The Palm Springs Art Museum's annual summer Artists in Residence program will feature two local artists who will create an on-site art installation at the museum. Artists Cathy Allen and Joan Silver will create Gardens of Exchange, an installation that will be centered around a large "tree" made out of papier-mâché (pictured at left) and utilize text from author Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, a fictional conversation between world traveler Marco Polo and emperor Kublai Kahn. In the text, Polo describes many imaginary cities in the Kahn's realm, which helps him understand his empire past mere descriptions of the cities. The artists will complete the installation at the museum and work with the museum's Art Camp attendees to help them create their own imagined cities.

MUSEUM ART CAMP: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
The Date Farmers
July - September
Zone 101 in the  Hoover Gallery

Local artists Armando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez, aka The Date Farmers, create an original installation in Zone 101 in the Hoover Gallery this summer as part of the museum's annual Artist in Residence program.

Dougherty is an internationally acclaimed installation artist whose large-scale works allude to nests, cocoons and hives built by animals as well as the manmade forms of huts, haystacks and baskets. Dougherty weaves together natural materials that are indigenous to each site-specific area into creations that seem to have sprouted up naturally in their settings.