This has been a challenging year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has left many non-profit venues like the 29 Palms Art Gallery with no income to pay for normal monthly expenses, let alone unexpected maintenance issues. Lori Rennie and Ed Keesling joined the Z107.7 Up-Close show last Friday and reporter Cassidy Zimarik has the call for donations to the 29 Palms Art Gallery…
“When the virus hit, we closed down and prior to that we had been trying to deal with mice problems and things like that but after we closed down, we came in one day and couldn’t set the alarm.”
Ed Keesling of the 29 Palms Art Gallery said the gallery is in need of community help as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Donations are needed now to help fund some serious maintenance issues to the historic adobe gallery, a nearly 70-year landmark in Twentynine Palms. With the absence of activity in the gallery since mid-March, Lori Rennie said desert rodents decided to move into the historic building.
“They literally have dug a tunnel system through the internal adobe walls”
A fundraising campaign, called #29strong The Little Gallery That Could, has been launched to repair chewed wires, replace a security system, hire a professional service to provide abatement, repair points of rodent entry, and sanitize areas of waste contamination.
“And as I said, those funds are all designated for work that needs to be done on the adobe structure itself.”
To learn more about this campaign and how you can help the historic gallery, visit www.29palmsartgallery.com/29strong.
