Visions from the New California is a collaboration between the Alliance of Artists Communities and six artists’ residency programs in California. Each site offers its own way of serving its artists-in-residence, though all share a common vision that supporting living artists with time and space to create new work is essential to human progress.
Click on the names below to read more about each program:
18th Street Arts Center
Santa Monica
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside
Exporatorium
San Francisco
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito
Kala Art Institute
Berkeley
The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo Arts Center
Saratoga
The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs
at Montalvo Arts Center
After a five-year hiatus to construct a new complex, Montalvo’s artist residency program re-opened in October 2004 as the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo Arts Center. The Lucas Programs has quickly earned international recognition as a model of curatorial practice supporting new and challenging contemporary work. Of particular note are the Lucas Programs’ facilities, a complex of ten state-of-the-art, discipline-specific live/work studios and a commons building designed by six teams of renowned architects and artists. Since reopening its residency program, 156 artists of all disciplines from 27 nations have been in residence at Montalvo.
Lucas Programs fellows are identified through a recommendation/invitational process that helps ensure support for highly qualified artists with the potential to become major voices in the next generation of artists and thinkers, but who might not normally find their way to residency programs. While at Montalvo, residents are granted time for solitary creation and exploration, as well as the opportunity for stimulating interaction with colleagues. The program’s international focus fosters a cultural and ethnic diversity that offers a variety of perspectives and a global framework of ideas. Shared dinners are especially significant, thanks to Montalvo’s unique culinary fellowship program, and encourage residents to linger in a vibrant exchange of ideas that often continues long after the residencies come to an end.