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.

Presidio/Site/Sculpture
A site-based initiative of the FOR-SITE Foundation, Presidio/Site/Sculpture provides the public with new ways to see, understand, and appreciate the natural, historic, and cultural resources of San Francisco’s Presidio, a 1,491-acre urban national park that served as a military post for 200 years.

Board of Directors
Alex de Brye
Cheryl Haines
Philip Hayes
Jim Miller
Jane Scott

Advisory Board
Mary Livingstone Beebe
Elizabeth A. Brown
Donald Fortescue
Andy Goldsworthy
Walter Hood
Madeleine Bessborough
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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Nevada City Contact
Artist Residency
Excelsior Ditch Camp Road
Nevada City, CA 95959

Staff
Cheryl Haines, Director
Hal Fischer, Director of Special Projects
Lisa Martin, Administrator

The FOR-SITE Foundation was launched in San Francisco in 2003 to encourage the development of new work for exhibition in public venues. In the face of new opportunities and challenges in the contemporary art world, FOR-SITE continues to evolve through programs and strategic partnerships that encourage the public to enter the burgeoning discourse on art about place. FOR-SITE further supports understanding and appreciation of art about place through its education program, which is designed to enrich the learning experience of graduate-level art, architecture, and design students.

The Foundation maintains a 50-acre residency site ten minutes from the historic gold-mining town of Nevada City. Artist residencies and education programs are offered at the site throughout the year. In 2008 the Foundation, in cooperation with the Presidio Trust, commissioned artist Andy Goldsworthy to create the Spire. Funding for the sculpture and the accompanying exhibition, Goldsworthy at the Presidio, was provided by FOR-SITE through contributions from private donors. FOR-SITE is currently in dialogue with the Presidio Trust regarding future projects for the Presidio.

The FOR-SITE Foundation is a nonprofit, 501(c) 3 organization. It is governed by a five-person board of directors and is supported by contributions from individuals and foundations.

2009 Wauson Fellowship Awards (PDF)
2008 Residency Project with Pae White, Exhibition at New Langton Arts (PDF)
Andy Goldsworthy's Spire, a new site-specific work in the Presidio of San Francisco (PDF)
2008 Residency Project with Chris Drury, Exhibition at Nevada Museum of Art (PDF)
2006 Education Project with Donald Fortescue (PDF)
2006 Residency with Shi Guorui, Exhibition at de Young Museum (PDF coming soon)
Inaugural Residency Projects feature Cornelia Parker and Richard Long (PDF coming soon)
Public Launch of FOR-SITE Foundation (PDF coming soon)
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