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Innovation in Music: OneBeat 2015

From October 10-27, the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo hosted a youthful international consortium as 25 musicians (ages 19 – 35) from all over the world gathered for OneBeat, an electrifying fellowship enjoined to collaboratively write, produce, record, and perform genre-shattering musical works. An act of musical diplomacy and an inimitable force of creative energy, OneBeat kicked off its 2015 whirlwind of collaboration and international engagement with its Montalvo residency. This year’s fellows came from a vast array of backgrounds, chosen because they reject constraints and challenge traditional modes of creativity and thought in their music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X83Jm-Y1ir0 ​OneBeat is an…
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Botanica Poetica: New Work by Lucas Artists Fellows

Home to formal gardens, oak and redwood forests, and various exotic plantings, Montalvo's horticultural diversity serves as inspiration for a series of new works created by Lucas Artist Fellows Kija Lucas, Monica Lundy, Hector Dionicio Mendoza, and Fieldworks Collaborative (Trena Noval and Ann Wettrich). Identifying, collecting, and documenting various specimens of plant life discovered while exploring Montalvo's 175-acre public park, these artists have adopted creative processes that resemble the activities of the backyard naturalist. Through sculpture, painting, photography, and works on paper, viewers are invited to reflect on the ill-defined boundary between the natural and unnatural, and the intimate entanglement…
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Art on the Grounds 2015: Performance in the Park

On July 24th 2015, we held a large-scale performance festival on the Montalvo grounds, Performance in the Park, featuring site-specific performances by Lucas Artist Fellows. This event is documented in a short video by local filmmakers Pierce Leggin and Alexis Constanza. The festival was organized in association with a year-long celebration of the  75/10 anniversary of the Lucas Artists Residency Program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Mjev0wGjk ​Joanna Haigood and members of Zaccho Dance Theatre transformed the Italianate Garden with the haunting site-specific performance, The Visitors. Nikki Borodi, Glenn Easley, and Nehara Kalev soared high above us in the trees in new dance and sound performance, Whisper Before…
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75/10: Alumni Celebrations Across the Globe

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. 
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Possibilities of Paper​

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…
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