Montalvo Arts Center

This Wednesday, join LAP Fellow Jen Bervin and collaborator Charlotte Lagarde for a screening of their project "Su Hui's Picture of the Turning Sphere," followed by a conversation with the artists. This free online event is presented by the University Galleries of Illinois State University in conjunction with "Shift Rotate Reflect, Selected Works (19972020)," a survey of Bervin's work on view now.

Lots of upcoming fall holiday activities for you and your family to do at Montalvo and at home...

Garden Curator Ann Northrup describes what that strange thing growing in your garden soil might be

Congratulations to Lucas Artist Fellow Henry Threadgill, along with three other luminaries in jazz, on being awarded Jazz Masters Fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Moving image artist Lisa Crafts, composer and performer Matt Petty, and playwright Alva Rogers discuss collaborating on Weeping Mary. This experimental video includes music composed by Petty after meeting descendants of former slaves who established a "freedom colony" in Weeping Mary, Texas.

What are some rituals, daily or seasonally, that you have been observing? How are they changing in light of the coronavirus?

Our friend and teaching artist Michele Guieu's project What's Next For Earth uses art to explore and envision the future from an environmental lens.

Join visual artist Maria Hupfield and poet Natalie Diaz as they discuss changing philosophies around our borderlands and migration while taking a trip through Hupfield’s exhibition Nine Years Towards the Sun at The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.