Nestled in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands are historic military buildings that house Headlands Center for the Arts, a nationally-acclaimed residency program that provides artists from around the world with the scarce resources of time and space to pursue further development of their work. Resident artists Felipe Dulzaides and Nathan Lynch introduce Spark to the rhythm of life at the center and explain why the program represents a rare opportunity for experimentation and interaction among the lucky few chosen to participate.
Founded in 1986, Headlands Center for the Arts offers the Headlands’ Artists-in-Residence Program and a full array of public programs, including lectures, artist talks, performances and panels on topical issues in the arts, in order to cultivate understanding of and appreciation for the arts in the greater Bay Area.
The Headlands’ Artists-in-Residence Program has an international reputation for uniting pioneering artists in the visual, performing and literary arts, film/video, and interdisciplinary fields from the US and abroad. The program offers fully funded, live-in and live-out residencies to about 30 artists each year. Headlands assumes travel costs and provides each artist-in-residence with a studio, housing, a stipend and five meals a week. Residencies range from four weeks to 11 months, with an average stay of three months. Applications are due in June for residencies the following year. Historically, the center has collaborated with public and private agencies to fund artists from other parts of the US and the world.
More about Felipe Dulzaides
Video and performance artist Felipe Dulzaides’s work is action-based. He states, “I use a situation or a context as a frame and a container.” He participated in “Bay Area Now 3” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and at Art Basel in Miami. Dulzaides has exhibited at numerous venues in the Bay Area, including The Lab, Refusalon Gallery, the Exploratorium and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. He also has shown at multiple venues in Havana, Cuba, where he graduated with a BFA in theater from Instituto Superior de Arte de la Havana. He holds an MFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.
More about Nathan Lynch
Nathan Lynch’s ongoing performance “Where is Your Wheel” has toured the United States from New York and Washington DC to San Francisco and Los Angeles. He also has presented projects at the Windhover Center for Performing Arts in Gloucester, MA and the Olive Hyde Art Gallery in Fremont, CA. Nathan received a BFA from the University of Southern California, and a MFA from Mills College. Lynch has taught at the University of Southern California and Mills College and is currently teaching at California College of Arts.
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