Hello and welcome to Open Access, an online magazine and archive project dedicated to providing readers with a window inside the creative incubator of the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center.
Open Access will feature weekly posts highlighting Lucas Artist Fellow’s most recent inquires and explorations, works in process, developing collaborations, and completed projects and programs. Sometimes it may simply draw a curtain on a lively evening dinner conversation.
Designed as a platform for you to engage deeply in the ongoing creative processes of our resident fellows, Open Access features videos, photo essays, interviews, and articles. We invite you to follow artists’ creative journeys while in residence, and to track their work and achievements once they depart. As our list of contributors grows, we will add new voices, including resident artists, scholars and curators, as well as invited writers.
It is our pleasure, as we move into our second decade of the Lucas Artists Residency Program, to provide ever more transparency to the work, ideas, explorations and developments happening in within our facilities on a daily basis.
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.
To find out more about the LAP, please visit: montalvoarts.org/programs/residency.
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.
What are Open Access Events?
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.
To see a summary of the upcoming Open Access events, please visit: montalvoarts.org/programs/open_access.
Open Access will feature weekly posts highlighting Lucas Artist Fellow’s most recent inquires and explorations, works in process, developing collaborations, and completed projects and programs. Sometimes it may simply draw a curtain on a lively evening dinner conversation.
Designed as a platform for you to engage deeply in the ongoing creative processes of our resident fellows, Open Access features videos, photo essays, interviews, and articles. We invite you to follow artists’ creative journeys while in residence, and to track their work and achievements once they depart. As our list of contributors grows, we will add new voices, including resident artists, scholars and curators, as well as invited writers.
It is our pleasure, as we move into our second decade of the Lucas Artists Residency Program, to provide ever more transparency to the work, ideas, explorations and developments happening in within our facilities on a daily basis.
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.
To find out more about the LAP, please visit: montalvoarts.org/programs/residency.
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.
What are Open Access Events?
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.
To see a summary of the upcoming Open Access events, please visit: montalvoarts.org/programs/open_access.
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 or Contact Taylor Abbe.
Interested in learning more? Download an information packet here or Contact Taylor Abbe.
