HDTS Fellow An-My Lê in conversation with MOCA Senior Curator Anna Katz
New Date: January 10, 2026
High Desert Test Sites Fellow An-My Lê in conversation with MOCA Senior Curator Anna Katz, hosted in the MOCA Grand auditorium, LA.
Fourth Annual Benefit Dinner
High Desert Test Sites
Fourth Annual Benefit Dinner with guest artist Andrea Bowers
March 28, 2026
High Desert Test Sites with guest artist Andrea Bowers is pleased to announce our third annual benefit dinner, a vital opportunity to support our creative work for artists in the high desert and beyond.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 28, 2025 and get ready for an unforgettable evening in Joshua Tree, where art and community come together.
Everything Change: Creative Takes on the Climate Crisis Reading Circle
Everything Change nurtures a regional community of practitioners engaged in climate-responsive artistic practices rooted in the desert’s legacy of adaptation, reinvention, and partnership with the land. Public engagement is invited through experimental, inclusive art.
Everything Change Reading Circle is an invitation for climate arts practitioners and interested community members to read or perform their realized and in-progress works, or excerpts from favorite works on climate-responsive themes. Join us to listen or share.
Readers include: Sarah-Dawn Albani, Annie Connole, Jean Grant, Jardine Libaire, Ruth Nolan, and Natalie Raymond. For other community members who wish to read, there will be a sign-up at the event. The circle will be facilitated by Cheryl Slean and begin with a guided meditation.
High Desert Test Sites is a Cultural Partner of Joshua Treenial 2025!
An afternoon of healing and ritual with Milk Thistle
High Desert Test Sites is excited to host Milk Thistle for an afternoon of healing, ritual, and restoration. You’re invited to drop in anytime between 12:30 and 4pm for a constellation of intimate, hands-on offerings designed to cleanse, ground, and realign the spirit.
Participating practitioners include:
Corinna Rosella, offering custom flower essence rituals to help recalibrate your emotional and energetic field
Jaya, with The Bootleg Tarot—an intuitive reading practice accompanied by playful paper mâché crafting
Cherry, guiding clearing sessions to release trapped emotions and invite balance back into the body
Each ritual session is individually priced, so you can engage with one—or all—of the experiences as you feel called. Milk Thistle will also have a selection of tea samples, apothecary items, and ritual supplies available for purchase.
Make this a meaningful start to your Joshua Treenial weekend: stop by HDTS for healing and reflection before heading to BoxoProjects for the opening events from 2–7pm.
HDTS Edition Eric-Paul Riege Release Party
HDTS Edition Eric-Paul Riege Release Party at Regen Projects (Los Angeles).
Third Annual Benefit Dinner
High Desert Test Sites
Third Annual Benefit Dinner with guest artist Jack Pierson
March 22, 2025
High Desert Test Sites with guest artist Jack Pierson is pleased to announce our third annual benefit dinner, a vital opportunity to support our creative work for artists in the high desert and beyond.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 22, 2025 and get ready for an unforgettable evening in Joshua Tree, where art and community come together.
High Desert Choir rehearsal
High Desert Choir rehearsal
10–11am
The Firehouse (65430 Winters Rd)
High Desert Choir
HDTS and local multidisciplinary artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs present High Desert Choir, a free collaborative vocal group to foster connection among a vast desert community. The Choir supports dialogue and action around community needs of mental health, civic engagement and environmental conservation.
Rehearsals are held at A-Z West (62923 Sullivan Rd, Joshua Tree).
Free and open to all choir-curious to participate and/or observe, all bodies and experience levels (including no experience) are welcome. Kids welcome! Email highdesertchoir@gmail.com to join the mailing list for rehearsal schedules.
The project will culminate with “Distance Duet,” a series of outdoor public performances in the bouldered wash at A-Z West, from Nov. 22–23, 2024.
High Desert Choir
HDTS and local multidisciplinary artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs present High Desert Choir, a free collaborative vocal group to foster connection among a vast desert community. The Choir supports dialogue and action around community needs of mental health, civic engagement and environmental conservation. Rehearsals begin this Saturday, September 21, 11am–12:30pm at A-Z West (62923 Sullivan Rd, Joshua Tree). Free and open to all choir-curious to participate and/or observe, all bodies and experience levels (including no experience) are welcome. Kids welcome! Email highdesertchoir@gmail.com to join the mailing list for rehearsal schedules.
The project will culminate with “Distance Duet,” a series of outdoor public performances in the bouldered wash at A-Z West, from Nov. 22–23, 2024.
High Desert Choir
HDTS and local multidisciplinary artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs present High Desert Choir, a free collaborative vocal group to foster connection among a vast desert community. The Choir supports dialogue and action around community needs of mental health, civic engagement and environmental conservation. Rehearsals begin this Saturday, September 21, 11am–12:30pm at A-Z West (62923 Sullivan Rd, Joshua Tree). Free and open to all choir-curious to participate and/or observe, all bodies and experience levels (including no experience) are welcome. Kids welcome! Email highdesertchoir@gmail.com to join the mailing list for rehearsal schedules.
The project will culminate with “Distance Duet,” a series of outdoor public performances in the bouldered wash at A-Z West, from Nov. 22–23, 2024.
JINEN
Presented in partnership with Tokyo-based Curator's Cube and High Desert Test Sites, JINEN—a traveling exhibition—features work from the artists Dan John Anderson, Kazunori Hamana, Yu Kobayashi and Ido Yoshimoto