Enjoy free general admission on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is preferred but drop-ins are always welcome. The museum is open from 10-4, and we can't wait to see you there!
First Free Sundays are currently being offered through December 2022.
Enjoy free general admission on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is preferred but drop-ins are always welcome. The museum is open from 10-4, and we can't wait to see you there!
First Free Sundays are currently being offered through December 2022.
Join us for a special in-person exhibition tour of The Los Gatos History Project: Uncovering Untold Stories! Curator Allison Railo will lead a walkthrough of the exhibition, specifically discussing the three new displays on view, as well as her own curatorial observations about NUMU's collection of artifacts and belongings.
Enjoy free general admission on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10-4, and we can't wait to see you there!
First Free Sundays are currently being offered through October 2022.
New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is excited to participate in the Smithsonian Magazine: Museum Day! Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian Magazine where participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket.
Enjoy free general admission on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! The museum is open from 10-4, and we can't wait to see you there!
First Free Sundays are currently being offered through October 2022.
Date: Saturday, August 27, 2022
Festival Time: 2pm - 10pm
NUMU @ Mosaic Festival: 2pm - 9pm
Festival Location: School of Arts & Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza | 1700 Alum Rock Avenue, San Jose, CA 95116
NUMU Booth Location: The Pavilion
Registration: Free
All ages welcome!
New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is excited to participate in the Mosaic Festival on Saturday, August 27, 2022! NUMU and the ArtNow Teen Council invite you to participate in an art activity inspired by the ArtNow 2023 theme, Unarmed Truth, and Mosaic’s themes of belonging, healing and harmony. Choose a personal or universal truth, or take inspiration from one of our highlighted quotes, and create a small work of art. Feel free to draw, write, and collage as your creativity desires. Share a secret. State a fact. Shine a light on what needs to be said. Connecting with your truth is an act of healing, and sharing your art fosters a sense of belonging.
Share your creation with us on social media @newmuseumlosgatos!
#speakyourtruthwithnumu
#numuartnow
Celebrate our mosaic of American cultures at the second annual Mosaic Festival in Silicon Valley at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose. This "destination" event is actually a journey that welcomes each of us to honor our unique history while also co-creating a vision of our shared future of belonging, healing, and harmony. Presented by Mosaic America, in partnership with the School of Arts & Culture.
Mosaic is a nonprofit organization that strengthens communities, cultivates belonging, and catalyzes inclusion through inter-cultural and co-created art. Our team of artists uses inspiration from their cultures and art forms to collaborate on unique performances and expressions that highlight the common threads of our shared American story.
Join us for an introduction to NUMU’s most recent endeavor to share the Town’s history with a special focus on untold stories, the Los Gatos History Project! Hear from Exhibitions + Collections Manager, Cristiano Colantoni, and Collections Registrar + LGHP Program Coordinator, Alexandra Schindler, as they discuss the inception of the project, project goals, and provide a status update on progress made and what’s coming up. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the collections storage and staging areas and participate in a Q&A with museum staff and attendees.
Express yourself through abstract watercolor painting . In this class you’ll learn how to summon your creativity while you make friends with your analytical side too. Access your flow and learn a creative process that you can easily repeat at home in a just a few minutes per day.
Grab the beverage of your choice and join us for an informal virtual dialogue with Ami, our Executive Director. During our monthly Virtual Happy Hour, Ami will pose a question of the month, share updates about NUMU, and be available to answer your questions. March’s question is, “How can our community support artists during the pandemic?”
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Grab the beverage of your choice and join us for an informal virtual dialogue with Ami, our Executive Director. During our monthly Virtual Happy Hour, Ami will pose a question of the month, share updates about NUMU, and be available to answer your questions. February’s question is, “What are untold or underrecognized stories in Los Gatos and the Bay Area?”
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Grab the beverage of your choice and join us for an informal virtual dialogue with Ami, our new Executive Director. Ami will be available to share what she’s learned so far about NUMU, reflect on the museum’s exciting future, and answer your questions.
