Los Gatos History Project: Uncovering Untold Stories
Oct
15
to Dec 31

Los Gatos History Project: Uncovering Untold Stories

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The Los Gatos History Project is NUMU’s unprecedented effort to catalog and dive deeper into its permanent collection. This exhibition, the first to come out of the project, presents a selection of objects that have given the museum more questions than answers. By taking a critical look at these objects and the stories they tell, the exhibition will prompt visitors to ask: Who made these objects? Why did the museum collect them? What can we learn from them? And whose stories are missing? Through this exhibition, visitors will gain a greater understanding of museum collecting practices, and a greater appreciation for the hidden complexities of Los Gatos history.

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Collections Lab
Sep
29
to Sep 29

Collections Lab

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Opened in September 2023, this demonstration and prep lab serves as a dedicated space to display artifacts, conduct conservation efforts, and present public educational programs. In this space, NUMU demonstrates that history is anything but static! The Collections Lab is open Friday-Sunday during museum hours.

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Holly Lane—Not Enough Time to Love the World
Aug
2
to Jan 12

Holly Lane—Not Enough Time to Love the World

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Holly Lane—Not Enough Time to Love the World, showcases a range of Lane’s work garnered from the previous ten-plus years of a multi-decade career. As an art undergraduate, she began considering the relationship of frame to picture. She has since reimagined it into a new art form of her own invention, in which each component—painting and frame—is fundamental to the work as a whole.

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Holly Lane—In the Artist’s Studio
Aug
23
to Jan 26

Holly Lane—In the Artist’s Studio

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Holly Lane—In the Artist’s Studio offers a rare opportunity for access into Lane’s meticulous step-by-step artistic process. Hiking photographs, along with sketchbooks, design layouts, color trials, preparatory diagrams, drawings, and paintings, plus painting and woodworking tools, and works in process will provide invaluable insight into the studio of a contemporary artist whose methods are more closely aligned with a Medieval-era artisan’s workshop.

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Made of Memory
Oct
25
to Mar 16

Made of Memory

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New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) presents an exhibition of five women artists who explore concepts of memory as it pertains to generational and cultural experience, immigration and migration. Through various media, they explore their experience of inherited memories and unveil personal stories of family and heritage while inviting us all to consider the deeper themes that connect us with the past, and with each other. Engaging with culturally significant materials and symbolism, these works examine the vicarious nature of memory, and present implicit meanings carried in ancestral artifacts that are passed from one generation to the next. Each artist meaningfully conveys the idea that we are all shaped not only by our personal experiences, but by those of past generations.

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Mitra Fabian: Seeping Through Domestic Dissonance
Jan
24
to May 18

Mitra Fabian: Seeping Through Domestic Dissonance

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Mitra Fabian creates a surreal and somber mixed-media installation that intersects the natural world, built environments, climate change, and human interference. This project will include Fabian’s recognizable organic sculptural forms as well as the use of resistors, capacitors, and diodes. But it will also reveal animal elements and a wooden shelter ravaged by fire. This installation is a contemplative conglomeration of her six years living in the Santa Cruz Mountains where she and her wife encountered first-hand experiences of the CZU fires, catastrophic rain, wind, and downed trees.

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ArtNow 2025: Dreamscapes
Apr
4
to Jul 20

ArtNow 2025: Dreamscapes

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ArtNow is an annual juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition and educational program, presented by New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU). The ArtNow Exhibition and supporting programs offer opportunities for high school student artists, from Palo Alto to Gilroy, to gain real-world experience in participating in a juried museum exhibition. Each year, a new theme is chosen for the exhibition and students are asked to submit works based on that theme.

