This 10th Anniversary edition, Desert Futures, took place November 8 – 16, 2025. Viewings are still available by appointment until December 18, 2025. Four previous editions of Joshua Treenial have taken place – please see the Archive and About pages for full details.
Desert Futures:
The desert is the ultimate site of adaption and reinvention. Flora and fauna, including humans, have evolved under changing conditions to thrive in an environment that is often seen as hostile. As global climatic conditions continue to change with temperatures on the rise, solutions developed in the desert find wider application. Traditional cultures developed ways of life best suited to the resource challenges of the desert and thinkers of all sorts have come here to imagine and reimagine. In contemporary society, alternative energy, space exploration bold artistic practices and alternative lifestyles have all sprouted from the desert floor. Joshua Treenial 2025 mines the inspiration, complexities and contradictions of our Desert Futures.
Cultural Partners
Bezerk Productions (featuring Linda Sibio)
Compound YV (featuring Eric Nash, Rachel Ricker, and Stephanie Zalatel)
DESERTRADE (featuring Luke Basulto and Aidan Koch)
Goat Gallery (featuring The Farout Collective and Justin Moore)
Harrison House (featuring Carmen Blackwood, Gary Blackwood, Exoplanet Travel Bureau)
High Desert Test Sites (featuring Cheryl Slean)
JT Lab (featuring Rebecca Lowry)
Aaron and Case Sheppard
Yucca Valley Material Lab (featuring Haydeé Jiménez, Leah Vanessa Bacha, Nate Ober and Sam Shoemaker)
Map of Cultural Partner locations
Press
Palm Springs Life
CV Independent
Gay Desert Guide
Desert Sun
Shoebox Arts
Sponsors
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