Headlands Center for the Arts (@headlandsarts)

LAST CALL 🎟️: Purchase your tickets to this month’s Sunday Supper (9/7) at the link in our bio. This Sunday’s event celebrates the opening of ‘to see what isn’t hard to see,’ the culminating exhibition of Headlands’ 2024–25 Graduate Fellows.  Graduate Fellow Salimatu Amabebe collaborated with Chef Damon Little and the other Graduate Fellows to make an artist-inspired menu! Dinner begins at 6PM. The exhibition’s opening reception is held from 4-6PM at Headlands. Amabebe joined the Headlands Graduate Fellowship after receiving his MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley. A trans, Nigerian-American chef and interdisciplinary artist, Salimatu works across food, film, photography, sculpture, and installation. His practice centers community activism, African diasporic performance traditions, and Black queer and trans liberation.

Visit Headlands this Sunday, September 7 for the opening of ‘to see what isn’t hard to see.’ The exhibition celebrates the work of Headlands’ 2024-2025 Graduate Fellows and is organized by PJ Gubatina Policarpio and Vanessa Perez Winder. This week we’re featuring the work of Joanna Keane Lopez, who joined the Headlands Graduate Fellowship after receiving her MFA from Stanford University in 2025. A multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of sculpture, photography, site-specific installation, and vernacular craft traditions of the American Southwest, her work engages traditional earthen architecture, craft practices and archival research to examine the intersections of land, architecture, and materiality of adobe, wood, paper, and textiles. Inheriting adobe building methods from her family in New Mexico, she continues the craft legacy of enjarradoras and adoberas—women who specialize in the traditional art of earthen architecture. Recovering and reimagining building practices and craft histories through sculpture, installation, and educational workshops allows her to investigate themes of memory, fragmentation, post-colonial materiality, vernacular architecture and land contamination. Sunday, September 7 at Headlands Exhibition Opening, 4-6PM (Free) Supper, 6-8PM (Ticketed) ‘to see what isn’t hard to see’ is on view through November 2 during Headlands open hours (Thursday-Sunday, 12–5PM).

Join us on September 7 to celebrate Headlands’ 2024–25 Graduate Fellows. Their culminating exhibition is on view September 7–November 2, with an opening reception at 4PM on September 7, followed by a ticketed dinner at 6PM. April Camlin joined the Headlands Graduate Fellowship after receiving her MFA from UC Davis. Working in a technique she calls expanded weaving, sculptural elements entwine with woven forms to conjure resilience and expand the capacity of the loom. Her background as a highly technical weaver informs a desire to subvert and expand the process of weaving, embracing imperfection and collaborating with the unknown. April builds her own tapestry looms and armatures from salvaged lumber, creating structures and systems that can hold the full ferocity of her experience inhabiting a complicated body and a changing Earth.

Headlands' 2024–25 Graduate Fellows share their work in a culminating exhibition, "to see what isn't hard to see". Join us for the opening reception on September 7, 4–6PM, followed by a ticketed dinner at 6PM. Curated by PJ Gubatina Policarpio and Vanessa Pérez Winder, the exhibition is on view through November 2. "The 2024-25 cohort summons histories embedded in clay, rock, metal, fiber, rubber, and fossil fuel, tracing the sediment of memory in materials and moments that predate—and may very well outlast—us. They attend to the folds and fissures of deep time and tectonic force; the layered textures of domestic life under militarized skies; the chemic residue of desire, extraction, and sacred entanglements; the chronic veil of fog as both shroud and shelter; the play and provocation of objects that toy with function and failure." –Curators PJ and Vanessa Graduate Fellows: Salimatu Amabebe @salimatuamabebe April Camlin Joanna Keane Lopez @jokeanelopez Leah Koransky @leahkoransky Duma Mock @mockthings With thanks to the five universities that participate in our Graduate Fellow program: UC Davis @artstudioucdavis, CCA @ccafinearts, SF State @sfsu_school_of_art, Stanford @stanfordsaah, UC Berkeley @ucberkeley_artpractice Design by Emma Stolarski

Join Headlands in celebrating our 2024–25 Graduate Fellows on September 7! The Fellowship’s culminating exhibition will be on view September 7-November 2—opening reception and supper begins at 4PM on September 7. Working primarily in sculpture, Duma Mock’s practice introduces objects that have an aura of narrative without collapsing into story. A graduate of California College of the Arts, Mock explains, “I am drawn to the gaudy tool and the utilitarian adornment; I love side chairs that were never intended to be used. I celebrate craft, queerness, and the pathetic. A technical mistake is always an opportunity for adornment; adornment is always an opportunity to be gay. I am seeking out a soft pivot in service of a trans liberation.”

