FOR-SITE Foundation

06/04/2026

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: : Red Flags on view July 1–30 with Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture at the Gateway Pavilion!

Red Flags (2020) features fifty flags each stained red with earth collected from one of the fifty US states. Presented during the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the installation reflects on political and geographic boundaries, and on the connections between people and land.

Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags is organized by FOR-SITE and presented with Fort Mason Art, with generous exhibition support from Haines Gallery, FOR-SITE’s Board of Directors, and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Installation services provided by Fides Industrial.

Learn more at for-site.org/andy-goldsworthy-red-flags



Images
Andy Goldsworthy, Red Flags, 2020 at National Galleries Scotland in 2025 ©Andy Goldsworthy Photo by Stuart Armitt
Andy Goldsworthy, Red Flags, 2020 at Gateway Rendering Courtesy FOR-SITE and Haines Gallery

06/02/2026

Now open: Vessels for Healing and Transmuting Grief by Monica Canilao.

Created in response to the history of The Guardhouse at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Monica Canilao’s installation transforms the former military building into a space for remembrance, reflection, and healing. Through found reliquary altars, embellished found portraits, and site-responsive assemblage, the work explores how we carry memory across generations.

Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, June 6, from 6–8 PM and experience the installation in person.

RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/monica-canilao-guardhouse-opening-tickets-1989346622299

05/29/2026

This Sunday, join the Roxie Theater for a special screening of Rivers and Tides: Working With Time, followed by remarks by Cheryl Haines.

Rivers and Tides is a mesmerizing, meditative study of Goldsworthy's practice, following the artist around the world and at home in Scotland as he creates his celebrated site-specific, ephemeral artworks.

Thomas Riedelsheimer's classic documentary was first screened to audiences at The Roxie back in 2002, and returns this Sunday as part of ARTHOUSE 50, celebrating the beloved theater's 50th anniversary.

Get your tickets today: https://roxie.com/film/rivers-and-tides-andy-goldsworthy-working-with-time/

05/14/2026

FOR-SITE presents Vessels for Healing and Transmuting Grief, a new site-specific installation by Oakland-based artist Monica Canilao, opening May 29 at the Guardhouse at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

Transforming a former military guard station into a space for remembrance, ritual, and ancestral connection, Canilao’s installation draws on personal and diasporic histories shaped by war, migration, and colonization. The work invites reflection on how we honor those who came before us while carrying their stories forward.

Join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, May 29, 6–8 PM (remarks at 6:30 PM). Free and open to the public.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monica-canilao-guardhouse-opening-tickets-1989346622299

04/15/2026

In 2008, completed his first of four permanent works in the Presidio of San Francisco—Spire, a vertical assembly of felled eucalyptus trunks that draws the forest floor upward into a singular, improbable form.

The work reflects Goldsworthy’s ongoing engagement with natural systems, material cycles, and the specific conditions of site—an approach that has shaped his practice over decades.

These images trace a longer history: from the making of Spire to earlier work in Tahoe in 1992, when Cheryl Haines and the artist were already in close collaboration.

Goldsworthy will be honored at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Annual Gala on April 16. In recognition of this occasion—and of a 37-year relationship with Andy Goldsworthy—FOR-SITE reflects on the making of Spire and an early collaboration in Tahoe.

04/13/2026

👋 Only one week left to experience 𝟭-𝟴𝟬𝟬 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆 at , at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

Don’t miss the chance to see the installation before it closes on April 20, 2026.

Photo by Shaun Roberts

04/10/2026

This , we’re reflecting on how art can make climate realities tangible. Andy Goldsworthy's work doesn’t just sit in the landscape—it collaborates with it, revealing cycles of growth, decay, and renewal.

As approaches, we invite you to walk these paths, in the Presidio of San Francisco, look closely, and consider your own place within these systems.


👉learn more: https://www.for-site.org/goldsworthy-in-the-presidio

03/27/2026

🌾 Do you ever think about where your food comes from?
Your fresh food comes from hard labor, the land and the .

At Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Oscar Lopez 's Your Food, My Work, Our Land, an outdoor painting brought the lives of farm workers into full view—centering the essential labor that sustains us all.

Created in the tradition of Mexican muralism and San Francisco’s Mission Muralismo movement, the work honors agricultural workers whose contributions are often invisible, despite being foundational to our daily lives.

From pandemic “essential workers” to generations shaped by programs like the Bracero Program, the mural asks us to look again—and recognize the people behind what we consume.

The mural is no longer at its location, but it's available to see in the catalog linked below.

doesn’t just beautify space—it reveals what we’ve been taught not to see.

https://fortmason.org/event/oscar-lopez-your-food-my-work-our-land/

From May 30, 2024 to October 12, 2025, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presented Oscar Lopez: Your Food, My Work, Our Land, an outdoor painting commission on the FMCAC campus.

03/26/2026

✨ DavidChickey, Creative Director of Radius Books reflects on the ideas and inspirations behind the design of 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱: 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱.

Order your copy through this link: https://ow.ly/ytqW50YsavR