Verlon Allen III 

Aerial Photographer

 Verlon Allen III is a director of photography who captured the locations featured in ON ALL Day from a DJI Phantom 4 quadcopter. He is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600) and outside of film work is often found working in a variety of capacities in performing arts venues. He studied at the Savannah College of Art & Design and resides in Los Angeles, CA.

Anahata Mousai

Sound Healers

Anahata Mousai is a trio of sound healers from the Antelope Valley. Members Jean Monte, Kristen Cramer, and Moriah Cain Gross banded together in 2017 to offer their unique brand of sound healing to people throughout Southern California. Using vibrations created by quartz crystal singing bowls, sound healing tubes, a symphonic gong and various other instruments, the trio provides clients with an immersive sound bath experience. Anahata Mousai is available for bookings throughout Southern California and perhaps beyond.

Adriana Campos-Ojeda

Filmmaker & Photographer

Adriana Campos-Ojeda is a filmmaker hailing from the city of Los Angeles and considers Littlerock California her second home. She studied filmmaking in both Los Angeles City College and Cal State Northridge. She earned her B.A in Psychology and Media Management from the University of Cal State Northridge. Driven by her interest in storytelling she has combined both disciplines in order to produce compassionate and original work.

Dr. Dydia DeLyser 

Historian & Professor 

 Dr. Dydia DeLyser, a Feminist Cultural-Historical Geographer, earned her BA from UCLA in 1992, her MA from Syracuse University in 1996, and her PhD from Syracuse University in 1998. Her research focuses on the historical-cultural geography of southern California, and qualitative research methods, with specific expertise in oral history, interviewing, and archival research in a participatory setting. She served as Associate Producer on the documentary film The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club (2009) which won an L.A. Area Emmy Award in 2011. She is Assistant Professor of Geography at California State University, Fullerton.

Paul Greenstein

Author & Historian

Paul Greenstein is co-author of Bread and Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles, the only book-length history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony, and it's relationship to the Los Angeles Times bombing, the American Socialist movement, and the period in which these events took place. Using the life's of Job Harriman and Harrison Gray Otis as the keys to disparate, but connected events, the book traces both major and minor characters, and the roles they played in shaping America. He interviewed both surviving colonists, and their descendants to form a picture of the day to day arabesques of colony life. He also owns a small but significant collection of Llano California ephemera. 

Leora Wien

Artist

Leora Wien was born in Santa Monica, CA. She holds a B.A. in American Studies/Cultural Studies from Wesleyan University. Her practice includes mixed media art, ‘zines and essays, and performance. Her work has been shown in Venice, Los Angeles, Paris, Basel, and Llano. She helped to produce innovative programming for LACMA’s Institute for Art & Cultures. The first iteration of May Queens, was created by Leora Wien in 2014, and incorporated contemporary feminist punk protest songs with those of Llano’s past.

Leroy Cullen

Landscape Installation

Based in Landers, Leroy Cullen quietly installs exquisite landscapes for prominent properties in the High and Low Deserts. As resident of Landers for over 40 years, he generously shares water from his local well, procures equipment and lends his expertise for stories and stewardship events at Giant Rock, where he has earned the title of water wizard. We won't do a cleanup without him.

The Traveling Postal Club 

Artists

LA Artists, Anne Baumgartner & Molly C. Meng started The Traveling Postal Club as a public mail art event in August 2017 and grew it into a collaborative art project and community-building initiative. The simple curation of design and materials created a collective aesthetic and allowed people to layer their own stories and ideas onto the blank cards. Two artists with a passion for postal mail and community art outreach. we live and work in urban Los Angeles. Besides promoting and leading our collective project: TheTravelingPostalClub, we each make art and teach around the city. Find us on Instagram @thetravelingpostalclub For Llano's 2018 celebration of ON ALL DAY, we designed and carved unique stamps; as well as created and curated mail-art materials for each visitor to make and mail a memory from Utopia. 

Bonnie Tanaka

Graphic Artist

Bonnie Tanaka is an artist and designer for all surfaces. Tanaka lives in Northeast LA, working her design /art practice along with teaching graphic design to the next generation of designers at multiple Universities throughout the southland Instagram: @tanakastudents_type.

Louise Mathias

Poet & Photographer

Louise Mathias is the author of three books of poems, most recently What If The Invader Is Beautiful (Four Way Books). Based in Joshua Tree since 2009, she wanders widely. Instagram: @mojaveforever

Tanya Kane-Parry

Director/Choreographer in theatre, opera and dance

Artistic Director of Opera del Espacio. Full-time faculty Department of Theatre and Dance, Cal State LA. Current project brings together teaching work, artistic work and activism/advocacy work: Dreaming of Our Future/Soñando de Nuestro Future, a live-streamed performance centered on the challenges and terrorization of immigrants in the US.Kane-Parry was an OG participant and collaborator on Llano events, beginning with the Next Step in 2013.

Monique Stevens

Lawyer, Photographer, and Weaver

Based in Littlerock, California, Monique enjoys being outside studying nature, learning the history of desert places, and finding materials to make baskets with. She also makes jewelry using natural materials such as Juniper seeds and pine needles, and weaves tapestry and other decorative fabric using looms.    Instagram: @mojave_mama

Amy Zhuang

Secretary

Amy received her Master of Art degree in Economics from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Science in 2003, and is currently a Senior Relationship Manager with Wells Fargo Bank, covering the Inland Empire Region. Amy Zhuang also serves as the President of the inaugural Executive Board for Yale Club of Riverside/San Bernardino.

Ann Vanino

Vice-President

Ann is a coach, author and muse whose life journey began in New York City and brought her to Washington, DC, Los Angeles, the High Mojave Desert of southern California and, recently, to Tucson, Arizona. Ann’s career was initially focused on environmental preservation and policy with roots in the very first Earth Day in New York City. Ann’s journey took a turn in 1996 when she became a coach and founded Moving Forward Coaching & Consulting, now Ann Vanino Coaching and Consulting.

Gloria Putnam

Director

Gloria is a physicist working in image sensors turned farmer. She founded the Angeles Creat Creamery exploring climate resilient food production in the San Gabriel foothills in Valyermo. Her resilient 70-acre ranch survived the Bobcat and Bridge fires and is home to 60 goats, four dogs and two pigs.  

Kaz Newman

President

Karyl (Kaz) Newman founded PositionalProjects.org in 2016 to create alternate experiences of place. Using digital map-based and augmented reality exhibits, she shares local histories and invites other artists and historians to contribute their responses at site-specific and virtual events designed to engage community in stewardship and preservation. She studied Llano as a 2016-2017 fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University where she earned her MFA.

 

 

 

Debbie McAfee

Treasurer

McAfee was born in San Luis Obispo and raised in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA in film and photography from California College of the Arts. McAfee has exhibited at Craig Krull Gallery, USC Fisher Museum of Art, and other California institutions.
Debbie McAfee employs textiles to “paint” landscapes, using cloth and color to bring physicality to a two-dimensional plane. A longtime resident of the high desert in Southern California, McAfee’s daily walks and photographic documentation give her an intimate understanding of the surrounding terrain. 

 

Damien Gossett

Director

Damien is a multi-disciplinary artist skilled in literary, visual, and aural arts, with two published books combining photography, prose, and poetry: Light Dust Dark and Shoes and Singularities. The most recent work, Lunacy, Loss & Love, is a collection of poems. Visual art has been exhibited in galleries across Los Angeles, Portland, and Minneapolis. Holding degrees from Reed College, the University of Minnesota (BFA), and California State University Hayward (Master’s in Multimedia), the artist currently resides in Oakland and Joshua Tree, CA