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$5,000 Donated to The Mockingbird Foundation from PhanArt thanks to artists and fans!

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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!

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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.

 

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12 Phish Pins for Auction for Mockingbird

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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!!!!!

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Donated posters from TRiPP!

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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…..

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Donations from Artists, Late Summer 2011

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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.

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Auction of 3 Colorado Posters for Mockingbird

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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.

BID HERE

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Let the Wookie Win shirt and Onesies from JDub Allstars

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Let the Wookie Win lot shirt

NEW - Let the Wookiee Win lot shirt - Grateful Dead, Phish, Furthur, GDF
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Greetings! Here is a brand new lot shirt for those of us that love tour and the people that keep shakedown shaking…the wooks! “Let the Wookiee Win!” is on the front center of the shirt. The back of the shirt has the larger print, a big wooked-out wook rocking a flat brim and wings. You know you love it! 

This design is printed on chocolate brown shirts and currently is available in all sizes S – 2XL. Please specify size when ordering.

This original design is beautifully hand silkscreened on preshrunk 100% cotton Gildan tees. (Yes, the shirts are actually preshrunk, and they run a little on the large size, so if you are between sizes we recommend ordering the smaller size.) Pick one up today and make a great new addition to your wardrobe for summer tour. Thanks for your support!

Order one here for $19.99

Phish baby onesie romper – Camel Walk, Run Like an Antelope, Fly Famous Mockingbird

NEW - Phish baby onesie romper - Camel Walk, Run Like an Antelope, Fly Famous Mockingbird
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Greetings! Here’s something for the little heads – beautifully hand-dyed onesies featuring original artwork. There are three different designs, each on their own color – Camel Walk (orange), Run Like an Antelope (blue) and Fly Famous Mockingbird (yellow). Please specify design and size when ordering. 

The designs are applied by heat transfer. Sizing varies because we use two different brands of onesies; the Gerbers run considerably smaller than the Carter’s. Length from shoulder to bottom when laid flat:
XS = 14″ (Gerber size 3-6 months)
S = 15″ (Gerber size 6-12 months)
M = 16″ (Gerber size 18 months, Carter’s size 3-6 months)
L = 17″ (Gerber’s size 24 months, Carter’s size 6-12 months)
XL – 18″ (Gerber’s size 3T, Carter’s size 18 months)
2XL – 19″ (Carter’s size 24 months)

These cute onesies make a great gift for a heady little one in your life. These little numbers go FAST and are already on their third printing this summer, so scoop one up before it’s too late. Thanks for your support!

Each of these cost $19.99 – Order one here

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Donations, Spring and Early Summer 2011

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Special thanks goes to the following artists who were featured on PhanArt in the past four 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.

Pin Me Down – Four different Phish pins

Jeff Crookes – Two each of: Lego Chairman, Lego Cactus and Lego Big Red, plus a Big Red pin donation at Bethel Woods

Brian Kushner of PhanBadge – 3 watkins magnets, 2 guyutica magnets, 3 watkins badges, set of festival badges

Branden Otto – $45

Jambandistan Art collective – $50

Jiggs – (3) $30 donations and a $33 donation

Adam Davidoff coins and balls – $9

Buds –2 Lennon posters and 2 Makisupa shirts

Maria DiChiappari – Bethel Poster and SuperBall IX poster

Jonathan Lamb of Like Minded Productions – Designing and printing poster for Tahoe Poke Tourny for Mockingbird

Nate Colby: $6.14

Mike O’Donnell – $10

Douglas whitworth and Ben Whitesell – Camden, Cincy and Bethel prints

John Corbett – $3

Matt Jurcic and 10 Tube Designs – Buffalo bill pin, Sleeping monkey pin, Cavern pin

AJ Masthay – 10 posters to Waterwheel Foundation

Total: $246.14 and 46 pieces of Phanart for sale through auctions and art shows, like Da Mock Show, August 16th, Noon to 5pm, right next to UIC!

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Camden Poster Deals from Branden Otto

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At the Camden Phish show on June 10th, Branden Otto will be setting up an art gallery booth in the lots of the Susquehanna Bank Center. He will be bringing with him a wide array of prints from over the past two years.

15% of all sales that day will benefit Mockingbird Foundation. Posters will be sold 1 for $15, 2 for $25, 3 for $30 on all prints.

Be sure to follow Branden and PhanArt on Twitter to find out where in the lots Branden is on the day of the show. Help support Mockingbird Foundation through this very generous offer from Branden Otto!

Updated 6/9/11 10pm:

Camden, NJ 5 color screen print
measures 16×20
Limited Edition of 40
Signed & Numbered
Hand drawn and Hand printed

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Donations to Mockingbird while on tour…..

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Update: After a hot and sweaty day in the lots of Merriweather Post, we raised $110 on Saturday alone through the generous efforts of phans who stopped by our setup on Shakedown to pick up pins, badges and much more, all to benefit Mockingbird! Thank you one and all!

Thanks to the genorosity of fans in Bethel, PhanArt was able to sell a great deal of donated books, hats, pins, shirts and stickers over the weekend. We raised a total of $105 in these three shows alone!

Look for PhanArt setup on lot at Merriweather Post Night 1 and help support music education through the Mockingbird Foundation!

The PhanArt setup in Bethel
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Katstashioz Clothing and Bags from Kat Griffin

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Combining the infamous ‘Cheerioz’ design of one of our favorite band members and unique applications of the design, Kat Griffin has an array of excellent pieces of handmade art that are great for guys and girls alike. Katstashioz combine the skill of Kat, a secret stash pouch in each piece and the cheerioz design.

Kat’s Small and Large Katstashioz bags feature a blue background populated by crazy irregular orange circles with a secret stash pouch inside! Each comes with an adjustable strap, 2 inner pockets, with the small bag measuring approx. 9″ x 5″ and the larger 13″ x 12″. Cost for small is $28 with $4 for shipping or $39 for the large with $8 shipping. (small bag is now sold out)

 

Large Bag

The Katstashioz Men’s Vest is blue with the familiar orange circles featured on the front and back. The vest is reversible and lined with sparkly blue fabric. With a secret stash pouch inside, this is perfect for weddings, shows or just wearing around the central part of town. Cost is $59 with $8 shipping.

 

Men’s Vest


Katstashioz Dress is made of  lightweight organic blue cotton with really REALLY REALLY big orange circles and a secret hidden pouch inside! Each one is made to order and can be made in the ‘V’ neck ‘ U’ neck design. Info and measurements need to be shared with Kat and she will match your measurements to pattern sizes. These dresses tend to be a bit larger on average so you have wiggle room. Each custom made dress is $125 with an addition cost for XXL. Shipping is $10

 

Dress


Katstashioz Hoody is dark blue and has irregular orange circle across the jacket. With the secret pouch added into the hoody, this jacket costs $89 with $10 shipping. Specify if you want the circles all over the arms and hood as well!

 

Hoody