This Saturday, May 3, Compound YV gallery will be celebrating their seven-year anniversary as well as their new non-profit status with an all-day party from noon to 6:00 p.m. with food, music, a zine swap, and a performance of homemade steel-strong resonators and electronic signal generators that will explore possibilities of electromagnetism.
After years of fiscal sponsorship from Arts Connection, Compound Curator and Operations Manager Caroline Partamian says she is excited about the art space’s independence and the new opportunities for local artists moving forward:
“Now that we’re becoming our own nonprofit, we’re going to have a bunch more opportunities to be able to apply for other grants for fundraising, and it’s exciting because we’ll be able to fundraise more money to make more opportunities for artists. The programming at Compound is not gonna change as it has been the last seven years but there’s just going to be more opportunities to pay the artists who are involved with exhibitions, more workshops for our community, more events for our community, and paying artists for materials that they use,” said Partamian.
Compound YV is calling Saturday’s celebration “Seventh Spring,” featuring pop-ups by Hi-Desert Times and Galaxy Pies, a zine swap, experimental performances by Derek Monypenny and Michael Bailey, and much more.
“Saturday is a big event that is celebrating all of this. We’re going to have a membership drive so we can have the folks who’ve been supporting us for the last seven years become members of Compound and support us that way. We have a biannual scene swap at Compound so that is going to be part of the event. We’re going to have our three back bays in our backyard activated by artists who sort of have more commerce based practices, so they’re going to be building art installations out of those. We’re going to have Liz Lapp from Hi-Desert Times make a magazine installation in the back called the “Table of Contents,” and then we’re going to have Alexander Martinez who runs Galaxy pies make slogans out of pies, and then artist Doreen Quinn will be selling her ceramics and building an immersive creosote misty environment with a tea ceremony in the back of one of the bays. Other Desert Radio is gonna curate DJ throughout the day from 12:00 to 4:00 and then starting at 4:00 PM we’re gonna have experimental music sets from Derek Monypenny as well as Michael Bailey and his new project The Spiral Energy Conduits.”
Compound YV’s Seventh Spring celebration runs from noon to 6:00 p.m. this Saturday, May 3 at 55379 Twentynine Palms Hwy in Yucca Valley by Snakebite Roadhouse.