Shao-Feng Hsu ( @shaofenghsu) is a visual artist whose practice engages with the intricate interactions between humans and aquatic environments. Growing up in Taiwan, Hsu developed a physical and personal relationship with water, first through swimming to manage childhood asthma, and later during compulsory military service on the Kinmen Islands. Using both analog and digital methods of image-making, Hsu reframes how water is seen and understood. His work often explores the idea of the ecotone–the space between water and air, land and sea, body and environment. In 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, Hsu exhales underwater onto light-sensitive paper, capturing each breath as a one-of-a-kind image on the darkest night of the month, the new moon. The series recalls his childhood practice of holding his breath at the bottom of a pool and watching bubbles rise to the surface. With 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴, Hsu turns to California’s Pacific shoreline. Images of tide pools, kelp, and seawater gestures echo his relationship with the ocean, linking distant coasts through a shared body of water. 𝗤: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲? 𝗔: Swimming or wading in different bodies of water informs my creative process. Embodied experience comes first, and then the work reveals itself afterward. 𝗤: 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲? 𝗔: I always check the tide chart and moon phase before going out to make an image. So much of my work is associated with planetary phenomena and how they influence aquatic spaces. 𝗤: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁? 𝗔: In 2022–2023, I often visited the Marin Headlands and northern coastline during my residency at @headlandsarts. It gave me a deeper experience of how the coastal space changes seasonally: tidal levels shifted, kelp died and revived, migratory coastal birds arrived and left. Join @shaofenghsu this Saturday, August 23, 2–4PM in the Bolinas Museum courtyard for a conversation with @mengjinwrites and snacks by @whitneyvangrin

We’re thrilled to share the work of our 2024-25 Graduate Fellows through their culminating exhibition opening at Headlands on September 7, 2025. The exhibition will be on view through November 2. Graduate Fellow Leah Koransky graduated from San Francisco State University’s MFA program before joining Headlands in the summer of 2024. Working with photography, sculpture, drawing, and collage, Koransky’s project for the exhibition explores the concept of Deep Time through the ancient chert rock beds of the Marin Headlands, which are over 200 million years old. The work seeks to deepen the connection between humans and the Earth by forming a relationship with these once-living rocks, inviting viewers to reflect on the vastness of geological time and our place within it. Join the opening reception on September 7 at 4-6PM, and purchase a ticket for supper if you’d like to experience a family-style meal in our Mess Hall.

Headlands & Chef Katie Powers invite you to an afternoon Tea at Headlands—a gathering for event planners, wedding professionals, photographers, florists, dessert makers, & production creatives. Connect, enjoy tea & treats, & explore the incredible potential of Headlands’ as a venue for your clients’ most memorable celebrations. Set in a historic army barrack with treated walls, tin ceilings, & endless character, Headlands is a convivial space surrounded by coastal beauty. Wednesday, August 20 2-4PM | Short presentation at 3PM Headlands Center for the Arts 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965 Please RSVP to info @headlands.org for yourself and any guests–clients are welcome to join and tour the space during this time.

Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and the Deep Listening practices of Pauline Oliveros, this hands-on workshop invites participants to engage with the creative process through reading, reflection, collection, listening, and image-making. This workshop is led by 2024–2025 Graduate Fellows April Camlin and Leah Koransky, and accompanies the 2024-25 Graduate Fellowship Exhibition. Link in bio to purchase tickets

In celebration of the launch of her new book, CLOTH, 100 Artists, published by Abrams Books, join Lena Corwin, along with Jen Garrido (Affiliate Artist 2003, 2004) and Amber Cady, for a hands-on resistance dye workshop, exploring wax techniques, color, and textile traditions. Participants will create their own dyed cloth napkins to take home. All materials provided.   Workshop followed by Sunday Supper at 6PM in the Mess Hall. Workshop Only: Tickets $150 | Members $135 Workshop & Supper: Tickets $235 | Members $210 Link in bio for more info and to purchase tickets

Headlands Center for the Arts and Chef Katie Powers warmly invite you to an afternoon Tea at Headlands—a special gathering for event planners, wedding professionals, photographers, florists, dessert makers, and production creatives.   Come connect, enjoy tea and treats by Katie, and explore the potential of Headlands as a venue for memorable celebrations, connective retreats, and creative work. We’d love to see you there. Please RSVP to info @headlands.org, guests are encouraged. Link in bio for more info

We had a delightful Summer Open House this past Sunday! Thank you to all the artists who shared their space and work with us, and thank you to our many visitors and friends for bearing witness, asking questions, and eating Chef Damon’s mac & cheese 😉 Visit us on November 2 from 12–5PM for Fall Open House! Can’t wait to visit Headlands again? We host monthly suppers and tomorrow’s supper still has 10 tickets left 🥘🫶🏼