The Center maintains an interpretive site at Swansea, a former port and smelter town on the edge of Owens Lake, in California’s Eastern Sierras. The location includes a few remains of the town of Swansea, which was mostly destroyed and abandoned by 1872, and interpretive research facilities in the Swansea Dunes. Programming explores the visual characteristics and phenomenology of the region, especially Owens Lake itself, which is a new landscape, engineered to control the effects of desiccation.
CLUI Swansea is open seasonally for scheduled programs.
Some of the programs and projects that have been based out of CLUI Swansea: