Joshua Tree’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk features heavy rockers Stone Levitation with sign language interpreter to support art from the deaf

At the Art Queen stage there will be live music starting with Dead in the Desert from 6:45–7:30 p.m. drawing inspiration from the Grateful Dead and other classic rock covers as well as their own original material. Closing out the night is Madame Harlequin + The Feel-Abouts at 8:15, and between both bands at 7:30 p.m., Stone Levitation brings its “deep space heavy riff rock” to an outdoor performance in front of La Matadora Gallery, who are presenting the opening of their Deaf Art show from 6:00-9:00 p.m featuring all deaf artists curated by Collena Hake and Rowan O’Brian. We asked Wendy Gadzuk and Tony Buhagiar from Stone Levitation about the paradox of their loud volume and the American Sign Language interpreter that will accompany their performance:

“That was the whole premise, with Colleena being a deaf person, she wanted intentionally to have a heavy loud band play at this show that’s deaf art. That’s the name of the show,” said Gadzuk.

“We’re gonna try to make everybody leave deaf (laughter). But you know, I guess learning from Colleena, there’s degrees of deafness, of course. Some deaf people are able to receive the lower sound waves into their body and get sort of an idea of what’s happening musically and then sign language person there gives them something else to enjoy the show,” said Buhagiar.

The sign language interpreter is Christopher Cardona who also accompanied fellow heavy riff rockers Flames of Durga when they played Mon Petit Mojave over the summer. 

Continuing with the visual art, Coyote Little we be continuing their “Cigarettes and Unprocessed Trauma” group show, and Milk Thistle will be celebrating their grand opening inside the Art Queen complex. Food will be available from the Scorpion Club Pop-up during the event.

Juniper Arts presents their Hive Desert Swarm group exhibition featuring over twenty artists Opening reception from 5:00-9:00 p.m.

Hey There Projects presents the paired exhibition of Georg Barber (also known as ATAK) and Maggie Boyd. Opening reception from 6:00-9:00 p.m.