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Broken Wing

Broken Wing (2004) is a bronze work that represents objects, often taken for granted, that are depended upon as part of our daily routine—like a wing nut for a carpenter. This piece is installed in the Cactus Garden, located on the north end of the Italianate Garden. In 2010, Broken Wing became the first sculpture permanently acquired by Montalvo as part of our Art on the Grounds exhibitions. Cactus Garden. David Middlebrook

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.…

A Taste of Place: “Heaven is Leftover Indian Food!”

By Andrea Blum ( @myamericanpantry ), Montalvo Culinary Artist Above: Shirisha Gopisetti cooking in the kitchen of Montalvo's Lucas Artists Program. Some of my best kitchen memories are from cooking with women in home kitchens around the world. I am especially excited when some of these worldly women (and men) come to the culinary kitchen at the Lucas Artists Program and share their life stories and food. The kitchen here is a magnet, and I can travel through those who come here to visit. On Friday, Shirisha Gopisetti, a volunteer in the Montalvo gardens, came with her daughter Manasi to help…

A Taste of Place: Magnolia Dinner

By Andrea Blum ( @myamericanpantry ), Montalvo Culinary Artist LAP residents (left to right) Kalisolaite 'Uhila, Will Calhoun, Henry Threadgill and Culinary artist Andrea Blum This week, magnolias are in bloom. It’s one of my favorite flowers and I look forward to finding them in the landscape each year. Even when the spent flowers tumble to the table, I still love the branches! I adorned the table this week with flowering magnolia branches, and as you can see, the conversation around the table happened under, around and through them. Artist and designer Sebastian Bellver peers through the magnolias…

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 Taste of Place: The Color of Marigolds and Calendula

By Andrea Blum ( @myamericanpantry ), LAP Culinary Arts Fellow Fifteen pounds of carrots arrived at my doorstep last week. It was a mistake delivery and a bit alarming to have so many carrots piled on my kitchen island. So what to do? Cook everything orange for the artists! The first dish I made was a bright and simple carrot soup. This was made from carrots, onions, a bit of cumin, chipotle and water. The result was a rich sunset blast of orange and the flavor was divine. So said those happy faces around the table. The only thing missing were…

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…

A Taste of Place: Passover Lunch

By Andrea Blum ( @myamericanpantry ), LAP Culinary Arts Fellow For Passover last week, I made the artist residents an Ashkenazi lunch with most of the fixings of a Seder, the symbolic meal that recounts the story of freedom from slavery for the Jewish people. We had matzo flatbread, a cardamom matzo ball soup, brisket and haroset that we sandwich between the matzo with a bit of horseradish, one of those things from childhood that sticks with you as a favorite food throughout your life. At this lunch, instead of recounting and practicing the normal ritual of the holiday, I asked…

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…

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