With a 1964 VW bus parked out entrance, La Rinconada Nation Membership in Los Gatos went by way of a little bit of a time warp final Saturday night time as New Museum Los Gatos celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in groovy Nineteen Sixties model.
There have been tie-dyed shirts, paisley prints and plenty of flowing, lengthy hair — OK, principally long-haired wigs — because the museum’s supporters channeled their interior “flower child” for the “Peace, Love + Art” profit, which raised practically $200,000. That cash helps the museum proceed its twin missions of offering each artwork packages, together with the annual juried Santa Clara County highschool artwork exhibition, and being a showcase for Los Gatos historical past.
New Museum Los Gatos Curator Allison Railo, left, presents the Leo & Leona Award for Artwork to Marie Cameron in the course of the museum’s sixtieth anniversary celebration at La Rinconada Nation Membership in Los Gatos on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Space Information Group)
Board president Julie Micallef led a toast to the milestone anniversary, recognizing the general public assembly in Might 1965 when a bunch of Los Gatos residents gathered to determine if sufficient folks needed to start out a museum, an concept pushed by obstetrician Ethel Dana Atkinson. The Los Gatos Museum Affiliation was formally fashioned in 1967, the identical yr the Los Gatos Museum opened on the nook of Tait Avenue and Important Avenue, with the historic assortment finally making its method to the Forbes Mill Museum.
Every part was reunited below the identical roof with the creation of New Museum Los Gatos, higher often called NUMU, within the former city library on Important Avenue. After three years of planning and work, the renovated two-story constructing opened in Might 2015.
Michael Parsons, left, is offered with the Dr. Ethel Dana Atkinson Achievement Award by Los Gatos New Museum Government Director Kimberly Snyder in the course of the museum’s sixtieth anniversary celebration at La Rinconada Nation Membership on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Space Information Group)
On Saturday, NUMU Government Director Kimberly Snyder helped current the museum’s inaugural awards with historian Alan Feinberg (founding father of the “LOST Gatos Mission) receiving the Leo & Leona Award for Historical past (named after the big cat statues standing guard close to the Cats off Freeway 17). Marie Cameron acquired the Leo & Leona Award for Artwork, and Michael Parsons was honored with the Dr. Ethel Dana Atkinson Achievement Award.
Parsons served on NUMU’s board of administrators from 2006 to 2018 and was board president in 2012. He and his spouse, Alyce Parsons, established an endowment for the museum with a $1 million reward in 2022.
POLITICAL DRAW: Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who gained the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and 2025, was at San Jose State on Wednesday to obtain the Hearst Award from the college’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications, becoming a member of an illustrious roster of latest honorees that features Dan Slightly, Marc J. Spears, Sara Sidner and Anthony Fauci.
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, photographed on the San Jose State College information studio, acquired the William Randolph Hearst Basis Award at SJSU on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Space Information Group)
“That determined for me that I needed to try editorial cartooning because I wanted to use my art to have a point of view, to say something,” she mentioned. “It wasn’t something I planned. It was just something I felt I needed to do.”
Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong, left, interviews NBC Information correspondent Vicky Nguyen about her e book, “Boat Baby,” on the San Jose Public Library Basis’s Signature Creator Occasion at Blanco City in downtown San Jose on Saturday Nov. 15, 2025. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Space Information Group)
Nguyen recalled she beloved visiting the library when she was a child as a result of it was full of books she might learn at no cost that sparked her creativeness. “They would transport you all over the place,” she mentioned, remembering having fun with books by Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume and Roald Dahl. And now, she notes, she will’t imagine that’s she’s an creator with a e book within the library, too. “Seeing ‘Boat Baby’ as a library book was just amazing,” she proudly mentioned.
