Name: Nathan Hall: Rock Music
Start: 2025-10-10T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-10T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Black Rock Campground

Please join us for the show opening of Rock Music, by Nathan Hall, in the Black Rock Art Gallery at Joshua Tree National Park. Nathan was an Artist in Residence
in the spring of 2023. Rock Music is a collection of graphic scores that evoke the plants and landscape features common to Joshua Tree, as well as often-overlooked or underappreciated elements of the park. The textures of individual stones, the colors of flowers at their peak, the ebb and flow of campsites, the sounds of visitors in buildings, and even a tortoise tracking device, all make appearances as shapes and lines on the page. Each piece is accompanied by a short music realization to accompany the work, performed by the artist along with several by Denver-based violinist and composer Michiko Theurer.
Bio
Nathan Hall is an artist and composer who explores sound, site, and sexuality. His creative works are situated in-between music, visual art, performance, and multimedia and have been performed in 18 countries and 24 US States. His passions for science, travel, and stories of lived history have led to a Fulbright in Iceland, the McKnight Visiting Composer Fellowship, a project award from FEMA, and a New Music USA grant, and two National Park residencies. Nathan holds his Doctorate of Musical Arts from CU Boulder
and currently teaches music composition at the University of Denver and at RMCAD. He is an artist in residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center and lives in Denver with his husband, Andy.
Please join us for the show opening of Rock Music, by Nathan Hall, in the Black Rock Art Gallery at Joshua Tree National Park. Nathan was an Artist in Residence in the spring of 2023. Rock Music is a collection of graphic scores that evoke the plants and landscape features common to Joshua Tree, as well as often-overlooked or underappreciated elements of the park. The textures of individual stones, the colors of flowers at their peak, the ebb and flow of campsites, the sounds of visitors in buildings, and even a tortoise tracking device, all make appearances as shapes and lines on the page. Each piece is accompanied by a short music realization to accompany the work, performed by the artist along with several by Denver-based violinist and composer Michiko Theurer.
Bio
Nathan Hall is an artist and composer who explores sound, site, and sexuality. His creative works are situated in-between music, visual art, performance, and multimedia and have been performed in 18 countries and 24 US States. His passions for science, travel, and stories of lived history have led to a Fulbright in Iceland, the McKnight Visiting Composer Fellowship, a project award from FEMA, and a New Music USA grant, and two National Park residencies. Nathan holds his Doctorate of Musical Arts from CU Boulder and currently teaches music composition at the University of Denver and at RMCAD. He is an artist in residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center and lives in Denver with his husband, Andy.
The exhibition will run from October 10 , 2025 until January 5, 2026, at the Black Rock Art Gallery in the Black Rock Nature Center, located at 9800 Black Rock Canyon Rd, Yucca Valley, CA 92284. There will be an opening reception on Friday October 10, 2024 from 5pm to 7pm. The building is open 7 days a week, 8am - 4pm.
Background
The Black Rock Art Gallery furthers the mission of the National Park Service through supporting artistic expression that provides fresh insights and inspiration regarding the relevance of Park resources today and in the future. The Gallery also furthers the creation of community by widening access to these enriched stories of the Park for all types of visitors, real- time and virtual.