Visions from the New California is a collaboration between the Alliance of Artists Communities and six artists' residency programs in California. Each site offers its own way of serving its artists-in-residence, though all share a common vision that supporting living artists with time and space to create new work is essential to human progress.

Click on the names below to read more about each program:

18th Street Arts Center
Santa Monica

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside

Exporatorium
San Francisco

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito

Kala Art Institute
Berkeley

The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo Arts Center
Saratoga

  


Headlands Center for the Arts


Headlands Center for the Arts provides an exceptional environment for the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Through artists' residencies and public programs, the organization offers opportunities for reflection, dialogue, and exchange that build understanding and appreciation for the role of art in society.

In creating Headlands Center for the Arts, the founders sought to reconfigure the role of the artist from a marginalized position to that of a central participant in our society. Since 1987, Headlands has developed this idea into an array of dynamic programs for artists and the public, including residencies, lectures and performances, open houses, community-based projects, publications, and commissions.

Over 1,000 artists from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds have participated in Headlands’ programs. A variety of public programs bring artists together with scholars, activists, and other professionals, facilitating interaction across traditional boundaries and introducing artists and audiences to new creative processes in order to expand the range of possibilities for art's function in our society.

Headland's reputation for creative exploration is world renowned, influencing communities from Bangkok to Berlin, Stockholm and New York. The cross-pollination of ideas that is at the core of what Headlands does attracts emerging talents and highly accomplished artists alike. These artists, along with other professionals who come to Headlands, influence one another and the worlds they touch.

www.headlands.org

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