Calling all loving hands on the land!
Join us on Friday 9/27 for e-snot afternoon application.
Stay to camp out for the best views of our augmented reality installations.
Wake up to Cahuilla/Serrano elder Kim Marcus’ blessing of Giant Rock as we begin to restore her.
Please RSVP for more details and thank you for considering the collaborative community care of this sacred site.
Celebrate the work and life of Cathy Allen and her cultural impact on the high desert and the Morongo Basin, May 10th – June 2.
Beginning with an open studio – weekends and by appointment – see the breadth of Allen’s work in place where she created books, sculptures & assemblages.
Get outside on a self-guided tour of her extant NURPs (Non-Urban Renewal Projects) installations and earthworks.
Learn about her relationship with Noah Purifoy through a series of recordings of Allen made on-site at the Outdoor Museum – follow her voice in a spatial audio installation via her channel on the HOVERLAY app.
RSVP for studio tickets and to learn more about DIY workshops and artist response performances in 29 Palms. https://bit.ly/ConjuringCathyAllenTix
Made possible by #Visit29Palms. Book your visit here: https://visit29.org/stay/
After a long hiatus of sonic situations in the silo – A Sound Bath Experience – is back!
Moriah and Jean are offering healing compositions under the oculus on May 5th. Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/ONALLDAY2024tix
The Antelope Valley lost a cherished historian and culture leader. Let’s celebrate Norma Gurba-Kleit’s contributions to our understanding of Llano.
Historic letter readings, postcard making, and all our augmented reality exhibits are offered for ON ALL Day 2024, Sunday, May 5th from 10-4.
Situated where the #llanodelrio inquiry began a decade ago, #OnAllDay 2023 reflects on the mysterious graffiti, “It was not all flowers she had on her mind” discovered on the west interior barn ruin in 2013. Join us in our first-ever public walk of this historic site featuring augmented reality experiences, artists’ responses, and the opportunity to create your own on the Saturday following May Day, 5/6 in Llano, CA.
Join us in honoring the 108th anniversary of the Llano del Rio colony and Earth Day, putting an end to the waste we tire to see, followed by a walking tour of the historic ruins.
- Clean up from 9 AM – Noon.
- Meet off 165th street road to silo.
- Complimentary lunch for volunteers.
- Followed by a guided tour of little-known Llano ruins.
#storiesandstewardship
Created in partnership with:
Blightsites
Element Society
High Desert Keepers
Positional Projects
Yale Club of Riverside-San Bernardino
Giant Rock attracts and inspires in scale, stories and a consistent need for attention through stewardship. Naturally, artists follow the magnetism of the site and some of these works are curated in Voices from the Vortex, an online exhibit created to accompany the annual #storiesandstewardship clean up for #nationalpubliclandsday 2021 on September 25th.
Featuring installation, performance, poetry, photography and video by artists from near and far, the exhibit includes:
Melissa Agate, Cynthia Anderson, Jeff Frost, Bettina Hubby, Jessica King and Michaela Strumberger
curated by Karyl Newman.
One of many alluvial fans found in the Mojave, Big Rock Creek carries soil and sediment from the San Gabriel Mountains and waste dumped along this desert route north into the Antelope Valley in powerful flash floods. Most of the time Big Rock Wash is a deep, dry, wide trace of these short dangerous events. Located in Llano, CA the arid ephemeral creek is tied to the history of Llano del Rio, a socialist utopian experiment just east of the procurement site from 1914-1917.
Part of the #wastewunderkammer, the Alluvial Albums contain family memories, snapshots, polaroids and ephemera, each altered by sand and water then baked in the searing sun.
The online project shares the current state of the photo collection, research into content and history of the area. Visitors may hike out to the wash and perhaps find an experience or project souvenir. Bring a bag to collect trash or treasures.
Alluvial Albums is part of Maiden LA 2020, an inclusive network of art related happenings throughout Los Angeles County taking place September 1-20. Despite the pandemic, over 75 Los Angeles artists, collectives, curators, and organizations have delivered an exciting array of projects both live and online, interactive and socially distanced. For the complete calendar of events visit the Maiden LA website where you can search for projects based on neighborhood, venue information or project type. There is also a comprehensive map and downloadable PDF.
Today is #worldufoday2020 grab a hand screened cotton ringer T-shirt based on 1950s or 1970s vintage designs worn at George Van Tassel’s UFO conventions at #giantrock. Use code worldufoday for a 15% discount at https://positionalprojects.bigcartel.com/
Part of proceeds will help with Giant Rock clean-ups and volunteer activities.
Offer ends Sunday, July 5 at 8pm.
As the West Coast organizer for Brick x Brick I invited new and former Bricksters to build a wall against misogyny at City Hall.
For the past two years the West Coast Bricksters made actions at Trump’s golf course in Palos Verdes, but many in our group wanted to take the action to the Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles.
We found a spot and began our silent action inspiring some tears, some thumbs up and some applause from those who stopped to read our wall.