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A Taste of Place: Wild Garlic Flowers

By Andrea Blum ( @myamericanpantry ), Montalvo Culinary Artist Foraged wild garlic flowers This week, I transformed a Tuscan meal into a Northern Californian one--a typical meal like I would find in the place I call the home of my heart--the Chianti region, just 45 minutes south of Florence in San Casciano in Val di Pesa. I would often go to lunch at the Ponte Rotto (Broken Bridge), a small grocery store on a country road with a room in the back turned osteria during the lunch hour. Everyone from farm worker to bureaucrat would come there to eat. It…

A Taste of Place: Cassoulet

By Andrea Blum ( @myamericanpantry ), Montalvo Culinary Artist A traditional cassole , glazed on the inside (left) and burnt on the outside (right). Some tools of the trade stay with you all your life. While traveling in France almost 20 years ago, I acquired a ceramic dish that as has become part of my quiver for cooking. It’s known as a cassole , a traditional earthenware dish where one cooks a cassoulet. The outside of the dish is rough and still burnt from the firing, while the inside is glazed smooth. It’s a piece of earth I cherish like…

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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Changing Patterns: Dominoes after Dinner

By Lori Wood, Lucas Artists Residency Manager (Left to right) Augustina Woodgate, Sebastian Bellver, Kalisolaite 'Uhila After dinner in the LAP Commons, a season of dominoes. With the fireplace lit and the lights down, the Commons is filled with the sound of dominoes clicking, subtle boasts, and bursts of triumphant laughter. The tiles stretch out in patterns across the redwood table. The patterns change. The poet likes straight lines for a time. She lays down tiles and laughs in trills. The novelist initiates sharp corners and lays tiles at right angles, commenting drily, always a straight face. The playwright…

Works By Riva Lehrer

No longer on view. The cottage gallery portion of the exhibition closed November 13, 2022. Acrylic, dimensional collage and mixed media on Amate paperCollection of Larry A. Gerber Dolls contain images of organs removed from my body during surgery. Mixed media on paperPrivate collection, Chicago William Shannon is a dancer, skateboarder, choreographer, and video artist, an early pioneer in subverting assumptions about contemporary dance. Shannon resides in Pittsburgh, PA. Mixed media and collage on paperCollection of Larry A. Gerber Lennard Davis is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Davis explores the political, literary, and…

A Taste of Place: Sablefish

By Andrea Blum ( @myamericanpantry ), LAP Culinary Arts Fellow Photos: Water2Table Who knew I didn’t know? That is, the incredible taste of sablefish! The taste of place is really about the flavors that are native to place. The deep canyons off Monterey Bay is the place for sablefish—otherwise known as black cod—and the bay is one of the most prolific fisheries on the West Coast. It is also a local and sustainably managed fishery. This means that rules put in place by a variety of stakeholders ensure that the area is not overfished and that the local economy will benefit.…

ON THE MENU: Wisteria Dinner

(clockwise) Kalisolaite 'Uhila, Roman Fileu, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Derek Corns, Howard Hersh Photo: Tina Case CONVERSATIONS ON... The peppery smell of fresh wisteria Lori The Case for Reparations , by Ta-Nahisi Coates Jennifer The difficulty of archiving artists’ work Cassils Wild Seed , by Octavia Butler Jennifer It was a winter of lions and tigers and bears Lori Octavia Butler was without question made by the Lord Jennifer The global power of textiles Tran The Fire Next Time , by James Baldwin Jennifer Looking for a chair that goes high when you…

Untitled (Marble and Wood Sculpture)

Marble, wood, steel, canvas, graphite, mixed media46 x 48 x 24 in.Courtesy of the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery, San FranciscoPhoto: Diane Roby No longer on view. The cottage gallery portion of the exhibition closed November 13, 2022. Jackson spent extended periods in 1983 and 1985 in Carrara, Italy, working on marble sculptures, which he has continued in his studio in Oakland, California. In an art historical sense one might perceive the figures in his otherwise abstract paintings as an attempt to resolve or at least investigate the space between abstraction and figuration. That would be wrong. His figures are…

Of Color

Photo courtesy Pilar Agüero-Esparza The large-scale painted and woven canvas tapestry mural by Pilar Agüero-Esparza, brings together the power of the hand-made, references to the body through skin color and prismatic color found in the landscape. While juxtaposing ideas related to social hierarchies and stratums, the tapestry interweaves symbolic color both of the physical body (as represented by a skin tone palette) and color found in nature. Through the creation of a wall like structure, Agüero-Esparza evokes the tradition of Chicano muralism, which is often used to uplift marginalized communities, into the social space of the Montalvo Arts Center Italianate…

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