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This year, your support can change an artist's life. Help support the arts through Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency. JTHAR is a 501c3 non-profit that provides free studio space and living accommodations for artists to create new work and focus on their individual projects. Your donation will help JTHAR continue to invite artists to Joshua Tree and create and learn from the vibrancy of California.
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6 Week Solo Residents: Arthur Cauty, Susan Chorpenning, CA Conrad, James Kao, Andrew Milward, Vicky Sambunaris, BA Thomas, Margeaux Walter, Patrick Wilson, and Bobby Zokaites. Learn more about the artists here. Artists selected for this program are at all stages of their careers and work in all media, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, interdisciplinary, social practice and architecture. We support the CDC, state and local guidelines for limiting exposure to COVID-19 and is committed keeping our small rural community safe. Each artist can work in uninterrupted solitude as living quarters and studios are private and resident schedules will not overlap. We ask our participating artists to practice social distancing, wear a face mask and diligently use hand sanitizers and disinfectants during your stay. Together we can work together to continue to keep our local infection rate low. |
Watch the recording of Rachel Maxi's Virtual Studio Talk on February 27, 2021
JTHAR resident Rachel Maxi worked on a small and varied body of work that is unique to the experience of the Joshua Tree landscape, incorporating much the same materials and methodology she has been exploring in her current abstract practice: painting, mixed media, assemblage and sculpture and working intuitively. For twenty years, Seattle based artist Rachel Maxi has worked in the realm of representational painting, but more recently her mode of expression has turned to abstraction. She is still inspired by many of the same things she sees in the world: nature, urban landscapes, the quality of light on architecture and trees, walls with patches of painted-over graffiti, and urban decay. Rachel documents these subjects with her camera. The photos serve as inspiration for themes, color, composition and form that might be incorporated into her work later. Rachel works intuitively: when in the studio, she starts tapping into a work rhythm, letting the line, brush or shape go without looking at anything, just letting her hand guide that line, a sort of meditative automatic drawing, carving, and building. Artist website: www.rachelmaxi.com |