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NUMU is excited to partner again with Santa Cruz based artist, Luz Donahue. In 2020, Luz held a wonderful in-person workshop at NUMU introducing students to abstract expressionism. Luz’ work is currently featured in our current exhibition, Art in the Time of Corona. We love working with Luz and are excited to share this opportunity exclusively for NUMU members. Registration is taken directly through Luz’s website and NUMU members also receive a special discount and some one-one time! This is more than an art making class, it’s about connecting with your inner artist by transposing some of your unique experiences, emotions, and processes into art. This class can also be great to offer to someone as a gift. Or, if you’re in a partnership with someone, it can be a great activity to do with your partner and take some time to explore your creativity with your partner while gifting yourselves the space to reflect on the year together.
Allison Railo is an Art Historian with experience working in museum and gallery institutions in the Los Angeles area. She studied World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and completed a Master’s Degree in Museum and Gallery Management at City University, London. In addition, to receiving her second Master’s Degree in Art History and Visual Culture from San Jose State University, where she focused her research on Contemporary Alternative Process Photographers in the Bay Area.
Ever wonder how museum's produce exhibitions? Hang out with NUMUExhibitions Manager, Cristiano Colantoni, and Exhibitions Designer, Julie Ho Sung and see how they work their magic and present NUMU shows that you love to love.
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Get a rare and inside look into the NUMU Collections Lab with Exhibitions & Collections Manager, Cristiano Colantoni. See where and how NUMU's extensive collection of art and historical artifacts are stored when not on exhibit. Learn about the museum's digital cataloging project. And, get pro tips on how to preserve family heirlooms.
P.S. Food and drink are not allowed in the collections lab, so please enjoy your coffee and cookie before you join the tawk.
Meet the NU Executive Director, Maureen Cappon-Javey for an informal get-to-know-you chat and join in a brainstorming session to determine the Who, What, When, Where and Why of the 2019 Coffee Tawk program. All ideas, opinions, soapboxes and treatises welcomed! Cookies included.
You bring your coffee, we'll bring the cookies!
Join us for an hour-long casual conversation about art, life and how they intersect with NUMU Executive Director, Lisa Coscino. Bring your favorite cup of joe (or chai) and share your thoughts and ideas about what's important and of interest to you. This monthly gathering happens 2-3pm on Thursdays in the NUMU galleries.
You bring your coffee, we'll bring the cookies!
Join us for an hour-long casual conversation about art, life and how they intersect with NUMU Executive Director, Lisa Coscino. Bring your favorite cup of joe (or chai) and share your thoughts and ideas about what's important and of interest to you. This monthly gathering happens 2-3pm on Thursdays in the NUMU galleries.
Upcoming Tawk: November 29th
You bring your coffee, we'll bring the cookies!
Join us for an hour-long casual conversation about art, life and how they intersect with NUMU Executive Director, Lisa Coscino. Bring your favorite cup of joe (or chai) and share your thoughts and ideas about what's important and of interest to you. This monthly gathering happens 2-3pm on Thursdays in the NUMU galleries.
Upcoming Tawk: TBD.
You bring your coffee, we'll bring the cookies!
Join us for an hour-long casual conversation about art, life and how they intersect with NUMU Executive Director, Lisa Coscino. Bring your favorite cup of joe (or chai) and share your thoughts and ideas about what's important and of interest to you. This monthly gathering happens 2-3pm on Thursdays in the NUMU galleries.
Upcoming Tawk: TBD.
While the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury neighborhood attracted thousands of young people searching for peace, love and community during the Summer of Love, other social justice movements were gaining traction in the wake of the turbulent Civil Rights and Free Speech movements of the early 1960s. Ilka Hartmann arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area from her native Germany in 1964. Initially a student of theology, she took a photography class that re-mapped her dedicated, life-long path as a photographer. In the 1960s Hartmann found herself at the epicenter of the Anti-War and Social Justice movements at UC Berkeley. From this juncture, she launched her 53-year career as a photographer and activist, chronicling major social justice events, and personalities.
Visitors to the exhibition are invited to explore connections between movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s and social justice movements today. The exhibition features photographs and personal items from Hartmann's own collection.
Notable personalities and events captured in photographs in the exhibition include: Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, Kathleen Cleaver, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Dennis Banks and the American Indian Movement, the Anti-war movement, San Francisco LGBT marches and parades in the early 1970s.
