Monthly Craft: Cork Dolls
Apr
2
to Apr 26

Monthly Craft: Cork Dolls

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Celebrate Earth Day and the value of re-use while exploring creativity in our Makerspace.  You are invited to drop-in and create your own cork doll by using reclaimed wine corks, fabric scraps, yarn and markers to make a figure. This historic craft is rooted in the Victorian era when hobbyists sought ways to repurpose cork bark.  One way was creating these playful dolls from the high-quality wine cork for gifts or collectables. 

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Salon Jane: Virtual Talk
Apr
23
1:30 PM13:30

Salon Jane: Virtual Talk

Join us for an intimate conversation with the artists of Salon Jane. In this virtual event, the women of Salon Jane share their individual journeys to and through art and how they all came to be part of Salon Jane. Each artist will reflect on their histories, inspirations, and how their personal and professional lives shaped them into the artists they are today. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the artists directly at the end of the conversation.

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Monthly Craft: Photo-Stitching
Apr
30
to May 31

Monthly Craft: Photo-Stitching

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Grab a needle and yarn for the May monthly craft, Photo-Stitching!  Using black and white copies of photographs from our collection, you are invited to get creative and embellish with colorful yarn and simple stitches. While here, check out the new exhibition Salon Jane: Resonance, and see the conversations shared between the photographers’ works on display.

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Girl Scouts Junior Art and Design Badge
May
17
1:00 PM13:00
Programs

Girl Scouts Junior Art and Design Badge

In this program, Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Art and Design Badge by creating a Tiny Art Show. We will explore NUMU’s galleries looking for art and design, paint a tiny canvas, experiment with color saturation, sculpt tiny pottery from clay, and design our own tiny art show with pedestals and frames. This tiny art and design experience will be big fun!

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Los Gatos Circa 1960
May
22
11:00 AM11:00

Los Gatos Circa 1960

Long known as “the Valley of Heart’s Delight”, Santa Clara Valley was the world’s largest producer of fruit, with acres of farmland providing a bounty of produce in an ideal climate. This decade saw a huge increase in population that came about for several reasons, including the growing technology industry that developed into what we now know as Silicon Valley. Learn more about Los Gatos in the 1960s with Amy Long, curator of our current exhibition, I Know A Place. Amy will also share her experiences living in Los Gatos in the 60s. We'd love to hear your stories, too!

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Monthly Craft: Pride Chain
Jun
4
to Jun 28

Monthly Craft: Pride Chain

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This June, NUMU is celebrating Pride month with the return of a crowd favorite craft: Pride keychains! Step into our Lounge and decorate a keychain with lanyard cord and pony beads to match one of many Pride flags in the LGBTQ+ community, and learn the importance of the colors used in each of the flags.

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Life in Los Gatos Art Camp (Week One)
Jun
8
to Jun 12

Life in Los Gatos Art Camp (Week One)

New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is excited to partner with LGS Recreation to deliver this week-long camp for young artists to create a unique artwork that captures their perspective on the history and charm of Los Gatos. Participants will learn art techniques, explore the museum’s art & history exhibitions, walk the Los Gatos Creek trail, learn about local flora and fauna, visit local Los Gatos historic landmarks, and even meet some key town officials. Each day we’ll focus on a new topic and by the end of the week students will have completed a one-of-a-kind painting reflecting the theme “Capturing Life in Los Gatos.” The camp concludes with a mini-art show where campers proudly display their work for family and friends. This is a highly engaging interactive art and history experience that you don’t want to miss.

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Life in Los Gatos Art Camp (Week Two)
Jun
15
to Jun 19

Life in Los Gatos Art Camp (Week Two)

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New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is excited to partner with LGS Recreation to deliver this week-long camp for young artists to create a unique artwork that captures their perspective on the history and charm of Los Gatos. Participants will learn art techniques, explore the museum’s art & history exhibitions, walk the Los Gatos Creek trail, learn about local flora and fauna, visit local Los Gatos historic landmarks, and even meet some key town officials. Each day we’ll focus on a new topic and by the end of the week students will have completed a one-of-a-kind painting reflecting the theme “Capturing Life in Los Gatos.” The camp concludes with a mini-art show where campers proudly display their work for family and friends. This is a highly engaging interactive art and history experience that you don’t want to miss.

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Talk of the Town: True Crime of Old Los Gatos
Jun
18
2:00 PM14:00

Talk of the Town: True Crime of Old Los Gatos

Join us for a brief tour of the history gallery, followed by a talk about true crime in old Los Gatos! Learn about the old days of stagecoach robberies and notorious criminals! Please note that this month’s talk is later than usual, starting at 2 PM. We will be joined by Debra Staab, of the Loma Prieta Museum.

