ANNUAL REPORT 2018 The Project Space installation of Fiamma Montezemolo (AIR ‘18) during the opening reception, October 2018. Photo by Tom Ide. “It helps me untether from my status quo. It helps me think about problems in a completely different investing in potential, and our confidence that introducing non-artists to creative processes can help generate new ways of approaching some of our light…It’s like a brain paradise.” greatest challenges. One of our favorite Headlands quotes this year came from sociologist This year we also put the finishing touches on our six-year Master Plan, Shahzeen Attari, summing up her experience participating in an which was voted in by the Board of Trustees in March. In a rigorous process interdisciplinary Thematic Residency on climate equity. Her words resonated with extensive community input, we looked deeply at who we are and for us, describing the core of our mission: supporting creative thinkers, no how our founding values can shape our future, including our programs, matter their discipline, in doing work that drives the leading edge of a forward- organizational structure, and campus. The resulting plan is a roadmap to thinking and vibrant society. Artists, innovators, inventors, and makers— sustain and evolve Headlands for the long term. We’re excited to begin creative thinkers take up the deepest questions we face today, exploring, implementing our ambitious new plan, and we look forward to updating you reflecting, imagining, proposing solutions, and offering new modes of on our progress. thought and experience. As our world grapples with a host of unprecedented challenges, this work feels especially vital. We’re incredibly grateful to our Headlands community for making all of this work happen. Your support makes creative breakthroughs possible, At Headlands Center for the Arts, we nurture creative innovation at the plain and simple. It brings an incredible pool of talent to the Bay Area and most fundamental level, by supporting the people behind it and giving path- helps artists who live here, building on our region’s tradition of innovation breaking creative thinkers like Shahzeen the time, space, community, and and thought leadership. Your support gives public audiences the profound funding needed to do their critical work. At the same time, we offer the public experience of connecting with artists. And perhaps most important of all, unique opportunities to engage with artistic practice, catalyzing creativity and your support helps shape a vibrant, thriving world for us all. instilling a deeper understanding of the transformative role of art in society. We invite you to consider this place your own brain paradise, and we hope 2018 marked our 36th year of fostering creativity via our unique mix of you will visit us often to find new ideas and inspiration and tap into your own programs for artists and the public. Through our Artists Programs, we hosted creativity, wherever it may lead you. a record number of creative thinkers from the Bay Area and around the world. Our public engagement also rose to new levels, with double-digit percentage Warmly, gains in visitors to our campus as well as our digital outposts. We welcomed audiences as they engaged with people and ideas at programs hosted here and around the Bay. Though it’s impossible to choose favorites, one notable highlight was September’s Thematic Residency on Climate Equity. This unique event brought together 15 artists, scientists, researchers, policy makers, and activists, using the formula we know works so well for Artists in Residence to create an interdisciplinary, creative think tank. Participants worked together sharon maidenberg Drusie Davis for four days in an open-ended forum designed to encourage deep exchange and germinate new ideas. The Thematic Residency program, which will be Executive Director Board Chair (2016–present) repeated with changing topics each year, represents our commitment to Cover: A visitor in the studio of Forster Rudolph (AIR ’18) during Open House, April 2018. Photo by Andria Lo. ARTISTS PROGRAMS Installation by Supermrin (GF ’17-’18) at the 2018 Graduate Fellow Exhibition, May 2018. Photo by Tom Ide. Throughout 2018, Headlands’ Artist Programs provided 105 artists from the Bay Area and around the world with the time, space, financial support, community, and validation necessary to achieve creative breakthroughs. ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2018 Fully sponsored four- to ten-week residencies and stipends awarded competitively to local, national, and international artists. CALIFORNIA NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Mark Allen, arts professional Shimon Attie, social practice, New York Kelani Abass, visual, Nigeria Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, performance/choreography/dance Benjamin Britton, visual, Georgia Elin Bengtsson, visual, Sweden Jamie Brisick, writing Imani Jacqueline Brown, social practice, Louisiana Hannah Collins, visual, United Kingdom Sofía Córdova, interdisciplinary Chinonye Chukwu, film/video/new media, Ohio Bieke Depoorter, visual, Belgium Fiamma Montezemolo, visual, Project Space Dru Donovan, visual, Oregon Bik Van Der Pol, social practice, The Netherlands Thao Nguyen, music/sound Llewelynn Fletcher, visual, Ohio Flatform, film/video/new media, Italy Paul Flores, performance/choreography/dance Ja’Tovia Gary, film/video/new media, New York Guro Moe, music/sound, Norway Lucas Foglia, visual, Project Space Masha Hamilton, writing, New York Simone Forti, interdisciplinary James Ijames, writing, Pennsylvania Stéphanie Solinas, visual, France Chris Fraser, visual Sandra Jackson-Opoku, writing, Illinois Rebecca Swan, visual, New Zealand Kahlil Joseph, film/video/new media Nikyatu Jusu, writing, New York Lucia Tallová, visual, Slovakia Aron Kantor, film/video/new media Katharine Kuharic, visual, New York Richard Wentworth, visual, United Kingdom Jennie Liu, performance/choreography/dance Paul La Farge, writing, New York Jeff Parker, music/sound Jillian Mayer, interdisciplinary, Florida Gala Porras-Kim, visual, Project Space Dina Maccabee, music/sound, New York Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, writing Lavar Munroe, visual, Maryland Forster Rudolph, architecture/environment ocean, writing, Washington Doris Sung, architecture/environment Kambui Olujimi, interdisciplinary, New York Elaine Romero, writing, Arizona Lance Twitchell, writing, Alaska Caitlin Saylor Stephens, writing, New York Miriam Simun, visual, Massachusetts J. Soto, arts professional, New York Dean Spade, writing, Washington Terese Svoboda, writing, New York Anna Martine Whitehead, performance/choreography/dance, Illinois Frances Whitehead, social practice, Illinois Yaloo, film/video/new media, Illinois, Project Space Anicka Yi, interdisciplinary, New York AWARDS AFFILIATE GRADUATE FOR ARTISTS ARTISTS FELLOWS Fully sponsored, discipline-specific residencies Partially subsidized studio spaces awarded Studio fellowships for promising MFA graduates in with cash awards competitively to Bay Area artists partnership with esteemed Bay Area institutions Chamberlain Award Alexandra Arzt, visual 2017–18 Fellows Fully sponsored six- to ten-week residency and $5,000 cash Takming Chuang, visual Richard-Jonathan Nelson, visual, California College of the Arts award for an artist working in social practice Sydney Cohen, visual Alison Haselbeck, visual, Mills College Frances Whitehead, Illinois Lucas DeGiulio, visual Supermrin, visual, San Francisco Art Institute Marshall Elliott, visual Joshua Solis, visual, San Francisco State University Larry Sultan Photography Award José Figueroa, visual Mark Baugh-Sasaki, visual, Stanford University Fully sponsored six- to ten- week residency and $10,000 cash Kate Folk, writing Takming Chuang, visual, University of California-Berkeley award for a photographer, offered in partnership with California Tanja Geis, visual Faith Sponsler, visual, University of California-Davis College of the Arts, Pier 24 Photography, and SFMOMA Stacey Goodman, visual Kunlin He, visual 2018–19 Fellows Bieke Depoorter, Belgium Constance Hockaday, interdisciplinary Troy Chew, visual, California College of the Arts Anita Gail Jones, writing Amy Nathan, visual, Mills College Tournesol Award Elisabeth Kohnke, visual Kai Chen, visual, San Francisco Art Institute Yearlong studio award and $10,000 cash stipend for an early Nicole Lavelle, social practice Jenna Meacham, visual, San Francisco State University career Bay Area painter Marco Lean, writing Natani Notah, visual, Stanford University Lucas DeGiulio (2017–18) Daniel Melo, interdisciplinary Nicki Green, visual, University of California-Berkeley Chasen Wolcott (2018–19) Golbanou Moghaddas, visual Tavarus Blackmonster, visual, University of California-Davis Michelle Murillo, visual Chiaro Award Cate Nelson, visual Fully sponsored six- to ten-week residency and $15,000 cash Mary O’Brien, architecture/environment award for a mid-career painter based in the United States Jennie Ottinger, visual Benjamin Britton, Georgia Ploi Pirapokin, writing Dean Rader, writing Diebenkorn Fellowship Will Rogan, visual Bi-annual, fully sponsored semester-long residency and teach- James Sansing, visual ing opportunity for a non-regional artist, offered in partnership Christopher Squier, visual with San Francisco Art Institute. Angela Willetts, interdisciplinary Emily Wolahan, writing Katharine Kuharic, New York Rene Yung, interdisciplinary Minoosh Zomorodinia, interdisciplinary COMMISSIONS Awards to visionary artists to reimagine Headlands’ spaces as artworks Wall Space Designed by artist Chris Kabel for The Commons, Wall Space