Artist Cathy Allen moved to the hi desert in 1993 to apprentice with Noah Purifoy following her studies at Otis and Claremont where she earned her Master of Fine Arts.. She created a studio in Wonder Valley where she spent the next 30 years practicing in sculpture, installation and performance as a local cultural art maven, as well as being a professor of fine art at Copper Mountain College.
Allen passed away in February of 2022, and her studio is being opened up for tours. Positional Projects is putting it on, and they say that visitors will find displays of methods and raw materials which can offer a view into her process and the potential for continued creative reuse and renewal of the desert. Other artists and cultural workers who knew and loved Allen will facilitate further comprehension of her work.
The studio tour opens Friday, May 10th from 5 to 8PM in Wonder Valley, and there will be Open Studio tours each Saturday and Sunday in May from 11 to 5PM. There are also self-guided audio tours in Joshua Tree and Wonder Valley, as well as images of 60 of Allen’s Non-Urban Renewal Projects at Visit29.
You can sign up for the many different performances and events and tours at this link.
