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Visit Headlands Sunday-Thursday, 12-5PM. Learn more about our upcoming events: http://www.headlands.org/events/upcoming/
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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.

08/27/2026

Jonah Reenders, former field biologist and 2025-26 Graduate Fellow at Headlands, brings a scientific perspective to his photography practice. Looking closely at the landscape, asking questions, and conveying his answers through crystal-clear images, Reenders urges us to discover details that may otherwise go unnoticed.

Follow him at Jonah Reenders to see more of his intimate, meticulous work 🐛

08/26/2026

Join us for Supper at Headlands next Thursday, September 10!

Headlands’ Kitchen will be preparing a delicious, seasonal, family-style meal for us in the Mess Hall. After dinner, we’ll head upstairs for a studio visit with
L. Song Wu, our 2026-27 Tournesol Awardee, whose work mines anime and internet culture to explore spectatorship and identity — followed by a reading from Eirinie Carson, 2026 Summer Artist in Residence, from her forthcoming third book ‘One Last Thing’ on inheritance, migration, and memory.

Program Overview
6-7:30PM Supper
7:30-9PM Studio visit + reading

Your seat at the table helps sustain Headlands’ mission of supporting artists and creative exchange.

Tickets at the link in our bio - hope to see you there!

08/21/2026

This summer, we’re enjoying the company of another incredible group of Artists in Residence, now settling into the second half of the season.

Amanda Valdez, this year’s Henderson Awardee, joining us from New York, merges painting with textile-based processes — weaving, dyeing, and embroidery — to translate embodied knowledge into hybrid, sculptural paintings; Jay Carlon weaves his Filipino heritage and q***r identity into dance, film, and site-responsive performance, researching Filipino street festival rituals through a diasporic, post-colonial lens; Erica Mahinay, our Chiaro Awardee, is developing a new series of large-scale paintings built through touch, revision, and slow layering, letting the Marin light and landscape shape her palette in real time. In 2026, 62 artists will participate in fully sponsored residencies, gaining a rare opportunity to live and work in the Marin Headlands as they develop varied projects that can shape culture far beyond our campus.

A donation to Headlands provides critical funds for new work and ideas, and builds creative community and experiences for all! Make a donation today, and join us for our September Supper on Thursday, September 10—a family-style meal in the Mess Hall followed by a studio visit with Tournesol Awardee L. Song Wu and a reading by Eirinie Carson from her forthcoming third book.

Can’t make it? Mark your calendar for Fall Open House on Sunday, October 25 and see what else is happening at Headlands at the link in bio!

Photo 1 by Airyka Rockefeller
Photo 2 by Aaron Wojack
Photo 2-4 by Tom Ide
Photo 5 by Athur Alvarez

$“Transformation isn’t linear — a simple seed becomes a dense fractal of branches and leaves as time marches on.” - curat...$

08/19/2026

“Transformation isn’t linear — a simple seed becomes a dense fractal of branches and leaves as time marches on.” - curator Shirin Makaremi

Over the past year, five Graduate Fellows created new bodies of work in their Headlands studios: Emily Harter’s first animated short reworks the familiar logic of classic cartoons into something stranger. Eleanor Scholz O’Leary turns the data of early motherhood — sleep, feeding, time itself — into hand-printed topographies. Jonah Reenders’s photographs treat the landscape as a living archive, still bearing traces of military occupation and shifting ecologies. bryant terry’s wall-mounted panel and sound piece trace what the Black Belt has carried across generations. Josephine Devanbu transforms salvaged foam into a landscape for grief and longing.

Final days to see Welcome In This Continuous Loop of Transformation, our 2025-26 Graduate Fellows Exhibition, on view through August 23! Open Thursday-Sunday, 12-5PM.

Photos by Tom Ide.

08/17/2026

Headlands Center for the Arts is hiring a Youth Arts Education Coordinator for a three-month contract to help shape the future of youth arts programming at Headlands.

Working across research, community engagement, and program development, this role will connect with various Headlands constituents to explore how Headlands can expand access to its programs for young people. The Coordinator will develop and pilot a framework for future youth education programming that highlights Headlands’ process-oriented mission and legacy.

This opportunity is made possible thanks to the generous support of Heidy Braverman & David Skinner, and the Foundation for Quality Housing Opportunities, Inc.

Find out more via the link in our bio, or by visiting headlands.org/careers.

