Walls bear prints of animal bones and snakes from the UC Berkeley collection. It’s always fun seeing how artists redecorate. If you’re not, you won’t.” Old telephones are part of the permanent multimedia art installation by artist Carrie Hoot in the Key Room at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif., on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (You can attend community dinners if you’re a member, a status that starts at the quite reasonable $35 level.) She notes the premises might be haunted: “If you are open to the ghosts, you will discover them. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)Īt the entrance, a staffer wrapped in a blanket offers us coffee from the lovingly redone mess hall. Fog drifts over the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. “Desperation breeds commitment,” reads a note on the wall. But it feels ancient and in some corners abandoned, with rust and peeling paint and cavernous hallways that whistle when the wind blows. The center is an active arts destination, attracting rotating waves of artists-in-residence from all over the world. Back in the 1980s, artists restored these old military barracks using plenty of creative liberty. We start our day at the Headlands Center for the Arts at historic Fort Barry. But where should one begin? A visitor hikes along a trail from Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. It’s windy but free of the bone-chilling wetness that blows in – sometimes at surprising horizontal angles – during other seasons. Summer is an ideal time to visit the Headlands. Cell service drops to zero, wildlife moseys in the road, and if you gaze out over the shining Pacific you can almost glimpse Japan (if you squint really hard and pretend). They’re right across the Golden Gate Bridge but feel like a wild frontier.
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