Headlands Center for the Arts

Almost four decades ago, one of Headlands’ first Artists in Residence, David Ireland, hosted dinners for big supporters of Headlands’ at his home-cum-artwork at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco. On Wednesday, June 2, we’re bringing our annual Benefit Art Auction and fundraiser to @500CappStreet, streaming live with a special program developed in partnership with Fog Beast. Along with a performance by @fogbeast and a paddle raise for critical funds, we’ll be auctioning off fiv...e museum-quality artworks, live in the Zoom chat. Following the kickoff party, our silent online auction continues through June 16. Bid on a stunning lineup of over 75 museum-quality artworks by local, national, and international artists and alumni, plus unique, only-at-Headlands experience packages. Visit Headlands.org/Auction for tickets and bidding. Tickets for the June 2 kickoff event are just $10 for Members, $15 for general audience. Design by Joanna Rosso

Will you take any excuse to throw a party, and make each and every guest feel like it's just for them? Or maybe you're more of a behind-the-scenes type, equally at ease in a wood shop or a permit office. We're currently looking to hire two positions: a Senior Development Manager, Membership and Events; and a Director of Facilities. We're reviewing applications now: get the details, and learn how to apply, at http://www.headlands.org/headlands-information/employment/ [Image: A large three-story white building, with a poem by Camille Roy occupying the visible wall, is on the left half of the image. Behind the building are rolling green hills and trees. Text in the upper right reads "Come work with us." Photo by Tom Ide ]

New time! We've had to adjust the start time of our upcoming Keywords Conversation, now starting at 5PM!

We’re now accepting applications for 2021 Live-In Internships! The internship period will run May 26-September 3 with a weekly commitment of 30 hours, and interns will be provided a monthly stipend of $800 as well as housing on the Headlands campus for the duration. We’re looking for two internsone with a primary focus working with the Programs department and one split between Programs and Facilities. Due to COVID-19 protocols, we’re only considering applicants currently re...siding in California. Interns will be required to follow protocols including periodic COVID testing, contact tracing, and social distancing mandates. Full details, including how to apply, can be found at the Headlands is Hiring link in our bio. Bonus points if you can tell us what kind of flower this is (not really, but we would like to know!).

Headlands has always supported radical thinkersthe artists that are pushing the bounds of their practice, building new futures, and giving voice to the stories that need telling. We’ve taken these past many monthsamidst a global pandemic, attacks on truth and hard science, and an ongoing, nationwide uprising against systemic racism, white supremacy, and police brutalityto think deeply about how we as an organization can embody this forward-thinking creativity. Guided by ou...r values, and building on a master plan conceived in 2018 to launch Headlands into a new phase of organizational stability and artist support, we’re making changes to our campus and programming to meet this momenta moment that simultaneously requires prudent financial decision-making, and bold, new approaches to the ways in which we serve our mission and our artists. . These changes bring both bold new initiatives and some difficult losses. Our Artist in Residence program is contracting, with summer sessions only beginning in 2021. We are drawing our beloved Affiliate Artist program to a close, with the 202021 cohort (to be announced early November) as its last. These were difficult decisions, and we’ll unpack them further here in subsequent posts. You can also find additional details at http://www.headlands.org/about/a-new-headlands/. . Even as we mourn this loss, we’re excited about the future. In 2021, we’ll launch the Bay Area Fellowship and the Threshold Fellowship: two new programs focused on delivering more of what artists have told us they need and wantmore time, more resources, and more individualized support. Again, details to come! . Headlands will still be the place where artists can give shape to their wildest ideas, and where the power and importance of creative thought are manifest. But now, there will be a more equitable and sustainable structure for supporting that work from the inside out: one that values individual needs, and works collectively across staff, board, and our broader community to meet those needs. So, stay tuned for details, or pop over to http://www.headlands.org/about/a-new-headlands/ . See more

