Montalvo Arts Center is celebrating its annual event, Montalvo Funk, featuring the opening of the exhibition When the World Is Beautifully Strange. This exhibition includes nine sculptural works reflecting the California Funk Art movement's influence on identity and social dialogue. The festival offers music, dancing, artist engagements, and performances. Curators emphasize the interaction between contemporary and historic works, discussing how new sculptures respond to and challenge the established cultural landscape. The event provides activities for the community with a focus on engaging with art in a unique public space.
The exhibit, When the World Is Beautifully Strange, features artists transforming clay into meditations on identity, social dialogue, collaborative ecosystems and resilience.
This Friday night, Montalvo Funk, the center's annual free art party, takes over the property and celebrates the opening of Montalvo's current exhibition.
Montalvo co-curator Judy Koong Dennis said it all began with Socrates, where he said, 'Wisdom begins with wonder.'
So you've got original historic works that were placed on these grounds next to contemporary works, kind of contending with each other.
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