Beth Abaravich
Lipstick is my muse. It's more than a physical object, it's a feminized phallus. Acting as my surrogate it occupies both masculine and feminine roles, allowing a fluidity I seldom encounter in daily life.
@bethabaravich @thebethdressed www.bethabaravich.com
Susan Adams
My work focuses on breathing new life into textile remnants and vintage fabrics, transforming them into unique, handcrafted pieces. Through a blend of traditional techniques and modern sustainability, I create items that honor both craft and environment. My creations include pouches and bags, slow stitched clothing, and talisman pouches. Each item reflects my commitment to artisanal quality and my passion for storytelling through texture, color, and form.
Etsy: montanakyddstitchery
IG: @montanakydd
Dev Bailey
A Fermata is a musical notation symbol, a downward crest with a dot under it, which tells the artist to hold a note or rest until otherwise directed. These are often used to dramatic effect as a way of punctuating or calling attention to an important moment within the greater piece of music being played.
Every aspect of this piece is a representation of my fermata here in Joshua tree, from the vistas to the stars, all depicted using techniques I have learned from my new community since moving here.
Piper Cort
As a child I dreamed of being a painter or a fashion designer. In the mid eighties I began making fairies with my daughters. As I was painting their wings and fashioning their hats,shoes and outfits I realized I was living the dream. So my advice is to dream big but not forget the small ways you can make your dreams come true.
The fairies are on hiatus until my hands have the precision one needs for fashioning fairies. In the meantime I am enjoying crocheting my hats and sewing my freak flags.
Paula Durrant
My goal was to use a wide variety of materials. So included in this piece cotton, silk, wool and acrylic yarn, pipe cleaners, pattern paper, netting with sparkle, palm tree bark, black silk fabric and silk fiber, packing paper, steel wool, wooden buttons, sparkle thread, and white fabric tape.
Julianne Elliott
I love using textiles from around the world. Central and South American fabrics are my favorites. I am also an assemblage artist, so my work sometimes combines both textiles and artifacts I’ve collected.
sitatyourperilchairs.com
Etsy shop: sitatyourperilchairs.
IG: sitatyourperilchairs
IG: @andallopez
Andal Lopez
Andal Lopez is a Mojave High Desert artist based in Joshua Tree, California whose multidisciplinary practice moves fluidly between fashion, textile arts, and design. With decades of experience in sewing, embroidery, crochet, beading, and styling, her work blends handcrafted tradition with a distinctly desert sensibility—transforming everyday materials into expressive, tactile forms.
Through their design label ALMM; founded with partner Meca Mason, Lopez explores themes of identity, resourcefulness, and creative community, often drawing inspiration from the stark beauty and collaborative spirit of the Joshua Tree arts scene. Her practice celebrates slow craft, improvisation, and the transformative potential of making by hand.
Kim Osgood
I love using thread to create scenes of nature, with many being our desert plants.
IG: Osgoodart
​Etsy: OsgoodArtShop
@jefferypink
Jeffery Pinkston
Jeffery works with a variety of methods, from weaving to writing, and prefers to use discarded or secondhand materials. Their work often takes shape along dichotomies: hard vs soft, synthetic and natural, joy and pain. They tap into their history as a factory worker from a city in the Midwest, and juxtapose it with their current life, living with chronic illness in the semi-rural desert. They are working on re-integrating their past with their present by integrating different materials, and hope that their work can engender a kind of reconciliation that they think the world could use a little more of.
IG: fiberverse
Cindy Rinne
The concepts for my mixed media poetry often begin with nature walks, my poetry, a spiritual experience, an exploration of materials, my life story or an observation of other people’s stories. Each visual poem is its own journey. I use many different materials to create mixed-media poetry. People give me pieces of their past in fabrics, vintage buttons and laces so each art work represents community. There are layers revealing destruction, change and beginnings. Thread is drawn free-form like paint on canvas. Drawing and painting with markers, inks and paints brings the individual work of my hand. Additional layers of embellishment and hand embroidery add texture and dimension. This is a connective process that creates a whole out of pieces.
Janice Taitel
Since moving to the hi desert Janice, a pediatrician and Aikido instructor, has been exploring her creativity through ceramics, assemblage and drawing, as well as curating thought-provoking community art shows designed to awaken our compassion.
Cindy Weinstein
In 2017 I immigrated to the desert from the chaos of Los Angeles with my late pup Bogart. We bought a box of rooms on a hill in Joshua Tree and proceded to invent new lives. I’ve been working in the fiber arts realm for most of my life, having learned to knit, crochet, embroider and sew as a child. Later weaving, spinning and natural dying came to the fore as I began exploring ways to combine materials and techniques.
My current work is centered on creating a respite from the darkness and violence of the outer world. Whether I'm working in my home studio, teaching or hosting events my goal is always to bring some much needed calm and quiet to the lives that cross my path and maybe even a little bit of healing.