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.
How do we select our Artist Fellows?
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. The residency also seeks to support underserved artists who might not find their way into a residency program. Nominated artists are invited to apply for a Fellowship; all applicants are then juried by professionals in their respective fields. Selected artists are offered a 1-3 month Fellowship.
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.
NOTE: We do not currently offer any open application process for artist fellowships or residencies. All fellowships are awarded through the nomination process outlined above, and selections are made by invitation only.
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. These include a combination of
And at least twice a year, the series broadens to become a large-scale outdoor festival.
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.
How do we select our Artist Fellows?
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. The residency also seeks to support underserved artists who might not find their way into a residency program. Nominated artists are invited to apply for a Fellowship; all applicants are then juried by professionals in their respective fields. Selected artists are offered a 1-3 month Fellowship.
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.
NOTE: We do not currently offer any open application process for artist fellowships or residencies. All fellowships are awarded through the nomination process outlined above, and selections are made by invitation only.
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. These include a combination of
- music and dance performances
- gallery exhibition previews
- readings
- salon-style conversations
- culinary demonstrations
- hands-on art-making activities
- and more!
And at least twice a year, the series broadens to become a large-scale outdoor festival.
Special Thanks to our Friends of the LAP!
Anonymous (3) • 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
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.
Interested in learning more? Download an information packet here.
