Guest Speaker at Artists’ Tea at Joshua Tree National Park

Date: March 19, 2017

Time: 09:00-11:00

Location: Cap Rock Parking Area

Art in Place | storiesandstewardship

Join Karyl Newman this Sunday to talk trash over a cup of tea. Newman documents waste abandoned in our landscape on Instagram as @dehsart and large dumpsites @blightsites. She will share her projects mapping illegal waste deposits across our desert, identifying spots for cleanup and providing free reuse resources for artists using the app at blightsites.org. Recently she used debris data to collect over 300 pounds of broken furniture, re-purposed for her stage design at the Wallis Center for the Performing Arts. Take a tour of what was taken HERE.

We will discuss easily accessible online cartography tools to share location based information and how we can re-think waste as a resource.

Please bring a mug, cup, or container to enjoy tea together.