San Francisco
Art and Field Day - Headlands Center for the Arts Open House
About the day
USAL Presents a full day of bike riding, nature and figure drawing, rock skipping with Noah Soriano (SF’s Premier Amateur Rock Skipper/illustrator) lunch and a tour of the Headlands Center for the Arts.
Cyclists will meet at The Last Straw and ride 9 miles to Rodeo lagoon. Riders please plan to meet at The Last Straw (4540 Irving Street, San Francisco, CA 94122) at 8:45am for a 9am roll out.
We will arrive at the parking lot at Fields Rd and Bodsworth Rd (1383 Field Rd, Mill Valley, CA 94941) by 10am. Ride will be social pace, first time headlands riders welcome!
If you would like to drive to the event we will see you at 10am (please wait for us as we may arrive shortly after 10am). Participants who are driving please email graham@usalproject.com.
7/19
When
07/19
Time
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Intensity
after arrival
Noa will lead the group in nature/life drawing and rock skipping. (1.25 hours of drawing, 30-45 minutes of rock skipping).
Ticket cost covers skipping stones and basic drawing materials (pencils, pens, charcoal and sketchbooks). Participants are encouraged to bring their preferred sketchbook/paper and drawing implements.
At noon the group will walk back up the hill to The Headlands Art Center to get lunch and tour the open art-studios. The event will conclude at 2pm but participants are welcome to continue to wander and tour The Headlands and surrounding nature.
About Noa Soriano
Noah Soriano is a non-binary Filipino/Spanish artist born and raised in San Diego, CA. They currently live in San Francisco, CA after graduating from UC Berkeley with a Bachelors of Arts in Art Practice. They pride themselves on being an active member of their community art scene, participating in local zine fests, comic fairs, and print sales. They like to create comic and informational zines to sell and trade among communities face to face, and foster lasting connections through art. Alongside DIY zine and printmaking, Noah is also a ceramic sculptor, bike mechanic, and a pro rock skipper in training. Noah is sometimes known as the San Francisco Rock Skipper, after making videos about rock skipping online. The bicycles they ride are a 1991 Rockhopper Sport and a fixie.
You can find Noa online here:
SF Rock Skippah: https://www.instagram.com/jazz88.3/
Illustration/art: https://www.instagram.com/snakesforeyes/
About the Headlands Art Center
Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized artist-in-residence program, and interdisciplinary public programs. It is situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands. July 19, 2026 is the Summer Open House where the current resident artists invite the public to visit their studios and engage with their studio projects.
The Artist in Residence (AIR) program awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 50-60 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, housing, travel and living expenses. AIRs become part of a dynamic community of artists participating in Headlands’ other programs, allowing for exchange and collaborative relationships to develop within the artist community on campus. Artists selected for this program are at all career stages and work in all media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary, social practice, and architecture.
Headlands Center for the Arts is a not for profit 501(c) 3 organization. They art supported by various nation and local grants, organize fund raising via open-houses, auctions, rentals of the facilities and donations from the community. The center is an intrinsic part of the Bay Area art scene. Our tour is free but participants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the art center and find ways to help support its legacy.