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Boundaries: the 4th Annual Experimental Exhibition
Jul
19
to Oct 6

Boundaries: the 4th Annual Experimental Exhibition

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In partnership with genARTS Silicon Valley, we are proud to announce the 4th Annual Experimental Exhibition, on view at NUMU from Fri, July 19 through Sun, October 6. In this juried show, artists from across Santa Clara County were invited to create a work of art exploring the Boundaries in their world

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Full Circle: The Director’s Circle Artwork Collection
May
3
to Aug 11

Full Circle: The Director’s Circle Artwork Collection

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Each year the Executive Director, in partnership with the Curatorial Team, commissions a Bay Area artist to create a limited edition series of works as part of the Director’s Circle Program. The artist chosen to participate in this annual program also donates two pieces from the commission to the museum: one which stays in the Permanent Collection, the other is used for fundraising. In this way, the Director’s Circle program not only supports personal collecting, but also helps to build NUMU’s Permanent Art Collection. See past works in this retrospective exhibition and the reveal of this year’s work by artist Kiana Honarmand in an upcoming event (details coming soon)!

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ArtNow 2024: In Transition
Mar
22
to Jun 30

ArtNow 2024: In Transition

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Taking time to reflect on the past, our personal and collective histories, challenges, and successes, grounds us as we look forward to the future. How does your past and present inform your future? What does it mean to evolve, to blossom, and to truly discover who you are and who you want to become?

New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) invites Santa Clara County high school students to create an original work of art that reveals the complex journey of being In Transition. Consider the significance of this chapter of your youth – a stage of metamorphosis from childhood into adulthood. Explore the subtle but powerful shifts in your personal development within contemporary societal culture and the stories of your ancestors. Transition is temporal, emotional, constructive, empowering, and a fundamental part of life.

“A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.” - Nikki Giovani, American poet, activist and educator

This year’s theme was co-created with the ArtNow Teen Council, an exciting step forward in elevating the program to be widely accessible and relevant to teenagers living across Santa Clara County. Through this meaningful partnership with student artists, teens are not only the beneficiaries of ArtNow, but its architects.

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Paint the Town: A Mural in Action
Feb
23
to Jul 21

Paint the Town: A Mural in Action

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In partnership with Local Color, we’ve invited muralist Tomas ‘Wisper’ Talamantes into the museum for a dynamic look into his creative process. Wisper will create an original mural at the museum, exploring the untold stories, people, events, and variety of cultures that have contributed to Los Gatos and its surrounding areas. During three live sessions, visitors will enjoy the special opportunity to see Wisper in action and learn about his creative process and philosophy. Alongside the developing mural, visitors can see photographs of the artist’s past work, Freedom, as documented by photographer Buggsy Malone

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the lost ones: iterations and murmurs
Dec
1
to Apr 14

the lost ones: iterations and murmurs

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A solo show featuring artist Liz Harvey.

the lost ones: iterations and murmurs is an exhibition centered on the artworks, artifacts, and ephemera behind creating the lost ones, a multi-year performance project by Bay Area artist Liz Harvey. For the lost ones performance project, Harvey worked with a range of collaborators, including choreographers Mary Armentrout, Cherie Hill, and Megan Nicely, as well as, science editor Lauren Muscatine. The project featured myriad performers rotating through an embroidered performance garment on which participants were invited to stitch images of endangered plants in order to highlight overlooked species, untold feminist histories, and little-acknowledged art practices.

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Greater Bay Area Open: Potentiality / Actuality
Nov
17
to Mar 9

Greater Bay Area Open: Potentiality / Actuality

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The Greater Bay Area Open (GBAO) is a juried fine-art-only competition and exhibition presented by the Los Gatos Art Association (LGAA), designed to promote fine art and artists from the greater Bay Area. Starting in 2015 and held biannually, the GBAO is now in its fifth showing and is presented biennially. This exhibition forges an exciting and dynamic association between the LGAA and NUMU, host to this collaboration.

Spanning twelve Bay Area counties, from Sonoma to Monterey, this juried event draws artists to compete for awards and recognition but also brings exposure to respected jurors, galleries, and art collectors from the region. The GBAO embraces artistic excellence, accepting both two-dimensional and three-dimensional fine art into a premier venue.

In every moment of creativity, there is an option to explore one’s perspective and expression. For this exhibition, LGAA invites artists to push work past usual boundaries to embrace the movement between potentiality and actuality. All artists are encouraged to interpret the theme, “Potentiality / Actuality” in their own way.

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The Hiking Club: A Vocabulary of Yearning | Linda Simmel
Oct
13
to Feb 4

The Hiking Club: A Vocabulary of Yearning | Linda Simmel

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A solo show featuring artist Linda Simmel.

Through evocative drawings, etchings, and paintings, Linda Simmel explores personal and cultural connections between landscape, memory, and history. The Hiking Club: A Vocabulary of Yearning intertwines the story of being the daughter of an immigrant, with the sublime in nature. The works in the show are in part homage to landscape, trees, and the histories they’ve lived in, as well as Simmel’s immigrant father and the time in which he lived. For the artist, the work reveals the process of unraveling the burden of history that defines her, which ultimately presents a sensitive inquiry into intergenerational cultural identity, loss, and renewal.

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(Un)familiar
Jun
2
to Nov 5

(Un)familiar

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As individuals, we tend to move through life as if we are the main character; going about our days with ourselves at the front of our minds. We know ourselves best. But what happens when we take a moment to pause and listen to our neighbor? How can someone else’s story help us unpack our own? Turning our stories into collective experiences and feelings allows us to heal both individually and as a community. The familiarity we know in ourselves is found in others, each of us working through unfamiliar transitions and moving beyond our comfort zones. Each of us is working to become more connected—familiar with the unfamiliar.

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In the Artists’ Studio: Featuring RREVV Studio
May
5
to Nov 12

In the Artists’ Studio: Featuring RREVV Studio

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On view May 5 through Nov 12, 2023, In the Artists’ Studio: Featuring RREVV Studio will introduce visitors to the artists behind the Santa Cruz-based design studio, Rachel and Rigel Hunter. Dive into their shared creative process to develop and execute new works by following along with a piece of unique wearable artwork as it goes from concept to raw material, to a collectible object. RREVV Studio will discuss negotiating the tensions inherent in working between the realms of art and design, as well as the pressures that come with being practicing artists who manage businesses to support their work.

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ArtNow 2023: Unarmed Truth
Mar
31
to Jun 25

ArtNow 2023: Unarmed Truth

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ArtNow is an annual juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition and educational program, presented by New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU). The ArtNow Exhibition and supporting programs offer opportunities for high school student artists, from Palo Alto to Gilroy, to gain real-world experience in participating in a juried museum exhibition. Each year, a new theme is chosen for the exhibition and students are asked to submit works based on that theme. $10,000 in scholarships and awards are given to participating students.

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Reclamation: Aboriginal Ancestral Homeland of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
Dec
9
to Apr 23

Reclamation: Aboriginal Ancestral Homeland of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe

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NUMU is collaborating with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, San Jose State University, and Mosaic America on this art exhibition, featuring photography of their aboriginal ancestral homeland by Tribal Photographer Kike Arnal. Visitors to the exhibit can also explore with the Mosaic Atlas Cultural Mapping Project, an interactive map highlighting places of significance to local indigenous peoples and other regional cultural groups.

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Reclamation: Resilience of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
Nov
4
to May 21

Reclamation: Resilience of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe

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NUMU is collaborating with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and San Jose State University on this art exhibition about the vitality of the Muwekma, featuring photography of tribal members by their Tribal Photographer Kike Arnal. The project will promote deeper understanding of local indigenous art, culture, history, and contemporary issues in Los Gatos and the greater Bay Area, and preserve and share knowledge about critical issues of federal recognition that the Muwekma Ohlone continue to fight for.

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Terra Firma
Oct
21
to Mar 19

Terra Firma

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Opening October 2022, NUMU is pleased to present Terra Firma, a group art exhibition guest curated by Marianne K. McGrath. Artists will explore our relationship with the land and present unique interpretations of meaning and connection through diverse media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, video, and sound.

