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Hello and welcome to our online magazine and archive project dedicated to providing readers with a window inside the creative incubator of the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center. Learn More >>
Hello and welcome to our online magazine and archive project dedicated to providing readers with a window inside the creative incubator of the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center. Learn More >>
Montalvo's Lucas Artists Residency Program is proud to announce its latest jury selections for incoming Fellows.
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Curatorial essays. Video interviews with participating artists. Photos and write-ups about related programming.
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Former and current Lucas Artists Fellows routinely make headlines around the world. Read the latest they've been up to.
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Recent Articles
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PRESS RELEASE
Montalvo Announces New Lucas Artists Fellows in Visual Arts for 2018-2022 SARATOGA, Calif. — Montalvo Arts Center’s Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program is proud to announce its most recent Lucas Artists Fellowship awards to 33 artists of exceptional talent from across the US and the world. This distinguished group includes individuals from 16 countries working in the fields of visual arts, architecture, urbanism, and design. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Playwright Alva Rogers (September 16, 2019)
This is my third month (and third year) writing in the William Donner Foundation Studio. Thank you, William Donner Foundation. My first year (and month), I wrote primarily at the desk in the office area of the studio, which provided an orchestra view of the cacophonous quails in the forest theater on the other side of the studio’s sliding glass doors. Year two: I alternated writing outside on a round glass table on the front porch, playing possum with bunnies, then retreated to the office theater desk. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Composer Gina Leishman (September 12, 2019)
The daylight in the studio has been great for concentrating on the development of a new painting series that uses quite rough brushwork to depict abstracted and broken-up LED-style text/image displays. The evenings have been dedicated to reviewing the edits for my large-scale video installation piece Map of the Bomb, which I've been editing with experimental sound since I arrived here. Read More >> |
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Spotify Mixtape
By Emily Borchers Spring cleaning came early this year and we were on a mission—a mission to get our artist residency archive in order. Boxes were gathered, piles were stacked high, excel sheets were filled to the brim with information, and past artists were rediscovered. So for this month's playlist we celebrate some of these long-lost Composer & Musician Fellows and guest artists from the earlier years of our residency. Read More >> |
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Fellows in the News
For this month's Fellows in the News, we feature: three of our LAP Fellows are scheduled to perform in the New York Philharmonic 2019-2020 Project 19 program, Sita Bhaumik was mentioned in a Vogue article, Ry Rocklen premiered his food-themed exhibition at Honor Fraser, Leah Rosenberg opened her colorful new exhibition at LegionSF, and Chris Fraser transformed the Royal NoneSuch Gallery into a camera obscura. Read More >> |
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Open Access: Surprise!
On February 25, Joie Lee, Simon Pettet and Zeinab Alhashemi engaged in a public conversation at our Open Access program about the element of surprise in the creative process. Take a listen to their conversations here. Read More >> |
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What Can Poets Do: An Exchange Between Poets Ariana Reines and Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Listening to poets talking amongst themselves is a rare pleasure. On their last day at the LAP, after a rainy winter, poets Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Ariana Reines sit down and consider the question: What can poets do? Read More >> |
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Fellows in the News
Since we missed our January Fellows in the News, we've compiled all of our great news stories into this month's post! So for this edition of Fellows in the news, we feature: a PBS opera premiere, a large-scale sequin sculpture, narrative-rich paintings in Oakland, a Chinese-Jewish musical performance, a San Francisco Public Library commission, an Art Basel write-up, and a composer of the year award! Read More >> |
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EXHIBITION
Bruce Munro at Montalvo: Stories in Light Featuring 10 light-based works ranging in scale from immersive to intimate, Bruce Munro at Montalvo: Stories in Light is an ambitious outdoor exhibition that has transformed Montalvo’s historic Villa and its extensive public areas into a spectacle of light. The exhibition includes existing and new works conceived and developed by Munro while in residence at the Lucas Artists Program. Read More >> |
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Bruce Munro in Conversation with LAP Director Kelly Sicat
Bruce Munro discusses his artistic practice and the development of his latest exhibition Stories in Light with Kelly Sicat, Director of the Lucas Artists Program. The conversation explores the artist's ongoing creative process as he envisions works of art and site-based installations that bring people together in a shared experience. Read More >> |
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Star Car: A Collaborative Montalvo Arts Center Project
By Zeyn Joukhadar, Lucas Artists Literary Arts Fellow On the evening of September 29, 2018, Lucas Artists Visual Arts Fellow Matteo Rubbi and I painted a projection of the night sky on Montalvo's Nissan Altima using professional grade glow-in-the-dark paint. We projected a live view of the night sky onto the car using the Stellarium program and the LAP’s video projector, and then painted each star and planet by hand. Read More >> |
