Meet the artists who will be co-creating with us at JTMF.
Art is showcased throughout the festival grounds via live painting, stunning murals, interactive art installations, and at the JTMF Art Gallery.
We’ve got so many amazing things in store for you this May, use these quick links to jump to more about:
* MUSIC * POSITIVE VIBRATION STATION * SANCTUARY * QUEER SALON * ASTRO MOJO DOJO * KIDSVILLE * HEALING OASIS * VISUAL ARTS * VENDORS *
May 2024 Visual Artists:
Airy Artist
Yucca Valley native, Kylie Howell, has been developing her skills in art since 2013. Kylie experiments in many styles and mediums including oil pastels, acrylic, watercolor, digital mediums and resin. Her art centralizes around eyes, aliens, and psychedelic themes; allowing the viewer to explore their sense of reality through her art. Enjoy!
Casa Boho
Daniela Blanco, originally from Cochabamba, Bolivia, relocated to Miami, Florida, at the age of 15. Holding a major in Art with minors in Art History and Marketing, she has cultivated a diverse educational background.
Currently residing in San Diego, California, Daniela channels her creative energy from her beachside sanctuary. Her artistic venture, “Casa Boho,” derives its name from the Spanish word for “home” and reflects her deep-rooted connection to the Bohemian ethos inspired by art, music, metaphysics, and her travels.
Drawing inspiration from her environment and physical and spiritual explorations, Daniela’s art captures surreal imagery and employs impressionistic colors to weave enchanting narratives. Each piece offers a whimsical landscape that invites viewers to embark on an uplifting journey of perception and imagination.
Cecilia Paints
Cecilia Romero is a seasoned Southern Californian artist, muralist and musician. She infuses her creations with vibrant hues and uplifting themes, drawing inspiration from her inner child, travels, and love for animals, people, and music. Raised in Los Angeles amid its rich artistic landscape, she honed her skills, transitioning from portraiture to murals in her twenties. Her portfolio boasts collaborations with major brands like Visa, Estrella Jalisco and Twitch, alongside community-focused projects such as school murals in Mexico and Los Angeles. Now based in Yucca Valley, Cecilia’s art studio serves as a hub for her creativity, while she also travels the world, spreading her vibrant art and message of hope. When she isn’t painting murals or in her studio, she is playing music in her band, Flames Of Durga. With a mission to inspire fellow women to create art and pursue their creative dreams, Cecilia’s work exudes energy and healing, enriching communities and spaces worldwide.
CJ Troxell
CJ Troxell is a self taught artist whose style has been described as “pop surrealism.” Polarizing themes are common in his work; life and death, dark and light, etc. as well as social and environmental commentary. His preferred medium is acrylic and paints both canvas and murals. Music is a huge part of his creative process with influences from all over the world. CJ loves JTMF dearly and is so so SO thankful for the opportunity to work with them.
Cozy Jossi
Jossimar has made it a mission of principal to give things another life before they end up in the landfill. Currently Jossimar’s passion has been to create through unused or unwanted material. Various things cross our paths and most if not all of the materials used are donated, found or scavenged. Often the material’s structure, color, texture or even history determine the direction or concept of the art piece. Jossimar loves finding inspiration through challenges that the world brings and translates the beauty in this through universal imagery combined with bright colors. This highlights the importance of all materials created and the necessity of re-purposing, allowing art and sustainability to merge. Giving a new and hopeful context to darker elements of the world. To remind us all that we can change anything into the positive force we see it as.
Emily Higgins
I started my painting journey at 21 after a talented friend had me visit their studio and they set a canvas, paint and brushes in front of me and gave me the opportunity to express myself through acrylic and I never looked back. This is my first live painting experience and I am so ready to get connected, be inspired and create with all of you beautiful people!
IllestRated
Live painter, muralist, collaborator, and art installer from Diego to the Bay. My passion for creating visual art is rooted in my love for music, nature, and life… Fueled by electronic dance music and hip-hop/ festival/ dj culture, and social justice; my work provides a visual link to those performing and pays tribute to heroes who have passed. Upon moving to the Bay Area in 2009 it has been my goal to become the “Illestrated” live painter in the dance music community painting on stage along with many of my favorite djs and artists at some of the best venues in the Bay Area and beyond.
KDG
Krystal Gomez more known by her artist name KDG is a Pomona based artist. Her style is constantly evolving but what is always consistent is her use of color.