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Koons Ruins at the James Estate: In the Artist Studio featuring Kathy Aoki
Jul
8
to Nov 27

Koons Ruins at the James Estate: In the Artist Studio featuring Kathy Aoki

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Kathy Aoki creates a faux-museum exhibit depicting a fictional character who collects and destroys artwork by Jeff Koons. The immersive satirical tableau, with a mesmeric diorama and new works on paper, brings the viewer in on the joke that reveals the hypocrisy and patriarchy of the art world, represented by Koon’s enormous financial success as a male artist who focuses on the banal.

Aoki uses humor to explore gender and beauty issues through mock historical artifacts and documentation. Leveraging the exaggerated authority of institutional settings, à la institutional critique artist Andrea Fraser, she includes wry, museum-style labeling to present the work.

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Marie Cameron | Critical Masses, A Very Low Tide
Jun
17
to Oct 23

Marie Cameron | Critical Masses, A Very Low Tide

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In her series Marie Cameron | Critical Masses, A Very Low Tide (June 17—Oct 23), Los Gatos artist Marie Cameron presents views of human impact on our delicate ecosystem, with a series of 9 pieces that explode with color, dense pattern, and familiar objects colliding with natural elements. For this exhibition Cameron adds 3 new pieces to the growing series that reminds the viewer of the fragile, causal relationships that affect the fate of our shared ecosystems.

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RETAZOS: New Works by Alexander Hernandez in Residence at New Museum Los Gatos
Jun
3
to Oct 9

RETAZOS: New Works by Alexander Hernandez in Residence at New Museum Los Gatos

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New Museum Los Gatos endeavors to continually engage and elevate artists who work in media, themes, or content that are new ground for NUMU. NUMU’s Artists in Residence is an initiative to support artists in telling their own stories, in their own words and media, for the audience of Los Gatos and the greater South San Francisco Bay Region.

During the development of the exhibition, NUMU invites the artist in residence to mine the NUMU collection for objects and stories to uniquely weave the sense of place and history into their contemporary practice, resulting in an exhibition that neither NUMU, nor artist, would have otherwise created.

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ArtNow 2022: Brave New Worlds
Mar
25
to May 22

ArtNow 2022: Brave New Worlds

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ArtNow is an annual juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition and educational program, presented by New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU). The ArtNow Exhibition and supporting programs offer opportunities for high school student artists, from Palo Alto to Gilroy, to gain real-world experience in participating in a juried museum exhibition. Each year, a new theme is chosen for the exhibition and students are asked to submit works based on that theme. $10,000 in scholarships and awards are given to participating students.

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In the Artist's Studio: Featuring Luz Donahue
Feb
4
to Jun 26

In the Artist's Studio: Featuring Luz Donahue

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2022 is a blank slate. We feel tentative, but we have a chance to create something new, build new connections, and build resilience. Luz Donahue is an artist that has carved a practice by guiding people through unknown and sometimes difficult emotional pathways, towards unexpected insight.

Through In the Artist’s Studio, we get a glimpse at the creative process of someone who can reveal poetry from the chaos of the blank canvas. Her miniature watercolor paintings portray the richness that a universe of possibilities affords to those who are willing to listen.

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Los Gatos Art Association: Greater Bay Area Open
Feb
4
to Mar 12

Los Gatos Art Association: Greater Bay Area Open

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This fine art juried exhibit is produced by the Los Gatos Art Association in partnership with NUMU, New Museum Los Gatos, where the exhibition will be held. It is open to all artists in the greater bay area from Napa to Carmel, CA. CASH PRIZES in each category. The theme is Listen, Learn, Change, Grow, matching the title of a recent campaign launched by the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce. Our esteemed jurors include Preston Metcalf, Executive Director of the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, and Julie Ericsson, Art Curator at New Museum Los Gatos.

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Spotlight Gallery: Jane Olin—In the Company of Trees
Jan
14
to Jun 5

Spotlight Gallery: Jane Olin—In the Company of Trees

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Trees have played a meaningful role in Jane Olin’s life since childhood. Climate change and human mismanagement now threaten trees across the globe, but new research reveals previously unknown information about their complex social structures and ecological relationships. With renewed curiosity and a sense of urgency, Olin embarked on a wide-ranging exploration of trees. In the Company of Trees features photographs from that undertaking—the most recent additions to her series, Intimate Conversation. Olin’s expressive approach and her innovative process prints reveal a haunting and singular perspective on trees. Her work conveys both the seeds of hope and the seeds of impending destruction, which only human beings can resolve.

