Headlands Center for the Arts

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MISSION STATEMENT: Headlands Center for the Arts provides an unparalleled environment for the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through artists' residencies and public programs, we offer opportunities for reflection, dialogue and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society.

We’re still feeling the joy, generosity, and energy from last week’s 2026 Headlands Auction! Thanks to this incredible c...
06/08/2026

We’re still feeling the joy, generosity, and energy from last week’s 2026 Headlands Auction!

Thanks to this incredible community, we raised more than $1 million (!!!) in support of artists and the creation of new work and ideas at Headlands.

We are deeply grateful to every artist, bidder, collector, sponsor, performer, volunteer, staff member, and supporter who made the evening possible. Last Thursday was a beautiful reminder of what can happen when a community comes together around art. The support, enthusiasm, and belief in artists was felt in every corner of campus, and we couldn’t be more thankful.

From all of us at Headlands - thank you for making this our most successful Auction in our history (yes, for the second year in a row!) and for helping ensure that artists have the time, space, resources, and community to create.

What a night. 💫

Photos by Drew Altizer Photography and Airyka Rockefeller

06/04/2026

We’re grateful for Maya Fuji’s commission to this year’s Auction! Headlands Executive Director Louisa Gloger shares more about Fuji’s Hinode・Dawn at Headlands, one of tonight’s Live Auction lots!

Created during her time as a Headlands Tournesol Awardee, Hinode・Dawn at Headlands was inspired by the late nights and early mornings Maya Fuji spent working in the Headlands studios. Through painting and traditional Japanese craft, Fuji explores the liminal space of being a first-generation mixed-race Japanese woman in the United States, drawing on the folklore of Tsukumogami and Yaoyorozu No Kami—spirits believed to inhabit everyday objects and the natural world. Imagining what kinds of beings might reside within the historic Headlands buildings at dawn, Fuji transforms a familiar landscape into something quietly magical.

Fuji has had solo and duo exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, and Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco, among others. Recent group exhibitions include Asia Society Texas, Houston; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; and Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas. She is the recipient of a Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, an Innovate Grant, and an SFAC Artist Grant.

Join us for the Headlands Auction and celebration TONIGHT, June 4! Visit Headlands.org/Auction to purchase tickets, or text “READY TO BID” or call (530) 552-9852 anytime to learn more and place absentee bids.

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06/03/2026

Headland’s friend & team member Gini Fanta highlights one of her favorite silent auction works: Atsushi Kaga’s ‘The Hours of Flight – Resting Owl’.

Atsushi Kaga’s paintings are often inhabited by animals, alter egos, and moments of quiet observation. In ‘The Hours of Flight – Resting Owl’, a solitary owl pauses in contemplation, part of a series exploring stillness in the natural world. Drawing from both European and East Asian painting traditions, Kaga creates works that are at once playful and profound, using animal figures as vehicles for reflection, perception, and emotional nuance. Kaga is coming to Headlands as a Summer Artist in Residence, and we’re honored to feature his work in this year’s Auction.

Visit the Auction Exhibition through June 3 to see this and other incredible artworks in person. Bidding is open through June 4—text “READY TO BID” or call (530) 552-9852 to participate.

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06/02/2026

Sarah Galender Meyer (the Director of Hauser & Wirth’s Collection Services in the US and the Co-Founder of Arrival Art Fair) stopped by our Auction Exhibition to share what drew her to Hilary Harnischfeger’s “Harlequin II”. Thank you, Sarah!

Built from layers of painted paper, ceramic, hydrostone, mica, pigment, glass, and minerals, “Harlequin II” exemplifies Hilary Harnischfeger’s singular approach to material transformation. Meticulously cut and stacked paper becomes dense, geological strata; delicate surfaces are compressed, embedded, carved, and reconfigured into forms that hover between sculpture, painting, and relief. Inspired by Paul Cézanne’s Harlequin, the work echoes the geometric rhythms of its namesake while asserting a distinctly contemporary material language. Harnischfeger’s work has been exhibited at Artists Space, Ballroom Marfa, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, among others, and is held in major public collections across the United States.

Visit the exhibition (free & open to the public) through June 3, and join us for the culminating Auction Night celebration on June 4. To purchase tickets or learn more, visit Headlands.org/Auction. Bidding is open now—text “READY TO BID” or call (530) 552-9852 to register.

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Headlands is pleased to announce the four artworks featured in our 2026 Live Auction on June 4 at 8PM PT. Get ready to r...
05/27/2026

Headlands is pleased to announce the four artworks featured in our 2026 Live Auction on June 4 at 8PM PT. Get ready to raise your paddles in order to take home a work by Kelly Akashi*, Larry Sultan*, Maya Fuji*, and Ruth Asawa.