Since 2015 she has been exploring how color directly influences a subject and the emotion. Her belief that color can brighten up the world has taken her into exploring various mediums. Through self study she has learned how to use mediums such as acrylic, gouache, pastel, watercolor, and ink.
In 2019 she taught herself the art of spray painting. Since then she has taken her belief in color and started painting murals. While KDGs artwork started out as just an exploration of a hobby, it quickly turned into an exploration of how to make her life more colorful in a literal and metaphorical sense.
Kelly Sinclair
What happens when we dream with, or are dreamt BY the land? Kelly Sinclair is a place-based illustrator, painter, and writer whose creative work courts this question. Joyfully rooted in the knowing that our lives and dreams are inseparable from the health of the land, Kelly’s prints, paintings and commissions are odes to the deep, sometimes hidden nature of wild places the inner landscapes we hold within. In love with the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, Kelly’s work for Joshua Tree Music Fest celebrates the weird and wonderful creatures who call these deserts home. Kelly believes restoring integrity to our relationships with place requires #LANDBACK into the hands of indigenous stewards and their allies. Follow Kelly at @blacklavarocks and join her (really fun!) art newsletter at www.kelly-sinclair.com.
LadyEgg
The Lady Egg lives in downtown Phoenix AZ. She studied sculpture at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA, the state in which she was born and raised. She was raised on Windows 95 and Legos. The internet ruined her life in the best way possible. She juggles (literal objects as well as metaphorical hats). She’s nostalgic. She paints (a lot). She loves power tools and taking naps. She’s queer. She is hype about mental health and encourages unhinged vulnerability. She is never bored and always maybe just a little bit tired. She’s a big baby pretending to be a real person.
Lance Paullin
A self taught painter residing in Los Angeles, California. His work steers through a range of styles from psychedelic and abstract to post-impressionistic and surrealism. He was a featured muralist at the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival. He’s also a recurring artist at Lighting in a Bottle Festival held in Kern County, California. He was a part of the 2023 “EBTKS” group exhibition at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood, CA and his work was recently featured in Juxtapoz.
Lines With Lee
Jeff Lee is a multifaceted artist whose creations push traditional boundaries, merging experimental, psychological, and psychedelic concepts. With a focus on the concept of ‘flow’, his work—from tactile sculptures and fluid ink pieces to dynamic video art—explores manifestations of desire, perception, and transformation. Drawing inspiration from his familial artistic heritage, Jeff’s portfolio includes portraits, landscapes, and intricate designs. Beyond visual arts, Jeff is a yoga instructor, martial artist, and photographer, embodying a holistic & creative life. His art invites audiences into a participatory dialogue, fostering deep introspection and a personal connection with each piece, reflecting the boundless possibilities of artistic expression.
Louise Gasca
Louise Gasca was born in Aldershot, England. She studied Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire and went on to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. After relocating to the US, Louise has continued to teach and create art in many different forms. She is always willing and eager to try new ideas and media, pushing the visual outcome to a place of beauty and excitement.
Working mainly with acrylics, Louise is heavily influenced by tattoo art in all its forms, especially the American Traditional style. Through her work you catch a glimpse into how Louise sees the world. With all the beauty, vibrancy and constant motion it holds. As such her work is always developing and changing, each piece leads her into the next.
Currently Louise works as a tattoo artist and art instructor based out of Orange County CA. Here she is able to share her love and enthusiasm for all types of tattoo design and the radical self expression it allows people to make.
Marcella Swett
I am a Southern California artist who enjoys working in a variety of mediums when creating my work.
My images range from atmospheric blurry nebulous imagery to narrative editorial work containing symbolically intertwined elements. From wood panels to wall murals, I paint and create work on a variety of surfaces and sizes as well.
When I’m not working in my studio, I enjoy out -of-town adventures, participating in street art festivals and creating joyous memories in the company of others! I fondly refer to the JTMF as my “Happy Place!”
After years of attending and wanting to give back I started live painting at the fest. It can be a struggle at times trying to paint when the music is bumping and I want to dance. Although It’s definitely a good kind of struggle! Where creativity, play, hugs, smiles and booty shaking music meet!
