Welcome In This Continuous Loop of Transformation @ Headlands Center for the Arts

In moments of hardship, we are sensitive to the ongoing movements and transformations around us. All stays in motion, even when we want to press pause. We step out into nature to seek a moment of peace, but are met with the chaos of the natural world. We inhale to hold our breath, and exhale to see everything that has changed before our eyes. Landscapes shift, explosions erupt, materials transform, babies are born, and we find ourselves in this continuous loop of transformation.

The 2025-2026 Headlands Graduate Fellows welcome transformation and movement in their practice. Jonah Reenders’s photographs study the landscape of Headlands, documenting what once was and what remains as it continues its unstoppable transformation. Emily Harter’s animation evokes the past by warping the feelings of comfort and familiar repetition associated with classic cartoons. Through movement and making, Josephine Devanbu’s multi-media practice transforms abandoned materials while exploring unfulfilled yearning. Eleanor Scholz O’Leary’s work visualizes a collection of data from her first months of parenthood, creating records of life taking on a new form. bryant terry reframes every-day objects as portals into Black cultural memory and possibility.

All these artists’ works remind us that transformation isn’t linear. A simple seed becomes a dense fractal of branches and leaves as time marches on.

     – Shirin Makaremi

2025-2026 Graduate Fellows
Josephine Devanbu
Emily Harter
Jonah Reenders
Eleanor Scholz O’Leary
bryant terry

Academic Partners
California College of the Arts
San Francisco State University
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis

Designer
Studio Paul