While you are welcome to bid via proxy (please let us know by texting 530-552-9852), we encourage you to purchase tickets to our June 4 event. The evening will include silent and live auctions, drag performances, live illustration, music, and creative installations. We’ll also unveil Live Lot 1, created by participating auction artist and Inaugural Honoree Kelly Akashi*. Join us!

*Headlands Artists & Alumni

1: Lot 2 by Ruth Asawa, ‘Bouquet from Anni (P.013, Bouquet from Anni Albers)’, 1994.

2: Lot 8 by Maya Fuji, ‘Hinode • Dawn at Headlands’, 2026.

4-5: Lot 22 by Larry Sultan, ‘Untitled #1,’ from the series “Swimmers”, 1978-1982.

5-6: Kelly Akashi in her Headlands studio in 2019. Photo by Andria Lo.

We’re looking for volunteers to help bring the 2026 Headlands Auction Party to life on June 4!From welcoming guests and ...
05/16/2026

We’re looking for volunteers to help bring the 2026 Headlands Auction Party to life on June 4!

From welcoming guests and supporting artist installations to assisting with event flow throughout the evening, volunteers are an essential part of making our largest annual fundraiser and community gathering possible. Interested? Please reach out to [email protected] with the subject line Auction Volunteer.

(It’s also a fun way to help for a few hours & enjoy for a few hours 😌🪩💫)

Thanks so much to all Headlands volunteers past and present !

Did you know select spaces at Headlands Center for the Arts are available to rent?!Host your celebration, team retreat, ...
05/06/2026

Did you know select spaces at Headlands Center for the Arts are available to rent?!
Host your celebration, team retreat, wedding, or photoshoot at our historic Fort Barry campus, just outside San Francisco, and minutes from Rodeo Beach. 
With flexible indoor and outdoor event spaces, in-house support, and optional catering, Headlands offers a venue for gatherings of all types.

Now booking select dates. Please visit the link in bio for more info!

Open House last Sunday was INCREDIBLE! Thank you to our spring Artists for sharing their work, to our 500+ visitors for ...
05/01/2026

Open House last Sunday was INCREDIBLE!

Thank you to our spring Artists for sharing their work, to our 500+ visitors for their good questions, eyes, and ears, AND to our staff for facilitating the program.

Summer Open House is July 19 and Fall Open House is October 25.

Work by:
1-2: Cochemea Gastelum
3: Eileen Myles and Marcus Fisher
4-5: Virginia Montgomery
6: Bryant Terry
7: Whitney Vangrin
8-9: Emily Harter
10: Maxe Crandell
11: Josephine Devanbu
12: Henna Aho
13: Chris Iduma
14: Osbert Parker
15-16: Maryrose Mendoza

Photos 1-11 by Airycka Rockefeller.

It’s that time of year—Headlands Auction is June 4 and you’re invited! 💫💸❤️Tickets are on sale now at the link in our bi...
04/22/2026

It’s that time of year—Headlands Auction is June 4 and you’re invited! 💫💸❤️

Tickets are on sale now at the link in our bio. Each ticket, bid, and donation supports art being made now and all that makes Headlands special.

Your support fuels artists’ ability to experiment, take risks, and collaborate in unexpected ways. In 2026 we will host 62 Artists in Residence from Botswana to Germany to Marfa, Texas and six Bay Area Artists for year-long Fellowships & Awards.

The Auction program is as follows:

🌚 SUNDAY, MAY 17 - AUCTION OPENING
4-6PM Opening Reception (Free)
6PM Sunday Supper (Ticketed)
Bidding begins.

🌹MAY 17 - JUNE 3 - AUCTION EXHIBITION
On view daily 11AM-5PM at Headlands.
(Closed May 24-25 for Memorial Day)

🍿JUNE 4 - AUCTION NIGHT
5-6PM Artist & Sponsor Welcome
6PM Artist & Sponsor Dinner
7:30 PM General Admission Entry
8:00PM Live Auction
8:45PM Silent Lots Close
9PM Late Night Entry
~Party continues until midnight ~

Stay tuned for our list of participating artists tomorrow!

04/21/2026

Headlands friends! Open House is this Sunday from 12-5PM. Enjoy the beautiful Marin Headlands, meet current artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings.

This week, we’ll be sharing a few sneak peeks of what you might encounter on Sunday. First up is ‘Star-trails with Honey over Headlands’ - an experimental art film by Virginia L. Montgomery.

The film features astrophotography timelapses from the Marin Headlands layered with flowing honey and soothing sounds, the film bridges the cosmic and the intimate through movement, light, and awe.

Startrails with Honey over Headlands Center for the Arts, 2026, Virginia L. Montgomery, 4K Digital Video with Original Soundscape, 02:14. Created with support from Headlands Center for the Arts.

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Sausalito, CA
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Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm

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