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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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Fellows in the News: March 1, 2019
For this month's Fellows in the News, we feature: a New York Philharmonic music announcement, a Vogue magazine article mention, a food-themed exhibition at Honor Fraser, and two therapeutic exhibitions in the Bay Area! 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: February 1, 2019
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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Fellows in the News: December 19, 2018
December has been such an astonishing month for our Lucas Artists Fellows and Guest Artists, we had to assemble a second Fellows in the News post! In this edition, we celebrate accolades garnered by Lucas Artists Fellows in music/composition, visual arts, and literary arts in the form of a major grant, a performance festival, coverage in the New York Times Style Magazine, and an article appearing in the New York Times Magazine. 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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Fellows in the News: December 1, 2018
For this edition of Fellows in the News, we feature: Henry Threadgill is lauded by The New York Times for having released one of the best jazz albums of the year, Cal Peternell's latest cookbook is Bon Appetit's November 2018 Cookbook Club pick, María Magdalena Campos-Pons hosts a sociopolitical art lecture series at Frist Museum, Sandow Birk has an historical architectural drawing solo exhibition at Catherine Clark Galley, Stephanie Syjuco's a large-scale banner is installed at the Cantor Arts Center, Daniel Canogar's flexible digital sculptures are showcased in a solo exhibition, and Carl Pope Jr. was interviewed about his return to the art world by Hyperallergic. Read More >> |
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Spotify Mixtape: December 2018
By Emily Borchers Last year we focused on jazz music as our seasonal music of choice, but this year we are broadening our horizons. This year we've included music from our choral, orchestral, and classical music composer fellows that aims to exude a wintery calmness (something not often found during this month!). Read More >> |
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Fellows in the News: November 1, 2018
For this edition of Fellows in the News, we feature: Lordy Rodriguez unveils a mural for the newly remodeled Hayward Library; Zeyn Joukhadar's book, The Map of Salt and Stars, is nominated for two 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards; Douglas Cuomo premieres his contemporary opera in the 2018 Next Wave Festival; Christine Wong Yap is awarded the first ever Artist-in-Residence at the Haas Institute; Kara Maria has work featured in a group show at the Nevada Museum of Art; and Ava Roy (of We Players) won a TBA Award for their production of Mother Lear. Read More >> |
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Interview Between RADIOEE.NET and Lucas Artists Program Curator Donna Conwell
Lucas Artists Program Curator Donna Conwell sat down with RADIOEE.NET for a wide ranging conversation about their work and upcoming broadcast project AUTOPILOTO. The collective explore their interest in radio and mobility and the impetus for their new broadcast focusing on the evolving technology of self-driving transit in this edited interview. What will our streets and cities look and sound like in a driverless future? How will society and infrastructure systems adapt? What might humans do during their newly available transit time? In what ways do machines imitate human's auto-pilot modes of engaging with the world? Read More >> |
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A Look Back at Summer 2018
In this edition, we highlight the compelling and varied activities of our Fellows and Guest Artists, from their time spent in the studio and around the table seeding and developing ideas and building new collaborative partnerships to the presentation of critical new works drawing on the fields of performance, visual arts, sound, and intermedia that have sparked important conversations around issues that matter to us all. Read More >> |
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2018 Art on the Grounds: We the People
This July 20th, we were joined by poets, musicians, and visual and sound artists from across the globe as we collectively consider: How can we expand our understanding of “we” and imagine new, more inclusive ways of being together? This communal gathering on Montalvo’s grounds featured poetry, performance, sound works, installation art, and participatory engagement activities. See clips from the various performances of the evening in the video below by videographers ShakaJamal and Sompong Viengvilai. Watch Here >> |
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We the People
On July 20, Montalvo hosted a communal gathering on its grounds, featuring poetry, performance, soundworks, installation art, and participatory engagement activities. Audiences joined poets, musicians, and visual and sound artists from across the globe as we collectively considered: How can we expand our understanding of “we” and imagine new, more inclusive ways of being together? Read More >> |
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Jennifer Johns: Looking a Police Officer Straight in the Eye and Other Rituals for Finding Love
By Margarita Kompelmakher, PhD In my third installment of a series of interviews with Lucas Artists Fellows working in performance, I interview singer-songwriter-performer Jennifer Johns before the premiere of her new performance work LIV: A Ritual For Humanity at the Art on the Grounds: We the People event in July 2018. One month later, we meet again to discuss how it went. Listen along in this before-and-after audio-blog journey as we discuss Johns’ courageous piece in which she builds a home for the history of police brutality in the US and “arrests” a police officer as part of a ritual for finding love and forgiveness. Read More >> |
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NEW VIDEO
Marilá Dardot: Saudade (Our Flags) In her first exhibition in the United States, Brazilian artist Marilá Dardot premiered a large-scale installation of flags, Saudade (Our Flags), created by immigrant and refugee community participants during a series of public workshops. The flags, which represent in text or visual form something their maker misses about the country where they were born, were raised on Montalvo’s grounds on Sunday, July 15 at a communal flag-raising ceremony. With this work, Dardot seeks to amplify the voices of our varied diaspora communities, and honor the complexities and challenges of their experience in the midst of a divisive national conversation about immigrants and the nature of American identity. View a video documenting Saudade (Our Flags) by videographer Brandon Hanson. Watch Here >> |
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NEW VIDEO
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Imole Blue II (Field of Memories) One of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons created a garden, Imole Blue II (Field of Memories), for Montalvo’s grounds with participation from the community. Taking inspiration from an aerial photograph of a Soviet medium-range ballistic missile installation taken by a US Air force plane during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, this garden is part peace memorial and part living sketch. Campos-Pons is interested in the uneasy juxtaposition of the visual beauty of the photograph upon which she based her garden plan--which looks like blooming flowers set inside a hexagram shape--and the horror and destructive capability that the image belies. View the creation of the peace garden in this video from videographer Brandon Hanson. Watch Here >> |
