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Desert Artists, Featured

The Desert Dreams of Flying to the Moon

by Sharman Apt RussellApril 20, 2025

Editor’s note: In a chapter from her forthcoming book, Sharman Apt Russell visits the Coso Rock Art Site near Ridgecrest. “Petroglyphs are something I travel toward,” she writes, describing the images as animate and full of Being. The Desert Dreams…

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Borderlands: Hazel Sheckler on the California Frontier

by Ann JapengaFebruary 14, 2025

The 22-year-old traveling the stagecoach road from San Diego into the backcountry seemed destined to be a lady. Born Hazel Marguerite Finch, she was trained in piano and art in South Pasadena schools and was on her way to a…

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Carl Bray Revisionism, Jane Culp’s Bighorn Skull Studies, Fair Ladies, Agnes’ Encourager and More

by Ann JapengaJuly 29, 2024

When the City of Indian Wells bulldozed Carl Bray’s home and gallery in 2010, an epic David versus Goliath story ended. The City had tried to evict Bray for decades because his hand-built home on Hwy 111 clashed with their…

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Rings of Fire: John Hilton’s Pop-Up Art Camp in the Borrego Badlands

by Larry HughesMay 12, 2024

Larry Hughes’ new book Rings of Fire tells the story of a little-known mining camp that doubled as an art camp during WWII. The calcite crystals mined there were used to make gunsights for ships and aircraft. At the center…

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The Professor of Palomar: Pioneering California Artist Robert Haley Asher

by Ann JapengaMarch 17, 2024

Just after midnight on January 1st, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson pressed a telegraph button in Washington D.C.; the signal shot across the country to launch the start of the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. In the harbor, the USS San…

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Edgewalker: Columba Krebs’ Search for Cosmic Community

by Ann JapengaNovember 11, 2023

On the final night of the Joshua Tree spacecraft convention in 1958, Hollywood stuntmen tumbled seven stories off the face of Giant Rock. Columba Krebs waited in the wings while organizer George Van Tassel’s daughters performed songs taught to them…

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