mission
YVML’s mission is to enrich the desert region’s creative landscape by offering multi-disciplinary, fully accessible programming and education for artists and musicians ages 16 and older to deepen their skills in glass, fiber, rubber, wood, metal, music, and experimental sound. YVML investigates new modes of making through immersive, hands-on material exploration, personalized instruction, and public dialogue.
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Yucca Valley Material Lab is a 501c3 non-profit organization that was established in 2019. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Yucca Valley Material Lab are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law (EIN: 83-3715029). Unless otherwise specified, your generous contribution will support the Lab's artist and musician residencies, workshop scholarships, and public event programs.
workshops
Deep 'sunset work'.
Colors deepening into jewel tones; orange and pink sherbet. Always the faint perceptible tint of urban smog hanging over the mountains. I see raptors, rabbits, birds that look like tiny fish as their silhouetted bodies undulate across the sky. A lonely swallow balancing on a power line swaying in the wind. The carcass of an off road tire sprawled out so as to resemble an alligator coming out of the ground.
The desert is divine.
The desert is dirty.
The desert is deadly.
The flickering porch lights tell me the kiln is still running.
Martyna Szczesna, AiR September, 2019
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