Ephemera also on view includes: protest flyers, original Black Panther newspapers and manuscripts, a beaded cross necklace worn by United Farm Worker marchers, and an original, handwritten speech written by Dennis Banks at a 1979 No Nukes Rally in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Ilka Hartmann's work has been exhibited widely, including locally at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Oakland Museum of California, and in permanent Bay Area displays focused on important people and events. On Alcatraz Island her photographs are shown daily in a film about the Indian Occupation of the island. Her work was also exhibited internationally in Berlin and Hamburg, at URBIS in Lancaster (England), in China and Brazil.
Her images have been published in Der Spiegel, Encyclopedia Britannica, the Oxford Dictionary, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Smithsonian Handbook on the North American Indian series and other books, newspapers and magazines. Her photographs are included in films and television programs shown in the United States, Canada and Europe. Among her books are The Town that Fought to Save Itself (with Orville Schell,) a story of Bolinas in the 1970s; Pearson, A Harbor Seal Pup (with Susan Meyers;) and books on the Indian occupation of Alcatraz, Native American life and the Black Panthers. Hartmann lives in a small community on the Northern California coast.
Faces of the Resistance: Through the Lens of Ilka Hartmann 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.
Photograph courtesy of Ilka Hartmann.
This exhibition explores the century-long history of a 72-acre property in the Los Gatos mountains that was, at different times, a stagecoach stop, restaurant, bordello, and resort. In the 1960s, the property was renamed “Chateau Liberté”, which translates to “House of Freedom” and became a magnet for motorcycle bikers and hippies who wanted to cast aside the moral compass of suburbia in this hideaway. The exhibition lays out the arc of the property’s history from its beginnings in the mid 1850s, through the 20th century, and to its present-day status as a private residence.
The focus of the exhibition is the property’s transformation into Chateau Liberté during the era of the Summer of Love – 1965 to 1975 – where it attracted some of the biggest names in rock music with Bay Area roots including: The Doobie Brothers, The Tubes, Hot Tuna, members of the Grateful Dead and a host of other artists who played the club circuit at that time. Chateau Liberté: House of Freedom / Faces of Resistance: Through the Lens of Ilka Hartmann Historic records, photographs, ephemera and stories from the locals and legends who helped to create a perfect storm of music and mayhem are just some of the artifacts and treasures on view. Visitors will see original hand drawn promotional posters and flyers, Chateau Liberté’s original carved wooden door, photos of the property’s evolution and guests, and a short documentary with interviews from local residents who frequented the Chateau back in the day.
Chateau Liberté: House of Freedom is generously supported by Azuca, Los Gatos - the place to go for local arts and crafts and whimsical gifts.
Susan Leone Howe will provide a demonstration of Mokuhanga woodcut printmaking, roughly translated as “wood impression picture”. This printing tradition flourished in Japan in the 18th and 19th centuries. The wood printing blocks are usually hand carved and traditional inks are water-based. Susan will run one impression through the press to display in the demo gallery.
You bring your coffee, we'll bring the cookies!
Join us for an hour-long casual conversation about art, life and how they intersect with NUMU Executive Director, Lisa Coscino. Bring your favorite cup of joe (or chai) and share your thoughts and ideas about what's important and of interest to you. This monthly gathering happens 2-3pm on Thursdays in the NUMU galleries.
Upcoming Tawk: July 26th.
Advanced ticket purchase required*
Why was Coppola’s film about Marie-Antoinette mauled by French critics? Join us for a fun, informative lecture on Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and learn more about this royal couple who were always met with opposition. Learn how Louis XVI’s actions lead to the outbreak of the French Revolution, learn about daily life in the 18th century, and learn how Marie-Antoinette broke the strict etiquette rules imposed by Louis XIV.
Calling all Los Gatos High School Alumni and keepers of LGHS swag! We want to see your special, personal, and precious LGHS memorabilia for possible inclusion in NUMU’s September 2018 exhibition: Sis Boom Bah: The Life and Times of Los Gatos High School.
So, go through your closet, basement, and garage and gather that beloved Wildcat swag and bring it on down to NUMU! We’re looking for:
Athletic Equipment and Uniforms
Art Projects
Graduation Caps, Tassels, and Diplomas
Yearbooks
Text Books
Prom Dresses and Photos
Theater Costumes and Props
School Club Memorabilia
Other Ephemera: Photos, Letters and Notes, Writing Assignments, Tests, Homework, Report Cards, and those Doodled-On Notebooks and Folders
And anything else symbolic of your high school experience. We want to see it all!
Our curatorial staff will be on-hand to examine your objects and hear the stories behind them.
If you don’t have anything to bring, no problem! Please come and share your favorite high school memories. Local TV cable station, KCAT will be on hand to talk with you and record your stories.
May 19th will be an exciting day for storytelling and strolls down memory lane. We will also be pre-selling the Sis Boom Bah exhibition catalog. Order yours early before they sell out.
May's Tawpic: Censorship in the Arts
You bring your coffee, we'll bring the cookies!
Join us for an hour-long casual conversation about art, life and how they intersect with NUMU Executive Director, Lisa Coscino. Bring your favorite cup of joe (or chai) and share your thoughts and ideas about what's important and of interest to you. This monthly gathering happens 2-3pm on Thursdays in the NUMU galleries. Oh, and we'll bring the cookies!
This program has been rescheduled to Thursday May 17 | 2-3pm
You bring your coffee, we'll bring the cookies!
Upcoming Tawk May 17th
On View: September 15, 2017 - April 15, 2018
New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is pleased to present Art and the Environment: The Paintings of Andrew P. Hill, an exhibition featuring works from The Charles and Peggy Bergtold Collection, the largest privately held collection of Andrew P. Hill paintings. The exhibition opens in NUMU’s Spotlight Gallery on September 15, 2017 and runs through February 4, 2018. Featured are 12 rarely displayed paintings by Andrew P. Hill depicting Santa Clara Valley landscapes and portraits of prominent San Jose citizens from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Hill’s wife, Florence Hill, Jane Stanford, Julia Farney, and the Rea family. Other exhibition highlights include rare photographs of Hill’s San Jose photography studio before it was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, collectable books featuring Hill, and select photographs taken by Hill of the Santa Cruz redwood forests, courtesy of the Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History in San Jose.
Born August 9, 1853, Andrew Putnam Hill was a painter, photographer and leading environmentalist. He was best known for his successful efforts to save the redwood trees from destruction in California’s Santa Cruz mountains, leading to the establishment of Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California’s oldest state park. In 1899 while on a magazine photography assignment, Hill was approached by the owner of the property who demanded he turn over his photos. He boldly told Hill that he planned to log the forest and turn the trees into railroad ties. Hill recorded his feelings of the encounter:
“…the thought flashed through my mind that these trees, because of their size and antiquity, were among the natural wonders of the world, and should be saved for posterity. I said to myself, I will start a campaign immediately to make a public park of this place.” – Andrew P. Hill, on saving the redwoods.
Hill would go on to fight against the destruction of Northern California’s redwood forests. He organized groups from Stanford University, Santa Clara University, and mobilized scientists and local activists to join him.
For two years the group lobbied California legislators to save the redwood trees from decimation and to create a public park. They raised $250,000, an enormous sum in those days to secure the land and in 1902 Big Basin Redwoods State Park was opened. In addition to taking hundreds of photographs of the redwood trees surrounding Santa Clara Valley, Hill was also an avid painter of the natural beauty that he fought so hard to save.
The Charles and Peggy Bergtold Collection
As a longtime resident of Los Gatos, Charles Bergtold grew up in a time when there were still vast orchards throughout the Santa Clara Valley. His interest in the history of the valley extended to exploring local historic sites, abandoned houses, and searching the area for old cars and antiques. His love of local history eventually led to a forty-year career collecting and selling antiques in Los Gatos.
Bergtold’s interest in Hill began when he read books published on the Santa Clara Valley, which included Hill’s illustrations and photographs of early ranches, vast orchards and the pioneers who settled in the area. After reading Grand and Ancient Forest, by Carolyn de Vries about Andrew P. Hill, Bergtold was inspired to include as many Hill works as he could find in his art collection.
Peggy Conaway Bergtold is a former Los Gatos Library director and leading Los Gatos historian. She has written five books on the history and people of Los Gatos and received the Pat O’ Laughlin Contribution to Literature Award. She writes a Los Gatos history column for the Los Gatos Weekly, a publication of the Bay Area News Group.
Art & Environment: The Paintings of Andrew P. Hill is supported in part by The Charles and Peggy Bergtold Collection. Selected photos are provided by the Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History in San Jose CA.
More information on this exhibit may be found on our website through the Press Resources Page. You may also sign-up to receive our Press Releases Here.
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