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2019 – THE YEAR IN REVIEW
In spring, our seven-week group residency brought together incredibly diverse and talented artists:

All these artists collectively wowed the community at their June exhibition at the Joshua Tree Art Gallery.
Many of you got to know our six-week solo artists at their Open Studio Shows, including:

And please help us welcome our upcoming six-week solo artists:

Newly created this year is the Alma Ruiz Artist Fellowship, which awards a JTHAR position to a Latin American and U.S. Latinx artist of exceptional ability in the visual arts. Each year, Alma Ruiz, JTHAR advisor and former senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA, Los Angeles) will choose a deserving recipient from the U.S. or abroad.

We were particularly pleased to be included in Piney Wood Atlas, a collaborative project cataloguing small, emerging and unconventional artist residencies across the United States. The guide, created by and for artists, profiled JTHAR and interviewed some of our previous artists.

In April, we hosted the Cultivist, a global arts club from Los Angeles, who enjoyed a private showing and talk with JTHAR returning artist, Greg Minah.

In October, TV GLOBO, a Brazilian television network, profiled JTHAR and our recent artists in their upcoming documentary addressing the nature, spirituality and artistic side of Joshua Tree National Park.

Our busy year was further highlighted by visits from some of our former artists in residence:

Alfredo Barsuglia (Austria)
Robert Bryce Muir (Great Britain)
Joe Devera (Los Angeles)

Some former JTHAR residents, including Jed Ochmanek & Dorene Quinn, were so enamored with their experience in Joshua Tree, they have been inspired to open studios in the high desert. We welcome these new members of our community.

Your contribution today will provide the highly valued resources of time, space, financial support, community and validation for the local, national, and international artists JTHAR supports each year – and helps us share their processes with hundreds of annual visitors. We invite you to help us continue to make art happen in Joshua Tree and across the globe by joining our family of supporters.

You can even support JTHAR simply during your Amazon shopping. Simply go to smile.amazon.com and select JOSHUA TREE HIGHLANDS ARTIST RESIDENCY as the charitable organization. Your account numbers, shopping cart, and other account settings stay the same. The only difference is that The Amazon Smile foundation donates 0.5% of the eligible purchase price to JTHAR!

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about JTHAr:

Established in 2007, JTHAR is a nonprofit artist residency that awards an international community of artists the gifts of time and space amidst the extraordinary natural beauty of Joshua Tree National Park. Group and solo residencies of six to seven weeks include scholarship funds, living accommodations, studio space designed to accommodate a broad range of artistic activity and a gallery exhibition.

Artists selected for this program are at all stages of their careers and work in all media, including drawing, painting, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and non fiction writing, interdisciplinary, social practice and architecture.

JTHAR fosters creativity through opportunities for exploring, experimenting, quiet reflection, engagement and cross-cultural exchange with the vibrant local artist community. We establish spaces where inspiration happens on a daily basis, so artists can do the work of innovating, changing the cultural landscape and generating a fresh look at the way we connect to each other and to the world.

As a 501c3 non-profit artist residency, we rely on the support of individuals like you to fulfill JTHAR’s mission of being a place that inspires creativity and provides the resident artists with the time, facilities, support essential to give that creativity form. In return, we provide unparalleled access to the creative processes of regional, national and international artists Donors are an integral part of the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency community: your unwavering support means the world to us.

In December we welcome resident Dee Briggs. While at JTHAR Dee will be conceptualizing, developing, documenting and making a land artwork. This work will be grounded in observations of the place during the time of the residency, her own preoccupation with truth, beauty and chirality and her interests in physical and ethereal materials.

Dee Briggs was born in Western Pennsylvania and raised in the northern panhandle of West Virginia. At the age of 18, Briggs moved to New York City. She studied architecture at the City College of New York and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University in 2002. She has taught in the schools of art and architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and exhibits nationally. Currently, her home and studio are located in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

Watch WQED Special Visible: Dee Briggs

The Alma Ruiz Artist Fellowship
This award gives a Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency position to a Latin American and U.S. Latino/a artists of exceptional ability in the visual arts from the US or around the world. Each year, a deserving recipient will be chosen by Alma Ruiz, JTHAR advisor and former senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The Fellowship consists of a six or seven week residency, studio space, living accommodations, monetary stipend, and a gallery exhibition. The residency is designed to foster creativity while interacting with other JTHAR artists in residence and the artistic community of Joshua Tree, California. This is a non-application fellowship.