letter from Headlands Center for the Arts

Dear Angela Rose Voulgarelis Illgen,

Thank you for applying to the Headlands Center for the Arts National/ International Artist in Residence Program. We regret to inform you that you were not selected to be a finalist for the program for 2009. Of the 510 artists who applied to the program, 30 finalists have been selected for further consideration. The names of the artists who have been awarded residencies will be listed on our website, www.headlands.org, in December.

The panelists who reviewed the applications were: Jens Hoffmann, Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Jessica Silverman, director and curator of the Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, and Heather Mikolaj, indepent curator and former Director of the Memorial Union Art Gallery at the University of California at Davis, Lee Montgomery, a member of Neighborhood Public Radio and former Headlands Artist in Residence, Jose Navarrete, dancer and Performance Arts Educator at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and Lisa Mezzacappa, musician and composer and former Headlands Artist in Residence.

You should know that although you were not selected for this residency year, we assemble a different review panel of artists and arts professionals each year. We firmly believe artists' work should be juried by individuals with a wide range of aesthetic interests who will bring different perspectives to our selection process.

We appreciate the time and energy you put into your application, and recognize that the highly competitive nature of this program can be discouraging. We urge you to consider applying again next year and wish you success in your other artistic pursuits this year.


Sincerely yours,



Holly Blake Jessica Brier
Residency Manager Program Coordinator