Date: 8/15/2010

Sunday at Headlands with
Jennilie Brewster and Helena Keeffe
Sunday August 15, Noon - 5PM
Mess Hall Cafe Open, Noon - 4:30PM
Building 944 | FREE Admission
Invite friends via the Facebook event page

Noon - 5PM Create Your Self Portrait as a Constellation with Jennilie Brewster. No reservations required!

Noon - 5PM Make drawings with ink, feathers, and sticks in Helena Keeffe's studio. Please note that reservations are closed for the 1PM hike with Helena Keeffe and National Park Service Ranger Mia Monroe.

Spend the afternoon exploring collaborative public works by Artists in Residence, enjoying organic cafe fare, and participating in artist-led activities.

In Project Space East, AIR Jennilie Brewster, has strung together a web of crushed paper balls made from her old photos, newspaper clippings, maps, postcards, book pages, abandoned artwork, and printed emails. She is thinking about physics in relation to consciousness. Just as atoms are constantly moving between us and our environment, likewise each person is a shifting constellation of language and images and when we meet our constellations exchange information.

Throughout the afternoon, Brewster invites visitors to create their own 3-D collages from paper ephemera they bring with them and/or mine from Brewster's archive of imagery and text. Guests may also contribute by writing on the walls--the memories, ideas, dreams, and song lyrics running through their minds. In exchange for leaving something of themselves behind, participants may take home one of Brewster's sculptures.

While in residence in Project Space West August 31, AIR Helena Keeffe is working with collaborator Amber Cady to make textiles out of ink drawings made by Headlands visitors. The drawings will be worked into repeat patterns, silkscreened on fabric, and sewn into a to-be-determined limited edition multiple, which will be available to subscribers as the second issue of Alula Editions, slated for Fall 2010 distribution. Keeffe and Cady started Alula Editions as a way to bring patterned textiles and contemporary art together in the form of a limited edition multiple, a project in part inspired by art subscription pioneers The Present Group and The Thing. Click here to subscribe to or learn more about Alula editions

Keeffe invites visitors to stop by her studio throughout the afternoon to make drawings with ink and pens whittled out of driftwood and feathers. Please note that reservations are now closed for the 1PM hike with Keeffe and National Park Service Ranger Mia Monroe. Once back from the hike, Keeffe will display participant's drawings of native plants in her Project Space studio, as a part of the ongoing project.

Participant Bios

Jennilie Brewster constructs large-scale paintings and site-specific installations that evoke nature's drama and awe. She paints deserts, volcanoes, oceans and more updated versions of the sublime, from oil refineries to urban dumps. Reminiscent of natural history dioramas, 19th-century panoramas and IMAX pictures her ideas come from art history, The New York Times, her National Park postcard collection and film.

Brewster has exhibited at Ward Center for the Arts, Baltimore; the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV; Disjecta, Portland, OR; and the Unimedia Modern Gallery, Genova, Italy. She received the Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship in 2006. Past residencies include the UCROSS Foundation in Wyoming and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska.

Helena Keeffe's art practice is based on collaborative situations and exchanges in which she invites others to engage in a participatory experience. Her projects explore ideas of generosity and the economies of exchange that function outside standard monetary models. Keefe has been awarded a Creative Work Fund Grant in support of a collaborative project with Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco. She has produced posters for the SFAC Market Street Kiosks featuring maps of Muni routes created in collaboration with Muni operators.

She has exhibited in Bay Area Now 4 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul. She has been a visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley Art Department; California College of Fine Arts, Oakland, CA; and San Francisco Art Institute. Keeffe has a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN. She currently lives in Oakland, CA.

Mia Monroe is a ranger with the National Park Service, overseeing interpretive operations in the Marin Headlands and Muir Woods.