Summer Open House 2026 - Headlands Center for the Arts

Category: Event Calendar

Date and Time

• Sunday, Jul 19, 2026  12pm - 5pm

Location

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Details

Open House provides a once-a-season opportunity to roam the various buildings of our campus, meet current artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings. See what Artists in Residence and Graduate Fellows are up to in their studios, stop by the Project Space to view in-progress installations, and enjoy a house-made lunch from the Mess Hall.

Parking is limited. If you can, we encourage you to carpool or bike. Get more info on transportation and directions.

First-floor spaces in use for this event (Mess Hall, Key Room, Latrine, The Commons, first-floor studios) are accessible to people with mobility aids. Second- and third-floor spaces (including Project Space) are currently accessible only by stairs.

Open House Schedule

12:00 – 1:00PM

The Commons
Artist-Led Hike: Aidan Koch (Alumni AIR ‘24)

1:00 – 1:30PM

Building 944, 3rd Floor, East Project Space

2025-26 Graduate Fellow Exhibition: Curator Walkthrough with Shirin Makaremi of ‘Welcome In This Continuous Loop of Transformation’.
Graduate Fellows will be in attendance

2:00 – 2:45PM

Building 944, 2nd Floor, Eastwing

Readings by:
Eirinie Carson
Kristin Keane
Denise Newman

3:00PM – ongoing

Building 952, The Gym

Durational Performance: Jay Carlon with guest artists Sungjae Lee and Vincent Chong
A performance work exploring queer asian bodies in a gym within a historical fort, focusing on eroticism, mark-making, memory, longing, and queer futurity.

3:30 – 4:00PM

The Commons

Wind, Shine, Crinkle, Play – An improvisational movement workshop led by Graduate Fellow Josephine Devanbu.

In this improvisational movement workshop, participants will play with reflective mylar blankets to immerse ourselves in the texture of the present moment and attune to our surroundings.

Ongoing

Building 944, 2nd Floor, Rodeo RoomScreenings of films by:
Saif Alsaegh
Denise Newman
Judit Navratil (‘Affiliate Artist ‘19-‘22)