Mojaveland is moving to a new location in 29 Palms!
Sadly, we will not be open this Fall, but look for us in 2024.
We will be at the Farmers Market once a month with Mobile Mojaveland and art activities.
Check our Instagram for updates!
Mojaveland, in 29 Palms, California, is an artist-designed miniature golf course, plus other art installations and activities. We are a private, outdoor, Pop-Up event site, open one weekend a month. There is no charge for entering or playing. You must be invited to enter.
Currently under development, Mojaveland is a center that combines art and sports. Our main attraction is a 13 hole (and growing) miniature golf course, each hole designed by a different desert artist. Also planned are a pedal cart track, mural and sculpture gardens, artist exhibits, teaching studios and more. Our goal is to introduce visitors to art that is friendly, interactive and fun!
When possible, we offer interactive mural painting, and story telling, for kids and kids-at-heart. Please check the weather and dress appropriately.
To support our mission, please visit our Patreon account... www.patreon.com/annastump
Follow us on Facebook and IG @Mojaveland
"Making Mojaveland" videos
Currently under development, Mojaveland is a center that combines art and sports. Our main attraction is a 13 hole (and growing) miniature golf course, each hole designed by a different desert artist. Also planned are a pedal cart track, mural and sculpture gardens, artist exhibits, teaching studios and more. Our goal is to introduce visitors to art that is friendly, interactive and fun!
When possible, we offer interactive mural painting, and story telling, for kids and kids-at-heart. Please check the weather and dress appropriately.
To support our mission, please visit our Patreon account... www.patreon.com/annastump
Follow us on Facebook and IG @Mojaveland
"Making Mojaveland" videos
Mojaveland is fiscally sponsored by Aha Projects! With this partnership, your donation and support is tax-deductible. Aha Projects! is a 501(c)(3) organization Tax ID # 83-2188899
As of July 15, 2023, Aha Projects, a program of the Affordable Housing for Artists, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization became the fiscal receiver for Mojaveland, an artist-designed miniature golf course, operated by Anna Stump. Affordable Houseing for Artists (AHA) mission is to support artists as they find the space, place, or house to create their works which then impact and support community cohesion. Aha Projects! is a program of AHA that creates fiscal support and important back-office support for artistic projects that create space and support the community.
As of July 15, 2023, Aha Projects, a program of the Affordable Housing for Artists, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization became the fiscal receiver for Mojaveland, an artist-designed miniature golf course, operated by Anna Stump. Affordable Houseing for Artists (AHA) mission is to support artists as they find the space, place, or house to create their works which then impact and support community cohesion. Aha Projects! is a program of AHA that creates fiscal support and important back-office support for artistic projects that create space and support the community.
Mojaveland is pleased to announce a grant for 2023-24 from the Military Spouses' Association of the 29 Palms Marine Base Air Ground Combat Center.
Directions: Drive north on Adobe Rd. from Hwy 62. Turn right on Calle Todd. Before Cardinal Van Co, turn right on dirt road and snake around to our dirt parking lot. Look for the colorful flags--Mojaveland is not the property with the boats!
Mini Golf Holes
Hole #1: Chaircophony
Painter Ted Meyer paints desert friends on discarded chairs to build his hole. It might just want to make you have a seat.
@TedMeyerArt
@TedMeyerArt
Hole #2: Plastic Fantastic
Artist Lynda Keeler’s “Plastic Fantastic” is a colorful, lighthearted yet meaningful golf hole that features discarded and sourced plastic and painted objects, designed to delight the eye yet show how everyday throwaway plastic items can be reimagined as strangely beautiful sculptures! “Plastic Fantastic” encourages everyone to create something rather than toss it in the trash!
www.LyndaKeeler.com, @lyndalax
www.LyndaKeeler.com, @lyndalax
Hole #3: Dino Island
Long time desert dweller and sculptor Abe Delacerda creates dinosaurs and other creatures from branches and roots he finds in the desert. On “Dino Island,” two dinosaurs fight over the egg/ball, while other creatures look on.
