Llano Art Project Set for Release

Special notice contributed by Larissa Nickel:

The rural Los Angeles County high desert region of Llano, California has historically been defined by innovative people willing to explore and define a new sense of place. “Yestermorrow Llano: An Artist’s Field Guide to Llano, California” introduces the past, present, and future narratives of Llano including its relationship to the local, regional, and global contexts of place—and their own yestermorrows.

Yestermorrow Llano: An Artist’s Field Guide to Llano, CA

Date: Saturday, July 7, 2018

Time: 10 am-12 pm (noon)

Location: Blue Sky’s Bistro

12822 Pearblossom Hwy,

Pearblossom, CA 93553

Throughout the feminist geography field guide are cultural references, historical clippings, an artist’s archive, educational prompts, and collaborative activities to activate your sensory and artistic experiences of Llano. Create perfume, form a book club, make a recipe, or discover, map, architect, and construct your looking glass connection to the high desert by envisioning a geographic imagination and aesthetic experience of place through Llano’s cultural memory, collective present, and social futures.

Visitors at this release event can stop by the courtyard at Blue Sky’s Bistro to receive a free contemporary wallpaper design of Aldous Huxley’s “Crows of Pearblossom,” discover more about Llano, including its sights, sounds, tastes, and smells, and play a speculative design game of New Llano utopography to reveal the futures of your own experimental utopian communities.

“Yestermorrow Llano” is supported by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Antelope Valley Arts Outpost creative placemaking initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council with support from Metabolic Studio.

Outpost partners include: the Otis College of Art and Design MFA Public Practice program (Otis), the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), the Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance (GAVEA), the Department of Regional Planning, and the Office of 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger.

Yestermorrow is a platform for cultural innovation and collective public engagement designed by Larissa Nickel to present new museological and archival perspectives to our past, present, heterotopian, and future experiences of place. Her work can be found at larissanickel.com

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This article was contributed by the artist behind the project, who has been involved in a number of projects highlighting the art and ecology of our desert region: DEHSART & Hinterculture and others.  Take a look!

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Celebrating the Desert – Call for Submissions

Artists take inspiration from many places, including the physical world around them. This is especially true for artists living in remarkable places like we do in Antelope Valley, surrounded by the Mojave Desert, the San Gabriel Mountains and the Tehachapi Mountains. Our Joshua Trees, our dry lake beds and our hordes of ravens all make for some compelling and iconic artistic fodder.

People outside the Antelope Valley know this – probably without realizing it – because the Antelope Valley shows up in so many movies, music videos and commercials (especially car commercials). The visual landscape here is special.

In the spirit of celebrating the desert and celebrating our little corner of the world, we would like to invite artists to send in images inspired (directly or indirectly) by the local landscape.

Please send one or two images to poeticwax@rocketmail.com and include your name. Include a brief bio too if you’d like.

We’ll post the desert art here at AV Arts and link it to our Facebook Page.

While the turnout will most likely be humble, that is perfectly okay. Little celebrations count too.

Antelope Valley Anthology v. 7 – Call for Submissions

Criteria for 2010 Antelope Valley Anthology Submission MousePrints Publishing, The Unknown Writers of the Antelope Valley, and WORD AV, the Antelope Valley Literacy Coalition, now officially opens the submission process for the 2010 Antelope Valley Anthology.

Submissions may be prose or poetry. Poetry may be no more than 100 lines per poem. No more than five poems may be entered. The poems may be any form.

Prose submissions may be in the form of short fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, or reportage. Prose submissions may not be longer than 5000 Words. Prose Submissions must be in standard format—12 point type, double-spaced in Times New Roman or some equivalent font. No “Strange” fonts will be accepted.

Poetry may be single spaced. All submissions must come as Rich Text Format (rtf) attachments to e mail. No paper/hard copies will be accepted.

All submissions must be marked with contributors name, mailing address, phone number, e mail address, and word count. Pages must be numbered. No submission will be accepted without name, address, phone number and word count.

Submissions will be accepted from 1 January, 2010 through 31 May, 2010.

Please send all entries to mouseprint@earthlink.net For further information regarding the 7th Antelope Valley Anthology please e mail the above address.

All submissions will be acknowledged. Those submissions chosen for inclusion in the Anthology will receive one free copy of the anthology, a small token payment in money, and a gift from MousePrints Publishing. Also, those included in the Anthology will receive a continuing 50% discount on copies of the Anthology in which their submission appears. THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE FOR THE 7TH ANTELOPE VALLEY ANTHOLOGY