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May
21
to Jan 23

SAWYER ROSE: Carrying Stones

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The Carrying Stones Project, from artist Sawyer Rose, shines a light on the systemic and pervasive inequalities that working women face, including the physical, emotional, and practical effects of these disproportionate labor loads. The artworks in this show portray the deeply personal work stories of a diverse group of women and are accompanied by the data that tells a bigger story. The women profiled are a mix of ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, occupations, and socio-economic statuses.

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ArtNow 2021: Good Trouble
Mar
19
to May 9

ArtNow 2021: Good Trouble

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ArtNow 2021: Good Trouble

This year, NUMU invites Santa Clara County high school students to create an original work of art in response to the exhibition theme: Good Trouble.

From his activist work as a Freedom Rider marching on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, to his decades-long legislative work on the Voting Rights Act, Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) never strayed from his pursuit of justice and equality. New Museum Los Gatos honors the battle and the achievements of this acclaimed leader by inviting high school student artists from Santa Clara County to render and submit their interpretations of Lewis’ call to “make some noise and get in good trouble.”

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”—John Lewis on the ongoing fight for equal rights, 2018

  • Jackson Arabaci - Los Gatos High School

    Erin Atluri - Los Altos High School

    Toby Britton - Los Gatos High School

    Savannah Burch - Los Gatos High School

    Ethan Burke - Leigh High School

    Allison Cannard - Los Gatos High School

    Mathilde Caron - Leigh High School

    Vivian Cheng - Monta Vista High School

    Defne Clarke - Homestead High School

    Lynn Dai - Saratoga High School

    Kate Davis - Los Gatos High School

    Josh Donaker - Palo Alto High School

    Bailey Fu - Los Altos High School

    Eva Goldsberry - Leigh High School

    Bryn Grespan - Los Gatos High School

    August Hattiangadi - Freestyle Academy

    Leo Hernandez - Westmont High School

    Olivia Howell - Santa Teresa High School

    Stephanie Hsu - Mountain View High School

    Catherine Huang - Leigh High School

    Kellie Huang - Christopher High School

    Karly Ice-Crespo - Los Gatos High School

    JunnaItasaka - Pioneer High School

    Clément Jalobeanu - Los Altos High School

    Carina Johnson - Monta Vista High School

    Elliot Kampmeier - Harker Upper School

    Aaron Kim - Palo Alto High School

    Grace Kloeckl - Los Altos High School

    Savannah Knight - Los Gatos High School

    Nicky Krammer - Los Altos High School

    Kelly Lam - Los Altos High School

    Giselle Lebedenko - Los Gatos High School

    Lina Lee - Milpitas High School

    Mei Lin Lee-Stahr - Branham High School

    Anica Liu - Saratoga High School

    Sydney Liu - Independence High School

    Kyle Lou - Archbishop Mitty

    Annalise Lowe - Leigh High School

    Kelly Lu - Saint Francis High School

    Alexandra Ma - Palo Alto High School

    Aastha Mangla - The Harker School

    Marina Martins-Juncker - Los Gatos High School

    Rebecca Mednik - Westmont High School

    Jeffrey Mu - Bellarmine College Preparatory

    Haadia Nadeem - Fremont High School

    Kira Narog - Freestyle Academy

    Richard Oh - Cupertino High School

    Siddharth Pai - Los Gatos High School

    Shreya Patel - Leland High School

    Delphi Pentin - Gunderson High School

    Milena Pesic - Los Gatos High School

    Haily Phan - Pioneer High School

    Isabella Prado - Palo Alto High School

    Ashley Qiu - Palo Alto High School

    Jasmin Ramos - Los Altos High School

    Rajasri Reji - Leigh High School

    Sofia Ruiz - Saint Francis High School

    Audrey Salvador - Westmont High School

    Agnes Shin - Leigh High School

    Jamie Shin - Los Altos High School

    Jillian Silva - Saint Francis High School

    Gabriella Stout - Los Gatos High School

