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Exclusive Art Available at PhanArt Atlantic City

We are less than one week away from the first PhanArt show of 4.0 at Ceasars in Atlantic City! As always we’ve got some exclusive art and deals from the scene’s top artists taking part in the show on August 14 from 12-5pm. Get in line early for limited edition prints, pins, shirts, accessories and much more. Stay for some live music from Sweeping Views and don’t miss the afternoon’s Phan Film screenings Including “We’ve Got It Simple” and “Cirque du Cambodia”, a Documentary Film by Joel Gershon.

In the interest of public health, we encourage ALL attendees to wear a mask at the PhanArt show, regardless of vaccination status. ALL staff, artists and vendors will be wearing a mask, and there will be complimentary masks available near the entrance to the PhanArt Show. We’re all in this together, and we’ve got to wear a mask!

Take a scroll and check out all the artists and exclusive art waiting for you at the Atlantic City Phanart show!

The Mockingbird Foundation

#Mbird25 posters by Cory Rowe will be available at the PhanArt Show in Limited supplies for only $35. This print commemorates the 25th Anniversary of The Mockingbird Foundation! Get one at the PhanArt table!

Dave Russo

Don’t miss a series of special limited edition prints from the unique and recognizable hand of Dave Russo’s Scribbles of Dave.

2020 Tour Bring 11 x 17 LE https://www.scribblesofdave.com50
DIVIDED SKY song illustration
Original is 11×15 and proceeds will go to the Divided Sky Fund. Prints are available in 3 sizes.

The Overhead View

The Overhead View started in 2014 with a Paul and Silas USPS design and has been growing ever since. Now with over 50 designs, available on etsy and theoverheadviewshop.com, gear is available in men’s, women’s, youth, and toddler tees, onesies, men’s and women’s tank tops, hoodies, hats, stickers, pins, and even mugs. Artist/Owner Bryan Kirk has been seeing shows since 1995. Summer Tour 2021 tees from The Overhead View come in sizes XS to 4XL for $25 (+$5 for 3XL, +$10 for 4XL).

Werner Arts & Designs

Terry Werner has been on scene with his unique concert prints since 2021. Specializing in limited edition lithograph and screen prints. Don’t miss his Limited Edition3 Part Lithograph “Sand Castle Dance” Available at the AC Phanart show. Be one of the first 10 to get the new AC 2021 prints at the show and get the full set of 3 for only $30. Regular price $20/individual, $40 for the set of 3.

GratefuLegos

GratefuLegos is a Phamily business specializing in custom figures, magnets, ornaments, and stages created using Lego bricks having been on the Dead/Phish bus since the mid-80s. Jeremy makes lots of different figures for bands like the Dead, Phish, Moe., Mule, WSP. Also available for custom creations.

The Wheel Ceramics

Music enthusiast, lover of clay. The Wheel Ceramics came to fruition in 2017 and the rest is history. By now you may have one (or several) of Courtney’s Pieces or know friends that do. Snap up your own in Atlantic City!

Blast-O-Plast

She’ll be there, she’ll be there, she’ll be there… Colleen is an artist that draws what she sees (in her brilliant mind) at the shows as our bands play. If you know her Blast-O-Plast work (especially her Gamehendge series), you probably have some of her Pins, Prints and Apparel. Her aesthetic is unique and great get for any collector.

Josean Rivera

Josean is a teacher and illustrator who creates images inspired by Phish songs! He been creating illustrated setlists since 2014, and create show posters using a variety of media including ink and watercolor and linocuts. 

Art Blankets USA LLC

Scotty D. – Transforming Art into Blankets since 2009. Who needs an Amazing Beach Blanket for AC!?!

http://ArtBlanketsUSA.org

Augury Press

Faith Sponsler is the artist and owner of an online print shop called Augury Press based in Portland, Oregon. Known for her Alphonse Much inspired aesthetic and series of linocut prints, digital prints, stickers, pins, shirts, and more! Faith has been making art ever since she can remember and in 2013 she combined two things that I love and made my first Phanart print and hasn’t stopped since and there’s no end in sight! 

