With the annual Headlands benefit auction coming up this Wednesday (yours truly is heading up the docent team for the third year running) I'm taking this chance to listen again to when KQED's Forum featured executive director sharon maidenberg and a handful of artists on their show last year:
A writer who sets up rock concerts for gorillas. A former bicycle engineer who makes art out of scrub brushes and rope swings. A man who designs natural "lightbulbs" with roots and dirt. Those are some of the creative minds who are part of the Artists Programs at Headlands Center for the Arts, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this week. We look at the history of the center, and talk to the artists who find inspiration in the old military fort nestled in the Marin Headlands.
Headlands is hands-down my favorite local arts organization, both for its gorgeous, unique location and for the quality of its public programs where visitors often get to hobnob with the current crop of artists-in-residence. Every time I make a trip out there I find new inspiration.
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