Fieldwork Sessions Program @ Headlands Center for the Arts
As program manager at Headlands Center for the Arts between 2012 and 2016, I developed public program series models, curated and implemented programs, and developed discrete events. Fieldwork Sessions, a program that I developed and then organized from 2014 to 2016, were interactive, hands on workshops and gatherings inspired by the organization’s Marin Headlands site, landscape, and artist community.
As a dynamic ecosystem, richly layered cultural site, and longstanding gathering space for artists to experiment in their practices, the program was an opportunity to explore many facets of the site through creative practices of local and resident artists with participating audiences. Collectively, Fieldwork Sessions accumulated multiple ways of knowing place, building a prismatic view through many artists practices and points of view.
Fieldwork Sessions:
Experiential and place-based projects
Field-Poetry with Juliana Spahr (Oct 23, 2016)
Invasive Pigments: Exploring Weeds Through Watercolor with Ellie Irons (Aug 28, 2016)
Pattern Language: Reflecting Place in Fabric with Kenya Miles (Jul 31, 2016)
Experience & Record: Photography with Sean McFarland (May 22, 2016)
Text/ile: Weaving Climate Data with Tali Weinberg (Apr 3, 2016)
Drink to Your Health: Herbal Mixology with Rohini Moradi (Nov 15, 2015)
Going Coastal with sea forager Kirk Lombard (Sept 13, 2015)
With The Grain: Wood Sculpting with Jesse Schlesinger (Jun 14, 2015)
Scent Lab with artist and mechanical engineer Paolo Salvagione and ecologist Jennifer Robin Berry (May 17, 2015)
DIY-Dye It Yourself with textile artist Sasha Duerr, founder of Permacouture Institute (May 10 and Jun 7, 2015)
Weaving Baskets & Stories with artist Sasha Petrenko (Mar 22, 2015)
Landscape Alchemy: Sense, Place, and Re-Materialization with John Chiara, Liam Everett, and Meghann Riepenhoff (Jun 6-8, 2014)
Portraits at the Margin: Narrative, Place, and Photographic Practice with artists Pieter Hugo and Alice Shaw, and critic and curator Glen Helfand (May 30-Jun 7, 2014)