Taboot Apparel

When Phish reunited in 2009 Meghan, a long time seamstress and fan, started Taboot Apparel to channel her love for sewing into her love for Phish. She would soon expand beyond apparel into accessories and household items, Taboot!

http://www.tabootapparel.etsy.com

YES AND GOODS

YES AND GOODS is an eclectic mix of all things good – vintage, artist-made, & small brands. 

Founded in 2020 (dreamed up in 2017) by Jackie Metz, YES AND GOODS serves as her reminder to embrace the “Yes, and” spirit (also embraced by Phish!) by saying yes to whatever comes her way. It is her mission and joy to partner with other like-minded artists and dreamers to curate a collection of one of a kind pieces.

https://yesandgoods.com/products/amethyst-stash-jar

Crowleys Corner

Crowley’s Corner has over a decade of experience making handmade bags and hats and more! They’ve got your FUNctional gear for Summer Tour!

YouEnjoyMyVegan

I hope you enjoy my vegan food, merch & life!

Blockhead’s Printing 

Dave Thomas has been his unique vision to the phanart scene since 2017 with hand carved and printed linocut prints. He specializes on Micro Sized Printings and has a Great Series ready for Summer Tour 2021.

 

Wookles LLC

You know him. You know his stuff. You know it’s good. Now come out and support your local Wook!

Slip Stitch and Glass

Unique plan made stained glass art coming from North Carolina!

Non Dualistic Designs

The Phinets in Phish lot Merch since 201 will be dropping a Phish summer tour design for ladies and men, and 1 Summer Tour Poster. Available in AC!

Laplaca Pottery Works

Greg Laplaca has been working in clay for 30 years making a wide variety of functional and whimsical items . A few years ago he decided to combine my love of live music with pottery and launched his line of lyric inspired coffee and beer mugs. Each one is hand made by me and no 2 are exactly alike.

Divided Sky Designs 

Unique Lot Apparel Designs from a 1.0 Vet.

Stay Tuned as more artists and exclusive art and merchandise get added to Phanart’s August 14th Show at Caesars Palace in Atlantic City

Explore a new realm of Phish & Futbol inspired apparel from PhooTykits

What is PHOOTYKits ?

PHOOTYKITS is a crossover project at the intersection of several different passions: graphic design, football (soccer), and Phish.

​It re-imagines each Phish song as a Football Club and what each club’s crest and uniform (kit) would look like. The players on each team are famous versions of each song, as Phisheads commonly refer to them: the names are dictated by the venue or the city, the number by the show date. Real life soccer clubs’ team crests and kits have obviously served as inspiration for many designs but song/club associations are purely fortuitous and design-driven. To complete the exercise, the corporate sponsors are also all fictional, and to the best of my intent, tie back in some way or other to the song/team.

​As this project gains traction with Phish and soccer fans, PhootyKits will be offering printing runs of fully customized kits (size/name/number) as soon as minimum order size is reached. These shirts are clever and they are going to take off. Visit Phootykits website now and get your club on the crest of this wave.

New Summer Tour Art from Alyssa Ray

One of the best things about the thriving phanart scene around Phish is the number of talented female artists bringing their creative visions to the fans and Alyssa Ray is no exception. You can see her art work on her website. Alyssa’s 2019 Summer Tour Print is truly a one of a kind. Her triumphant heroine evokes the Red Queen as she rides the Phish to victory like a triumphant Viking Warrior. The girl begins to levitate. This piece is amazing and a perfect to add for any collector who will never forget this Summer Tour. 50 Signed Editions are available for $50 each. Order yours on Alyssa’s website today!

Signed & numbered in pencil: limited edition of 50.

Summer Tour 2019 Trading Cards

Looking for a one kind memento from every stop on Phish’s 2019 Summer Tour?!? Check out this set of Hand Carved Linoleum Mini Print Trading Cards from Dave Thomas. Each stop on the Tour has its own 2.5″ by 3.5″ card with art that references the venue and local area on the front while giving you all the key stats about Phish at that venue on the back. There are a total of 14 cards in the series. 1 for each of the 13 tour stops and 1 2019 summer tour card. These little cards are a perfect get – collectable, tradable and just plain fun. This is a limited Edition of ONLY 25 Completed and Signed Sets of this amazing series. DO NOT SLEEP on these! Only $25/Set Order Yours now!

