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Tiburon’s Heritage & Arts Commission invites you to a site-specific art installation and reception at Tiburon Town Hall, which kicks off local artist Christa Grenawalt’s four-year term as the Town’s Artist Laureate. According to Grenawalt, “paintings made outdoors on Mount Tiburon under pine and oak using rainwater, framed in oak, are set in dialogue with deep-time Antarctic icebergs, the shorelines of Richardson Bay, and a golden line tracing the water we now share.” Free to attend. 

Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 20 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Tiburon Artist Laureate Christa Grenawalt will present The Waterline Project, a site-specific installation and environmental reflection at Tiburon Town Hall.  Visitors are invited to experience art in conversation with water, place, and process. On the second-floor Community Gallery of Town Hall, Grenawalt presents paintings shaped by rain and gravity, accompanied by golden lines tracing water and shore. In the Atrium Gallery, the Landmarks Society will share historical maps. In collaboration with the Tiburon Heritage & Arts Commission and the community, Grenawalt will extend this project, offering points of connection where art, history, and community meet.

Christa Grenawalt is partnering with SF Art Week this month. As part of this special collaboration, you are invited to take part in a collaborative community project on Sunday, January 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. where you will have the opportunity to share what it means to live beside the bay, through a word, image, or conversation, and share what you hope for from your Artist Laureate during her four-year term. Free to attend. Tiburon Town Hall, 1505 Tiburon Boulevard, Tiburon

This project invites us to see the Bay as a living, interconnected body, linking communities through creativity, reflection, and a shared sense of place. The Waterline Project brings attention back to the local: to where we live, raise our children, and form community, offering moments of connection and education through art shaped by water and landscape.

Grenawalt brings a vision of art as a civic connector. Her work encourages Bay Area cities to uplift artists in public roles, creating a regional network of creative leadership and engagement. During her Laureate term, she will offer seasonal projects that invite residents, students, and fellow artists into collaborative, place-based experiences.

Grateful for the honor of this role, she sees The Waterline Project as an opportunity to celebrate what connects us around the Bay and to explore the ways water is part of our daily lives. Through art, mapping, and community dialogue, the project opens space to imagine what is possible now and to help shape the future of this place we share. This work also acknowledges the Town’s ongoing efforts to understand and plan for future water levels, offering a creative invitation for the community to be part of the conversation and to help imagine what comes next.