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The Lucas Artists Program also supports the creation and presentation of new work by artists in Montalvo's 1000 square foot Project Space Gallery.
​Works developed through this commissioning program include:
Artists transforming the entire gallery space into an art work, as in the case of Michael Arcega and Stephanie Syjuco's Montalvo Historical Fabrications and Souvenirs (A Pop-Up Shop), where the artists converted the gallery into a functioning souvenir pop-up shop that responded to Montalvo's 100th Anniversary as well as its place in the history and politics of California.
Individual commissions developed in response to a gallery exhibition theme, such as Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik's MamaSita's Tiny Tea House, a site-specific installation and a diminutive, donation-based, masala chai stall, and Weston Teruya's Menagerie in Phelan's Garden, a paper sculpture mapping the Montalvo Arts Center's grounds to not only explore its geographic features, but to find the linkages from the historical legacy to its current role.
Artists working collaboratively to create new works and design the exhibition space as in Susan O'Malley, Leah Rosenberg, and Christine Wong Yap's Happiness Is… exhibit, featuring a series of new works exploring the nature of wellbeing; and Scott Barry and Neil Doshi's O'Great Reverie: Montalvo 1912-2012, an unconventional timeline exhibition inspired by Montalvo's centennial.