Mary Evans
Mary Evans is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in experimental video and Paper Mache sculpture. Evans has developed a unique visual and conceptual vocabulary that speaks to ideas of consciousness, spiritualism, and interdimensional realities. Rituals of symbolic transformation are performed as characters travel into and flirt with the void in the format of pop music videos. Originating from Franklin Tennessee, Southern folk art had an early influence on Mary’s practice. Her work honors craft and DIY approaches to form and expression.
Most recognized for her work in the modern new age, Evans has self-published six tarot and oracle card decks under the moniker Spirit Speak. The Whitney Museum, Vogue Magazine, and Oprah Magazine have recently acknowledged these works.
Maybe Littlefield
My artistic journey is characterized by a focus on literal messages, and I specialize in creating large-scale murals that blend bold, thick letters with bright, uplifting colors. These murals serve as literal reminders of our shared humanity, potential for kindness, and the importance of playfulness.
Other Desert Cities
Kristin Weiss is a Joshua Tree artist who specializes in painting with bleach on black fabric. She runs “other Desert Cities Art” in downtown Joshua Tree selling her art and climbing photography at the Shops at Zanny’s. Each piece is painted totally free-hand and gets 3 layers of bleach for shading. The trees are based on real Joshua Trees she has taken pictures of throughout the area. She is also a Polaroid enthusiast who can be seen around Joshua Tree with her SX-70, experimenting with new lenses on a camera from the 70s.
Psychotronic Solutions
Sawyer Hurwitz, better known as Psychotronic Solutions, is an augmented reality collage artist living out of Los Angeles, California. His work has shown in galleries and festivals around the world. Psychotronic Solution’s collages are intricate meditations on topics related to identity, environmentalism, and social conditioning.
Scenikroots
Hector Gonzalez loves to paint. It allows me to connect with other people in ways that allow us to all experience different perspectives and what the mine and Eye is seeing.
Tyler Baker
Tyler Baker is a 28 year old, non-binary, painter and social worker based in Northern California. Tyler grew up in a little bit of a lot of places. Their work is often described as dark and ethereal. Tyler works with many medias but is particularly fond acrylic paints and collaging with found objects. Their work derives its growth from all shades of human experience with a focus on transformation, cycles, suffering, healing, and spirit in the modern world. Tyler’s primary purpose in creating is to connect the viewer more deeply to themself and others.
Terentauri
I’m Terentauri, the author of the Sci-Fi novel “The Starflyer Chronicles.” I became fascinated with marionettes and supernatural phenomena when I was around 11 or 12 years old and began making puppets. In junior high school, I became more and more interested in metaphysical wisdom, and in high school, I picked up my first Deck of Golden Dawn Tarot Cards. I worked at Bob Baker Marionette Theater in the 1980s, 1990s, and again in the late 2000s. I fell deeply in love with Vaudeville, Burlesque, circus, cabaret-style entertainment, and tribal fusion belly dancing. Now, I’m in the developmental process of building my own Marionette Production. I express my special thanks to the Ever Inspiring Joshua Tree Music Festival for creating a space for puppetry and tarot and space for fellow circus-themed Performing Artists! May Love be in all of us! ❤️
Western Winds
Jake Higgins, known by his artistic identity, Western Winds, is not just an artist but a dedicated advocate for the creative community. Since his arrival in Arizona in 2017, he has been on a journey to discover his artistic identity. Inspired by the dynamic landscapes of the West, Higgins chose the name “Western Winds” to symbolize the transformative nature of artistic exploration. For him, the winds represent the constant movement and adaptation inherent in the creative process. Western Winds is more than a name—it’s a mission. Higgins aims to help fellow artists channel their grief into motivation, fostering self-improvement and storytelling through their work. As a beacon of inspiration, Western Winds embodies resilience, self-discovery, and the enduring power of artistic expression.
8 Bit Imaginations
Wesley Gainey (working under the moniker 8 Bit Imaginations) is a desert multi-media artist, graphic designer, and longtime JTMF participant. Working with aerosol, collage, and more, Wesley brings a colorful blast to expressions on culture and life.
Glossolalian Arts Enterprises
At Glossolalian Art Enterprises, we envision a world where custom high quality professional hand painted murals are accessible to everyone. Matthew Garcia, founder of Glossolalian Arts, provides high quality Murals from realistic, surrealistic, realist commercial, abstract, logos, lettering, in homes, business, corporate offices, restaurants, community centers, hotels, ground murals, ceiling murals, and everything else under the sun we can get the job done! Take a journey with us as we explore the surrealistic mind of Glossolalian Art Enterprises!
