American Indian Cultural District — We Are The Land: Between Earth & Sky

@ • About • Event Details • About The Artist & Partner • Gallery • Plan Your Visit ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: RED FLAGS PRESENTED BY FOR-SITE & FORT MASON ART FOR-SITE and Fort Mason Art present Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags, a site-specific exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist, on view at Fort Mason Center’s Pier 2 Gateway Pavilion. Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the monumental work reflects on geographic borders, political boundaries, and the ties among people, land, and nation. ABOVE: Andy Goldsworthy in Dumfriesshire, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. TOP OF PAGE: Rendering of Andy Goldsworthy, Red Flags, 2020, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture’s Gateway Pavilion. Courtesy FOR-SITE and Haines Gallery. EVENT DETAILS Public Reception: Friday, July 10, 2026, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Marking its West Coast debut, Andy Goldsworthy’s Red Flags (2020) features 50 5 x 8-foot flags, each stained red with earth collected from one of the 50 U.S. states. Rather than displaying emblems that differentiate each state, Goldsworthy’s flags asks viewers to consider what unifies them – and the country. In shades ranging from pale ochre to deep sienna, the 50 flags point to U.S. diversity while insisting upon a shared humanity. “I hope the flags will be received in the same spirit with which all the red earths were collected,” says the artist, “as a gesture of solidarity and support.” Red Flags was originally exhibited at New York’s Rockefeller Center in 2020, where it hung from flagpoles that typically display the flags of United Nations member nations, and later appeared in the artist’s 2025 retrospective Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years, at the National Galleries Scotland. To complement the installation, a focused selection of Goldsworthy’s works are on view in the Gateway Pavilion’s Main Gallery, foregrounding red earth as a throughline in his practice – an elemental substance he has worked with for decades. In the artist’s visual lexicon, the material evokes both the viewer’s connection with the land and the connection between places themselves. Having encountered the material in environments ranging from his property in Scotland to the South Australian Outback, Goldsworthy has described red earth as “the earth’s veins.” A film originating from Red Flags screens in the Gateway Pavilion’s Gray Box. The exhibition follows Goldsworthy’s 2022 Fort Mason installation Firehouse and continues FOR-SITE’s longstanding collaboration with the artist, including Spire (2008) and Wood Line (2011) in the San Francisco Presidio, works that have become enduring parts of the region’s cultural landscape. Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags is organized by FOR-SITE and presented with Fort Mason Art, with generous exhibition support from Haines Gallery, FOR-SITE’s Board of Directors, and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Installation services are provided by Fides Industrial. ABOUT THE ARTIST & PARTNER British artist Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956, lives and works in Dumfriesshire, Scotland) is internationally recognized for his sculptures, installations, photographs, and films that engage directly with the natural world. Working with materials such as stone, wood, leaves, and earth, his practice emphasizes process, time, and transformation, and viewers’ relationships with the landscape. Goldsworthy’s works have been exhibited in major sites and museums internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland; and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, as well as permanent works at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Presidio of San Francisco; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Stanford University, CA; and Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. Andy Goldsworthy (continued)…

@ • About • Event Details • About the Artist & Partners • Gallery • Plan Your Visit PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. JESS CURTIS EXPERIMENTS WITH GRAVITY PRESENTED BY FORT MASON ART Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and GRAVITY present PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. Jess Curtis Experiments with GRAVITY. More than a memorial, this is an invitation: to come closer, to feel more, to let the body lead. A living laboratory of sensation and movement, the exhibition unfolds through immersive, multi-sensory environments that echo Curtis’s 40-year practice of radical, accessible, and unapologetically physical dance. Stay. Touch. Be moved. Photo: Robbie Sweeny EVENT DETAILS The exhibition traces Jess Curtis’s early days as a soloist to becoming a contemporary dance leader on the West Coast and internationally, all the while creating community and inspiring new generations of dancers. Curators Seth Eisen and LisaRuth Elliott explore how Curtis pursued key questions in his work: What happens when we pay attention? When we touch? When we are touched? When we see and allow ourselves to be witnessed? And further, the exhibition asks: How do we hold radical collisions, queer placemaking, and loud bold body culture in a gallery context? Curtis spent his career investigating what it means to be present in a body. We honor Curtis’s experimental practice not by displaying it, but by doing it. Visitors are invited to be participants, observers to be dancers – his archive transforms into an activated experience. Audio description, use of Braille, tactile walking surfaces, and other interpretive haptic tools are integrated from the ground up. Fully Tactile Art SF is integrated in the production team. Accessibility here is not supplemental; it is the exhibition’s aesthetic philosophy made spatial, an expression of Curtis’s lifelong commitment to an accessible future for all. All summer, please, stay, touch. Experience the worlds he created and experiment at the edge of a city loved by Jess. Every body is welcome and provoked into presence. All it needs is you. Jess Curtis is absent. His body, his voice, his daily presence in the studio – gone. Yet he is radically present – in the dancers he trained, the access practices he pioneered, the artistic lineages he nurtured, and in the very concepts he championed throughout his work. Activations An Activation Stage led by artists-in-residence who Curtis mentored, hosts contact improvisation jams, fresh movement works, and community conversations. Serving as curator-facilitator-performers for events, performances, and happenings, three Activation Programmers engage deeply with Jess’s legacy and archive while exhibiting work that extends his commitment to inclusive, innovative performance practice, and embodied presence. Maria Silk brings a sensory gay manifesto and drag performances, Abby Crain explores creative visceral practices of the moving body within simple and spacious structures, and jose e. abad’s performance and dance at the intersection of art, social justice activism, and sustainable urbanism challenge perceptions. DOCENT GUIDED ACCESSIBILITY DAYS: Saturday, July 25, 2026 and August 8, 2026. Contact Seth Eisen at info@EyeZen.org for more information. This exhibition is made possible by the generosity of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture with additional support from GRAVITY. ABOUT THE ARTIST & PARTNERS ARTIST Jess Curtis (1961–2024) pioneered experimental, body-based performance centering disabled, blind and low vision, queer, and marginalized artists. He emerged from San Francisco’s radical 1980s–90s dance scene including the collectives Contraband and CORE before founding Jess Curtis/GRAVITY in 2000. For more than two decades, he worked with performers between his two homes of San Francisco and Berlin, earning recognition as a contemporary dance leader on the West Coast and internationally while building a community defined by mutual support, mentorship, and sustained collaboration. Jess was part…

