Grantee Database

Joshua Tree Creative Laboratory

Grant Year

2018-19

Grant Program

Organizational Development

Award Amount

$5,000.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, Joshua Tree Art Innovation Laboratory (JT Lab) will work with Schonfield Consultants of Berkeley, CA to consolidate our operational goals into a initial business plan that will support our creative collaborations with Joshua Tree National Park and our other national park partners and give us ideas for establishing a sustainable financial footing going into our planned transition to a 501(c)(3) in 2020/2021.

Organization Summary

JT Lab works with national parks on creative projects that the parks cannot realize on their own. These projects cover a wide territory including development of new interpretive content, innovative exhibits, and broad-spectrum creative consulting. The Lab acts as a resource for parks, helping with both complex decision making and answering simple questions that arise in daily operations. Parks often come to us with projects, but we also provide a unique service in which we analyze a park from a creative perspective and then propose ideas that will improve visitor experience and resource protection, as we did for San Francisco Maritime, rethinking story-telling and space-use on the historic Hyde Street Pier. We do projects of every scale that we have the capacity to handle, be it a well-worded letter for staff or devising a publicity campaign for a species under threat. JT Lab is essentially artists working with rangers, doing what they do best to support our national parks.

Organization

JTLab

Address

8580 via Rocosa Road

Joshua Tree

92252

County

San Bernardino

Region

Inland Empire

Phone

(760) 399-0370

Congressional District

California's 8th congressional district

State Assembly District

District 42

State Senate District

District 16

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