Circle Members
NUMU’s Circle Members are a philanthropic group of art, history, and culture enthusiasts who make a meaningful impact in the community through their support of New Museum Los Gatos. They are a unique and ardent group of individuals, dedicated to ensuring that the museum achieves a lasting legacy of quality exhibitions and related programming by providing significant and sustained support.
Annually, NUMU offers a series of studio visits where we will be able to appreciate art together exclusively for Circle Members.
Kathy Aoki, Beauty in Landscape (2022), Intaglio print.
Director’s Circle members enable NUMU to expand its reach within the community as a place where active and imaginative minds can flourish. They are the museum’s partners in the stewardship of the art and history of Los Gatos and the surrounding region. In appreciation, each year, Director’s Circle Members receive a limited edition artwork by a Bay Area artist, commissioned specifically for them. Two pieces from the commission are also made for the museum: one stays in the Permanent Collection, and the other is used for fundraising. In this way, the Director’s Circle program not only supports personal collecting but also helps to build NUMU’s Permanent Art Collection.
2025/26 Director’s Circle Artist
Jody Alexander
Jody Alexander is a book, fiber, and mixed-media artist who includes textiles, objects, wall pieces, garments, and installations in her art practice. Her work is inspired by the art of repair, reuse, and by the imagery and stories encountered in her travels on the ground and in the water.
Alexander is fascinated with water. She swam competitively between the ages of eleven and twenty-one, and was on the U.S. National Team in 1979, qualified for the 1980 Olympic Trials (which was canceled due to the U.S. pulling out of the Olympics), and swam on scholarship for UCLA.
When the pools closed in the spring of 2020, Alexander turned to the ocean and lakes to continue her daily swims.
Her latest project, “Aqua Lab: In Search of the Third Thing,” is an investigation to understand her attraction to water. “Is it,” she asks, “the weightlessness, solitude, color, patterns of light, sound, adventure, or the thrill of the unknown?”
Jody has exhibited at NUMU in Stitches & Wiggles: Unraveled and Reimagined Mixed Media Art by Jody Alexander and Thomas Campbell.
Levels & Benefits
Curator’s Circle
Admission for TWO members + FOUR guests** (6 people total)
Program + workshop discounts
Invitations to members-only events
Free admission to select public programs
10% off the NUMU Store
Recognition on website & in annual report
5 guest passes (one-time use) (no member need be present)
Complimentary ArtNow Catalog (for current year)
1 year subscription to Content Magazine (upon request, $50 value)
One private exhibition tour with friends/family (upon request, up to 20 guests)
15% discount on facility rentals (up to $300)
Invitation to Circle events (artist studio tours, and/or tours of private and public collections), including invitation to exclusive Director’s Circle artwork reveal event with artist & Executive Director
Fully tax-deductible
$1,500/year
*Member must be present for guests to attend the museum
**Must host a professional artist’s website
Director’s Circle
Includes Curator’s Circle member benefits, PLUS:
Limited edition commissioned artwork created for Director’s Circle members
$2,750 tax deductible