Save the date for Headlands' 2021 Benefit Art Auction: June 2 at 6PM! Our dynamic and artist-led Benefit Art Auction kicks off Wednesday, June 2, 2021, live broadcasting directly from the Marin Headlands. Our goal is to raise more than $500,000 to directly support Headlands’ world-renowned artist residency, public programs, and mission to champion the vital role of arts in society. In the past year, a lot has changedbut Headlands' annual Art Auction remains the Bay... Area’s premier art event. It’s your chance to collect work by emerging and established artists making waves in the world at large. This year, we’re bringing Headlands’ live and silent art auction to your home, via a screen near you. Bring your friends (virtually)no matter where they liveand join our community of artists, art collectors, supporters, and friends for a memorable evening. Ticket sales begin in April, so mark your calendar and stay tuned for details! Image: Animated text in curving tendrils reading Benefit Art Auction 2021, with black and white photos of plants and brightly colored sprays of color. Design by Joanna Rosso.

Join us March 24 at 6:30PM PST for a conversation with Constance Hockaday, Rindon Johnson, and LaNada War Jack exploring the effects of political fantasies of power and struggle alongside the legacy of lived histories of resistance, as we face an increasingly strained social and political fabric under quarantine in the United States.

Our final post documenting the 2020 Graduate Fellows exhibition features Bailey Anderson @baileyjazzers of @artstudioucdavis . Anderson’s practice ponders the literal and symbolic ruins of American culture, and the haunting figures in the ‘Apparitions’ series suggest the inhabitants or survivors of a ruined place. As curator @yomnao writes, the frozen and contorted forms might ask, What does it mean to have progress built on unhealed trauma and political violence? Pictured here is documentation of Anderson’s work for the show as installed at the Sacramento art space The InsideOut. Apparitions, 2020. Mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Photos courtesy of The InsideOut.

@ccagradfinearts 2019-20 Graduate Fellow @kiradominguezhultgren draws on her background in theory and performance to use her weaving practice as a tool of analysis, research, and critique. The sculpture ‘The Woman He Saw in All the Women of Mexico’ includes portions of art catalogs printed on fabric strips that are in turn woven into a circular textile propped up by humble tools. It serves as both an academic corrective and a visual celebration of the life and work of Luz Jim...enez, an unsung Mexican-Nahua artist overlooked as merely a muse and model for others. The Woman He Saw in All the Women of Mexico, 2020; Warped revolutions in plant and animal fiber with printed imagery from exhibition catalog Luz Jiménez, símbolo de un pueblo milenario 1897-1965 (México, D.F.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, Mexic-Arte Museum, 2000), loom bars left in place, installed on swift and sawhorse (or other) plinth; objetos personales de lana de fieltro y telar. 39 x 60 x 39 in (height variable). : @aweilo

Our next highlight of the 2020 Graduate Fellows exhibit comes from @sarah_player_morrison , graduate of @millsmfa . Morrison’s contributions to the exhibit use quietly humorous combinations of materials, forms, and titles, to send up traditional American values as they are projected onto individuals through pageantry, militarism, gendered expectations, and domesticity. Images: 1, 2: Hollow Victory, 2020. Canvas, mirrored sunglass lenses, 24 x 48 in. (flat). Inspired by the... nearby Nike Missile Site, this garment (also called a ghillie cape) is made to clothe the goddess of Victory that the facility is named for, were she ever to return. It is all-seeing, in the sense that it is made of many eyes but also a disguise that cloaks the wearer in reflections of the landscape. 3, 4: Hope Chest, 2020. Quilted cotton, embroidery thread and paint, 72 x 84 in. Made from novelty bikini T-shirts that have been dissected and reconfigured, Hope Chest is an examination of inheritance, both genetic and cultural, and the desire to embrace some narratives while rejecting others. 5, 6: JULY 4 1999, 2020. Documenting a once annual event in Morrison’s hometown, a largely military community, the video depicts demonstrations of martial skill and prowess, celebrated as entertainment. Projected from a decorative plant, the video creates a violent specter behind the mundane object. : @aweilo