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| Program | The FOR-SITE FOUNDATION aims to connect graduate-level art students with artists through an innovative, interdisciplinary field-based program that takes students out of the classroom and into the landscape. By providing students the opportunity to apply artistic, creative, and scholarly practices to unique physical places in the environment, students will fundamentally augment the way they learn, create and view the world they live in. The program consists of two principal components: FOR-SITE Educator Fellowship and Practicum FOR-SITE Dialogues FOR-SITE welcomes inquiries and proposals from educators, artists, students, and community members who are affiliated with our Institutional Partners. |
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If you are an educator interested in utilizing the residency in Nevada City for a class project, please submit a proposal to FOR-SITE in the Fall for the following year. To conduct a smaller, current-year project, please contact FOR-SITE at 415.362.9330 or . To learn other ways you can become involved—from becoming a supporter to serving as a volunteer—please contact the FOR-SITE FOUNDATION at 415.362.9330 or . |
| Current |
Nathan Lynch, Chair and Advisor
Ceramics Department, CCA CERAM370, Spring 2008 This interdisciplinary, field-based course focuses on earthworks, land use, and ecological interventions. Guest artist Ursula von Rydingsvard worked with the students in March. View the entire project profile. Oblio Jenkins, Lecturer Department of Architecture, CCA Advanced Design Studio, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Site-Specific Design/Build This two-semester project connects students to nature and place in the context of a full exploration of the architectural design process. View the entire project profile. |
| Upcoming |
| History |
Associate Professor Donald Fortescue
Department of Wood/Furniture, CCA FURNT300-01, Fall 2007 This graduate-level course focused on the Northern California landscape as a site and source for art and design work. View the entire project profile. Professor Walter Hood Department of Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley LD Arch 254, Spring 2007 Graduate Course Topics in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Walter Hood's students design the perfect artist's studio. By interviewing two prominent Bay Area artists, John Zurier and Mildred Howard, his students gained firsthand knowledge of what a working artist needs in order to create, and then translated these guidelines into working design models, using the FOR-SITE residency site as a context. View the entire project profile. Sandra Kelch, Lecturer Department of Design and Industry, San Francisco State University DAI 805, Graduate Seminar in Information Design, Spring 2007 This five-week "real-world" project afforded students the opportunity to research and design way-finding systems (maps and signage) for the FOR-SITE Foundation. The research phase involved gathering information about the physical land and brief history of Nevada City, meeting and interviewing the Director of FOR-SITE, and visiting the site itself. View the entire project profile. Amy Franceschini Media Theory and Practice, San Francisco Art Institute Fall 2004 The Trails Forever project took place within a Media Theory and Practice course offered at San Francisco Art Institute. Instructor Amy Franceschini used this project to examine the use of wireless technologies as non-intrusive interpretation systems. View the entire project profile. Professor Walter Hood Department of Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley LA 203, Fall 2003 (Graduate Course) Shaping the Public Realm: Landscape Architecture And Environmental Planning What happens if we take the approach of Smithsons Nonsite? What does it mean to be confronted with the absence of the Site? Does the Nonsite free us from the Site to focus on specificity or a limited concept as we move towards designing at the site context? Or to focus on that which is meaningful and beneficial, understanding all of its sides? Can the Nonsite facilitate a different way into the site, forcing us to develop a procedure that is more active, subjectively and objectively. These are a few of the questions to ask as we critique and work within the context of the Nonsite. View the entire project profile. Professors Lisa Findley + Bruce Tomb Department of Architecture, California College of the Arts Studio One, Fall 2003 Grounding Architecture This studio introduced students to tectonics in architecture through an investigation of site and ground. The focus was on the understanding of particularities that site lends to architecture, and to learn to think about buildings in the landscape. The poetic potential of tectonic response was investigated through the lens of the site, and through the understanding the students brought forward from previous studios. The studio included field trips to sites, lectures, reading and writing in addition to making. View the entire project profile. Professor Donald Fortescue Department of Wood/Furniture, California College of the Arts Spring 2003 In mid-March 2003, I along with three other faculty and fifteen students from the Wood/Furniture Program at the California College of the Arts trekked to FOR-SITEs Artist Residency in Nevada City, California for three days of exploration, learning and creativity. View the entire project profile. |
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