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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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FESTIVAL
Threads: Weaving Humanity On July 19, in a celebration throughout the Montalvo grounds, Montalvo premiered Threads: Weaving Humanity, featuring four newly commissioned works of textile by five artists whose work redefines fiber arts. These works were created to provide opportunities for contemplation, consideration and conversation on the meaning of our shared humanity, and what is necessary for humanity to thrive...This includes kindness, compassion, integrity, respect, empathy, forgiveness, and self-reflection. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Visual Artist Xandra Ibarra & Sound Artist Rosana Cabán (January 13, 2020)
We had laughs, drinks, too much coffee, microphones attached to our heads with yellow tape, ate animals, scared off mountain lions, talked about the awkwardness of gifting flowers. We made compositions with tiny speakers, lamps with wine glasses, shook mirrors, turned chairs upside down and felt Puerto Rican realness. Thank you Montalvo Arts Center. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Mixed Media/Painter Monica Lundy & Visual Artist Daniele Puppi (January 11, 2020)
“I, who at dawn at Montalvo, in my underwear, encountered the song of coyotes” is a visual piece that was based on an audio recording taken by the artist collective Love Percussion (Monica Lundy and Daniele Puppi) during a recent residency at Montalvo. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Guest Artist Stephan Moore (December 19, 2019)
My first experience of Montalvo was to visit the “Now Hear This!” exhibition a couple of years ago, after sound artist Stephen Vitiello encouraged me to get in touch with the Lucas Artists Program's curator, Donna Conwell. It was a great introduction to the Montalvo grounds for me, as a sound artist and as a curator. During my visit this time, I have been invited to write about the history of sound artists making work at Montalvo through the Lucas Artists Residency Program, focusing on, but not limited to, "Now Hear This," which was the first sound-focused exhibition at Montalvo. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Guest Artist Ava Roy (December 18, 2019)
Early morning: Crack eyelids, catch streaks of luminous pink across the sky. Morning warming: Mist rising off the ridge of deep green pines. Glass table strewn with papers. Concrete floor strewn with papers. Coffee table scattered with books. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Writer Zeyn Joukhadar &Visual Artist Matteo Rubbi (December 15, 2019)
This week in our studio, Zeyn has begun drafting his next book-length project while he revises his essay for the LAP's forthcoming book. Matteo has just completed two new light signs, "The Dark Night of the Soul" and "Du Mußt Dein Leben Ändern" (you must change your life, after a line by Rilke), as well as exploring the visual art he will contribute to the LAP book. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Poet Garrett Hongo (December 13, 2019)
Iʻm trying to pull together a book about listening to the electronic reproduction of music—the world of high fidelity. Iʻm trying to get into the feels of it, wrestle into shape what Iʻve written on the history of the Gramophone, electronic amplification, radio, the invention of stereo, the do-it-yourself home hi-fi movement, and my quest to assemble a home stereo after having fallen in love with live opera performances. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Visual Artist Halim Awde (December 9, 2019)
My time at Montalvo has given me the time and space to reflect, process, and collect my thoughts at a critical & transitional time in my personal life, career, and in my country (Lebanon). My time here has taken several phases, and in the last week, I have entered a new moment, shooting footage with 16 mm film, for which I have been collecting source material for years. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Writer Ibrahim Neme (December 5, 2019)
Last week in my studio I had a breakthrough. Breakthroughs come to me when I least expect them. I was sitting in my studio listening to some music and having a beer when it struck me. The perfect idea, I must say. I can’t disclose the details of its perfection right here and now, for many reasons. Yet my breakthrough did not come out of thin air. I had spent the previous weeks at Montalvo writing and rewriting and soul-searching in the woods just outside my studio. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Visual Artist Catie Newell (November 18, 2019)
The top of the hill has been the perfect little volume of silence and changing light. My time here has been one of observation and rest, and creativity and patience. I have been using my time here to reflect on my practice and the spaces that it needs. I am designing my own studio, the Hideout, in an unusual site back at home. The choices and the processes involved are themselves the creative act as I turn an over-century-old abandoned roof-less sawdust building into a secret forest of a studio. Read More >> |
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This Week in My Studio: Guest Artist Jennifer Johns (November 15, 2019)
For the last month, I have been focused on a project called rEDzONE: a choreopoem and transmutation ritual. It is a healing movement through words, movement and music from pain to joy. The intention is to address the need for release amongst women who have been sexually assaulted. This project takes a look at both the science of the brain and the effects of trauma as well as the phases/cycles of healing. 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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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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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 >> |
