Smaller Footprints

Is gender revealed by these works of art, and is there a distinctive eco-feminist approach to environmental concerns? The phrase, “women’s unique perspective” appeared in the ‘Call for Entries’ to WEAD members to submit works of art for the “Smaller Footprints” exhibition that addressed climate change. The urgent need for humanity to curtail its current…

Food Waste

The City of Palmdale is hosting a special screening of the documentary “Dive!” on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 2 pm at the Chimbole Cultural Center, located at 38250 Sierra Highway in Palmdale. Inspired by a curiosity about our country’s careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker…

The Discarded Museum

DEHSART artist and founder Larissa Nickel was published in the ARID Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology with an article on the networks of discards in relation to museums as sites of object preservation and inspiration. Below is an excerpt from that article. Larissa Nickel, The Crate, Digital Photograph, 2013 To consider a dump site as…

DEHSART Reflection

As an eco-art project, DEHSART is an exploration of science, engineering, art, and design that informs transdisciplinary action for tackling ecological issues and reveals an experimental curatorial approach with methodologies that embrace recycling, reuse, repurposing and creative strategies combined with disciplines of cultural anthropology, economics, sociology, archaeology, geography, history, and environmental studies. DEHSART asks many…

DEHSART’S Illegal Dumping PSA

Hinterculture productions created a Public Service Announcement based on the votes from our public engagement activity that asked you what message you wanted to emphasized to activate community involvement in illegal dumping. The community overwhelmingly decided REPORTING is the message that needs to be broadcast and encouraged in the region to address the illegal dumping…

From Space with Love,

JENNIFER FROM JCPENNEY® MEOW. Jennifer from JCPenney® has a special way of communicating via animals and sound combining art with symbols that transcend the boundaries of time, culture and dimension. With her special interest in the Antelope Valley aerospace industry, she transmits messages and travels here often to report on space among other things. Thanks…

FORÊT INTÉRIEURE/INTERIOR FOREST

THE FORÊT INTÉRIEURE/INTERIOR FOREST IS A DRAWING OF A FOREST, A SHARED DREAM. Based on an ongoing exchange with the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous, Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant’s multi-faceted project Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest—encompassing a series of public drawing sessions, reading groups, artist collaborations and an installation at 18th Street Arts Center—focuses on…

Engaged and Inspired: DEHSART

DEHSART is profiled on KCET Artbound. Evan Senn-“Lancaster, Palmdale, and Apple Valley aren’t widely known as an art haven or a creative mecca. But the high desert can often be a catalyst for artists and creative types, fueling inspiration for their most innovative work. The magic of the high desert is elusive. Perhaps, the dry,…

Progress?

GUEST ARTIST KENNY KING. Courtesy of Kenny King My first experience to the High Desert was in the mid 1970s with my mom & dad, and I wondered why someone would live here. A couple years later we moved to Desert View Highlands, west side of Palmdale. At the time it was small town and…

AMGEN Race to Art Jersey

VOTE FOR ENTRY #26! Entry #26 DEHSART created a “Report Illegal Dumping” jersey design for the City of Palmdale’s Race to Art challenge in conjunction with the Stage 3 start of the eight-day Amgen Tour of California–America’s largest international professional cycling race. The jersey was made using an artistic textile technique that uses heat from an…

Eco-Art

“The ecological artist of today works directly with nature creating site-specific installations that address the ecology of a specific region. Reclamation of brown fields, filtration of rivers, and restoration of wetlands are some of the activities that are currently being approached as art environments. These artists are concerned with creating a dialogue with the communities in which they are…

Domestic Integrities

DOMESTIC 1A: LIVING NEAR OR ABOUT HUMAN HABITATIONS  1B: TAME, DOMESTICATED 2: OF, RELATING TO, OR ORIGINATING WITHIN A COUNTRY AND ESPECIALLY ONE’S OWN COUNTRY 3: OF OR RELATING TO THE HOUSEHOLD OR THE FAMILY 4: DEVOTED TO HOME DUTIES AND PLEASURES   INTEGRITY IS A CONCEPT OF CONSISTENCY OF ACTIONS, VALUES, METHODS, MEASURES, PRINCIPLES,…