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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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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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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Inspired by the Mexican Arboles del la Vida, La Quinta–based artist Ellen Kimmel created Hope and Renewal, a hand-built ceramic Tree of Life candelabra, for her stepson and his fiancé, who were set to be married in Los Angeles when their wedding was cancelled due to fears of the spreading novel coronavirus. The work earned […]
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Ryan Campbell’s run as artist-in-residence at Palm Springs Art Museum was abruptly cut short when the institution shuttered until October due to the spread of COVID-19. The tours, talks, and workshops he had planned were canceled, and his other projects and sales were put on hold. He’s now back in his Cathedral City studio, adding […]
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Quarantine. Distance. Isolation. The conditions under which we’ve been living since California’s shelter-at-home order went into effect also provide the nomenclature for The Pandemic Paintings, a new series of surrealist works by Palm Springs–based artist Anne Faith Nicholls. “This collection of three small oil paintings considers the place of art, and the artist, in a […]
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Sheltered in place with autoimmune disorder and socially distant from her boyfriend for almost two months, La Quinta–based freelance writer Crystal Harrell turned to her craft, launching a spoken word project to express her feelings and hope. “Like many others during this time, social distancing has affected me emotionally and sometimes stifles my motivation,” she […]
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There’s a good reason the cactus prevails as the subject in paintings by Zachary James Fleming-Boyles: “I’m fascinated by the ease at which they could be propagated, and I consider them a symbol of resilience,” he says. “I render my paintings in bright, highly saturated colors suggestive of reality to impart a sense of hope, […]
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“Many of us are dealing with the concerns of not knowing when we will be able to go about our normal lives again,” says artist Anthony Irizarry, aka Mackaroni Tony, whose latest drawing, titled Is it Safe Yet?, depicts a puppy stepping out from its doghouse wearing a surgical mask. “My drawing shows these feelings […]
‘Mackaroni Tony’ draws masked canine to ‘Keep Art Alive’ Read More »
Right now, Cristopher Cichocki (pronounced cha-ha-skee) should be basking in the success of his massive, multimedia art installation at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival — a career-making show for audience of tens of thousands of revelers at the Empire Polo Club in Indio and hundreds of thousands more on social media. Instead, the […]
