Meet Toby Britton, an emerging young artist with a love for portrait painting who has been involved with three NUMU exhibitions! Most recently, Toby won the Best in Show award for NUMU’s ArtNow 2021 Annual High School Juried Exhibition. In ArtNow 2020 Toby won 1st Place in Painting, and just this past year one of Toby’s paintings was included in NUMU’s group exhibition Art in the Time of Corona. Toby is graduating this year, 2021, from Los Gatos High School and plans to attend UCLA in the fall, majoring in Art. In this post Toby shares some thoughts on his involvement in NUMU exhibitions and his own art practice. Follow Toby on Instagram @tobythetoasters and check out his portfolio!
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In this blog post, our Executive Director Ami Davis shares some thoughts on the ArtNow 2021 theme Good Trouble and situates highlights from the exhibition into a larger conversation about activist art in our nation over the decades. We pause to reflect on the role of art as a vehicle for social change in the past and present moment.
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