Exhibition Sponsorship Information
Exhibiting Artist in Residence Program (AIR)
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
This is an exciting time to be a part of the NUMU community. Since 2015, we’ve been working toward achieving a vision and mission that represents art and history in the Bay Area with a global mindset and an equitable perspective. We endeavor to continually engage and elevate artists who work in media, themes, or content that are new ground for NUMU. And, now we’ve begun an exciting new venture that we’re asking you to be a part of, as we launch our inaugural Artists in Residence Program (AIR) this June. NUMU AIR 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 Bay Area. And, this new undertaking requires the support from visionaries such as yourself.
During the development of the exhibition, we invite the artist in residence to mine our permanent 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.
Want to support this exciting new venture?
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INAUGURAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Alexander Hernandez
The inaugural NUMU AIR artist is set to launch June 2022 featuring ALEXANDER HERNANDEZ. Hernandez is a mixed-media artist who currently resides in Redwood City, CA, working as a social worker finding housing for displaced LGBTQ youth in San Francisco. Born in Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca- Mexico, and raised in Grand Junction, CO, he received his BFA (2007) in Painting and Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Denver, CO, and an MFA in Studio Art (2012) from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. He creates soft forms and layered quilted collages of textiles to represent stories of resilient individuals dealing with the experience of being othered, isolated, and excluded because of their identities. Hernandez often repurposes found materials and other textiles with motifs and colors that speak to the recombination of cultures and frames of reference that shape our complex modern lives. His previous work, “STAYIN’ POSITIVE,” is a series of textile portraits investigating the identities of Latinx and other people of color living with HIV. Hernandez has participated in art residencies at at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA; Root Division in San Francisco, CA; Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC; Mark Rothko Art Center in Latvia; and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, among others. www.hernalex.com
Learn more about Alex’s work & practice from this April 27, 2022 virtual program.
Growing up as a sissy-boy who hated gym, craft was a way to create my own safe space where my love of American pop culture and Mexican upbringing could coexist. Through stitching my work explores intersectional identities rooted in immigrant experiences, gender expectations, HIV+ survival, and queer sensibilities. I patchwork together domestic fabrics, digitized prints, cultural textiles and pop-cultural artifacts to create Frankensteinian-like work that embraces layers and patterns. In the process I challenge gender roles and acculturation anxieties through visual code switching.
- Alexander Hernandex
EXHIBITION SPONSORSHIP LEVELS
Sponsorship contributions are 100% tax deductible
With your sponsorship of $5,000, we can host Alex’s exhibition project as described above, and provide all the building materials and tools he needs to bring his vision to fruition. This will include sculptures & artworks, and a customized exhibition intro panel made by the artist.
With your sponsorship of $10,000, we will be able to activate this exhibition by hosting three dynamic programs including:
Artist Talk with the Curator - Join NUMU Curator, Julie Ericsson, as she gives an in depth talk about the exhibition.
“Los Gatos” Soft Sculpture Workshop - Participants will make cat soft sculptures in celebration of the name of the town.
Craft & Identity - Community Conversation - Artist and guest panel.
