Highlights from the Visual Arts Joshua Tree trip:
- Andrea Zittel, artist and designer, built a studio and home in Joshua Tree. She started non-profit high desert test sites for temporary artist projects to explore and utilize the Joshua Tree Landscape. California Baptist University Visual Art students toured her home, studio, and wagon camp of experimental “pod” structures that she designed and built for people to be able to camp in a few times a year.
- Artist Noah Purifoy spent the last 15 years of his life building the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum in Joshua Tree. These five acres are covered in hundreds of objects made from recycled materials ranging in size. He died in 2004. He currently has a retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
- Encountering Integratron. Integratron is a wood half dome built for its acoustic properties. Students got to experience a 45 minute Sound Bath from quartz crystal bowls that bounce around the room and travel the lengths of the structural beams inside the space.
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