From: Sanford, Jody
Subject: CONFIRMATION: Guided Walk of Art and the Park with Presidio Habitats Curator – Saturday, February 26, at 11 am Date: February 22, 2011 10:41:40 AM PST Thanks for registering for the Guided Walk of Art and the Park with the Presidio Habitats Curator, which is a special program of the Presidio Habitats Exhibition. This email confirms your reservation. The event will be held on Saturday, February 26, from 11 am to 1 pm. Please meet at the Presidio Habitats Exhibition Hall at Fort Scott. Driving and transit directions are located on the website here: http://www.presidio.gov/experiences/habitats/. We hope that this walk will occur as scheduled. However, rain is currently predicted for Saturday. We will be monitoring the weather forecast throughout the week. If we anticipate heavy rain on Saturday morning, we will send an email cancelling this walk. We will make the determination by 3 pm on Friday, February 25.
Actually, it was a totally beautiful day, about 45° but seeming like 60 in the bright sun. 
About 50 folks attended, about equal MF, ages 50 and up, including women with gnarly walking sticks. My guess is these are retired folks who love to walk in the Presidio on a regular basis, just like me, but my walks have been confined to the Crissy Field area. Cheryl Haines, curator of Presidio Habitats, took me (and others) on a walk to view the projects. Quite illuminating on a dazzling day. (tweet). She’s a nice looking woman in her 50s, very stylishly dressed, and the owner of Haines Gallery. She works with outdoor oriented artists (Goldsworthy and his ilk) and felt like she was well established and wanted to give something back, so she set up the For Site Foundation to do educational public art projects.
The FOR-SITE Foundation (established 2003) is dedicated to the creation and understanding of art about place. This pragmatic program supports the creation of a new work for exhibition in collaboration with partner museums on the West Coast. Past residency and exhibition included Richard at SFMOMA; Cornelia Parker at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Pae White at New Langton Arts and Mark Dion at the Oakland Museum.
I signed on for this walk because I had been to the Presidio Habitats Exhibition Hall, read the brochures and viewed a couple of the installations but frankly, didn’t get it. Cheryl Haines described it as, “…our little project in the Presidio about the animals who live here.” A (famous) artist would be found to conceptualize a habitat for such animal — Gray Fox, or Screeching Owl — for example. Very cool, very illuminating and a perfect excuse for a walk on this dazzlingly beautiful day. Continue reading “PRESIDIO HABITATS”
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