Update 3/19: The net-profit sales from this pin will now benefit The Mockingbird Foundation. The creators of this pin will cover cost and shipping expenses, with the rest benefiting music education.
From the VT Wook Collective, this pin costs $7 shipped. The pin measures 1.25″, has two backs and each pin is numbered from 1-200. It will be ready to ship by 4/1.
Special thanks goes to the following artists who were featured on PhanArt over the past few months!
They have been incredibly generous and through their efforts and donations, they will support the efforts of Mockingbird Foundation to promote music education throughout the country.
Total: $254 and 51 pieces of Phanart!
Special thanks goes to the following artists who were featured on PhanArt over October and November!
They have been incredibly generous and through their efforts and donations, they will support the efforts of Mockingbird Foundation to promote music education throughout the country.
Phish in PDX shirt sales$11
Jennifer Kahn token sales- $150
Ryan’s Akimbo Stickers – 6 stickers
Dane Patunoff – $5
i.Gene pins – 2 Fishman/Coleman pins
Salad Jones shirts – $30
Pin Me Down Designs – 3 pins, funky bitch, MSG NYE and Couch Tour
David Shutan – $25
Stupindous Creations – 2 Gordo and 2 Esther pins
Jiggs – $30 from sales on his site
Total – $246.00 and 15 pieces of PhanArt
Please support these artists who have so graciously donated their art and money to help support The Mockingbird Foundation and music education.
If you are interested in buying any of these donated items, email phanart (at) gmail and we can work out a donation to Mockingbird in exchange.
I would like to thank all the artists who have displayed their Phish-inspired creations here on PhanArt over the last two years. Starting in the fall of 2009, PhanArt evolved from the original 400+ page coffee table book into an online site for fans to sell their Phish-inspired art, at no cost to them. The site has grown and become the main place for Phanart off the lot. The artists who have taken part in the site contributed art or made donations direct to The Mockingbird Foundation based on sales from fans like you. Without the fans and the artists, the $5,000 raised as of this past weekend would not have been attainable.
On to the next $5,000!
PhanArt Pete
PhanArt: The Art of the Fans of Phish, the coffee table book turned website featuring art inspired by the legendary band Phish has donated more than $5,000 to The Mockingbird Foundation. In just two years as a website, Phanart.net has been the #1 website for Phish fan-made merchandise and a marketplace for Phish artists and fans to buy and sell their Phanart, free of charge.
Starting in February of 2009 with the publication of PhanArt, the not-for-profit effort donated money to Mockingbird and sought to generate greater awareness of Mockingbird over the following summer. Pete Mason, a special education teacher living in Albany,NY developed Phanart.net, a website where Phish fans and artists can sell their Phish inspired art free of charge, with a simple request to donate some of their phanart or a percentage of sales directly to Mockingbird.
“PhanArt has been a labor of love for many years now and I am incredibly grateful that artists and fans in the Phish community have come together and have supported this book and website over the past 3 years and raising money for music education in the process.” Mason noted that both the book and the website are both an impressive collaborative effort that led to an expansion of the Phish art community and returned money back to that community. “My thanks go out to the artists who donated a portion of their sales and the fans for driving the sales through the site. This would not be possible without their efforts.”
While artists can make money on the website by selling their art, Mason continues to decline compensation for running the website and providing an outlet for Phish fans to reach other fans. “I find no reason to make profit off the art of others and keep the website open to all so that Phish fans can share their unique Phish inspired creations with others, make a little money to help them to get to the next show and donate to Mockingbird Foundation in the process.” Mason added, “Both PhanArt the book and the website were designed to showcase a slice of musicalAmericanathat would otherwise have faded into obscurity and give back into the community from which it came, through funding music education throughout the country”
Through the project website www.phanart.net, fans submitted art they had created in honor of the band. Original posters, bumper stickers, shirts, tattoos and even painted cars and license plates are some of the items Mason and his team has collected since starting the initiative in 2004. Only original items, not licensed by the band, are accepted for inclusion in PhanArt.
