City Beautiful 2.0 opens on Friday, May 10 from 5-8 p.m. and celebrates the civic and community engagement ideals of the City Beautiful Movement, first championed in Denver in 1904 by former Mayor Robert Speer. The installation includes architectural renderings of the Civic Center’s built environment, textiles, and the natural elements of the park.

The project also includes a co-working space, featuring custom, mobile furniture created by local artists that is free and open for use during normal McNichols Building hours (10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday-Sunday).

“Create Denver is helping to establish the McNichols Building as cultural hub for the city – and we’re officially retiring Create Denver Week so that we can help bring year-round programming and exhibitions to the building,” said Create Denver program manager Lisa Gedgaudas.

“We’ve experimented with the use of space in the building, and we’ve come up with place that will give Denver’s creatives, entrepreneurs, residents and visitors a chance to experience a co-working environment, and that will hopefully generate more ideas on how to integrate the building with its surrounding built environment.”

Celebrate the beginning of summer on Friday, June 21 from 2-10 p.m. at the McNichols Building and surrounding Civic Center Park. There will be activities such as ping pong, gardening, yoga, picnics and food trucks. A 3-D video mapping display of the history and future evolution of the McNichols Building by Legwork Studio & Ceavco Audio Visual will be projected on the back of the building around 9 p.m.

Artists and collaborators contributing to the City Beautiful 2.0 include: Eric Robert Dallimore (Leon), Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Matt Scobey (New Yard), Corbin Clay (Azure Furniture), Ethan Jackson, Scott Bennett (Housefish), Jonathan Lamb &Michael Ortiz (Like Minded), Matt FaJohn, Aaron Ray (Legwork Studio), Rick Griffith (MATTER), Kevin Kerndt (Kerndt Design), Amy Fisk (Exponent Communications), Jared David Paul Anderson (JDP Art Services), Public Coffee, Ceavco Audio Visuals, New Earth Green Depot, and Design Practice LLC.

Create Denver strengthens the overall health and vitality of Denver by supporting the growth and development of the Creative Sector, including artists and enterprises such as film, music, fine art, galleries, art districts, fashion and design.

Create Denver provides a series of programs and happenings that showcases Denver’s talented and dynamic creative community, recognizes the creative sector for making Denver vibrant and economically vital, catalyzes the community to become a cohesive collective, and supports the creative community by providing educational programming, inspirational dialogue, placemaking and ideation.

Denver Arts & Venues seeks to enhance Denver’s quality of life and economic vitality through premier public venues, artwork and entertainment opportunities. The agency operates some of the region’s highest-profile facilities including Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Colorado Convention Center and Denver Coliseum. Arts & Venues also oversees Denver’s public art program, economic development programs including Create Denver, literacy programs such as One Book, One Denver, and entertainment and cultural events such as the Five Points Jazz Festival.

Following the great reception (and quick sellout) of the Famous Mockingbird print, created to celebrate the upcoming publication of The Phish Companion, 3rd Edition, we are excited to announce the release of two new Famous Mockingbird pins from Masthay Studios. The 1 1/2 inch hard enamel pins are available in both antique silver and antique gold colored metals, each individually numbered out of an edition of 200 and backstamped with the Masthay Studios logo.

The Famous Mockingbird pins will be available from the Phish.net Store and Masthay Studios today, Tuesday, May 7th at 12 noon ET. Pins are $15 each including shipping, or a matching numbered set (one gold and one silver) for $25 shipped.

2013 Summer Tour Subscriptions

Masthay Studios is also excited for the upcoming release of our 2013 Summer Tour Subscription offerings. A limited number of Summer 2013 subscriptions will be available through the Masthay Studios store on Friday, May 17, 2013 at 12 noon EST. Two subscriptions offers will be available:

Edition Sub – $300
Edition subscriptions will include matching numbered prints from every edition created for the Summer 2013 Tour. A minimum of 10 prints will be created for the subscription, including at least one triptych. The Edition Subscription is the best opportunity for collectors to acquire all Masthay Studios summer offerings at a discounted price. This includes the especially hard to get, quick sellouts along with select editions that will only be available at the venues. Subscription price also includes shipping.