    Hannah Tremblay - Los Gatos High School

    Logan Unger - Willow Glen High School

    Danika Vadnais - Leigh High School

    Briana Wade - Independence High School

    Helen Wang - Cupertino High School

    Alina Wang - Los Altos High School

    Lena Wessel - Mountain View High School

    Camilla Williamson - Los Gatos High School

    Jun Hee Won - Cupertino High School

    Joanne Wu - Piedmont Hills High School

    Tuoyang Ye - James Lick High School

    Lauren Yee - Leigh High School

    Natasha Yen - Harker Upper School

    Sonny Yiu - Monta Vista High School

    Edward Zhang - Palo Alto High School

    Katherine Zhang - Los Altos High School

ArtNow 2021: Virtual Exhibition Announcement

All of us at NUMU dream about the day museums can reopen and welcome our community in-person once more. Although Covid-19 has created many obstacles with temporary closures of museums nationwide, along with the inability to host in-person gatherings, there is potential to reach and serve an even wider audience than we ever thought possible. With a few months of virtual programs under our belts, NUMU is excited to announce that our premier annual exhibition of high school artists, ArtNow, will be an exciting digital exhibition that you can visit 24 hours a day! 

Now in its tenth year, ArtNow will be entirely virtual in 2021, presenting a new opportunity for emerging artists to gain exposure through virtual presentations of their artwork, online gatherings to celebrate their accomplishments, and a commemorative exhibition catalog. Stay tuned for an exciting series of programs that will help young artists get noticed and launch their artistic careers. We’ve already received over 200 submissions and we are so impressed with the caliber of work responding to this year’s theme: GOOD TROUBLE. Submissions closed January 31st at midnight.

None of this would be possible without the talented students artists, encouraging teachers and parents, and the generous support of our sponsors. We’d like to thank our sponsors that have stuck by us, and remained dedicated to NUMU’s vision to offer equal and equitable representation, opportunities and services to all. In particular, we wish to thank visionary supporters Alyce and Michael Parsons for helping us launch ArtNow back in 2011. We also owe a special thank you to The Town of Los Gatos, Los Gatos Morning Rotary, The Flick Family, University Art, West Valley College, Saratoga Rotary, The Waitte Foundation, Ginger & Jon McDonald, The Linda Smythe Young Artists Fund, Jillian Troftgruben, John & Valerie Hopkins, Heritage Bank of Commerce, California College of the Arts and KCAT TV 15. Because of all of you, ArtNow continues to inspire and acknowledge young artists on the precipice of their artistic careers. I’ll see you online, and in-person, soon!

Ami Davis
NUMU Executive Director


About ArtNow

ArtNow is an award-winning annual juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition and educational program, presented by New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU). ArtNow offers opportunities for high school student artists, from Palo Alto to Gilroy, to gain real-world experience by participating in a juried museum exhibition. Each year, a new theme is chosen for the exhibition and students are asked to submit works based on that theme. Look for #artnowatnumu on social media.

Questions? Email artnow@numulosgatos.org


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Tony May: Views of the T. House
Feb
5
to May 9

Tony May: Views of the T. House

Views of the T. House (1991-1992) opens in the Spotlight Gallery on January 15. The exhibition features San Jose artist Tony May’s meticulous photo-realist paintings that document the gradual progression of his idiosyncratic, functional, and on-going construction project, the T. House. This full scale backyard installation on May’s property, features detailed craftsmanship and Japanese-style carpentry. With each of the 18 paintings in the series, May deftly captures the details like the grit of cinder blocks in the T. house foundation wet after a rainstorm, and places each moment in context with graphic novel style captions on a crisp black frame.

