Make Headlands Center for the Arts yours for a weekend! If you’ve ever wondered just what the Headlands experience is like for our Artists in Residence, this package is for you. Your experience will start with a chef-prepared dinner in Headlands’ Mess Hall and cocktails with Executive Director Mari Robles. Your evening will unfurl toward an overnight stay in one of Headlands’ cozy artists’ residences. You’ll wake to a breakfast of pastries and coffee in the Mess Hall and a day filled with Headlands magic: a hike through the Headlands, tailored to your interests; a studio visit with an artist; and a boxed lunch in The Commons, packed with care. Because good things are often better with friends, the winning bidder can choose to invite two friends to join for the dinner and hiking parts of this special package.

• Full package; Space for 2–4 people

• Offer good through June 1, 2023; blackout dates apply; to be coordinated directly with Headlands staff

• Courtesy of Park Ranger Mia Monroe, Headlands Chef Damon Little, and Headlands Center for the Arts

• Opening Bid: $2,500

• Estimated value: Priceless

Experience the Marin Headlands anew on a hike led by Alex Arzt (Headlands Affiliate Artist, ‘18–’22). Alex will work hand in hand with the Headlands landscape to shape a hiking experience tailored to you and your group of up to ten people. You’ll be greeted on arrival with coffee and snacks to energize you for your journey. Your hike will be composed of views, milestones, and other touchpoints based on Alex’s unique research of and perspective on the land. At the close of your journey, you and your fellow hikers are invited to savor lunch prepared with care in Headlands’ Mess Hall Kitchen, followed by a studio visit with Alex. You’ll treasure your windswept memories of this close-knit creative trek through the Headlands landscape.

About the artist: Alex Arzt uses collaboration, publishing, place-based objects, video, and performance to investigate the relationship between humans and nature and how that understanding changes over time. Her publishing practice involves creating books and collaborative publications and activating them through organized events, workshops, and performances. Alex operates a Risograph printing press called A Magic Mountain, which focuses on artist publications and collaborations; she also co-edits, designs, prints, and organizes a publication and artist collective called Whiz World with Annie Albagli and Gabbi Ncube. Alex’s continuing work involves an investigation of the Headlands as a series of ruins constantly in the process of crumbling and being formed. Through this process, Alex researches and works with the materials of the Headlands—rocks, cement, tar, fog, smoke, and native/non-native plants.

• Full package; Space for 10 people

• Offer good through June 2023

• Courtesy of Alex Arzt and Headlands Center for the Arts

• Opening Bid: $1,500

• Estimated value: Priceless

Enjoy a family-friendly hands-on introduction to fermented foods that can easily be made at home as you learn about kombucha (a fermented tea drink), kefir (a dairy-based fermented drink) and cultured vegetables (sauerkraut, kimchi, and cultured pickles). You’ll start off with a chef-prepared lunch in Headlands’ very own Mess Hall, including samples of Chef Damon Little’s fermented foods. Then, you’ll head into the kitchen with Damon to create your very own batch of kimchi, customizing your jar with different spices to take home and ferment. You will also receive detailed notes and recipes to continue your fermentation experimentation at home.

• Buy-in; Space for 10 people at $350 each.

• Offer good through June 2023; blackout dates apply; to be coordinated directly with Headlands staff.

• Courtesy of Headlands Chef Damon Little

• Estimated value: Priceless

Gather your friends, lace up your skates, and get ready for Roller Night at Headlands. We’ll provide the skates and the tunes, you bring the energy for a two-hour party on wheels. Secure this package for up to 20 people and earn bragging rights to Headlands’ first-ever roller night!

• Full package; Space for 20 people

• Offer good through June 2023 (select dates provided by Headlands); to be coordinated directly with Headlands staff.

• Courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts

• Opening Bid: $1,250

• Estimated value: Priceless

Curious about what’s new with Fraenkel Gallery? You and five friends will enjoy an inside look at the latest that Fraenkel Gallery has coming up this year. Your private gallery tour will be paired with catering by Headlands’ Special Events Chef Katie Powers. For years, Katie has nourished the Headlands community with delicious seasonal meals crafted from the Bay Area’s abundant local ingredients. Food and art come together to frame the perfect day with this special behind-the-scenes package.

• Full package; Space for 6 people

• Offer good June 2023; blackout dates apply

• Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery and Headlands’ Special Events Chef Katie Powers

• Opening Bid: $1,750

• Estimated value: Priceless

Enjoy an extra-special afternoon on Headlands’ campus with this family-friendly scavenger hunt and picnic package. Snap up this singular opportunity to roam the ‘lands, collect mementos of the Headlands experience, and rediscover your creative side. Kids and families in a group of up to 10 people will also enjoy a hands-on, all-ages art-making activity. Once you’ve worked up an appetite, you’ll replenish your creative energies with a delicious picnic lunch in The Commons, courtesy of the Mess Hall Kitchen.

• Buy-in; Space for 10 people at $350 per person.

• Offer good through June 2023.

• Courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts

• Estimated value: Priceless

Mark your calendar for April 21–23, 2023 and get ready to explore Utah through the eyes of legendary Land Art pioneers Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt. Co-hosted by Headlands and Anthony Meier, you’ll witness the sun set over Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and The Great Salt Lake, and contemplate light, shadow, and time through Holt’s monumental Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert. Bookended by contextual and historical site visits including the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Golden Spike National Monument, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, and Bonneville Salt Flats, this is a one-of-a-kind environmental art experience.

• $10,000/person

• Space for 4 people. If you want to join the waitlist or have any questions, email mjbrown@headlands.org or call
  415-331-2787 x29.

• Buyers responsible for travel expenses to Salt Lake City.

• Private transportation, hotel, and dining accommodations included.

Private reading with award-winning children's author Jesse Byrd

Children and their families are invited to round up with author Jesse Byrd for a special reading of his book Monsters are Real: Sea Monster in San Francisco. As you settle in for this spooky tale, you’re invited to ward off the chills with a mug of hot cocoa and s'mores on the side. After the reading, you’ll have a chance to chat with the author and learn what it's like to write and publish a children's book. Each child will also receive a signed custom print of the digital book. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to enjoy a family-friendly evening of spooky stories at Headlands Center for the Arts.

• Buy-In; Space for 10 people at $250 per person

• Offer good through June 2023

• Courtesy of Jesse Byrd and Headlands Center for the Arts

• Estimated value: Priceless

Lace up your walking shoes and join this participatory performance and conversation with Harrell Fletcher (Headlands Graduate Fellow ‘95, Artist in Residence ‘99) commissioned just for Headlands in its 40th anniversary year. One or more people will walk with Harrell around his neighborhood in Northeast Portland, a seven-mile loop he completes nearly every day that he is in Portland. Together, you’ll start at his house in the King Neighborhood and wander through the Alameda and Irvington neighborhoods. Along the way you’ll encounter eleven outdoor stairways that you’ll go up or down, traverse two parks and a community orchard, and contemplate your choice of cafes for a coffee stop en route. This special walk will take just about two hours and can be scheduled with Harrell for any future date that he is in Portland.

Harrell Fletcher has produced a variety of socially engaged collaborative and interdisciplinary projects since the early 1990s. From 2002 to 2009 Fletcher co-produced Learning To Love You More, a participatory website with Miranda July. Fletcher was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and his work has been shown at SFMOMA, de Young Museum, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, and at The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, SculptureCenter, Wrong Gallery, apexart, and Smack Mellon in New York, among others. His work is held in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New Museum, New York; SFMOMA and the de Young Museum, San Francisco; UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and The FRAC Bretagne, France.

• Full package; Space for 1–2 people

• Offer good through June 2023

• Courtesy of Harrell Fletcher and Headlands Center for the Arts

• Opening Bid: $1,500

• Estimated Value: Priceless