Montalvo’s Lucas Artists Fellows
This partnership has been launched with the first of six installments: a profile of interdisciplinary visual artist Jonas Becker , who was in residence at Montalvo in summer 2017. To read the full text of the article, please click here . Articles will continue to be published this fall and winter, focusing on Lucas Artists Fellows and works produced for Montalvo’s Art on the Grounds exhibition, Now Hear This!
“We are thrilled to collaborate with Montalvo’s Lucas Artists Program. Montalvo, located in the South Bay, reinforces our commitment to amplifying regional voices and coverage of the arts for the greater San Francisco Bay Area,” said Art Practical Executive Director Michele Carlson. “Partnering with LAP’s diverse artist roster expands our own growing network of artists and communities, along with Art Practical ’s mission to highlight the many locales that fluidly create the larger global art world.”
“This new collaboration with Art Practical is an exciting opportunity for Montalvo to further nurture the creative development of our Lucas Artists Fellows by supporting critical writing about their work,” said Lucas Artists Program Curator Donna Conwell. “It also enables us to support visual arts criticism in the Bay area–a crucial part of the art ecosystem–as well as help make the work of the Lucas Artists Program more accessible to the public.”
ABOUT ART PRACTICAL
Art Practical is a San Francisco-based arts media organization that develops trustworthy and accessible critical discourse for the West Coast. Art Practical is committed to supporting artists and writers by amplifying diverse regional voices. Our initiatives include text, visual, and audio publishing, educational programs, and public events. Art Practical is emblematic of the collective and collaborative spirit of the wide-ranging Bay Area visual arts culture, which combines international perspectives with a long local history of incubating experimentation and innovation.
Since its launch in October 2009, Art Practical ’s contributors are some of the most renowned artists, performers, writers, educators, and curators working in the Bay Area. Its content, public programming, and rigorous editorial review have been lauded and noted in numerous media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times , Detroit Free Press , Miami Herald , and The New York Times ; on KCUR, KQED, and NPR; and on blogs, including Edward Winkleman , Rocketblog! , Open Space , Mission Local , and Independent Curators International .
ABOUT MONTALVO ARTS CENTER AND LUCAS ARTISTS PROGRAM
Located on a 175-acre public park and historic property in the heart of Silicon Valley, Montalvo Arts Center is a member-supported non-profit institution whose mission is to engage the public in the creative process. Acting as a catalyst for exploring the arts, unleashing creativity, and advancing different cross-cultural perspectives, Montalvo serves nearly a quarter million patrons every year with vibrant, relevant, and accessible arts and education programs.
Montalvo is home to the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program (LAP), a creative incubator and cultural producer dedicated to nurturing the development and growth of artists from all creative disciplines and geographical locations. The LAP supports artists as they create and present new and experimental work and undertake interdisciplinary investigations of contemporary issues.
The LAP includes an international artists’ residency with 11 innovative live-work studios. Artist Fellows are selected through a nomination process and are provided with time, space and support to test out new ideas, take risks, forge new collaborative relationships, and share their work with diverse audiences. Artist Fellows are awarded a three-month residency period, which they can take over three years. Artists Fellows often return a number of times to Montalvo over this period, enabling them to develop a deep understanding of the place and its context, and build creative relationships and partnerships. In its public programming, the LAP provides audiences with innovative ways to engage with artists and the creative process through monthly public programs and an online blog; supports the development of new and adventurous artistic work and the cross pollination of ideas and practices through a commissioning program; and explores non-traditional exhibition formats with a special focus on the activation of public space and discourse.