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Please join the ARLIS/NA Southern California Chapter for our annual Fall Business Meeting in the desert. The event will take place over two days from Friday, October 4th, in Palm Springs to Saturday, October 5th, 2019, in Joshua Tree and Pioneertown. On Friday, we will tour the Palm Springs Art Museum, visit to the Archive Study Center, with a chapter meeting and reception to follow. On Saturday, we will tour the Joshua National Park Archive and Museum Collections, followed by a two hour tour of A-Z West, and a special site visit to art book publisher and collector Jerry Sohn’s architectural pavilions by Rachel Whiteread and Arata Isozaki, followed by an optional dinner and/drinks at Pappy and Harriets in Pioneertown.

About the ARLIS/NA Southern California Chapter
ARLIS/SC is the Southern California Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America. Our members include librarians, archivists, curators, and friends from the Southern California area, from San Diego to San Luis Obispo.

About the Palm Springs Art Museum
Founded in 1938, the Palm Springs Art Museum serves many communities in the Coachella Valley through its compelling art exhibitions and wide range of community programming. Located in downtown Palm Springs, the museum’s extensive permanent collection includes significant works by western, contemporary and glass artists, and features temporary exhibitions from internationally acclaimed artists. For more information, visit: https://www.psmuseum.org

About the Archive Study Center
The Archive Study Center, located 3 blocks from the Palm Springs Art Museum, houses special collections of many mid-century architectural drawings and photographs. These include Albert Frey, Harold C. Broderick / Arthur Elrod Associates, Inc., Donald Wexler, E. Stewart Williams, Hugh M. Kaptur, Patrick McGrew, Louis Shoall Miller, Stephen Willard, Harold "Buzz" Waltz, Val Powelson, William F. Cody, and many others. Special Collection materials include architectural drawings, renderings, photographs, negatives, slides, models, correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, postcards, and other unique materials. For more information and to view the library OPAC and OAC, visit: https://www.psmuseum.org/art/collections/library-catalog

About Joshua Tree National Park Archive
The Joshua Tree National Park museum collections document the cultural and natural resources of the park and the park’s efforts to manage those resources. The collections also illustrate the story of the park, its environment, and the people who have inhabited it. Park holdings include small collections of birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, and paleontological specimens; herbarium specimens; mining, homesteading, and prehistoric American Indian artifacts; administrative archives and photographs, and fine art. Significant collections include the William H. and Elizabeth C. Campbell archeological collections, historic photographs, and prehistoric ollas. For more info, visit: https://www.nps.gov/jotr/learn/historyculture/collections.htm

About A-Z West
A-Z West is an artwork located on over seventy acres in the California high desert next to Joshua Tree National Park. Since it’s inception A-Z West has functioned as an evolving testing grounds for living—a place in which spaces, objects, and acts of living all intertwine into a single ongoing investigation into what it means to exist and participate in our culture today. “How to live?” and “What gives life meaning?” are core issues in both Zittel’s personal life and artistic practice. Answering these questions has entailed exploring complex relationships between our need for freedom, security, autonomy, authority, and control—observing how structure and limitations often have the capacity to generate feelings of freedom beyond open-ended choices. Works and projects at A-Z West include: Zittel’s home/testing grounds, the Wagon Station Encampment, Regenerating Field, shipping container compound, A-Z West studio and weaving studio, A-Z West satellite cabins, the Planar Pavilions, a ten-acre parcel for High Desert Test Sites projects, and several adjacent parcels slated for future projects. For more info, visit: http://www.zittel.org/work/a-z-west

About Jerry Sohn
Jerry Sohn is an art book publisher and collector with architectural pavilions by Rachel Whiteread and Arata Isozaki on his property in Pioneertown. To learn more, please visit:

• A Look Back at Arata Isozaki's Idiosyncratic Joshua Tree Pavilions, Archinect, March 11, 2019
• A Pair of ‘Ghost’ Cabins in Joshua Tree, Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2017
• Between Heaven and Earth, DOMUS, May 25, 2011

Because each site that we will tour has varying capacity, we will be releasing tickets that indicate which tours still have remaining spots available. There is no price difference, so purchase your tickets early to maximize the number of sites you will have the opportunity to visit. If you anticipate not being able to attend any of the tours on your ticket, go ahead and purchase the currently available ticket and email us at [log in to unmask].

Additional details including the schedule, carpooling, tours, reception, places to stay, where to eat, places to explore, and safety tips can be found on the event page.

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ARLIS/NA Southern California Chapter