What is the Lucas Artists Program?
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. The LAP encourages the creation of new and adventurous works, supports risk taking, collaboration and cross-disciplinary investigation of contemporary issues. It's also a cultural producer and presenter, continually seeking new ways to engage the public in the artistic process and works of its Artist Fellows.
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. The LAP encourages the creation of new and adventurous works, supports risk taking, collaboration and cross-disciplinary investigation of contemporary issues. It's also a cultural producer and presenter, continually seeking new ways to engage the public in the artistic process and works of its Artist Fellows.
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Selection Process
Lucas Fellows are identified through an international nomination process that ensures support for highly qualified artists who have the potential to become major voices in the next generation of creative thinkers. This selection process is held for each discipline approximately every three years. The residency also seeks to support underserved artists who might not find their way into a residency program. The LAP relies on an international group of over 250 nominators who are each invited to nominate two to three artists of exceptional merit. Nominated artists are then invited to submit a full dossier on their work, which is reviewed by a jury of experts in each discipline. Approximately 24 artists in each discipline are selected every three years. Artists are awarded three months in residence at LAP, which can be taken over three years, and can include their artistic collaborators. LAP Fellows frequently return to Montalvo several times over this period. Residencies are offered in all contemporary artistic disciplines including the visual arts, design, literary arts, film, choreography, performance art, music and composition, and teaching artists. The LAP welcomes artists' collaborators from overlapping fields, including science, technology, and other scholarly research. The Program is the first in the United States to offer an annual Culinary Artist Residency. In addition to the LAP Fellows, selected guest artists are invited to be in residence at LAP as they create commissions for the LAP’s Art on the Grounds program, develop commissions, or participate in public programs. NOTE: We do not currently offer any open application process for artist fellowships or residencies. |
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What is Open Access?
Join us as we present a series of fun-filled interdisciplinary gatherings at Montalvo. Most months, our offerings are a bite-sized artistic sampler, featuring an array of activities that reflect the multidisciplinary approach of the LAP and the work of its diverse Artist Fellows. And at least twice a year, the series broadens to become a large-scale outdoor festival. Open Access events may include:
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Friends of the LAP
Friends of the LAP are advocates, donors, and partners with the Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo, who sustain the program as it presents the work of multidisciplinary artists at increasingly high levels and in increasingly ambitious ways. Friends of the LAP enjoy inside access to resident artists and their creative process. Interested in learning more? Download an information packet here.
Thank you to our friends of the LAP:
Thank you to our friends of the LAP:
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The Ariko Family Foundation Joan Borinstein & Gary Gartsman Laura Deem Philip & Jennifer DiNapoli Terry & Ron Epstein Edward & Renne Fields Alexandra & Wolfgang Hausen Wanda Kownacki Sally Lucas |
George & Judy Marcus
Rich Callison & Shauna Mika Ann Marie Mix Glenn & Sherri Osaka Francine Lejeune & T.M. Ravi Nickhil Jakatdar & Sudnya Shroff Thomas & Yuko Tiernan Charmaine & Dan Warmenhoven Gayla &Walt Wood Mitchell & Kritsen Yawitz |
