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Works by Inez Storer

Inez Storer is a storyteller. Her mixed media paintings allow viewers to enter her work as one might enter a story. Pulling from current events and her own personal history, she creates magical narratives that ultimately bend time. Her work draws from her expansive collection of treasured material for collage as she weaves fact with fiction. A self-described “scavenger,” Storer tucks away relics and clippings that catch her attention. She is always searching for unusual images depicting subjects ranging from the familiar to the political to add to her collection of objects. Her studio is idiosyncratically organized and contains storage…

Floating Kīpuka

“To play is to be in the world. It is to be open to surprise, contingency, and improvisation—a critical skill for our combined future.“ - Christina Agapakis The Floating Kīpuka play kit aims to blend knowledge across time and cultures to create playful spaces for more voices in the discussion of just biofutures. It invites people to imagine new types of playful spaces of trust for collaboratively dreaming with biology with a focus on agricultural futures. The custom assembly pieces blend lab tools, organisms at scales, cultural legends, rituals of gratitude, and agricultural labor stories to bring culture and ethics…

Natsu Matsuri AR

Step into the enchanting world of Natsu Matsuri AR at the Plaza of Montalvo Arts Center—an immersive AR art project that pays homage to the vibrant Japanese summer festival season. Drawing inspiration from the rich traditions and joyous celebrations, this installation combines physical objects, evocative soundscapes, and augmented reality to offer visitors a multisensory experience that captures the essence of Natsu Matsuri (夏祭り). As visitors arrive at the plaza, they will be greeted by an Engawa bench—a traditional Japanese porch-like structure that beckons them to immerse themselves in the festivities. Accompanied by the gentle melodies of wind chimes, the interactive…

Montalvo Announces New Lucas Artist Fellows, 2023

Montalvo Arts Center’s Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program (LAP) is proud to announce the fellowships awarded from its California open call held earlier this year, the first open call held by the LAP in over ten years. Of 370 applicants, 65 artists—spanning careers from emerging to established—were awarded Lucas Artists Fellowships: 30 in the field of visual arts, 19 in literary arts, and 16 in music/composition and performing arts. Fellows will receive three months of residency time which can be used at their discretion over a three-year period, beginning in October of this year and extending through 2026. Since its…

Cascade

Cascade is a two-part installation where interdisciplinary artist Carole Kim transforms a dormant site of spectacle into a slower viewing context with a meditative participatory component. Two large-scale, floating drawings consisting of layers of imagery inspired by the neural reach of the spine and a network of nodal cracks in a pattern of interconnectivity. The stone steps are dusted with an ephemeral stencil of cresting waves in white powder upon which viewers are invited to build stone cairns—temporary, humble micro-monuments in homage to all those we are caring for: young, old, family, friend, and for all those providing that care.…

Abundant Intelligences

A project of the Indigenous Futures Research CenterMay – June, 2023 Made possible by Montalvo Art Center’s Lucas Artists Program and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Abundant Intelligences Residency will provide a sustained period of individual and collective engagement with creative responses to the challenge of designing AI systems that support Indigenous flourishing. The goal will be to produce future imaginaries that illustrate the abundant diversity of how humans interact intelligently with the world, and to illuminate how such intelligences might be expressed through computational systems. Questions about the ethical design of AI have taken on…

A Celebration of Earth Day 2023

Join us for a celebration of Earth Day with a special Open Access event on Thursday, April 20 from 5:30–8:30pm featuring three exciting installations presented by artists from our Lucas Artists Residency Program. One of these installations will then continue to be available for visitors to engage with during the weekend of April 22–23. Minneapolis-based composer JG Everest will present a new site-specific temporary sound + performance installation for the grounds at Montalvo, to be experienced along the paths and bridges that line the creek in the Redwood forest between the Villa and the LAP studios. This installation, entitled While…

Open Call for California Artists

DEADLINE PASSED. Sorry, we are no longer accepting applications. The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency (LAP) at Montalvo opened in 2004 as a new facility, designed especially for artists, consisting of ten unique live/work studios designed to accommodate many artistic practices including music, visual, literary and performing arts. The facility has a commons building that provides a flexible space where artists can gather for meals prepared by our culinary artist/chef, collaboration and social events. Lucas Artists Fellows can access and utilize Montalvo’s many buildings and grounds, including a workshop for woodworking and an adjacent ceramics studio. Since its inception,…

Thick Solidarity

A project of Related TacticsAugust 1 – September 11, 2022 Made possible by Montalvo Art Center’s Lucas Artists Program and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Thick Solidarity is a project in Related Tactics’s ongoing Who Else But Americans series that explores the liberatory potential of relationships between communities of color as we navigate the extractive and violent systems of nation-building, power, and American exceptionalism. Thick Solidarity is a residency project organized by Related Tactics inviting two cohorts of multidisciplinary artists to join together in building community, resting, and carving out space for each artist to conduct research. The ongoing work as…

It’s All About Love: Mixtape for the Landscape

A durational recorded soundscapeCommissioned by the Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center A recorded durational soundscape, designed to be heard in conjunction with a designated pathway on Montalvo’s grounds, and created in a form accessible on Montalvo’s stART here application by means of a smart phone. The soundscape may be connected to physical elements along the designated pathway in a number, form and nature to be determined in advance and subject to Montalvo’s final approval. The conceptual content of the soundscape is described by Artist as follows: “Just like the old school mixtapes you painstakingly created for your sweetie pie,…

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