29 Palms Creative Center
29 Palms Creative Center, 6847 Adobe Road, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277
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29 Palms Creative Center offers art classes that include working with clay, glass, wood, wax, paper, and crafts. Participants can use the pottery wheel, explore encaustics and wood burning, and paint ready-made pottery and neon canvases. The program also offers stained glass, a homeschool program, Clay Club, and Art Party & Activity options.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
29 Palms Creative Center describes its studio as a loving studio environment and a creative space. The mission of the program is to build community through the arts by creating a loving studio environment where meaningful art experiences help people of all ages grow in character, cultivate inner strength, and live with greater purpose and integrity. The program offers art classes for everybody, including bookable kids classes, adult classes, and art parties and activities, and notes that ages 0 to 101 years are guaranteed to enjoy experiences in clay, glass, wood, wax, and crafts. It offers affordable art classes for everyone, gift cards for art classes, a Clay Club for adults looking to build a kind, compassionate community in a creative space, and a Kids Art Grant Program with scholarships supported by donations. The program also has a stained glass program that is noted as postponed until fall due to “She’s having a baby!!”, a newsletter subscription, and uses the slogan “Art Makes You Smart.”
The Creative Center’s history includes founder Gretchen Grunt being offered the opportunity to start the Creative Center in 2003, adding classes in 2004, and beginning to serve the homeschool community in 2010. The leadership and family legacy include Gretchen’s mom Jane, dad Ron Grunt, great grandparents Harry and Millie “Mer” Farsing Johansing, grandparents Robert “Doc” and Claire “Omah” Johansing Van Lahr, and Jane Grunt Smith, who was born August 11, 1941, died July 22, 2021, and was co-founder of the Mojave Desert Land Trust. The family legacy in the area began in 1928 when Gretchen’s great grandparents started it by purchasing the entire Oasis of Mara, and Gretchen’s grandparents moved to 29 Palms in 1939 to manage the Inn, which Jane later took ownership of in 1977. Jane entirely immersed herself in the local community and in the preservation of the greater desert, and she was co-founder of the Mojave Desert Land Trust. The homeschool program serves iLEAD, Sage Oak, Granite Mountain, Compass, Springs Charter Schools, and Morongo Unified School District. The Oasis of Mara, where the Inn and Joshua Tree National Park Headquarters reside, is described as the place that the Serrano and Chemehuevi Tribes call the Oasis of Mara, “the place of little springs and much grass,” and the Inn is described as a place to renew your spirit, eat fresh picked food from the same location the Chemehuevi gardened, be creative, and discover the cultural significance of the Mojave Desert.
Last updated June 18, 2026.
• Ages: 0–18 years old
29 Palms Creative Center describes its studio as a loving studio environment and a creative space. The mission of the program is to build community through the arts by creating a loving studio environment where meaningful art experiences help people of all ages grow in character, cultivate inner strength, and live with greater purpose and integrity. The program offers art classes for everybody, including bookable kids classes, adult classes, and art parties and activities, and notes that ages 0 to 101 years are guaranteed to enjoy experiences in clay, glass, wood, wax, and crafts. It offers affordable art classes for everyone, gift cards for art classes, a Clay Club for adults looking to build a kind, compassionate community in a creative space, and a Kids Art Grant Program with scholarships supported by donations. The program also has a stained glass program that is noted as postponed until fall due to “She’s having a baby!!”, a newsletter subscription, and uses the slogan “Art Makes You Smart.”
The Creative Center’s history includes founder Gretchen Grunt being offered the opportunity to start the Creative Center in 2003, adding classes in 2004, and beginning to serve the homeschool community in 2010. The leadership and family legacy include Gretchen’s mom Jane, dad Ron Grunt, great grandparents Harry and Millie “Mer” Farsing Johansing, grandparents Robert “Doc” and Claire “Omah” Johansing Van Lahr, and Jane Grunt Smith, who was born August 11, 1941, died July 22, 2021, and was co-founder of the Mojave Desert Land Trust. The family legacy in the area began in 1928 when Gretchen’s great grandparents started it by purchasing the entire Oasis of Mara, and Gretchen’s grandparents moved to 29 Palms in 1939 to manage the Inn, which Jane later took ownership of in 1977. Jane entirely immersed herself in the local community and in the preservation of the greater desert, and she was co-founder of the Mojave Desert Land Trust. The homeschool program serves iLEAD, Sage Oak, Granite Mountain, Compass, Springs Charter Schools, and Morongo Unified School District. The Oasis of Mara, where the Inn and Joshua Tree National Park Headquarters reside, is described as the place that the Serrano and Chemehuevi Tribes call the Oasis of Mara, “the place of little springs and much grass,” and the Inn is described as a place to renew your spirit, eat fresh picked food from the same location the Chemehuevi gardened, be creative, and discover the cultural significance of the Mojave Desert.
Last updated June 18, 2026.
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