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the stone in your mouth, 2024

Featured in When the World is Beautifully Strange Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩 (b. 1993)the stone in your mouth (en/snarled), 2024Hand-built stoneware, crocheted chain, foraged barnacle, acrylic tubingCourtesy of the artistPhoto by Paul Gallo The intertidal zone is a landscape marked by constant and extreme change, whose inhabitants have uniquely adapted to not only withstand, but thrive in such conditions. Chan considers histories of oceanic extraction and our relationship to living resources, believing that the ocean’s intertidal organisms are oracles which can guide our understanding of what longevity, survival, and endurance can look like. What wisdom, memories, and technologies are held within the…
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AGNIJA, Born of Fire, 2023

Featured in When the World is Beautifully Strange Ashwini Bhat (b. 1980)  Glazed ceramic32 x 30 x 29 in.Collection of Starworks, North CarolinaCourtesy of the artist and Shoshana Wayne GalleryPhoto by Chris Gallaway Inspired by the cathedral-like termite mounds frequently seen throughout Southern India, artist Ashwini Bhat was invited to create this hybrid, biomorphic sculpture using local wild clay as a part of Firefest 2023 at Starworks, in North Carolina. To this day in Southern India, the termite mounds, which have chimney-like structures resembling ancient pottery kilns, are worshipped as the dwellings of the serpent deities. In this process, the termite…
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You Can’t Eat Art

The new podcast series was created with support provided by the George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation, the Jo and Barry Ariko Fund for Artistic Programs, and Sally Lucas. You Can’t Eat Art is a provocative podcast series addressing the age-old question: What’s the value of art? Inspired by a skeptic who claimed that art serves no practical purpose, host Clara Kamunde, Marcus Curatorial Fellow, sits down with artists at the Lucas Artists Program to explore the impact of making art. In this monthly series, Clara invites you to listen in as she engages in candid conversations with working artists representing…
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Montalvo Announces 2024 International Music and Composition Fellowships

Montalvo Arts Center’s Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program is proud to announce its first international and national fellowship awards made since the Covid pandemic. Twenty-five musician/composers of exceptional talent from across the U.S. and the world were recently awarded a three-month fellowship in the Lucas Artists Residency Program. This distinguished group includes individuals working in all genres of music including classical, jazz, folk, hip-hop, electronic, experimental, and sound art. These newly selected Fellows were born or reside in the following countries: the United States and Puerto Rico, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Syria. Every…
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Te Veo, Te Escucho, Te Honro (I see you, I hear you, I honor you)

Aluminum, steel94.12 x 64.13 in (sculpture); 62.6 x 60.5 x 8 in (base)Courtesy of the artistPhoto by Emily Borchers Created at the culmination of Magos’ artist residency with the City of Palo Alto Public Art Program, Te Veo, Te Escucho, Te Honro (I see you, I hear you, I honor you) (2023) is a symbolic representation of LatinX community members’ experiences during the time of the pandemic. The metal sculpture takes the shape of a totem, which echoes those that "were erected by Mesoamerican people to celebrate gods/goddesses, royalty, and warriors,” or in this case, the COVID-19 essential workers. The…
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AI.Assembly

July – August, 2023 Made possible by Montalvo Art Center’s Lucas Artists Program and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Started by Stephanie Dinkins in 2017 as meetings at NEW INC, a New York-based art and tech incubator at the New Museum, AI.Assembly is an ongoing series of intimate, exploratory encounters addressing the question “What does AI need from you?  Since the first AI.Assembly we start with that very question and then expand outward to explore more facets of the technological future. Each AI.Assembly gathering seeks to build fellowship catalyzed by sharing of meals featuring foods that are…
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Montalvo Announces 2023 CA Lucas Artist Fellowships

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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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