News Release

Artist in Resident Be in the Wildlife Exhibition

Date: September 17, 2020
Contact: Jennifer Albrinck, 928-638-0520
Contact: Hannah Schwalbe, 760-367-5555

Joshua Tree National Park is partnering with Big Read Morongo Basin on a new art exhibition by Artist in Residence, Sharon Lee Hart. Be in the Wildlife is inspired by Hart’s fall 2019 artist residency at the national park. The exhibition is currently online at www.bigreadmorongobasin.com/exhibitions.

These photo-based works represent a range of perspectives on the park including those of local elementary students, park employees, residents, as well as the artist’s, and connects back to photography’s tangled relationship to space, memory, and time. The online gallery also includes artworks made by local students, and the artist will conduct a virtual educational program with students of the Institute for Inquiry in Joshua Tree, CA.

An in-person exhibition of artworks from Be in the Wildlife will show at the national park’s Black Rock Art Gallery in 2021. The online exhibition and program are a collaboration between The Black Rock Art Gallery and NEA Big Read Morongo Basin presented by Arts Connection.  

 

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For more information see, www.nps.gov/jotr