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Life in Los Gatos Art Camp (Week Three)
Jun
22
to Jun 26

Life in Los Gatos Art Camp (Week Three)

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New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is excited to partner with LGS Recreation to deliver this week-long camp for young artists to create a unique artwork that captures their perspective on the history and charm of Los Gatos. Participants will learn art techniques, explore the museum’s art & history exhibitions, walk the Los Gatos Creek trail, learn about local flora and fauna, visit local Los Gatos historic landmarks, and even meet some key town officials. Each day we’ll focus on a new topic and by the end of the week students will have completed a one-of-a-kind painting reflecting the theme “Capturing Life in Los Gatos.” The camp concludes with a mini-art show where campers proudly display their work for family and friends. This is a highly engaging interactive art and history experience that you don’t want to miss.

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Monthly Craft: Paper Tents
Jul
2
to Jul 26

Monthly Craft: Paper Tents

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It’s summertime at NUMU, and this July’s monthly craft is a camp special, paper tents! Visitors are invited to learn how to fold paper through origami to make an A-frame tent, and younger visitors can color, cut, and glue one together. Take this camp craft on the trail or for stay-at-home stargazing fun.

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Beading Circle with John Paul Amaral
Jul
12
1:00 PM13:00

Beading Circle with John Paul Amaral

Join local artist John Paul Amaral for a beading circle and conversation on its significance in Native American Indigenous cultures. John Paul will introduce students to methods of beadwork to create a traditional hairpipe choker necklace. While creating their own treasures, the beading circle will host a conversation about the significance of beadwork in American Indigenous cultures, how the art expanded over time, and its place in living history.

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Girl Scouts Brownie Art and Design Badge
Aug
30
1:00 PM13:00
Programs

Girl Scouts Brownie Art and Design Badge

Girl Scouts will explore art and design through hands-on activities including painting, printmaking, and building. Brownies will tour NUMU’s galleries with a museum professional, experiment with line-making, printmaking techniques, and create their own painted portraits. Each Girl Scout will also design and build a custom frame to display their artwork. This engaging program is a fun experience you won’t want to miss!

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Girl Scouts Junior Art and Design Badge
Oct
4
1:00 PM13:00
Programs

Girl Scouts Junior Art and Design Badge

In this program, Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Art and Design Badge by creating a Tiny Art Show. We will explore NUMU’s galleries looking for art and design, paint a tiny canvas, experiment with color saturation, sculpt tiny pottery from clay, and design our own tiny art show with pedestals and frames. This tiny art and design experience will be big fun!

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Girl Scouts Brownie Art and Design Badge
Nov
8
1:00 PM13:00
Programs

Girl Scouts Brownie Art and Design Badge

Girl Scouts will explore art and design through hands-on activities including painting, printmaking, and building. Brownies will tour NUMU’s galleries with a museum professional, experiment with line-making, printmaking techniques, and create their own painted portraits. Each Girl Scout will also design and build a custom frame to display their artwork. This engaging program is a fun experience you won’t want to miss!

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Girl Scouts Junior Art and Design Badge
Jan
24
1:00 PM13:00
Programs

Girl Scouts Junior Art and Design Badge

In this program, Girl Scout Juniors will earn their Art and Design Badge by creating a Tiny Art Show. We will explore NUMU’s galleries looking for art and design, paint a tiny canvas, experiment with color saturation, sculpt tiny pottery from clay, and design our own tiny art show with pedestals and frames. This tiny art and design experience will be big fun!

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Stitching Our Lives Workshop with Susan Hyde Greene
Apr
4
1:00 PM13:00

Stitching Our Lives Workshop with Susan Hyde Greene

Spend an afternoon at NUMU learning how to make a stitched mixed media art piece that chronicles a memory or life event with our exhibiting artist, Susan Hyde Greene. In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn how to use photographic images, paper, and thread to create pieced, stitched, cut-apart, and reassembled artworks relaying stories of personal memory and/or meaningful life events.

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Girl Scouts Junior Drawing Badge
Mar
22
1:00 PM13:00
Programs

Girl Scouts Junior Drawing Badge

In this badge, you’ll find techniques to make your drawings even better—which will make it more fun to see what your imagination can do. Draw it out at New Museum Los Gatos. Our drawing badge workshop helps Junior Girl Scouts learn the basics of drawing, explore different drawing tools, and discover a little bit about graphic design!

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An Indigenous Collection Deep Dive
Mar
22
11:00 AM11:00

An Indigenous Collection Deep Dive

Ben Cunningham-Summerfield (Mountain Maidu of Northern California and Turtle Mountain Chippewa of the Great Lakes Region) and his wife, Kimberly (Tsalagi [Cherokee] and culturally-adopted Mewuk), are indigenous educators and cultural demonstrators. They will be spending time with NUMU’s collections and curatorial team, delving into the indigenous belongings in the museum’s collection and educating staff about the materials, source communities, and significance of each piece.

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Monthly Craft: Celtic Knots
Mar
5
to Mar 29

Monthly Craft: Celtic Knots

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Join NUMU this March to commemorate Irish-American Heritage Month through the cultural art of Celtic knots. The diversity of Celtic knots throughout woven, rock-carved, painted, and printed works is a timeless and ongoing practice. Visitors will be able to use pipe cleaners to make three types of Celtic knots: the triquesta, heart, and dara knots.

