00, and free for Museum members.
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