Date: 10/18/2009
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: 944 Fort Barry

Ticket Info: ADMISSION IS FREE!

Mess Hall Café Open from Noon - 4:30PM

Just three times per year Headlands Center for the Arts invites you behind the studio doors of its world renowned Artist in Residence program to witness the creative process of writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers and visual artists of all kinds. This Fall welcomes a diverse group of individuals from California, New York, Italy, Poland and the UK, all of whom are deeply engaged with environmental, national, physical, cultural, communal and aesthetic issues. Join us for Fall Open House 2009!

Come visit our historic 1907-era buildings, listen to fiction/non-fiction readings, discuss works-in-progress with artists, see musical/dance performances and enjoy a delicious locally grown lunch prepared by Chef Keith Mercovich in the Mess Hall.

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 readings & performances
Buidling 944, Eastwing:

2PM
Reading and musical performance by Christy Chan (Aff '09)
Apple Pie + the KKK
True tales of the American South. What happens when an eight-year-old girl corresponds with the man she calls “the wizard."

2:30PM
Reading by Sandy Florian (Aff '09)
Sandy Florian will be reading from her new manuscript, [speak & spell], a magical romp through the constellations of language and rhetoric.

3PM
Reading by Megan Pruiett (Aff '09)

3:30PM
Dance performance presented by Kara Davis (AIR '09)
With (& Without) Words
Dance performance by Marina Fukushima, Daniel Howerton, Sierra Stockton, Nol Simonse and Kara Davis with Katy Stephan on piano.
Simulating a composers “set” of music, With (& Without) Words interweaves Bay Area soprano/songwriter Katy Stephan’s original songs with short dances choreographed Kara Davis. Neither exclusively a dance nor music concert, With (& Without) Words is a collection of sonic and visual valentines that explores the terror and exhiliration of romantic love. Ultimately the piece leads the audience through an experience that alternates focus between what was seen, heard and felt.

Artists in Residence
Hurvin Anderson, painting (UK)
Isola & Norzi, installation (Italy)
J. Morgan Puett, interdisciplinary (PA)
Michael Robinson, film/video (NY)
Zbigniew Rogalski, painting/installation (Poland)
Camille Utterback, film/video/new media (CA)
Aaron Ximm, music/sound (CA)

Tournesol Award
Shaun O’Dell, painting

Project Space
Scott Oliver, installation (CA)

Diebenkorn Fellowship
Marlene McCarty, visual (NY)

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
Holly Blake, painting (Staff)
Colette Campbell-Jones, visual
John Casey, visual
Christina Chan, visual/film
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
Helen Lee, interdisciplinary
Pawel Kruk, visual
Justin Limoges, visual
Emily McLeod, photography
Eileen Starr Moderbacher, visual
Danielle Mourning, film/video/photography
Megan Pruiett, writing
Sarah Rosenthal, writing
James Sansing, sculpture/installation/photography
Wayne Smith, visual/sound
Michele Theberge, visual
Emily Wilson, visual