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Montalvo Announces 2025 Literary Arts Fellowship

SARATOGA, Calif. — Montalvo Arts Center's Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program is proud to announce its recent selection of twenty-two Literary Arts Fellows. These writers of exceptional talent were recently awarded a three-month residency in the Lucas Artists Residency Program. This distinguished group includes individuals working in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and prose, theater, television and film. These newly selected Fellows hail from across the United States and Puerto Rico to Belgium, Canada, Egypt, and Morocco; other Fellows have roots in and bear stories from Cuba, France, Guam, India, Kenya, Philippines, Morocco, and Vietnam. Every three years, the Lucas Artists…
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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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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…