What can your art reveal about the truth? Art can transform, empower, and bring us together. It gives space to actively listen and to speak freely without minimizing the perspectives of others. Truth can hurt, heal, and make way for genuine self-expression. New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) invites Santa Clara County high school students to create an original work of art that reveals a personal or universal truth.
Find inspiration from leaders and social movements that have helped us understand, embody, or uphold a hidden truth as a community. Reflect on your own experience: dive into your subconscious, your hopes and dreams, to reveal something unseen. What's below your surface?
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964.
This year’s theme was co-created with the ArtNow Teen Council, an exciting step forward in elevating the program to be more widely accessible and relevant to teenagers living across Santa Clara County. Through this meaningful partnership with student artists, teens are not just the recipients of the ArtNow program but its architects.
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Emma Foster, Castilleja High School, Grade 11
Christine Ryu, Castilleja High School, Grade 10
Maddie Tsang, Castilleja High School, Grade 11
Katie Lee, Cupertino High School, Grade 11
Tara Krishna, Fremont High School, Grade 10
Hana Bae, Henry M. Gunn High School, Grade 10
Abigail Song, Homestead High School, Grade 11
Anjieneth Alonzo, Independence High School, Grade 12
Alena Angulo, Independence High School, Grade 12
Valeria Gomez, Independence High School, Grade 12
Diep Van Pham Nguyen, Independence High School, Grade 11
Catharine Saechao, Independence High School, Grade 12
Miaki Thao, Independence High School, Grade 12
Willson Zeng, Independence High School, Grade 12
William Zeng, Independence High School, Grade 12
Arlie Lowe, Leigh High School, Grade 12
Ava Monroe, Leigh High School, Grade 11
Lauren Ogden, Leigh High School, Grade 12
Cindy Peng, Leigh High School, Grade 12
Akemi Marcotte, Leland High School, Grade 12
Desiree Vu-de Leon, Leland High School, Grade 12
Gillian Birdsong, Lincoln High School, Grade 11
Sarah Ang, Los Altos High School, Grade 10
Ankhil Enkhbayar, Los Altos High School, Grade 10
Sophie Filer, Los Altos High School, Grade 10
Yokuyo Guo, Los Altos High School, Grade 10
Hailey Knauss, Los Altos High School, Grade 11
Ellie Lin, Los Altos High School, Grade 12
Olivia Moon, Los Altos High School, Grade 10
Nicole Park, Los Altos High School, Grade 10
Liana Peterson, Los Altos High School, Grade 12
Rose Shortland, Los Altos High School, Grade 12
Erica Tirva, Los Altos High School, Grade 10
Alina Wang, Los Altos High School, Grade 11
Iris Wu, Los Altos High School, Grade 10
Angie Zhang, Los Altos High School, Grade 11
Audrey Zhao, Los Altos High School, Grade 11
Sydney Chandler, Los Gatos High School, Grade 11
Liam Matthiasson, Los Gatos High School, Grade 12
Cal Railo, Los Gatos High School, Grade 12
Rocky Rodriguez, Los Gatos High School, Grade 11
Cynthia Wang, Los Gatos High School, Grade 11
Kathryn Wright, Los Gatos High School, Grade 12
Helena Ho, Lynbrook High School, Grade 10
Hannah Liaw, Lynbrook High School, Grade 10
Allison Lin, Lynbrook High School, Grade 11
Hannah Lin, Lynbrook High School, Grade 12
Annie Yao, Lynbrook High School, Grade 11
Rachael Ding, Monta Vista High School, Grade 11
Nishanth Joshi, Monta Vista High School, Grade 10
Tanvi Kanderi, Monta Vista High School, Grade 12
Arianna Tan, Monta Vista High School, Grade 12
Selina Wang, Monta Vista High School, Grade 10
Alicia Xu, Monta Vista High School, Grade 12
Liberty Evans, Mountain View High School, Grade 9
Thy Luong, Notre Dame High School, Grade 11
Sophia Lee, Palo Alto High School, Grade 11
Lynn Choe, Pioneer High School, Grade 10
Namita Hegde, Pioneer High School, Grade 11
Eleri Kane, Pioneer High School, Grade 11
Abigail Kifle, Pioneer High School, Grade 12
Matthew Brigido, Saint Francis High School, Grade 12
Alexa Johnson, Saint Francis High School, Grade 12
Tiffany Maguire, Saint Francis High School, Grade 12
Chris Nguyen, Saint Francis High School, Grade 12
Amy Pan, Saratoga High School, Grade 10
Rachael Li, Stratford Preparatory Blackford, Grade 9
Maya Cheshire, The Harker School, Grade 11
Claire Kampmeier, The Harker School, Grade 12
Emily Chang, Valley Christian High School, Grade 12
Ada Chu, Valley Christian High School, Grade 11
Markus Viduya, Valley Christian High School, Grade 10
Keane Wong, Valley Christian High School, Grade 9
Annabel Yeoh, Valley Christian High School, Grade 10
Zelines Doan Flores, Westmont High School, Grade 12
Amnah Jaafar, Westmont High School, Grade 12
Ireen Jeang, Westmont High School, Grade 12
Saanvi Kumar, Westmont High School, Grade 12
Nancy Liu, Westmont High School, Grade 12
Lauren Lochner, Westmont High School, Grade 11
Katie Moon, Westmont High School, Grade 12
Mingnah Ng, Westmont High School, Grade 11
Stella Walker, Westmont High School, Grade 11
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!