Inspired by NUMU’s exhibitions that explore land as a core concept, we invite you to reflect on your own relationship with the land.

In both its strength and fragility, land is a source of pleasure, beauty and bounty, inspiring artists from every era. We have built our lives on the land; it is our physical foundation, essential for the survival of all human life, wildlife, and Earth’s vegetation – it is literally the ground beneath our feet and the dust to which we return.

Visit NUMU’s lounge to participate in-person, or create at home!

Weaving is a practice used by many cultures and artists all over the world! During our event Fall Family Art Day on Oct 1, NUMU presented a weaving activity, inviting participants to create a weaving inspired by diversity and what it means to you. Below are some instructions for you to get creative at home.

We encourage you to dive a little deeper and choose colors of yarn for your weaving that represents your own diversity such as your personality, your family’s heritage, your life story, a flag, or how diversity makes you feel. Our Artist in Residence Alexander Hernandez is a great example of how textiles can be used in a meaningful way to communicate ideas of identity, as seen in his work for the exhibition RETAZOS.

We’ve partnered with Counseling & Support Services for Youth (CASSY) to create this toolkit for you to explore healing through art making and reflection. CASSY partners with Bay Area schools to provide resources and professional, on-campus mental health services to students free of charge. We hope to connect the NUMU community to CASSY as a mental health resource, and provide some inspiration for youth, families, and adults to turn to art making in difficult moments of life. Through art we can reveal how we feel, take steps to heal, build empathy, and share our experiences with others.

We invite you to come visit our exhibition Jane Olin: In the Company of Trees, on view until June 5, 2022, guest curated by Helaine Glick. Jane Olin’s photograph’s of trees convey an Intimate Conversation between artist and nature, and amplifies new research that reveals previously unknown information about tree’s complex social structures and ecological relationships. In celebration of Earth Day, we hosted a Family Art Day: Earth Day Poetry + Collage Workshop with Patrice Vecchione. We invite you to create poems and collages at home or at NUMU at our collage corner in our downstairs Lounge, inspired by Jane’s photographs and the nature around you in your every day life. Read below for some guiding reflection questions, tips for writing poetry and a step by step guide to collage. We hope you get inspired by the beautiful poems and collages created by the participants at NUMU on April 23 and Patrice Vecchione! Share what you make with us by tagging us on Instagram @newmuseumlosgatos.