The 400+ page book feature more than 1600 pieces of art and over 40 essays, all created by fans of Phish, as well as numerous fan memories and stories collected over the bands 21-year existence. A version of PhanArt will be available for iPad, Kindle and other e-readers in early December.
The $5,000 amount is notable as it is the full grant amount that Mockingbird Foundation provides in their competitive grant process.
Jack Lebowitz, a founder and director of The Mockingbird Foundation said, “Of all our partners and supporters, PhanArt shares a special relationship with the Mockingbird Foundation by both of us having published books obsessively documenting grass roots Phish fan culture, and donating the proceeds for charity.”
“The Mockingbird Foundation recognizes Pete Mason and PhanArt’s contribution in cataloging the visual arts spun off by Phish fandom in poster art and lot merch in the PhanArt book. We salute’s Pete’s significant accomplishment in raising over $5,000 through sales of his book, merchandise and events.”
Grantees of Mockingbird have included schools, community centers, hospitals, shelters, workshops, camps, and scholarship programs fromMainetoCalifornia, from Appalachia to the Southwest, and fromKentuckyto Kosovo. The Mockingbird Foundation differs from other funders in the music in important ways, focusing on small grants, typically to unconventional programs and/or those catering to underserved children.
Special thanks goes to the following artists who were featured on PhanArt over September and October!
They have been incredibly generous and through their efforts and donations, they will support the efforts of Mockingbird Foundation to promote music education throughout the country.
Sam and Evan of El Del Inc – 1 Pheriodic table of Elements and 1 Mikes Song Longsleeve.
Possum pins fron 10 minute tube designs – 2 Sloth pins
Wookstock Poster by Jambandistan People’s Creative Cooperative – 5 Wookstock Posters
N’Lytn Design Co. – Golgi/Google and Twitter/Tweezer shirts on white
Vermont Relief Pin from Party Time Pins – 2 Vermont pins
Couch Tour Posters and Pins from Off Lot Productions – $30 to Waterwheel Foundation
“Why Weigh on a Sunny Day”and Manteca Pins from stuPINdous Creations – Two manteca pins
“Phuck Yeah” Stickers and “Bouncin” Shirts by Phil – 1 Large Bouncin shirt and 10 Phuck Yeah stickers
Superball IX Race car pins and 25th, 50th & 100th show pins from Rory Boyan – $5
Lot Life stickers, posters, buttscratchas and Super ‘Ballin’ Wook shirts – $10
Original Page Against the Machine Stickers from Mike Distante –$15
HarryHood Hollywood Bowl Posters from Steve Forsthoefel – 3 posters
Tammy Bick – Slave to the Traffic light Ink drawing
Total: 25 pieces of Phanart and $60 in donations to Mockingbird and Waterwheel, with more to come!
Please support these artists who have so graciously donated their art and money to help support The Mockingbird Foundation and music education.
If you are interested in buying any of these donated items, email phanart (at) gmail and we can work out a donation to Mockingbird in exchange.
Our latest auction is one for all the pin collectors out there. Each of the pins is brand new and sealed in a plastic pouch with backings for each pin. Bidding starts at $40 and will last from Sunday evening until Friday evening. All profits from the final auction price (after shipping) will benefit Mockingbird Foundation.
They were donated for this auction by…
StuPINdous Creations – Manteca pin
Pin me Down – Trey is a Jedi reversible pin
Party Time Pins – Simple and Festival 9 Bouncin Sun pins
Ten Minute Tube Designs – Sand, Fee, Cavern and SiiHB pins
Zenster – Superball/Superman 9 Pin
Myfe. Designs – Golgi (Junkyard Dog with a Brain of Brass) and Tela pins
JDub Allstars – Fish eye pin
This auction netted $300 for Mockingbird Foundation!!!!!
TRiPP, a poster artist for the past decade featuring bands from Phish to Widespread Panic, Further to The Disco Biscuits, has donated 10 prints (including some rare ones) to PhanArt to raise money for Mockingbird Foundation. This is a most generous donation from TRiPP and we at PhanArt thank him greatly!