@abedelacerdafolkart
@abedelacerdafolkart
Hole #4: BOOM BANG ZIP POW!
Harper Neveu, age 7 when he designed this hole, really likes golf and superheroes. Your ball will bounce off objects, and enter a marble track to get to the hole. “BOOM BANK ZIP POW!” is a journey around the world, where you encounter flying characters, creatures, and exciting lands and waters.
Hole #5: D.I.Y.
Are you inspired yet? Do It Yourself! Use our props as borders, ramps, tunnels, and obstacles. Or create a building, creature, or monument. Make it difficult or easy, it's your call. This hole is dedicated to my mom, kindergarten teacher Suzy Penner, who inspired me with her dedication to allowing kids to play.
Hole #6: Mini Stonehenge
Glass artist Cathi Milligan designed bricks based on world spiritual practices. She's in love with color--Mini Stonehenge is one of our most beautiful holes.
@cathicreatesspaces
@cathicreatesspaces
Hole #7: The A Train
Arthur Siprut is a costume designer and prop maker, and currently attends the California Institute of the Arts. The “A Train” suggests a rushing New York City subway train. The hole takes advantage of Tookie Smith’s former trout pond.
@artsiprut_designs
@artsiprut_designs
Hole #8: Sleestakland
High Desert painter and entrepreneur Joe Alvarez is creating "Sleestakland," based on the 1970s tv show, "Land of the Lost." We are currently testing this hole.
@joealvarezart
@joealvarezart
Hole #9: Long Shot Lotus
The green of Long Shot Lotus was designed by Anna Stump and Aaron Neveu to mimic a water path that leads to Campbell Hill. It is exactly 100' feet long. The "Lotus" sculpture at the hole's end is by Cathy Allen, and reflects her practice of using cast-off materials scavenged from the desert. Despite our lack of water, this giant spiked lotus flower will survive.
Hole #10: Trail of the Torties
Twentynine Palms native and self-taught artist Greg Mendoza uses found metal objects to create fantastical garden sculpture. "Trail of the Torties" features a Desert Tortoise burrow and a "Monstah Lair" in a naturalistic course.
Hole #11: Fire Hole
Joshua Tree artist and place-maker extraordinaire Rolo Castillo has exploded a fire truck. See his projects at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center and Taylor Junction.
@noartsark
@noartsark
Hole #12: Space Escape
High desert artist Juan Thorp started with two little aliens to create a hole where players shoot through a destroyed rover and space ship, over an alien brain, into the enemy fortress. Space junk litters the route.
thorpart.com, @thorpart
thorpart.com, @thorpart
Hole #13: Windmill Thingamajig
Clark Hunter on his Windmill: "I build arcane contraptions that have no point or purpose. They exist as strange unexplainable objects without context or meaning. I find the desert winds are a perfect fuel to drive these useless gadgets. Hopefully their fate is to simply fall apart over time and become desert flotsam to be scavenged by future creators. "
clarkhunter.com, @clarkhunterpd
clarkhunter.com, @clarkhunterpd
Art Exhibits
Asterisk
Sculptor Ben Allanoff found a trashcan that had been used for firearm target practice, inserted branches into the holes, and hung it up in the air, just ‘cuz he felt like it.
www.BenAllanoff.com, @ben.allanoff
www.BenAllanoff.com, @ben.allanoff
Angling
Water.
350 feet down, this dry well once extracted ground water with a windmill sustaining Tookie Smith and his family through crop production and consumption. In addition, it provided water for two small ponds where he and his friends fished for trout. Jeffrey Crussell’s response to this now absent structure interpreted Tookie’s life with the tip-of-a-hat and the creation of a piece which calls out shapes, components and a lifestyle which once flourished on this land.
Angling, borrows the shape of a triangular windmill blade, added color of local property mapping and a blue base suggesting water, with a vertical kinetic wall of “scales” representing a trout bounding from the surface to capture a lure dangling overhead.