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[Sold Out] Stencil Printing on Textiles: Workshop with Jody Alexander
Mar
1
1:00 PM13:00

[Sold Out] Stencil Printing on Textiles: Workshop with Jody Alexander

In this 3-hour workshop led by exhibiting artist Jody Alexander, you will learn how to create your own hand-printed fabric! You are invited to bring something from home to embellish (pants, dress, shirt, tablecloth, curtain, etc.) You will also design your own set of two dish towels with your stencils.

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Artist Tour with Jody Alexander
Mar
1
12:00 PM12:00

Artist Tour with Jody Alexander

This Free First Sunday, enjoy a tour by exhibiting artist Jody Alexander of her work in Stitches & Wiggles: Unraveled and Reimagined Mixed Media Art by Jody Alexander and Thomas Campbell. 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.

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Salon Jane: Opening Reception
Feb
28
2:00 PM14:00

Salon Jane: Opening Reception

Join us at NUMU to celebrate the opening of Salon Jane: Resonance, featuring new works of traditional, alternative process, digital, and mixed media photographic art. The works in this exhibition highlight the innovation and collective wisdom that emerge from this unique artistic group.

At the reception, you'll have the opportunity to engage with these incredible artworks and enjoy refreshments, company, and remarks from the artists and curator!

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John Steinbeck History Tour
Feb
27
11:00 AM11:00

John Steinbeck History Tour

Have you read Of Mice & Men? The Grapes of Wrath? East of Eden? Did you know that the author of these classic books, John Steinbeck, was a Los Gatos local? Join us at the museum to learn more about his history! We will be joined by archivist Peter Van Coutren from the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at SJSU.

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[SOLD OUT] Mending as Repair and Embellishment: Workshop with Jody Alexander
Jan
31
1:00 PM13:00

[SOLD OUT] Mending as Repair and Embellishment: Workshop with Jody Alexander

Join book and fiber artist Jody Alexander (on view in Stitches & Wiggles) at NUMU for an afternoon of learning all things mending. In this 3-hour workshop, the artist will teach a variety of mending techniques. Mending techniques are used to repair and strengthen garments and other textile items. But, when left visible, the repairs are also decorative and add texture, line, color, and can be quite charming! The techniques can also be used in paper and textile art pieces.

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Girl Scouts Junior Drawing Badge
Jan
11
1:00 PM13:00
Programs

Girl Scouts Junior Drawing Badge

In this badge, you’ll find techniques to make your drawings even better—which will make it more fun to see what your imagination can do. Draw it out at New Museum Los Gatos. Our drawing badge workshop helps Junior Girl Scouts learn the basics of drawing, explore different drawing tools, and discover a little bit about graphic design!

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Circle Event: Euphrat Museum of Art
Dec
10
12:00 PM12:00
Programs

Circle Event: Euphrat Museum of Art

NUMU's Circle members are invited to join us at the Euphrat Museum to tour the invitational group show Invoke-History. We will hear from curator Diana Argabrite and exhibiting artist Kristin Lindseth.

Invoke-History, named for a software command used to retrieve or repeat past commands, is an exhibition of artwork drawn from lived, ancestral, and community stories that preserve and present history through the artists' creative lens.

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Ebb & Flow Artist Tour with Chieko Shimizu Fujioka and Margaret Luo
Dec
7
11:30 AM11:30

Ebb & Flow Artist Tour with Chieko Shimizu Fujioka and Margaret Luo

Join Ebb & Flow artists Chieko Shimizu Fujioka and Margaret Luo for a tour during the museum’s Free First Sunday! Enjoy free general admission and tours on the first Sunday of the month @ NUMU! Registration is required. The museum is open from 10 AM-4 PM, and we can't wait to see you there!

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Holiday Beaded Tassel
Dec
4
to Dec 28

Holiday Beaded Tassel

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Visit NUMU in December to create your own beaded tassel ornament. Explore using yarn, beads, and color to create your own tassel design inspired by the holiday season. Hang it on a tree, attach it to a wrapped present, or share as a handmade gift.

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Girl Scouts Junior Drawing Badge
Nov
16
1:00 PM13:00
Programs

Girl Scouts Junior Drawing Badge

In this badge, you’ll find techniques to make your drawings even better—which will make it more fun to see what your imagination can do. Draw it out at New Museum Los Gatos. Our drawing badge workshop helps Junior Girl Scouts learn the basics of drawing, explore different drawing tools, and discover a little bit about graphic design!

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Harvest Still Life Drawing with Los Gatos Library (Ages 7-16)
Nov
13
4:00 PM16:00

Harvest Still Life Drawing with Los Gatos Library (Ages 7-16)

Meet us at New Museum Los Gatos, where the NUMU Team will arrange a variety of fruits and vegetables along with a few objects from their collection for children ages 7-16. We will focus on adding shadows and light to our drawings.

All materials are provided. Registration opens 3 weeks prior to the event. 

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