Included in this 10 print donation are:
Gorge 2011 set of 2 prints with matching #s; together they fit together for an illustrative view of the Gorge
Alpine 2009 Artists Proof
Coventry #211/500
Three (3) Red Rocks 2009 prints #’s 115-117/200
Knoxville 2009 #73/95
Portsmouth 2010 #39/65
Philly 2009 #46/100
If you are interested in buying one of these prints before they are put up for auction in coming weeks and months, contact PhanArt Pete or post a comment below with an offer on the poster. Make sure to check out TRiPP’s website and get on his mailing list and stay connected with him on Facebook and on Twitter. TRiPP will be having a give away soon from his 2011 Holiday Card Collection. Stay tuned for details coming soon…..
Special thanks goes to the following artists who were featured on PhanArt over July and August!
They have been incredibly generous and through their efforts and donations, they will support the efforts of Mockingbird Foundation to promote music education throughout the country.
UIC shirts and posters from Bruce Horan – large blue shirt
Read Icculus stickers – 30 stickers than generated $61 for mockingbird already!
Ben Whitesell – UIC print
Franky Scaglione Lake Tahoe prints ‘Mind the Skipper’ – Tahoe Poster, SPAC 2010 Poster and Miami 2009 Poster
Further Phish Summer Tour Badges and pins from PhanBadge –38 pins and badges!!!!
Lake Tahoe by Steve Conroy – 10 signed and numbered prints, plus 20 to Waterwheel this summer
Party Time Pins for Summer Tour Leg 2 – 5 pins, including The Gorge and SuperBall IX
Sand Spinner Pin from 10 Minute Tube Designs – 2 Sand Spinner pins
Off Lot Production Couch Tour Posters – $137 from 4 ebay auctions
Jiggs – from all his sales this summer $150!
“Kuroda Colors Light” and Trey Button from Lori Hartlein – $8
Guyute Draught and PageSide is RageSide shirts from Jeb – $25
10 Minute Tube Designs present Fee and SiiHB pins – 2 Fee and 2 SiiHB pins
What Would Jibboo Do? shirts – one Large shirt and one XLarge shirt
SuperBall IX Pins by Noah Phence – 10 pins, including SuperBall IX and Gye Nyames
Angry Birds of a Feather shirts – $50 for Mockingbird
Total: 103 pieces of Phanart and $370 in donations to Mockingbird, with more to come!
Please support these artists who have so graciously donated their art and money to help support The Mockingbird Foundation and music education.
If you are interested in buying any of these donated items, email phanart (at) gmail and we can work out a donation to Mockingbird in exchange.
Taraleigh Weathers and Pete Mason will be at the Phish benefit in Essex on 9/14 with copies of PhanFood. For only $20, pick up the first cookbook by Phish fans, for Phish fans. More than 1/3 of the cover price will benefit the Chittenden foodbank, and in this time of need as families and businesses clean up after Hurricane Irene, the food is needed more than ever. Look for the Orange Syracuse flag on lot at the show and help feed Vermont!
To commemorate the 3 nights of Phish at Dick’s this past weekend, we have three posters up for auction to benefit Mockingbird
Isadora Bullock – Titled “Steep” and commemorating the shows Phish played in Telluride in 2010, this poster measures 15″ x 21.5″, in a 3 color linocut limited edition of 125. Original cost was $20. This poster has since sold out!
Vinny Naro – This poster was made, as all Vinny’s work is, by hand with pen and ink. A limited run of posters was made for Red Rocks and all have sold out. The intricate detail and style of Naro’s artistry make it rare, artfully crafted concert poster art.
Kevin Mand – About the poster: The original work was done on cold press illustration board with pigment liner pens. Kevin notes that he chose to do the black and white point-o-lism as he feels it relates to how Phish is to him, as well as it is a very intricate and timeconsuming process. After hiking around Telluride for a bit he brainstormed this idea at the town park stage thinking about the “bands view”. The prints where done digitally on 12pt semi-gloss paper, with only 250 done, they are all signed and numbered.
All proceeds from this auction will benefit the Mockingbird Foundation, which supports music education across the country. Check out www.mbird.org for more info.
The posters are wrapped in craft paper and shipped in a sealed poster tube.