08/14/2026

Headlands’ 2026-27 Graduate Fellow cohort has officially joined us for their year-long residencies on our campus. In partnership with five esteemed Bay Area institutions, Headlands provides meaningful support to recent, promising studio art MFA graduates through professional development, experimentation, and a chance to define their practice outside of the academic context-addressing a critical juncture in an emerging artist’s career.

Welcome to our 2026-27 cohort!

Eleni Berg (Eleni Berg), UC Berkeley
Tara Daly (Tara Daly), UC Davis
Evie Hidysmith (evie hidysmith), San Francisco State University
Alexa Burrell (LEXAGON), Stanford University
Gabby Severson (Gabby Severson), California College of the Arts

08/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Summer Open House! 💙

It is always a pleasure to welcome our community to Headlands for an afternoon of artist-led experiences, conversation, and exploration. Across the campus, visitors encountered works in progress in open studios, performances, screenings, readings, hikes, and workshops that reflected the breadth of creative inquiry unfolding during the residency season.

Thank you to our Summer Artists in Residence: Alex Strada Dena Novak Jade Yumang Kristin Keane Michelle Yi Martin Keisha Scarville
jay carlon saifalsaegh Damon Locks Erica Mahinay Eirinie

Thank you to our 2025-26 Graduate Fellows:
Jonah Reenders bryant terry studio Josephine Devanbu Eleanor Scholz O’Leary Emily Harter

Thank you to Aidan Koch for leading a hike and Shirin Makaremi for the curator tour of our 2025-26 Graduate Fellow Exhibition ‘Welcome In This Continuous Loop of Transformation’.

And thank you to our volunteers and everyone who spent the day with us! Open House offers a chance to see and support art made now. Hope to see you at the next one in the Fall!

Photos by Tom Ide.

08/05/2026

Join us for an evening celebrating the unveiling of the latest Wall Space commission by poet, writer, art journalist, and 2026 Spring Artist in Residence Eileen Myles.

Since its creation by Rotterdam-based designer Chris Kabel, Wall Space has transformed Headlands’ façade into a site for commissioned texts. Drawing inspiration from historic theater marquees, the installation uses metal mesh lettering and shifting light to reveal a new poem each year through cast shadows.

For this year’s commission, we are honored to welcome Eileen Myles, whose expansive practice across poetry, fiction, and art writing has shaped a singular voice in contemporary literature. Their work explores the textures of everyday life through a deeply personal and observant lens. Myles’ recent publications include Pathetic Literature, which they edited, and a “Working Life,” their newest collection of poems.

The evening will also feature a conversation with
2026 Summer Artist in Residence Damon Locks, a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist, and musician whose multidisciplinary practice draws connections between visual art and sound through collage.

Following the program, join artists and community members in the historic Mess Hall for Sunday Supper, a seasonal, family-style meal prepared by Headlands’ Kitchen!

Program Overview
4:30PM | Drinks in The Commons
5PM | Artist Program
6PM | Supper in the Mess Hall

More info and tickets at the link in our bio ✨

Photo 1 by Tom Ide
Photo 2 by Airyka Rockefeller
Photo 3 by Tom Ide

07/29/2026

2026 Artist-in-Residence Colleen Blackard created otherworlds for viewers to enter during her Spring residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Working in charcoal and monotype, Blackard explored our relationship with the land, our memories, and how both evolve over time. As a child, she found a massive oak in the Marin headlands — and years later, she went back to find it again. Her installation “The Memory of Trees” is that search made visible: veils adorned with branches, life-size charcoal drawings, and precious paper butterflies evoke her childhood wonder.

Follow her at Colleen Blackard to go deeper into her ethereal world.

07/22/2026

Join us for our next Supper at Headlands!

Share a seasonal, family-style meal in our historic Mess Hall prepared by Headlands’ Kitchen. After supper we’ll visit the Project Space studio of Summer Artist in Residence Michelle Yi Martin. Michelle’s practice explores weaving as both a material and conceptual process in dialogue with the rhythms of the Headlands landscape. The evening continues with a conversation with Present Company facilitators Lindsey White (‘08, ‘13, ‘26) and Jon Rubin (‘24, ‘26) about their experimental summer program exploring artistic exchange and collective learning.

Program Overview
6-7:30PM | Supper
7:30-9PM | Studio Visit + Artist Talk

Your seat at the table helps sustain Headlands’ mission of supporting artists and creative exchange. ✨

Tickets at the link in our bio.

Photo 1 & 2 by Tom Ide
Photo 3 courtesy of Jon Rubin

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944 Simmonds Road
Sausalito, CA
94965

Opening Hours

Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

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+14153312787

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