Hello, Goodbye, Hello

Hello, Goodbye, Hello documents the multifaceted role the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) at Montalvo Arts Center has played in the work and thinking of the artists who have resided there. In prose, poetry, and art, more than thirty contributors reflect on how the LAP has, over the past twenty years, supported the creative process and fostered critical conversation and experimental models of artistic production.Designed by award-winning design studio Content/Object, Hello, Goodbye, Hello...
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Hello, Goodbye, Hello documents the multifaceted role the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) at Montalvo Arts Center has played in the work and thinking of the artists who have resided there. In prose, poetry, and art, more than thirty contributors reflect on how the LAP has, over the past twenty years, supported the creative process and fostered critical conversation and experimental models of artistic production.Designed by award-winning design studio Content/Object, Hello, Goodbye, Hello features the voices of notable artists, curators, and culture workers, including former U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera; internationally recognized artists and curators Raqs Media Collective; interdisciplinary artist, dramatist, and Bessie Award recipient Alva Rogers; president/CEO of Artist Communities Alliance Lisa Funderburke; and curator, researcher, and co-editor of Contemporary Artist Residencies Taru Elfving.Representing an important contribution to emerging discourse about the role of artist residency programs in our cultural life, Hello, Goodbye, Hello explores the unique relationships that residency spaces like the LAP generate between artists and place, while also interrogating the challenges of creating a hospitable space for artists and examining how residency spaces can be catalysts for change now and into the future.