Montalvo Arts Center, Arts center in Saratoga, United States.

The Montalvo Arts Center is a non-profit arts center in Saratoga, California, built around Villa Montalvo, a two-story Italian Mediterranean Revival mansion of 19 rooms completed in 1914. The 175-acre grounds hold two theaters, a gallery, formal gardens with marble sculptures and wisteria-covered frames, the Lucas Artists Residency studios, and redwood-shaded hiking trails up to Lookout Point.

James D. Phelan, a three-term mayor of San Francisco and California's first popularly elected US Senator, bought 160 acres in Saratoga in 1911 and built Villa Montalvo between 1912 and 1914, supervised first by William Curlett and then by his son Alex Curlett with Charles E. Gottschalk. Phelan died at the villa and left it to California as a public park for art, literature, music and architecture students. The San Francisco Art Association took over in 1930 and began an artist residency in 1939; the Montalvo Association took trusteeship in 1953, and the mansion joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Since 1939 the estate has hosted artists-in-residence who live and work on the property; more than 600 artists from 20 countries have taken part, including Karla Diaz. In 2004 the program moved into the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program, with ten live/work studios and a commons building. The Project Space Gallery, between the mansion and the Carriage House Theatre, shows their work.

The grounds cover 175 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountain foothills, with trails climbing from the redwood-lined ravine to Lookout Point at 370 m. The arboretum and Audubon bird sanctuary behind the villa are open daily during daylight hours, and entry is free. The address is 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga.

The original mansion dates from the early 1900s and retains many of its original architectural details and features. These older spaces have been thoughtfully adapted for modern use while keeping historical elements visible.