Art Cruise 29! is the first Saturday of each month. Enjoy your Saturday in 29 Palms beginning at Farmer’s Market in the morning. Stop for a lunch break at one of our many eateries, then visit our local galleries and art studios. Browse the artworks of local desert artists, participate in an art demonstration or art class, view the exhibitions, meet the artists and enjoy refreshments at one of several art show openings. From mid-morning until after sunset, experience Art Cruise 29!
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29 Palms Visitor Center and Art Gallery is host to Art in Public Places exhibitions (by the city’s Public Arts Advisory Committee, PAAC) and Action 29 Palms (the Mural People). Open 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily, stop by the Visitor Center for a PAAC Art Exhibition. Opening art receptions with food, beverages, and live music happen on the first Saturday of each calendar quarter. On the remaining first Saturdays each quarter, stop in from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
While at 29 Palms Visitor Center, please ask for literature on the Oasis of Murals by Action 29 Palms, the Mural People. Take a self-guided tour.
Art Cruise 29! Maps are available at the Visitor Center
73484 29 Palms Highway | at Desert Queen Ave.
29 Palms, CA 92277 | (760) 358-6324
Daily: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Artomotive Gallery, at the corner of 29 Palms Highway and National Park Drive, is a unique art experience. The previously occupied tire shop has transformed to an art gallery featuring artwork by Sheliah Bailey, Duane Byrd, Stacy Byrd, and Elisabeth Pollnow. Each month during Art Cruise 29!, special guest artists are invited to show their work as well.
Artomotive Gallery
6540 National Park Drive | 29 Palms, CA 92277
First Saturdays hours: 3:00 – 9:00 p.m. May-Sept
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Oct-Apr
Always creative fun happening at 29 Palms Creative Center and Gallery. Explore your creative side and see the artistic underground that exists here in the desert. At this working studio/gallery professional, amateur, or budding artists make mosaics, paintings, drawings, monotype prints on a Griffin Etching Press, fabric art, jewelry, hand-made books, painted ceramics, and more. Make your own masterpiece in an art class or just browse the art gallery.
29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery
6847 Adobe Road | 29 Palms, CA 92277
www.29palmsart.com | (760) 361-3461
Open By Appointment Only
The 29 Palms Art Gallery is the oldest arts organization in the Morongo Basin and housed in a historic adobe of 29 Palms. Each month, works by the 29 Palms Artists’ Guild members are on exhibition along with featured artists. On occasion you will find a specially curated exhibition. Come enjoy a pleasant evening during Art Cruise 29! 1st Saturdays from 5 – 7 pm for their opening receptions with hors d’oeuvres, wine, and live entertainment and talk to the artists.
74055 Cottonwood Drive
at National Park Drive
29 Palms, CA 92277
www.29palmsartgallery.com | (760) 367-7819
Hours: Thurs-Sun 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | 1st Saturdays: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
The Glass Outhouse Art Gallery is one of Twentynine Palms’ most unusual sites to see, located just east of downtown in Wonder Valley. Monthly art shows are celebrated with an art reception on first Saturdays of the month, with food, beverages, live music, and camaraderie. The gallery features desert artists, photographers, and musicians. Yes, there is a real glass outhouse, plus a hand-built Wayside Chapel and found-object art installations throughout the property.
77575 29 Palms Highway | 29 Palms, CA 92277
www.facebook/The-Glass-Outhouse | (760) 367-3807
(Turn right off Highway 62 onto Thunder Road. Honk your horn!)
Hours: Tues-Sun 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. (closed Jul-Aug)
1st Saturdays: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Nov-Mar | 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Apr-Oct