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In the Artist's Studio: Featuring Tony May
Feb
5
to May 9

In the Artist's Studio: Featuring Tony May

In the Artist’s Studio: Featuring Tony May opens in the Michael and Alyce Parsons reception area on February 5th. The visitor follows May on his journey of creating the site-specific installation for the San Jose Museum of Art, Variable Book Construction (Bookmobile), (1991-1995). With behind-the-scenes photos of May's T. House, workspace, and drafting table, as well as a few select tools that help May get the job done, visitors will learn about the artistry in the time and the care that May dedicates to his tasks.

To further engage visitors and illuminate the process behind the creative concept, May’s Bookmobile Maquette, recently donated to NUMU’s permanent collection, will also be on view. This maquette is a component in the process of creating Variable Book Construction: Bookmobile, which is in the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art.

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Art in the Time of Corona
Dec
11
to Mar 14

Art in the Time of Corona

This exhibition is a fundraiser and an exhibition of artworks, in various mediums, that were created during and/or were inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and massive social and political upheaval the world over. This special exhibition will provide a rare opportunity to experience an eclectic range of art from NUMU’s network of creatives including previously exhibited artists, teaching artists, and our many artist friends and supporters.

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In the Artist Studio: Featuring Lauryl Gaumer
Sep
25
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In the Artist Studio: Featuring Lauryl Gaumer

This exhibition will showcase the work of this local metalsmith, jewelry artist, and glassblower.

Gaumer’s (Un)Wearable series fuses these ornate ancient crafts to broach sometimes painful conversations about expectations of beauty, feminism, power, and self-worth. The adornments she has styled combine materials that simultaneously project strength and fragility, inspiring the viewer to imagine how it would feel to be in the position of the wearer. NUMU visitors will get an intimate glimpse into the handbuilt workspace that Gaumer has fashioned, as well as the process she developed to create the lux glass respirator.

Exhibition curated by Julie Ericsson.

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Image + Object
Jul
10
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Image + Object

An exhibition exploring innovations in alternative process photography, featuring works by Bay Area artists, Chris McCaw, Moira McDonald, Klea McKenna, and Meghann Riepenhoff

New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is pleased to present Image + Object, an exhibition that explores alternative process photography through the unique photographic works of four Bay Area contemporary photographers, each of whom challenges our notions of photography as reflection, documentation and separation.

Image + Object is curated by Allison Railo.

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ArtNow 2020: Water
Mar
20
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ArtNow 2020: Water

It’s that time of year again! Welcome the ninth annual ArtNow juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition to the NUMU galleries! The exhibition and educational program give county high school students the experience of presenting artwork in a professional museum setting and the opportunity to participate in supporting educational and career development programs.

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A Call to Collect: Whimsy Around the World
Feb
28
to Jan 3

A Call to Collect: Whimsy Around the World

Spotlight on Local Residents’ Eclectic International Folk Art Collection

New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is pleased to present A Call to Collect: Whimsy Around the World, an exhibition that celebrates and investigates the pursuit of collecting folk art, featuring prized pieces from the collection of Los Gatos residents Lee and Dr. Paul Quintana.

The Quintanas travel extensively as Paul provides pediatric medical services in underserved communities around the world, including Mexico, South America, Asia and the Pacific as well as West Africa and the Middle East. And after more than 40 years of traveling the globe, the Quintanas have developed a collection of hundreds of pieces, some of which are cleverly repurposed or utilitarian objects and others which represent the material cultures of ancient, traditional and contemporary arts of each locale. This exhibition is curated by Allison Railo.

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In the Artist's Studio: The Workshop of Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein and The Violins of Hope
Jan
24
to Apr 26

In the Artist's Studio: The Workshop of Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein and The Violins of Hope

This unique exhibition developed in partnership with Music at Kohl Mansion Burlingame, producers of the Violins of Hope San Francisco Bay Area Project, presents a virtual experience of the Tel Aviv violin workshop of Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein where the Violins of Hope are restored. The installation will share the story of the Weinstein family and the inspiration behind the Project, and highlight one of the 70 historic instruments in the collection.

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