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This year, your support can change an artist's life. Help support the arts through Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency.  Your donation will help JTHAR continue to invite artists to Joshua Tree to create and learn from the vibrancy of California's High Desert.

about JTHAr:


Established in 2007, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (JTHAR) is an artist-centric nonprofit residency that awards an international community of artists the gifts of time and space amidst the extraordinary natural beauty of Joshua Tree National Park.   Seven week residencies include scholarship funds, living accommodations, and studio space designed to accommodate a broad range of artistic activity and open studio events. Residents can be at any stage of their careers and work in all mediums, including drawing, painting, photography, film, video, installation, fiction and non fiction writing, interdisciplinary, social practice and architecture. 

JTHAR is the brainchild of two exceptional individuals, Frederick Fulmer and James Berg. The residency started small with a grand ambition: to provide an inspirational place -- the unique Southern California desert landscape -- where artists could create unencumbered by quotidian demands. Personal and professional growth, intimate contact with nature, intellectual stimulation, new friendships and relationship -- are all part of the residency's singular experience. 
 
 JTHAR respects the critical role artists play in our society, and it aims to foster creativity, trust, courage, diversity and acceptance by facilitating opportunities for exploring, experimenting, quiet reflection, engagement and cross-cultural exchange with the vibrant local community. JTHAR establishes space for inspiration to happen, 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.

Since its inception, JTHAR has expanded to host national and international artists, becoming a desirable destination within a welcoming artistic community. Growing incrementally, as it gained visibility the residency has hosted 125artists so far. They hail from Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Venezuela, Guatemala, United Kingdom, and from more than half of the United States.

As a 501c3 non-profit artist residency, JTHAR relies on public donations to fulfill our mission of providing artists with the time, facilities and support essential to give their 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: their unwavering support means the world to us and worldwide network of artists we champion.
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board   members 

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James Berg (Founder), Frederick Fulmer (Founder), Ruth Rieman, Judy Hearsum, Timothy Hearsom, Barbara Schwan, Katy Niner
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Advisory Board Members: Adam Gross
Honorary Board Member: Alma Ruiz

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