Advocacy

With ‘Tribute to the Orderlies,’ Don Porter Wins Grant to ‘Keep Art Alive’

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“Ugly, I know,” Don Porter says of Tribute to the Orderlies, his photograph of a temporary bas-relief sculpture. “I learned the orderlies at the nursing homes have even less PPE than their hospital brothers and sisters.” In this new work created during the shelter-at-home order, Porter depicts an orderly in a tattered yellow gown entering […]

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New Kiln-Worked Glass by Paul Messink Earns CDAC Artist Grant

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Paul Messink — a kiln-work glass artist and instructor who creates hand-painted, multilayered glass panels showing nature and figures in deep dimension — has been using his shelter-in-place time to explore different subjects and experiment with new techniques. His latest work, You Are Not Alone (shown above), on 25 layers of hand-painted glass, responds to the […]

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Gideon Cohn, Lauretta Lowell Win CDAC Grants to ‘Keep Art Alive’

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Two La Quinta-based artists, Gideon Cohn and Lauretta Lowell, have won grants from the California Desert Arts Council (CDAC), whose Keep Art Alive fund is offering financial relief to Coachella Valley artists and arts organizations affected by COVID-19-related cancellations of art exhibitions and performances of all kinds. CDAC and affiliate La Quinta Arts Foundation established […]

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Coachella Valley Arts News – May 2020

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The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument welcomes amateur and professional photographers to participate in a photo contest to mark its 20th anniversary. Photograph by Tom Brewster/courtesy Palm Springs Life and Friends of the Desert Mountains   COVID-19 Arts organizations invited to apply for COVID-19 relief funds (WESTAF)The Western States Arts Federation’s WESTAF […]

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Paige Elizabeth Wajda Writes to Escape and ‘Keep Art Alive’

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Paige Elizabeth Wajda, a science fiction writer and poet with surrealist tendencies, is in her element in the COVID-19 pandemic. “The reason I write is to escape to other worlds, and in those other worlds, find an alternative to suffering,” she says. “The desert is the perfect place to conjure other versions of reality; the […]

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Kas Infinite Projects a Wall of Light to ‘Keep Art Alive’

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A spectacle composed of light and land, Restrictive Measures reveals how Chris Sanchez, aka Kas Infinite — a Coachella-based multimedia artist known for creating dramatic interventions in the environment — feels about sheltering at home. “This is a project that translates my personal experience here in the Coachella Valley during this COVID-19 crisis,” Sanchez says, […]

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Ana Rangel Sings ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ to ‘Keep Art Alive’

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“As a person who grew up hugging and kissing people in hellos, goodbyes, tough times and joyous ones, it’s hard for me to not embrace someone during this pandemic,” says Desert Hot Springs vocalist Ana Rangel, who performed “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Carousel and won a $500 grant to ‘Keep Art Alive’ from the […]

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CDAC Awards ‘Keep Art Alive’ Grant to Artist and Educator Meridy Beth Volz

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Sheltered at home, artist and art educator Meridy Beth Volz of Desert Hot Springs is busy teaching five art classes a week via Skype to boys incarcerated at Indio Juvenile Hall. She was placed at the facility for a pilot program called Art with Heart through the Riverside County Office of Education. Although funds have […]

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CDAC Awards Grants to ‘Keep Art Alive’

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Painters, photographers, singers, writers, animators, and graphic designers received artist relief grants through the Keep Art Alive emergency fund established by the California Desert Arts Council and affiliate La Quinta Arts Foundation. The $50,000 fund awards one-time grants of $500 to individuals and $1,500 to organizations for creating thoughtful and inspiring works responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are […]

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Diego Elias and Family ‘Keep Art Alive’ in a Stirring Music Video

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For Diego Elias of Palm Desert, sheltering at home is a family affair best expressed with the sum of his talents as a sound engineer, musician, and video and animation technician. Six-year-old Evan, 17-year-old Michael, and their camera-shy mom all perform with Elias in the music video for “Raindrops,” which he composed, recorded and, mixed […]

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