Circle Event: San José Japantown

  EVENT DETAILS: Date Friday, June 19, 2026 Location San José Japantown, CA Reserved for Circle Members (Join the Circle)* Kristin Lindseth, Caught in Limbo NUMU Circle Members will enjoy a fun-filled Friday! First, we will enjoy a tour of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, and learn about their unique collection chronicling more than a century of Japanese American history. Then, we will walk over to Art Object Gallery, where we will hear from sculptor and owner, Ken Matsumoto, and enjoy mingling and refreshments. This event is exclusive for our Circle Members, Benefactor Members*, and their guests. Thank you for your continued support! This exclusive experience is offered to NUMU Circle Members and their guests—we hope you’ll join us for this art-filled adventure! Join or renew today to take advantage of this new series, along with other circle benefits. For questions regarding membership in the Curator’s or Director's Circle email membership@numulosgatos.org. See you in the studios! Current NUMU Circle Members will receive an email invitation with all event details and a RSVP link Learn more about the Circle Japanese American Museum of San Jose The mission of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose is to collect, preserve, and share Japanese American history, culture, and art. The Japanese American Museum of San Jose showcases a unique collection of permanent and rotating exhibits chronicling more than a century of Japanese American history. Visitors will learn about early immigration of Japanese to America, their leadership in the agricultural community, their incarceration during World War II and the challenges they faced, while adapting and contributing to West Coast communities. jamsj.org About Ken Matsumoto I began working with stone while in art school. I had found a small fragment of marble slab with a fractured edge in a vacant lot. I held the piece up and saw in the fractured cleft a mountain ridge. I saw that its shape and form was determined by the same forces that govern all matter and that we are one of those forces. The stone was quarried, cut into slabs, polished and made its way to downtown San Jose where I found it laying in the rubble of a vacant lot. I pondered the story of this piece of marble and how I had become part of the story. I make things that contrast the natural “found” condition of a stone with the areas that I grind and polish. The stone may have tumbled down a river and made smooth by water, sand and bouncing off other stone in the river. Or it was basalt ejected from a volcano eruption landing in a field where it lay for centuries and over the years became home to lichen and moss until being harvested and brought to stone yards. This approach to making pieces that combine the finished vs natural grew out of a commission to create a series of three benches for Arizona State University. The stipulation was that the benches were to be functional and reflect the “deep geological nature of th...