We invite you to join us for online programming during the Pandemic
Fostering creative, independent and diverse ideas and visions in the photographic arts and contemporary culture.
Programs
Lectures and Seminars
Invitational Artist Residency
Individual & Group Critique
Notable and inspiring photographic artists, curators, and educators share their work, ideas and experience.
Individual & Group Critique
Invitational Artist Residency
Individual & Group Critique
Gain valuable constructive criticism and direction for your photographic work from knowledgeable professionals.
Invitational Artist Residency
Invitational Artist Residency
Invitational Artist Residency
Time and space to focus on your photographic art practice in the extraordinary
Joshua Tree environment.
Resource Library
Resource Library
Invitational Artist Residency
Books, catalogues and articles on photographic artists, history, technology, and approaches.
Exhibitions
Resource Library
Exhibitions
Learn about opportunities to show your work locally and beyond.
Workshops
Resource Library
Exhibitions
Further develop your ideas, vision and voice, skills and career with hands-on workshops led by professional artists and educators in the photographic arts.
ABOUT US
Sant Khalsa, Founding Director
Sant Khalsa is an artist, educator and curator with more than four decades of experience and accomplishments in the photographic arts. Her photo-based art practice focuses on complex environmental and societal issues. Khalsa's works are widely exhibited, published and acquired by museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and UCR/California Museum of Photography. In March 2012, she was honored as the first recipient of the Society for Photographic Education Insight Award for her significant contributions to the field of photography. She is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino, where she taught for thirty years and served as Chair of the Department of Art (2003-2012). http://www.santkhalsa.com
Advisory Council
Kim Stringfellow, Transmedia Artist, Guggenheim Fellow, and Professor of Art at San Diego State University. http://www.kimstringfellow.com
Mary Virginia Swanson, Photo Educator, Author, Consultant and Entrepreneur. https://mvswanson.com
Liz Allen, Director/Curator of Arizona State University's Northlight Gallery in Phoenix https://art.asu.edu/galleries-and-facilities/northlight-gallery and Chair of the Society for Photographic Education. https://www.spenational.org
Lewis deSoto, Artist (Photography, Sculpture, Installation, and Public Art) and Professor of Art, Emeritus at San Francisco State University. http://lewisdesoto.net/
Steven Biller, Author, Editor-in-Chief at Palm Springs Life and Desert X board member. https://www.palmspringslife.com