Date: 7/12/2009 (Sunday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Ticket Info: FREE ADMISSION

SUMMER OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, July 12

Noon - 5PM
FREE ADMISSION

It's Open House time once again!

Take advantage of your only chance this Summer to visit with all of Headlands' artists inside their studios. You'll be surprised and delighted to see the many forms of artistic process, research, innovation, and development that happen here for the writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers and visual artists in residence. Readings and performances will also be scheduled throughout the day.

Follow it all up with a delicious sandwich or fresh-baked brownie by our Chef Keith and Kitchen Intern Hajera, and you have a perfect day in the Headlands!

Mess Hall Café, featuring delicious, homemade food for sale open Noon - 4:30PM

Some of the Bay Area’s best artists and performers have honed their chops at the Headlands Center for the Arts and its open house events are a great opportunity to see what’s new in the arts and who’s going to be the next big thing.
– San Francisco Chronicle

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS & READINGS

RODEO ROOM, BUILDING 944
12–2PM
Sound installation by AIR Tomas Phillips

EASTWING, BUILDING 944
Readings by current AIRs and Affiliate writers:

Miriam Bird Greenberg
1:40PM
Current AIR Miriam Bird Greenberg will read poems that she has been working on while in residence, ruminating on childhood, distorted memory and rural Texas, among other things.

Maw Shein Win
2PM
Bay Area poet, Maw Shein Win, reads from a selection of works inspired
by local visual artists. She was an AIR at the Headlands in 2006.

Sarah Rosenthal
2:30PM
Sarah will read from her just-published cross-genre book, Manhatten. It combines fiction, poetry, and reviews to tell the story of a woman's relationship to--and relationships in--New York City.

Sandy Florian
3PM
Sandy Florian will be reading from her second book, The Tree of No, an
experimental novel that riffs on Biblical stories from Genesis to
Revelations to trace the career of a narrator who ventures forth from
Eden to pursue meditations on imagination, quirky civic projects, and
an odd love affair with the enigmatic Montgomery, all the while
struggling toward a resolute affirmation of the earthbound self.

Melissa Stein
3:30PM
Many of my poems explore transgression and violation, looking at different ways in which touch (literal and emotional) is employed in unbalanced relationships. Others examine the contradictions of our longing for the pastoral--true connection to the land and to natural cycles is set against the pastoral as an escapist vision.

Megan Pruiett
4PM
Megan's writing explores the expectation of narrative– the held breath of a gathering image and the need to grasp and understand.

Lysley Tenorio
4:30PM
I'll be reading an excerpt from a short story called 'Monstress,' a story about two filmmakers--one Filipino, one American--collaborating on a B-horror/sci-fi movie in the late 1960's.

GYMNASIUM
3–5PM (times tentative)
Screening of a new collaborative film by AIRs Tomas Phillips and Chris Sollars

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Artists in Residence
Jacob Dahlgren, installation (Sweden)
Fallen Fruit, interdisciplinary (CA)
Desirée Holman, interdisciplinary (CA)
April Martin, film/video (OH)
Aaron Noble, visual (CA)
Tomas Phillips, music/composition (NC)
Chris Sollars, film/video (CA)
Lysley Tenorio, writing (CA)
Barry Underwood, photography (OH)

Project Space
Robert Minervini, painting/installation (CA)

Tournesol Award
Shaun O’Dell , painting

Headlands Graduate Fellows
Michael Arcega, sculpture/installation, Stanford University
Patrick Gillespie, interdisciplinary, California College of the Arts
Vera Kachouh, film/videoSan Francisco Art Institute
Aaron Maietta, interdisciplinary, UC Berkeley
Michael Namkung, interdisciplinary, San Francisco State University
Joshua Short, installation, UC Davis
Andrew Witrak, sculpture, Mills College

Affiliate Artists
Colette Campbell-Jones, visual
John Casey, visual
Christina Chan, visual
Julie Cloutier, interdisciplinary
Sandy Florian, writing
David Fought, sculpture
Christopher Gray, visual
Eric Hongisto, painting
Ginelle Hustrulid, film/video
Robin Johnston, fiber/visual
Julie Lara Kahn, interdisciplinary
Pawel Kruk, visual
Justin Limoges, visual
Emily McLeod, photography
Eileen Starr Moderbacher, visual
Megan Pruiett, writing
Sarah Rosenthal, writing
James Sansing, sculpture/installation/photography
Wayne Smith, visual/sound
Melissa Stein, poetry
Emily Wilson, visual
Maw Shein Win, writing (Alumni Affiliate)
Christine Wong Yap, interdisciplinary

Staff
Holly Blake, painting