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| Overview |
Through artist residencies and exhibitions, FOR-SITE supports the creation of work that dynamically addresses geologic, cultural, geopolitical, socioeconomic, and other aspects of place. Artist residencies take place at the Foundation’s 50-acre residency site on the edge of the South Yuba River gorge, just outside the historic gold-mining town of Nevada City.
Museum exhibitions of FOR-SITE-sponsored artists have been held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the de Young Museum, and the Nevada Museum of Art. Resident artists include Richard Long, Cornelia Parker, Chris Drury, Shi Guorui, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. In partnership with the Presidio Trust, in 2008 the FOR-SITE Foundation commissioned Andy Goldsworthy’s Spire, a site-specific installation made from the trunks of thirty-seven cypress trees felled as part of the Presidio's reforestation effort. In conjunction with the installation, FOR-SITE organized Goldsworthy at the Presidio, an interpretive exhibition in the Presidio. In memory of Kim Wauson, a remarkably committed artist advocate, his friends and colleagues have generously funded a fellowship award program under the auspices of the FOR-SITE Foundation. In 2009 FOR-SITE will award its first fellowships to artists of exceptional merit. |
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