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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 2018.

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RADIOEE.net AUTOPILOTO
Mobile, multilingual, online radio channel broadcasting conversations about mobility and movement while on the move, RADIO Espacio Estacion (RADIOEE.NET), a mobile, multilingual, online radio channel broadcasting conversations about mobility and movement while on the move, presented their latest broadcast AUTOPILOTO on November 15 and 16. This 24-hr broadcast hosted from a semi-autonomous car as it looped the Bay Area explored  all things self driving. 
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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. 
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FESTIVAL
We the People

On July 20, Montalvo hosted "We the People," a communal gathering 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?
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​Marilá Dardot: Saudade (Our Flags)
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In her first exhibition in the United States, Brazilian artist Marilá Dardot premiered a large-scale installation of 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.
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Howard Hersh: Four Bridges

Four Bridges is a site-specific sound work by award-winning composer Howard Hersh designed to be heard by listeners over mobile devices as they walk through Montalvo’s woodland environment. The work coordinates space, sound, and motion into a unique immersive ambulatory experience: as listeners follow a meandering woodland path on Montalvo’s grounds, they are taken on a sonic odyssey that leads them through redwood canyons into oak-lined meadows. Four Bridges’ narrative is inspired by our primal memories of the forest and the mythology that depicts it as an enchanted, mysterious place. It also explores the woods as a metaphor for our common journey and what it means to carry the burden and promises of a shared humanity.
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María Magdalena
Campos-Pons: Imole Blue II (Field of Memories)
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One of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons created a garden 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. Imole means "earth" in the Yoruba language. The garden was planted with the help of community participants on Sunday, July 15.
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OPEN ACCESS
Don't Look Away

On February 23 2018, Montalvo’s Carriage House Theatre was the venue for an inspiring evening of poetry and performance featuring Lucas Artists Literary Fellows Danez Smith, Monica Sok, and Julian Talamantez-Brolaski, and two-time Grammy winning musician and co-founding member of the genre-busting rock band Living Colour, Will Calhoun.
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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 
Saratoga, CA 95071
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