Meet Ellie Lin, an emerging young artist who just won the Best in Show AND People’s Choice awards for NUMU’s ArtNow 2023 Annual High School Juried Exhibition Unarmed Truth. Ellie graduated from Los Altos High School this year, and will be attending Rhode Island School of Design this fall, to pursue fine art and illustration. In this post Ellie shares some reflections on her involvement in ArtNow and her own art practice. Follow Ellie on Instagram @dynojelatoe to stay up to date on what she creates next!
Read moreArtNow 2023: Meet the Judges!
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. Students have the opportunity to win awards in 8 artistic categories as well as an overall Best in Show award and a People’s Choice award. The categories are Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography, Digital Art & Video/Animation. The awards in each category and the Best in Show award are determined by a panel of guest judges, who are local university faculty and established practicing artists. NUMU intentionally recruits a diverse array of jurors from different cultural and artistic backgrounds who can all speak to specific medium categories in ArtNow, depending on their own professional art practices. Our judges for the 12th annual ArtNow Exhibition Unarmed Truth are Kathy Aoki, Binh Danh, Mitra Fabian, James Morgan, and Rupy C. Tut.
Read moreMeet the Spring 2023 ArtNow Teen Council
During the second call for interns this Spring, we received over 70 applications from students across Santa Clara County, and onboarded 7 new interns to join 2 from our first cohort, for a total of 9 members of the Teen Council for the Spring of 2023. This group of interns will be working on some special social media projects, helping with big events like the ArtNow 2023 Award Ceremony and Celebration, and learning how to give exhibition tours! Scroll through this blog for some updates on what they’ve been up to in the last few months.
Read moreMeet the 1st ArtNow Teen Council
For the first time ever, New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) has launched an ArtNow Teen Council composed of 6 high school interns who are helping to elevate the ArtNow program to be more widely accessible and more relevant to teenagers living across Santa Clara County. Through establishing the ArtNow Teen Council, NUMU hopes to build a stronger partnership with student artists so that they aren’t just the recipients of the ArtNow program, but the architects. The dream is to establish this internship as a key feature of the ArtNow program. We received over 33 applications to the internship this summer, and we look forward to being able to offer more professional development opportunities to teens across the County in the months and years to come. This blog features our first ever 6 ArtNow Teen Council Members, representing different schools across the county, and gives a peek into what they’ve done so far, and what they are working on currently.
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