Year: 2015

2015 is a year for celebration at Montalvo! We mark two important anniversaries: 75 continuous years as an artists residency (making us the oldest such program west of the Mississippi) and the 10-year jubilee of our international Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency campus.  To commemorate this historic occasion, our alumni Artist Fellows around the world are mounting happenings in their home cities honoring Montalvo's commitment to supporting artists and their work. These range in scale from large parties to solo moments and interventions. Photos, videos, original artwork, and more from these events will be posted as they take place. 

This exhibition highlighted the diverse and innovative ways that Lucas Artists Program (LAP) Fellows and Guest Artists have used paper as a vehicle for creative expression. Whether crafted from delicate, handmade Nepalese paper or inexpensive and readily available cardboard, works on view recalled the rich and varied histories of paper and its changing societal role and value.  Some artists employed paper as a register for marks made by ink, paint, graphite, and more unusual media like coffee, and dyed twine; while others explored the possibilities of paper as a sculptural material, carving, cutting, folding, embossing, weaving and molding it into forms. Possibilities…