Enhanced Sub – $600
Enhanced Subscriptions include all the options of the Edition Sub with addition of choosing two (2) prints from the sub to receive full border enhancement. The chosen prints will have their borders painstakingly enhanced with full color drawings by the artist, each a one-of-a-kind work of art. If there was a Ferrari of the print world, these would be it. Check out the Enhanced Print Gallery on our Flickr page to see examples of previously enhanced prints.

This first pin in this series is:

Bathtub Gin Monster Truck Jam
this pin is 1.25″, double clutch backings, hard enamel, with PURPLE
GLITTER HUMPBACK WHALE.
They are Limited Edition of 100. The artist is Otto, from Otto Art.
This pin is $15 with shipping.
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The second pin in this series is:

Wolfmans Brother Monster Truck Jam
This pin is Hard Enamel and 1.25″. The LP Logo in the wheels GLOWS IN THE DARK! It has a double clutch backing and is a limited addition of 100. The art is by Ariane Davis.

This pin is $15 with shipping.
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The third pin in this series is:

Ghost aka “Ghostdigger” Art by Terra-pins
This pin is hard enamel and 1.25″. The Ghostface GLOWS IN THE DARK!, has LP green glitter logos on the wheels, has green glitter flames, and is a limited edition of 100.

THis pin is $15 with shipping.
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Framed and unframed prints will be on sale from the artists, who will also be making appearances in the gallery as their schedules permit. In addition, the gallery will feature original paintings from acclaimed artist William Giese, whose artwork has graced the covers of several Grateful Dead albums.

The Grateful Gallery tour will be installed at the following Northeast festivals this summer:

Old Farmer’s Ball, May 11^th in Scranton, PA. This event features additional artists including Mickey O, J Rizzi, Nick Clemente, Bill Orner, Matt Hiller, Jason Ried Miller and Jim Gavenus.

Mountain Jam, June 6-9, Hunter, NY.

Bear’s Picnic, August 1-4, Central PA location TBA

Peach Music Festival, August 15-18, Scranton, PA.

Catskill Chill, September 6-8, Hancock, NY.

These are printed on high quality, super soft Alternative brand shirts… Hand pulled silkscreens made in our SF studio.

Colors come in Rust and Army.
Front

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Shirts are $18.00 with $3 shipping

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Also available in baby oneies click here!

Developed and produced by a group of artists and fans known as The Mothership Art Collective, this poster show will be held in the middle of a weekend of Phish, who play three nights at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, July 5th-7th.

Phish poster shows have been held over the years with great success, as unique posters made for the Phish shows that weekend and stop on the tour feature some of the best concert art being produced today. ‘Summer in Saratoga’ is the second event produced by The Mothership Art Collective, a group within the Phish community, comprised of artists and organizations who promote the art inspired by the band Phish. Their initial poster show, ‘First Tube’, was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey on June 16th, 2012 and was a success for all who participated in the event and raised $2000 to benefit The Mockingbird Foundation. The eclectic artists featured at this poster show displays the broad scope of Phish related art and capture the inspiration of the band in their art. The creative fan base that Phish has makes for amazing art inspired by the band, the locales and the music. The collective works hard to bring an art show to the Phish touring public each year.

In keeping with the great tradition and success of past poster shows, Summer in Saratoga will offer free entry to all patrons, tubes available for purchase, charitable donations from the event made to The Mockingbird Foundation and a wide array of artists with posters to fit any budget. Artists will be announced in early May, as well as any special edition works that will only be available at the show, which will be posted on www.mothershipartcollective.org in early June.

The Saratoga Hilton is located at 534 Broadway in downtown Saratoga Springs, only 3 miles from Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC).

The prints are not signed or numbered, but they are printed on glossy paper and all monies after shipping will benefit SHS. The cost for each print is $25 including shipping. Comment below the poster if you would like one. There are only THREE left.