ArtNow 2020: Water
At the start of the 2019/20 school year, New Museum Los Gatos invited Santa Clara County high school students to create an original work of art for juried selection in the 9th Annual ArtNow exhibition. Over 900 high school students rose to that challenge and submitted artworks in response to the 2020 exhibition theme - Water. Students were given an inspirational prompt to help guide their approach to the challenge.
Water teaches four important lessons:
what you see is often your projection
what is soft can also be powerful
persistence can break barriers
change is always happening
Yung Pueblo, poet
The 73 student works presented in these pages stand as a record of personal reflection, and projection. Each reveals the artist’s confluence of emotions, feelings and observations considered and then rendered in response to the exhibition theme. The artists tapped into their experiences, thoughts and identities and channeled them through a visual medium or media of their choosing. Each artist’s statement reveals a drop of reflection, a wash of ideas, and emotional depth waiting to be plunged and explored by the viewer.
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