Retro Lot Poster Series From Star City Art Workshop

Star City Art Workshop is a partnership that was founded in the spring of 2017 as a bit of a courting gesture between two artists. Describing what each brings would take too long so let’s just say there is one hell of a synergy when you cross an artist with an outlaw, a nurturer with an activist, a dreamer with a lover. These prints are born out of a basement in Star City, West Virginia.

This entire series featured below is available on eBay.

This print was inspired by ACDC Bag and other visual imagery that feels Phishy  Its creators enjoy expanding the visual language associated with the band, and sometimes reach out there to push that. This one has direct lyrical references as well. The feel is edgy, and the time within which this was created was pretty darn edgy, and still is socially and politically. Feel the parallels between the narratives in the early Phish lyrics and the story we are all living in history together. There are references here of great tension and decisiveness, consequence, reality of mythic proportions. And that is where this print operates from. Colors: burnt sienna red and green/yellow smearprint and green.

Many of these prints have a story to tell. The imagery is venue-inspired with the Georgia Peach.

“Amy’s Farm 1991″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Yellow and brown on madero beach speckletone. Run of 25.

Amy’s Farm was the first in a series of nine throwback prints for early shows, now referred to as the “Phish 1.0” era.

“Sugarbush 1995″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Red, green, yellow and peacock on madero beach speckletone. Run of 12.
“UNH, Durham, NH 1994″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Blue on madero beach speckletone. Run of 11.

This print features UNH school colors and reference to the theatrics of trampoline jumping on stage. Phish are a beautiful embodiment of theatrical-artist-type musicians and youthfulness. So playful in spirit even when paired with all the intellectual brilliance. There is a reference also to holes here. And just a letting go.

“The Colonial, Keene, NH 1992″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Flamingo pink and forest green on madero beach speckletone. Run of 12.
“Cumberland County Civic Center, December 1995″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Peacock and silver on madero beach speckletone. Run of 7.
“Portsmouth Music Hall, 1992″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Pink and burnt sienna on madero beach speckletone. Run of 11.
“Cayuga County Fairgrounds, 1993″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Golden-yellow and black on madero beach speckletone. Run of 10.
“The Ballpark, OOB, 1994″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Salmon and charcoal black on madero beach speckletone. Run of 7.
“Stowe, July 1993″, 12.5 x 19” on 100lb French Paper. Forest green on madero beach speckletone. Run of 10.

Golgi, olgi, oh ooo olgi Pin

Look into the finances boxes and check your status (status) because you are are going to want to buy this Golgi Pin available now from Shakedown Party. It’s the perfect pin for Science and Phish nerds alike! Look into the microscope and you’ll see the Golgi Apparatus [a major collection and dispatch station of protein products received from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Proteins synthesized in the ER are packaged into vesicles, which then fuse with the Golgi apparatus]. Oh Golgi, olgi, oh ooo olgi….

Each pin in this Limited Edition series of 150 is on Oxidized Metal plating measuring 1.5 inches with two posts, Soft enamel, and yes, it has been Glitter Bombed!

Only $12.50 each! Order yours today, Nerds! ….

Esther Print from Augury Press

Alone on the fairgrounds, a sinister Armenian man lurking in the background, Esther looks at us with haunted eyes, standing in the water that would swallow her life while clutching the puppet on her right. The story of Esther comes to life in this new 11″ by 17″ masterpiece from Augury Press. Never before has Phish’s tragic little heroine been immortalized so beautifully. Inspired by Art Nouveau and the works of Alphonse Mucha this piece is the next great installment in a series that includes Tela, and the perfect pairing of the Winter Queen and Fuego. This hand drawn digitally painted print is a must have for fans of one of Phish’s oldest tales as well as phanart collectors. Available now on Etsy for only $15. Order yours today!

Augery Press Esther Print

Kasvot Växt Rare Vintage 1981 Concert Posters

Few can forget Kasvot Växt’s epic 1981 Summer Tour. Fewer still can remember it. Well now you can relive the original glory of your favorite  Scandinavian Band and the finest shows that never were, with these one of kind limited edition Kasvot Växt Vintage 1980’s Concert Posters.

These Poster are rarer than rare available only on Scribbles of Dave’s Etsy, so don’t miss your chance – Order yours for only $28 today!