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Montalvo Art Center’s Art on the Grounds commissioning program provides artists with opportunities to develop and present new art works in the context of a 175-acre public park. Montalvo is home to a diverse range of native and non-native plant and tree species, and includes a redwood and live oak forest, an expansive grass lawn, and a succulent garden. Its diverse buildings encompass a Mediterranean-style villa built in 1912, outdoor and indoor theatres, and the Lucas Artists Residency Commons building and studios. Artists are encouraged to experiment with innovative models of art-making in the public sphere and consider novel ways of engaging with Montalvo’s varied grounds and publics. 

New works produced through this program include:
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  • Durational projects developing out of community engagement activities and workshops, such as Andrea Blum’s community picnic and photoshoot, My American Pantry Montalvo; Lawn Games--a kit of games and activities for visitors to play with on Montalvo’s grounds designed by Benjamin Laramie and Leah Rosenberg, and featuring playful activities created by Miguel Arzabe; Ana Gallardo’s A Place to Live When We Are Old, which brought  together people of all ages together through dance, and created a community gathering space modeled after the traditional Mexican plaza; and Tiffany Singh, The Bells of Mindfulness, an exploration of the role of sacred space in contemporary life involving an installation of 1000 handmade bells on a persimmons tree in Montalvo’s historic Italianate Garden.                                                                                                                                                                          
  • Sculptural objects, site conditioned interventions, and functional  design, including Allison Wiese’s Untitled, a text based sculpture featuring appropriated language taken from mid-20th-century pop culture, movies, and novels; Justin Lowman’s Untitled (Belvedere Temple), an architectural intervention inhabiting an existing structure that forms part of Montalvo’s historic property; Christopher Loomis’s Twisted Heart and the Eucalyptus Muse, a semi-permanent seating element for Montalvo’s historic Italianate Garden constructed from reclaimed Blue-Gum Eucalyptus; Susan O’Malley’s A Healing Walk, a guided walk through Montalvo’s forest trails with text-based signage reminding us to practice mindfulness; Jeffrey Miller and Amy Trachtenberg’s Creekside Studio, an art-making studio and education classroom in the woods, featuring Counterpoint by Trachtenberg, a series of patterned shed doors constructed from repurposed lumber and patchwork shade cloths; and Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao’s Edible Dress Tent, a hybrid sculpture blending architecture, performance, landscape gardening, and photography. 

  • Time-based events and experiences, such as Daniel Canogar’s live participatory video projection over Montalvo’s historic Villa, Asalto Montalvo; Art on the Grounds 2015: Performance in the Park—which included new performance works around Montalvo’s property by such artists as Pamela Z and Joanna Haigood; Christine Wong Yap’s Irrational Exuberance Flags, which involved a parade, pep rally, and members of Montalvo’s community periodically selecting a brightly colored flag and hoisting it up a flagpole in front of the Lucas Artists Residency; and sound-based works like Kianga Ford’s You are here. man. mountain. valley. sky, a site-specific audio experience with a four-channel musical intervention by Mamoru Okuno.
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View all the current works on view in our map below.
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Susan O’Malley, A Healing Walk, 2012
Ana Gallardo (With dancers Concepcion Marvan Pale, Hilda Jimenez Cruz and Ofelia Martinez), Un lugar de vivir cuando seamos viejos (A Place to Live When We Are Old), 2014
Jeffrey Miller and Amy Trachtenberg, Creekside Studio, 2012
Christopher Loomis, Twisted Heart and the Eucalyptus Muse, 2015
Miguel Arzabe, Benjamin Laramie and Leah Rosenberg, Lawn Games, 2014
Christine Wong Yap, Irrational Exuberance Flags, 2013
Andrea Blum, My American Pantry: Montalvo, 2014
Justin Lowman, Untitled (Belvedere Temple), 2014
Allison Wiese, Untitled, 2014
Walter Kitundu, Nafasi Yako Ni Ya Kijani (Your Place is Green), 2017
Pamela Z, Voice Garden Sonic Pool, 2015. Photo credit: Bahara Emami.
Mobile Arts Platform (MAP), Urban Campfire Stories, 2016. Photo credit: Airyka Rockeller.
Hirokazu Kosaka, Kalpa, 2015, Performed by Oguri with live music by Tetsuya Nakamura. Photo credit: Bahara Emami.
Karrie Hovey, Gild, 2016. Photo credit: Airyka Rockeller.
Tiffany Singh, The Bells of Mindfulness, 2013. Photo credit: Sanjana.
Kim Beck, The Scribble (animation still), 2017.
Máximo González. The Collector. 2017. Photo Credit: Tina Case.
Marilá Dardot. Saudade (Our Flags). 2018. Photo: David Gonzalez
Howard Hersh. Four Bridges. 2018. Photo: Nathan Zanon
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Imole Blue II. Field of Memories. 2018. Photo: David Gonzalez
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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Saratoga, CA 95071
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