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This page is a work in progress! Our editorial team is at work migrating archival content to the Open Access blog. Please check back soon for more posts about all of our exhibitions and events from 2016.

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COMMISSION
Karen Finley: Far East of Eden
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Far East of Eden is an experimental film short developed by internationally recognized artists Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto. The work, which was developed by Finley and Yonemoto during their tenure as visiting artists at the Lucas Artists Residency in 2016, was commissioned by Montalvo Arts Center.
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FESTIVAL
5 Hour Sculpture, A Pop-up Arts Festival
In March 2016, Montalvo launched an open call for proposals for our annual summer Art on the Grounds festival. We asked would-be applicants, “if you had five hours to present a work of sculpture in a public park, what would you create?” The eleven works that were on view at the 2016 Arts on the Grounds program―featuring more than thirty-five artists and their collaborators from the Bay Area, Greater US, and beyond―represent the final projects selected through this process. 
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PERFORMANCE
Romeo & Juliet at Villa Montalvo
​For the month of May 2016, the Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP) turned the eleven artist studios on our orchard site over to the We Players, a remarkable site-specific theater company, as they developed a new production of Romeo and Juliet. Founded 16 years ago by Artistic Director Ava Roy, the We Players adapts classic pieces of theater for historic places and keeps audiences on their toes as their performances wend their way through these striking environments.
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EXHIBITION
James Gouldthorpe's
Particles: A Painting in Ten Chapters
In an expansive installation of new work presented in Montalvo's Project Space Gallery, Lucas Artists Visual Arts Fellow James Gouldthorpe explored the passage of time and the aggregation of the self over a lifetime. The artist projected forward into the future and reached back into the past, mixing humor with melancholy as he examined birth, childhood, adolescence, middle and old age, and death, and reflected on both the poignant and absurd nature of existence.
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XLIII: A Contemporary Requiem
​ Co-commissioned by Montalvo Arts Center and the Center for the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University, XLIII: A Contemporary Requiem was a site-specific performance work created by Mexico City-based composer and sound artist Andres Solis with choreographer and dancer Sandra Milena Gómez in association with the Santa Clara University Chamber Singers, and conductor Scot Hanna-Weir.
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Who we Are
Housed within Montalvo Arts Center, a 175 acre public park in the Santa Cruz foothills, and in the heart of the Silicon Valley, the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP) is a creative incubator dedicated to supporting the creative process for artists from all creative disciplines and geographical locations. 
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15400 Montalvo Road 
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