THERE IT IS—TAKE IT! is a self-guided car audio tour along U.S. Route 395 through Owens Valley, California, examining the controversial social, political and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system. This is the complete 1.33.36 program (17 tracks total).

For more information and project credits, please visit the project website: www.thereitistakeit.org.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, an independent non-profit state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

There It Is—Take It! (complete program)

Morning soundscape recording made at the Wee Thump Wilderness, April 2020.  Wee Thump (in Paiute language meaning "ancient ones") is a desert forest of old-growth Joshua Trees located a few miles west of Searchlight, Nevada.  The featured birds in this recording are Great-horned Owls, Brewer's Sparrows and Cactus Wrens.

Wee Thump At Dawn

Kim Stringfellow is an artist, educator, writer and independent curator based in Joshua Tree, CA. Her work bridges cultural geography, public practice and experimental documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences. She is a 2016 Andy Warhol for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in 2018. Stringfellow is a Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design.

There It Is—Take It! (complete program)

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