The first time T. came to the
Mojave was for a performance boot camp and now T. combines their
love of performance with education, producing artistic, informative
events like 'Queer Salon, Joshua Tree',
which is a combination potluck, art salon and discussion event for
LGBTQIAA+ folks in the Mojave.
Originally from Buffalo,
NY, Denise made her first trip to the desert in 1979, driving her
Chevy Nova from Camp Lejune, in North Carolina, where her husband
had previously been stationed. Denise arrived to 29Palms in the
middle of the night and was pretty surprised by what she saw the
next morning.
30 years after her
first visit to the desert as an assistant on a photo shoot in the
mid-80’s, Rynda was out to dinner with a friend at Pappy &
Harriet's, winding up a two week stay, when she jokingly asked if
he ever needed a house-sitter. He happened to be going out of town
in three days and offered his place to...
Vanesa
Zendejas has been making art for as long as she can remember - even
tagging along with her dad to the art classes he was taking in
Chicago, where Vanesa was born and raised. In this
episode, she describes her process for creating her
abstract works. The majority of Vanessa's work has been in paint,
but with the...
Raised in Indiana, Myskin's first experience
with desert was on family vacations. "A famous family story is: as
a child, I would run to the top of the tallest rock I could and
scream, 'I'm in heaven!' I think I really appreciated the
desert from a young age". And many years later, finds herself
living in the desert.