Each component has meaning and purpose as a reconstruction of a once thriving family with un-matched dreams. Water made this possible and is still the single necessity needed by all in order to sustain life. Water is in short supply.
Water.
Jeffrey Crussell, www.crussell.com
Photo by Bill Leigh Brewer
350 feet down, this dry well once extracted ground water with a windmill sustaining Tookie Smith and his family through crop production and consumption. In addition, it provided water for two small ponds where he and his friends fished for trout. Jeffrey Crussell’s response to this now absent structure interpreted Tookie’s life with the tip-of-a-hat and the creation of a piece which calls out shapes, components and a lifestyle which once flourished on this land.
Angling, borrows the shape of a triangular windmill blade, added color of local property mapping and a blue base suggesting water, with a vertical kinetic wall of “scales” representing a trout bounding from the surface to capture a lure dangling overhead.
Each component has meaning and purpose as a reconstruction of a once thriving family with un-matched dreams. Water made this possible and is still the single necessity needed by all in order to sustain life. Water is in short supply.
Water.
Jeffrey Crussell, www.crussell.com
Photo by Bill Leigh Brewer
Wind Whispers
Linda Litteral formed the pinch pots for “Wind Whispers” from clay found in Shoshone, California, mixed with porcelain. They were fired for two hours in a fire pit with local wood at the Desert Dairy. The black is caused from carbon trapping that occurs from the smoke. The bowls, hung with jewelry beading wire, sway lyrically in the wind.
www.LindaLitteral.com, @lindalitteralartist
www.LindaLitteral.com, @lindalitteralartist
The Cosmic Gate of Oceanic Space on Dry Land
Mr. Maxx Moses created this spray paint mural inspired by his spiritual communication with nature in the Mojave Desert.
www.saywordsofpower.com
@maxxmoses777
www.saywordsofpower.com
@maxxmoses777
The Cowboy Dressing Room
This trailer was originally used as a dressing room for actors filming Westerns in the 1940s through the 1960s in the Morongo Basin. It was found in a boneyard in Wonder Valley, and Anna Stump painted the "Cowboy Conversation" on boarded up window. Eventually the trailer may house an artist exhibit, coffee cart or workshop.
Memory House VII
Amanda Maciel Antunes’ “Memoryhouse” is a durational project of performances and installations in abandoned and often decaying, remote spaces. The artist moves in with found and gifted material, and meddles with our interpretations of memory, taking in consideration the memories of the space occupied and that of our own. Each iteration is a periodic chapter, and each chapter informs what material, sound and performance guides the structure of the next Memoryhouse. The installation is throughout the homestead.
@amandamacielantunes
@amandamacielantunes
Mojave Green
Artist and Mojaveland Director Anna Stump painted this mural to project Tookie Smith’s original homestead from danger. Anna loves the weathered architecture of the High Desert, and hopes to preserve the homestead for future generations to enjoy.
www.AnnaStump.com
@amstump
www.AnnaStump.com
@amstump
Magical Desert
Artist and teacher Angela Aylward is creating a mural of the beautiful desert including the plants and wildlife that live in the surrounding area. The mural, which is unfinished, will involve local school children. Angela also leads children visiting Mojaveland in mural painting, and performs with her puppet, Razzmatazz, in our storytime amphitheater.
Kind Eyes
Artist Kirsten Aaboe's vinyl mural of eyes smiles above our interactive mural.
"Leticia James has been an inspiration to me, along the same lines as Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who spent her life doing the right but sometimes difficult thing. I had to draw this loving and patient expression of James' eyes."
www.kirstenaaboe.com
@_aaboe_
"Leticia James has been an inspiration to me, along the same lines as Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who spent her life doing the right but sometimes difficult thing. I had to draw this loving and patient expression of James' eyes."
www.kirstenaaboe.com
@_aaboe_
Coachella Valley Golf Course Benches
Learn about the golf courses of the Coachella Valley on our custom benches, painted by Anna Stump. Water and money define what golf is "down below."