High Desert Test Sites is a platform for art and experiences that enable us to step outside everyday life and envision new possibilities. The organization is based at A-Z West—Andrea Zittel’s 80-acre compound and artwork—where it brings together artists, writers, and thinkers to create projects that engage the desert and its communities.
The
Experiment
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To challenge traditional
conventions of
ownership, property,
and patronage.
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To insert art directly
into a life, landscape,
or community.
To encourage art that
remains in the context
for which it was
created.
A-Z West
Located in Joshua Tree, the former home and studio of Andrea Zittel is now stewarded by and headquarters for HDTS.
Annual
Fellowship
The HDTS Fellowship is an annual invitation which provides established artists the opportunity to spend extended time at A-Z West while working to realize an artwork or program that engages and enriches our High Desert community.
Events
Join us at MOCA Grand Avenue for a conversation between groundbreaking artist Lita Albuquerque and independent curator Grant Klarich Johnson on the occasion of Albuquerque’s High Desert test Sites Artist Fellowship.
September 12th, 2026 at 3:00PM
RSVP here.
Way Station A Photographic Installation by An-My Lê
On view through September
