Homestead Obsession:
Chris Carraher, Scott Monteith, Robert Arnett & Perry Hoffman
Artists who have made the homestead cabins a major subject of their work
will be showing at the Fi-Lox-See. Open Weekends 10a-5p
Festival Opening Saturday February 9, 2-7p
With special guests, historical exhibit, music, kids activities and more.
Fi-Lox-See is located 8.7 miles east of downtown Twentynine Palms off Highway 62 (2 miles east of Twentynine Palms Airport, just past the curve in HWY 62); look for the blue call box on the left at mile marker 42 and turn south (right) on Fi-Lox-See Avenue. The gallery is at the end of the road on the left.
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Homestead Show 'n Tell:
Open Gallery/Open Stage at The Palms.
Artists, writers, performers, musicians, and you!
To find out how to participate and directions click here!!
Gallery show Feb-March, open daily(closed Tuesdays). Opening party with Open Stage Saturday, Feb. 23. with performances by The Sibleys, The Hafler Duo, Shari Elf and Wonder Valley Extraordinaire!
Homestead cabins:
a unique cultural expression of the Hi-Desert
The Festival is a homegrown Wonder Valley no-profit grassroots effort organized by the Homestead Cabinet and Wonder Valley Arts with the goal of discovering the history, celebrating the culture, and strengthening the community of Wonder Valley.
© 2008 Homestead Cabinet & Wonder Valley Arts
Scott Monteith
Chris Carraher
Perry Hoffman
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Robert Arnett
The homestead cabins that dot the wild desert landscape of Wonder Valley can provoke both curiosity and unease in the outsider, but to the residents of Wonder Valley they’re part of our home. They connect us as
a community. Through the arts, the Wonder Valley Homestead Cabin Festival will explore the cultural legacy of the Small-Tract Homestead Act.
The homestead cabins are the basis of a special culture built upon a combination of resourcefulness, creativity, and determination that is increasingly rare in the monotonous suburban landscapes of California.
The proliferation of small residential structures on 5-acre parcels, many of them never used or long abandoned, altered a wild desert unsuited to most human uses, but the desert, in turn, continues to act on both the cabins and the residents, resulting in a dynamic “tidal zone” of wilderness and human endeavor.
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