@ • About • About the Installation • Gallery • Plan Your Visit MATT PASSMORE: TIED/UNTIED PRESENTED BY FORT MASON ART Fort Mason Art is proud to present Matt Passmore‘s Tied/Untied. This striking sculpture helps to define the entrance to FMCAC, offering visitors a place to gather, wonder, and foster curiosity. ABOUT THE INSTALLATION Echoing the historic track inside FMCAC’s campus, the railroad-tie sculpture lifts dramatically out of the ground, creating playful loops and arcs for visitors to sit or walk through. Tied/Untied is abstract but looks vaguely familiar, possibly referencing its surroundings through a nautical knot mid-tie, or the rolling tides of the bay. This playful form gestures to the material and history of Fort Mason and the San Francisco waterfront. ---------------------------------------- PLAN YOUR VISIT Tied/Untied is permanently on display at the entrance for Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. SHARE • Facebook • X • Mail SIGN UP FOR OUR E-NEWS Sign up today for the latest news from Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture.

@ • About • Event Features • About The Artists • Gallery • Plan Your Visit WE ARE THE LAND: BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY The American Indian Cultural District (AICD), with support from Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC), presents new mural commissions by artists Brittany Burrows and Jewelina Acosta. ABOUT THE INSTALLATION The American Indian Cultural District (AICD), with support from Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC), presents new mural commissions by artists Brittany Burrows and Jewelina Acosta. Depicting vegetation and wildlife from the land and water, the artists highlight the importance of Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices in maintaining ecological balance and human well-being. By recognizing the interconnectedness of all life forms and the importance of preserving biodiversity, their work points to a more harmonious and sustainable future for generations to come. In We are the Land: Between Earth & Sky, Brittany Burrows highlights the parallels between endangered butterfly species and the struggles of Indigenous communities. Both are deeply connected to the land and face threats to their survival due to various factors, including habitat loss, environmental degradation, and cultural assimilation. “Land stewardship and sovereignty are indeed crucial for preserving Indigenous ways of life and ensuring the continued thriving of both human and non-human communities. By respecting Indigenous rights to their ancestral lands and supporting their efforts in environmental conservation, we can learn valuable lessons about sustainable living and holistic interconnectedness,” said Burrows.  ---------------------------------------- ABOUT THE ARTISTS Brittany Burrows is Nomlaki-Wintun and Pomo, born in Chico, CA, who moved to San Francisco at age 11. From a young age, Brittany has always been fascinated with art, mostly ballpoint pen drawings. Brittany is a self-taught artist who specializes in black-and-white portraits. Her mediums are pencil, charcoal, and graphite. Jewelina Acosta is from a small non-federally recognized tribe named Yokaia (the deep valley) from which the name Ukiah, CA originated. She is the owner of Inkdigenous Tattoo, which brings forward and makes room for her traditional and cultural lifestyle in the tattoo industry. She uses her artwork to share traditional ecological knowledge with the community, making the world a better place one art piece at a time. PLAN YOUR VISIT DATE On view daily, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. TIME 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. LOCATION Building D Lobby, First Floor, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco The American Indian Cultural District (AICD), with support from Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC), presents new mural commissions by artists Brittany Burrows and Jewelina Acosta. American Indian Cultural District: AmericanIndianCulturalDistrict.org (415) 287-2820 general@AmericanIndianCulturalDistrict.org • Facebook • Flickr • Instagram • LinkedIn • X Brittany Burrows: BrittanyBurrowsArt.com BrittanyEBrrws@gmail.com • Facebook • Instagram Jewelina Acosta: • Facebook • Instagram • TikTok • YouTube SHARE • Facebook • X • Mail SIGN UP FOR OUR E-NEWS Sign up today for the latest news from Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture.