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Dorland Mountain Arts Colony

ART OFF THE GRID

 

Founded as a non-profit arts community overlooking the Temecula Valley in California, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony began as the 1930s homestead of Ellen and Robert Dorland, who built an adobe structure on the site as a weekend getaway from their home in Pasadena. Ellen Dorland, an accomplished pianist and teacher, dreamt of re-creating an artist colony similar to the ones she had visited on the East Coast; however, she wanted it to be surrounded by the rustic wildlife of southern California, where visiting artists could work unencumbered by the noise and pace ...

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