FOR-SITE FOUNDATION

The mission of the FOR-SITE FOUNDATION is to support the creation, understanding and exhibition of new art about place. The FOR-SITE FOUNDATION fulfills its mission through three key program initiatives:

Artist Residencies
FOR-SITE awards artist residencies and financial support to selected artists whose work conforms to the organization's mission. The residency is designed to provide the artist with the space, time and resources to create new art, and to ensure that via a timely and cost-effective process, this work is exhibited at a sponsoring public institution that is a FOR-SITE Institutional Partner.

Education
FOR-SITE collaborates with participating educational institutions to provide opportunities for students to experience both the practical and theoretical challenges of creating art for and of a specific place.

Dissemination
To further understanding of new art about place, FOR-SITE undertakes initiatives that document and expose to the widest public audience the creative process and artwork.

Board of Directors
Alex de Brye
Cheryl Haines
Ruth Halperin
Jim Miller

Advisory Board
Mary Livingstone Beebe
David Breskin
Elizabeth A. Brown
Donald Fortescue
Andy Goldsworthy
Walter Hood
Tom Patchett
Madeleine Bessborough
Kathryn Reasoner
Larry Rinder

Office Contact
49 Geary Street
Suite 205
San Francisco, CA 94108

p / 415 362 9330
f / 415 362 9333
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Staff
Cheryl Haines, Director
Hal Fischer, Development Consultant
Lisa Martin, Administrative Assistant

Nevada City Contact
Artist Residency
Excelsior Ditch Camp Road
Nevada City, CA 95959

How does an artist apply for a FOR-SITE residency?
The artist must be nominated by one of FOR-SITE's Institutional Partners. The FOR-SITE Board reviews submitted proposals and awards one to three residencies per year.

How long is a residency?
Residencies are one to four months. There is only one artist at the residency at any given time.

Does the artwork have to be created at the residency?
Not necessarily. While FOR-SITE will always be interested in proposals that engage the Nevada City site, we also welcome offsite proposals that expand our ideas of place.

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How does an exhibiting institution become a FOR-SITE partner?
As part of FOR-SITE's mission to expose to the widest public audience the creative process and artwork of a FOR-SITE residency, FOR-SITE welcomes project proposals of mid-career artists concerned with issues of place from any contemporary exhibiting institution. If your institution is interested in proposing a FOR-SITE project or having an exhibited FOR-SITE project travel to your venue, please contact FOR-SITE at 415.362.9330 or .

How does an educational institution become a FOR-SITE partner?
If your college or graduate level institution would like to sponsor an educator to lead a seminar that engages issues of place at the FOR-SITE residency in Nevada City, please submit a proposal to us. If you are an undergraduate or graduate instructor who would like to conduct such a seminar at the residency, please contact FOR-SITE at 415.362.9330 or .

How does a student apply for a seminar?
You must be an enrolled student at one of FOR-SITE's Educational Partners. Applications are handled by the Educational Partner.

What is art about place?
We purposely keep the definition of “place” as broad and open-ended as possible. While we draw on the ideals of the American Land Art movement, we are interested in aesthetic explorations of all sorts of places—including virtual—and all different mediums.

Why Nevada City?
FOR-SITE began as 47 acres of privately owned property in Nevada City, and an idea. Part of the idea was pragmatic—to support the creation and exhibition of new work about place—and part of the idea was romantic. Nevada City with its vital, unparalleled landscape—marked by the rise and fall of the California Gold Rush, a lost Nisenan culture, and enduring wildlife and ecology—was where the romance came in, and where it remains.

Can I visit the artist residency?
In order to maintain the privacy of the residency artist and preserve the natural ecology, the artist residency is not open to the public.

Does FOR-SITE provide consulting services for site-responsive projects?
FOR-SITE is available to provide consulting services for a wide range of arts and civic organizations.

How do I get involved?
An interest in art about place is all you need to get involved.

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