@kimmanfredi off to some cool girl event with her very own cool girl handbag, while the rest of the bags take over her studio for @desertopenstudios this weekend.
💖 to @schinskywilliam for the most amazing vintage doll for the display.
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#wearableart #artstudio #coachellavalley #desertopenstudios2026
Thank you @indiopost for featuring Desert Open Studios east valley superstars! @kendallbalchan wrote a great piece about the creativity on the east side! Thank you @puraprojects and @thecvcollective for making it happen! Oh what a weekend! Desert Open Studios 2026.
Thank you @thepalmspringspost for supporting the 2026 Desert Open Studios Tour! We’ve had a brilliant first day and hope you will join us tomorrow and Sunday. PS @theperezartdistrict will be open tonight 4-7 pm with extended DOS hours in case you can’t get enough!!!!
As part of this year’s Curated Tours for the 6th Annual Desert Open Studios, editor and writer specializing in California art Steven Biller introduces The Painted Desert, a tour honoring the region’s enduring legacy of landscape painting.
Biller’s tour features:
Raymundo Valdez @raymundovaldezartist
Kathleen Strukoff @palm_springs_pop_up_painter
Bradley Giles @gilesfineart
Nita Harper @nitaharperart
Warner Graves III @warnergravesartist
Ellen Jean Diederich @ellenjeandiederich
Marilyn Froggatt @marilynfroggatt
The Painted Desert highlights artists who draw inspiration from the vast, shifting landscapes of the California desert. Each artist engages the terrain’s distinctive light, color, atmosphere, and geological drama, translating these qualities into works that range from representational to abstract. The studios on this tour reveal the intimate connection between place and practice — where observation, memory, and imagination converge.
From bold chromatic interpretations to meditative studies of form and space, these artists carry forward a tradition that has shaped California art for more than a century. Visitors will encounter the many ways the desert continues to inspire painters to see, record, and reinterpret its timeless allure.
Wondering how to structure you day during Desert Open Studios 2026?Creative director, lifestyle influencer, and fashion designer Kelly Golightly curates Desert Muses, a tour that highlights seven women whose work reflects the texture, light, and soul of the low desert.
Golightly’s tour features:
Carla Roth @carlaroth.la
Lynda Keeler @lyndalax
Kathleen Strukoff @palm_springs_pop_up_painter
Emeline Tate @emeline_tate
Barbara Boissevain @barbaraboissevain
Mandy Main @mandymainstudios
Pouneh Shahrestani @designbypouneh
Desert Muses brings visitors into the studios of artists working across painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and mixed media. Each artist offers a distinct perspective on contemporary desert life, translating personal experience into works shaped by color, movement, materiality, and atmosphere.
Together, these artists present a fresh, feminine interpretation of desert modernism. The tour traces how women artists engage with place, memory, and imagination to create work that is both rooted in the landscape and expansive in vision.
We're busy getting the studio and gallery ready for @desertopenstudios !
Desert Open Studios is just around the corner - Jan 23-25, 2026
This self-directed tour offers a unique chance to witness firsthand the incredible range of creative expression in the Coachella Valley.
Please include my studio and gallery in your tour plans. We're #22 in the guide and on the map. We look forward to welcoming you.
As an added bonus, the January exhibit at @impellgallery - which includes my Mystical Vistas series - will be open during DOS hours, 11-4, Fri-Sun, Jan 23-25, 2026.
As part of this year’s Curated Tours for the 6th Annual Desert Open Studios, independent curator and former Director of the Palm Springs Art Museum Elizabeth Armstrong introduces The Materialists, a focused exploration of artists whose practices center on the transformative power of materials.
Armstrong’s tour features five exceptional artists:
Flavia Monteiro @flavia.monteiro.art
Ted Chapin @tedchapin
John Luckett @johnluckettart
Adriana Lopez-Ospina @puraprojects
Julie Weiman @weimanjulie
The Materialists invites visitors into the studios of artists who push the boundaries of material-based practice. Their work spans sculpture, painting, fiber art, and mixed media, yet each shares a commitment to process and reinvention. Some artists draw from ancestral or spiritual traditions; others reframe the meaning of castoff or commonplace materials. Together, they reveal how matter itself can become a conduit for memory, history, and narrative.
This tour offers a rare chance to see the tactile, hands-on aspects of artistic creation up close. Visitors can observe how these artists shape, alter, and repurpose materials into works that challenge expectations and expand the language of contemporary desert art. @armstrongliz1
Three brand new works to see at Desert Open Studios from 11-4 on Jan 23, 24, and 25 at Silica in Palm Springs. 752 S. Williams. Lots more, too! Please stop by.
In just a few weeks (January 23-25) i@desertopenstudios will be happening. Thank you the amazing and stylish teen setter @kellygolightly for choosing me to be part of her curated collection of Desert Muses artists - such an honor to be grouped with some amazing female local artists 💕✨
This year I’m I will be showing my work at two places a few doors down from each other on Perez Road @studio_gallery26 with the incomparable artist and Jefe, @alberto_garcia_uria AND I will have my desert landscapes for your viewing pleasure as part of the one and only @stevenbiller_x curated list of The Painted Desert @islandtribe_ showroom curated by slow fashion designer and expert vibe creator @angelinehayling .
Both of these beautiful spaces are located @theperezartdistrict 68845 Perez Road, Cathedral City, Ca
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