Spring Open House 2026

Open House

When

Sunday, April 26, 12–5PM

Where

Headlands Center for the Arts

Price

Free

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.

12:15 – 1:00 PM

Building 944, 2nd Floor Eastwing

Musical Performances:

Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rudenkirchen

Lea Bertucci will perform a short set of solo music for voice, tape and electronics from her recent record “The Oracle”, much of which was recorded at the Headlands in 2022. Norbert Rodenkirchen will perform an acoustic solo set with an array of archaic flutes that span the Renaissance, medieval and even neolithic periods, all fashioned from wood or bone.

1:00 – 3:00 PM

Building 944, 2nd Floor, Westwing

Workshop: Tea as Pigment led by Alumni Artist, Whitney Vangrin

Participants begin by tasting a small serving of tea. They then explore wash, pooling, and mark-making as a way of translating taste and feeling into visual form.

1:00 – 1:30 PM

The Commons

Performance: And in this, I will find you

Josephine Devanbu

This improvisational work is inspired by the medieval Tamil tradition of building and riding the matal, a horse constructed by the lovelorn from which to cry out for relief from the pain of separation.

1:30 — 2:00 PM

3:30 — 4:00 PM

Building 952, The Gym

Musical Performance & Installation: Origin Stories

Cochemea Gastelum

Origin Stories is a site-responsive sound and video installation exploring the convergence of military architecture, contested histories, and the land itself, created during a residency at Headlands.

2:15 – 2:50 PM

Building 944, 2nd Floor, Eastwing

Reading/Screening/Musical Performance: Becca Rothfeld & Jean Fineberg

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Building 944, 2nd Floor, Rodeo Room A Happening: sound/literary collaboration with Eileen Myles & Marcus Fischer

Ongoing

12—5PM

Building 945, 1st floor, Studio 3

Performance: Maxe Crandall: HAIR PLAY

This improvisational experiment situates the haircut as a site of fantasy and failure.

Building 952, The Gym

Origin Stories: Musical Performance & Installation