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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 Posts
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Upcoming Events
Arts events at Montalvo are often led by fellows in the LAP. The Lucas Artists Program is also proud to present its signature event series, Open Access, designed to showcase artists’ work, offer a behind-the-scenes view into how they generate ideas, and provide a forum for dialogue. Find out what is happening now and what is coming soon! Read More >> |
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LONE SOME CONVERSATIONS
Island Join lone some participant Jane Chang Mi in conversation with artist Ulrik Lopez as they discuss isolation, sustainability, colonization, and islands of the ocean. Watch Here >> |
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LONE SOME CONVERSATIONS
Poetry of Connection Leena Joshi, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta join us for an hour of poetry reading and conversation around themes of loneliness, isolation, and connection in today's world. Watch Here >> |
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EXHIBITION
lone some Featured on 25 independent public sites around the Bay Area, including Montalvo’s public park and the entry foyer of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, lone some includes works by Lucas Artists Fellow Chloë Bass, Modesto Covarrubias, Jane Chang Mi, Leena Joshi, Susan O’Malley (1976-2015), and Alyson Provax. Each artist created work considering the theme of isolation and loneliness in the ever-changing landscape of our urban areas. Read More >> |
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SPOTIFY MIXTAPE
Summer 2020: Quarantine Edition By Emily Borchers Fix those quarantine blues with a playlist to celebrate the beginning of summer! Filled with all new 2020 songs from our past Fellows and Guest Artists, this playlist is meant to emulate the flow of a typical summer day. Beginning with the energetic dance music of Jennifer Johns and ending with the atmospheric sounds of Helado Negro, this playlist with take you from those bright mornings into the those chilly nights. Listen Here >> |
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Art Fairs Online, Art Basel June 2020
Congratulations to our 14 LAP Fellows who have work featured in Art Basel's June 2020 online viewing rooms! Learn more about the artists and see their exhibited work through the link below. Read More >> |
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AUDIO
Weeping Mary "Weeping Mary was composed by Matthew Petty after spending time in Weeping Mary, TX and meeting the eldest descendants of those freed slaves whose land was stolen. Mr. Petty asked me to record the song in his studio while we were Lucas Artist Fellows at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA. It was recorded in 2018 and today we can feel the profound resonance for the times in which we are living. It is time to be shared. Listen, weep, mourn, love and keep and moving." —Alva Rogers Listen Here >> |
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SPOTIFY MIXTAPE
Spring 2020: Quarantine Edition By Emily Borchers We know being stuck inside can be hard, so we've compiled a set of songs from our LAP Fellows and Guest Artists to ease your mind during quarantine. Listen Here >> |
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PRESS RELEASE
Montalvo Announces New Lucas Artists Fellows in Visual Arts for 2019 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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EXHIBITION
The Mending Project The Mending Project is an interactive installation featuring several simple elements—thread, color, and sewing—as a point of departure to create meaningful connections between strangers. Originally conceived as an installation that would bring people together in conversation, The Mending Project was produced by internationally acclaimed visual artist Lee Mingwei and premiered in 2009 at Lombard-Freid Projects in New York. Read More >> |
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FESTIVAL
South Asian Literature and Art Festival The South Asian Literature & Art Festival, presented at Montalvo by Art Forum SF in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Institute of South Asian Studies, was the Bay Area’s first festival dedicated to showcasing contemporary reflections of literature and the arts from the subcontinent. 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
Interactive Performer Heather Gold (March 16, 2020) Being an artist can be lonely. And you spend a chunk of your energy and mind holding your point of view and the conviction that what you do is worthwhile. Being at the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) freed up all that energy for me to make work. It let me exhale and feel supported.In my interactive performance pieces, I’ve spent a lot of years exploring how to create conditions for an emotional connection or shift in an audience and how to creative conditions for narrative beats and comedic moments to happen. Read More >> |
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THIS WEEK IN MY STUDIO
Multidisciplinary Artist Ranu Mukherjee (March 10, 2020) I’m using my studio at Montalvo as a speculative fiction machine. I’m working on my upcoming solo exhibition and a longer term video/performance project called Ensemble for Non-Linear Time. I'm circulating between drawing, writing and constructing a space to film in. The Marley floor is conducive to rolling around and finding movement. Read More >> |
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THIS WEEK IN MY STUDIO
Guest Artist Brad Kik (March 5, 2020) My apologies to every composer who has labored here in Studio 21, pulling such beautiful music out of this Bechstein grand piano. “Is it ok if we put you in the composer’s studio?” meant I had to make room in my luggage for (1) adult learner level 2 songbook, alongside (1) barely-dry painting from my nine-year-old and (1) Elsa and Anna Frozen 2 decoration (“It’s not a toy!” declared my six-year-old as she ceremoniously handed it over). Read More >> |
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THIS WEEK IN MY STUDIO
Visual Artist Kija Lucas (March 1, 2020) I have been spending my time editing photographs and entering object stories for The Museum of Sentimental Taxonomy. We had 26 people bring objects to be photographed over the weekend, and I am excited to get them up on the project website. One of the most important parts of this work, is the part that is unseen by anyone but the participant. The conversations and sharing that coincide with making the photograph. Read More >> |
