During SF Art Week ’26, 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.

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.

Featured recently in The Ark Newspaper for her appointment as Tiburon Artist Laureate. Find more here.

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.

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Waterline: The San Francisco Bay as Living Body (Map)
The Bay is presented as a continuous watershed system, with gold lines tracing rivers from the Sierra Nevada through the South Bay toward the Pacific. From mountain headwaters to ocean edge, the work frames the region as a single, living system shaped by water, time, and rising sea levels.

The community project brings this system into shared space through images of the Bay from above, shoreline studies, paintings, and photographs, forming a modular structure that invites collective reflection and participation.

Waterline: The Golden Line