PROGRAMS

Since 2019, Artlands Downtown Redlands has made a name for itself as a space bringing both nationally and internationally acclaimed artists to the Inland Empire. The gallery and shop has also taken on the role of a cultural incubator and has served as a launching pad for many emerging artists’ careers and intro into the art community, building connections and community among a diverse-cross-section of artists from a wide geographic area and helping to define culture in the inland Southern California region. Despite being a small space, our flagship gallery and shop and its DIY ethos has had a big impact and has influenced other art spaces and organizations all over Southern California and beyond.

La Matadora is our post modern art gallery partner located in Joshua Tree, CA. Founded, operated, and curated by Colleena Hake since 2017 and located in Joshua Tree’s iconic Art Queen complex, the gallery hosts art shows, artist talks, book signings, and other art happenings. It is a community hub for the local high desert art scene.

Artlands Coachella Valley, formerly The Coachella Valley Art Scene, carries on the work of cultivating a creative community using art advocacy as a platform to safely express, educate, empower and engage the Coachella Valley. Artlands CV strives to create a positive economic environment for artists and the creative class. Through the use of our media based website, workshops, educational seminars, community events, art exhibitions, and festivals.

The Coachella Valley Art Scene was founded by Sarah Scheideman in 2008 and has been a catalyst for the emerging art scene ever since. Previously occupying physical gallery spaces in Cathedral City, CA and later in Palm Desert, CA at the Westfield Mall it has provided opportunities for emerging artists through art exhibitions, workshops & crafting events, music festivals, and public art projects. The CVAS became a nonprofit organization in 2014 and has partnered with the Coachella Music Festival, FYF Fest, and the Arroyo Seco Music Festival in Pasadena, CA. In 2022, it merged with The Artlands and formed The Artlands Creative, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

REACH is an environmentally focused artist in residency program launching in spring of 2026 which will provide programming in both Redlands, CA and in the Morongo Basin area of the California high desert. In its first year, the program will host two, work-only, artist residencies and two, work-only, writers residencies in each area (eight total). Each resident artist/writer will provide two public facing events that will be free for the public to attend.

There will be a community garden, and native plant space developed at Sylvan Park, directly across the street from the University of Redlands in Redlands, CA which will be the home of our Inland Empire-based residency programming and public events. Our Morongo Basin programming and events will be hosted at the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve in Morongo Valley, CA. Off-site studio space will be provided in both Redlands and in Yucca Valley for the duration of each residency.

The Recycled Art Supplies project came about after the pandemic exposed that students were unable to participate in art activities or programs due to a lack of materials.
Teachers found their students without paper and pencils let alone crayons, paints, or art supplies.
After the first Recycled Art Supplies Drive, we collected over a thousand dollars worth of art supplies donations and were able to distribute these supplies to various schools throughout San Bernardino County.
The Recycled Art Supplies seeks to help their community through providing free access to visual arts in order to encourage future creative minds.