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Alcatraz Dining Hall
07-22-14 Inside Alcatraz: The Dining Hall
Visitors to @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will encounter the island from new perspectives — not just metaphorically, but literally. With artworks occupying the New More
Alcatraz Hospital corridor
07-08-14 Inside Alcatraz: The Hospital
Visitors to @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will encounter the island from new perspectives — not just metaphorically, but literally. With artworks occupying the New More
Upper tiers of A Block, Alcatraz
06-11-14 Inside Alcatraz: A Block
Visitors to @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will encounter the island from new perspectives — not just metaphorically, but literally. With artworks occupying the New More
Interior of the New Industries Building at Alcatraz
05-27-14 Inside Alcatraz: The New Industries Building
Visitors to @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will encounter the island from new perspectives — not just metaphorically, but literally. With artworks occupying the New More
09-10-13 2012 SECA Artist David Wilson Explores San Francisco’s Lost Corners and In-Between Stretches of Natural and Developed Space
    Oakland-based artist David Wilson engages with experience of place through a meditative drawing practice and through the orchestration of site-specific More
04-17-13 Presidio Wayfinding
Planning a visit to the Presidio to check out Andy Goldsworthy’s Wood Line and Spire? This detailed and easy to read map provided by our friends at the Presidio More
11-16-12 Richard T. Walker Goes to Nevada City
Artist Richard T. Walker and students from California College of the Arts just spent the weekend at FOR-SITE’s residency site in Nevada City for Walker’s More
Vegetation and boulder at the FOR-SITE residency site outside Nevada City
03-27-12 Musings from Donald Fortescue
CCA educator Donald Fortescue has been working with a group of grad students at the FOR-SITE residency site in the Sierra foothills. Read his impressions and see photos More
10-04-11 Caught on Camera
The critter cam at our Nevada City residency site has been active lately. Here’s a snapshot of a recent visitor. More

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Ai Weiwei's inspiration for his @Large postcard campaign

Ai Weiwei's inspiration for his @Large postcard campaign

Excerpt from the documentary film AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY, which screens on Saturday, June 2 at the Mendocino Film Festival in California More information: ...

FOR-SITE Foundation

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The FOR-SITE Foundation is dedicated to the idea that art can inspire fresh thinking and important dialogue about our natural and cultural environment. Through ...

Sanctuary Salon (February 23, 2018)

Sanctuary Salon (February 23, 2018)

Echoing Sanctuary's ethos of plurality, the "Sanctuary Salon" series weaves together the voices of artists whose practices span creative disciplines, including ...

Brendan Fernandes: Safely (2017)

Brendan Fernandes: Safely (2017)

As part of his commission for "Sanctuary," Brendan Fernandes presented a site-specific durational performance that explored themes of reverence and sacred ...

Panel Discussion: Approaching the Rug as a Critical Form

Panel Discussion: Approaching the Rug as a Critical Form

Panel Discussion "Above the Rug: Approaching the Rug as a Critical Form" February 11, 2018 Historically and traditionally, rugs are a medium for cultural ...

Sanctuary Salon (January 26, 2018)

Sanctuary Salon (January 26, 2018)

Echoing the ethos of plurality embodied within FOR-SITE's exhibition "Sanctuary," the "Sanctuary Salon" series weaves together the voices of artists whose ...

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  • Thank you @JohnKiriakou for your ongoing work in support of global human rights. https://t.co/2shsx13pj8
  • Solidarity with Hong Kong and all those fighting for human rights. https://t.co/As0n7f9LYT

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  • @aiww shares the impact of his father’s imprisonment and the inspiration behind his postcard campaign for prisoners of conscience. ・・・ #Repost @yourstrulydoc with @get_repost
  • 🎉Mendocino Film Fest here we come! Tickets for the June 2nd screening of @yourstrulydoc at the stunning seaside town on the northern California coast are on sale now! 🌊📽 . . . . . . . . . #mendofilm #documentary #film #filmfestival #mendocino #art #humanrights #aiweiwei
  • This #TBT we’re taking it all the way back to the assembly of “Trace,” which was the first work of Weiwei’s to utilize his now signature material, LEGO bricks. While the 38 Chinese portraits were assembled by Weiwei’s studio, the rest of the 176 portraits were assembled right here in San Francisco by 82 volunteers. It was a clandestine operation (we of course wanted to keep the work a secret until the exhibition opening), and an intense one — just look at the portrait being assembled here! (Note: this is “Trace” volunteer @_colinwright, who also happens to be one of the editors on the @YoursTrulyDoc film. We ❤️ our FOR-SITE family!). Oh, and let us leave you with this final boggling statistic: “Trace” was comprised of 1.2 MILLION LEGO bricks 🤯 (swipe to photo 2 for a glimpse at what that looks like.) __ #ArtAboutPlace #AiWeiwei #YoursTrulyDoc #Alcatraz
  • Messages of hope and support are currently making their way from San Francisco to prisoners of conscience around the world. Thank you to everyone who wrote a postcard at last week’s world premiere screening of @yourstrulydoc! . . . . . . . . . . #YoursTrulyDoc #AiWeiwei #ArtAboutPlace #SFFILM #SFFILMFestival

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