The LCA has invited Karyl Newman to speak about her research on the Llano del Rio Colony reflecting on her 2016-2017 Beinecke Visiting Research Fellowship on Saturday, February 11th at 2PM.
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Organized by the Landers Community Association, the Bureau of Land Management's Barstow Field Office, the Mojave Desert Land Trust and Blightsites.
See yourself in Llano The Llano del Rio colony was attorney Job Harriman’s project after losing the mayoral race in 1911. By 1914 about 200 socialists had bought shares to participate in his Utopian experiment in the Mojave Desert where they struggled until 1917. The die hards of the group relocated to New Llano, Louisiana […]
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.
Almost exactly ten years ago, Karyl designed set and costumes for Coy Middlebrook's production of Edward Albee's Zoo Story, at Deaf West. In 2004, Edward Albee wrote a prologue to the better known Zoo, giving a new window into that upper east side world, At Home. The Wallis and Deaf West have co-produced an evening uniting these […]