BOXO Projects’ Treenial begins this Friday (11/7)

BOXO Projects brings back their annual arts and culture event beginning Friday. The Joshua Treenial features dozens of events across the hi-desert. BOXO Projects founder Bernard Liebov was a guest on a recent episode of the Z107.7 Up Close Show, where he explained the event to host Gary Daigneault.

“The Joshua Treenial is an exhibition of primarily outdoor installations on a theme. It brings together a group of artists to explore that theme. It’s all on the BOXO Project’s property.

I realized that to me the community around art is as important at least as the objects and the work.

And so the Joshua Treenial is all in one site so that it creates that sense of community in a very definite way. The artists are there, the audience is there, other people are there, and it brings everybody together.”

On Friday, ecologist and desert conservationist Luke Basulto and artist Aidan Koch will hold a lecture and collaborative drawing exercise on climate, art and connection to the local landscape. This event is at Desertrade, located at 6750 Sherman Road in Twentynine Palms, beginning at 4:00 p.m.

An opening reception for the entire event will be held on Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at BOXO Projects, located at 62732 Sullivan Road. Expect to see strange large and small scale artwork that exists within the desert’s natural landscape. The event continues through Sunday and the following weekend. 

Visit boxoprojects.com for the full schedule.