Though the CanJoe Company pioneered and specializes in creating the cool one-stringed musical instruments that it’s world famous for, occasionally other musical stringed instruments are created as functional hand crafted art, or in this special case, hand painted.
Tennessee’s oldest town, Jonesborough, TN, has a summer concert series each year called the “Music on the Square”. It is an open air event held on the Main street of the town with the scheduled music bands performing for the public from the steps of the historic county courthouse. This year as a fundraising event to benefit the “Music on the Square” the organization’s committee decided to offer a public auction of specially decorated guitars that select regional artists would alter. Forty guitars have now been artistically altered by these area artisans and I, CanJoe*John, was one as a selected artist for the “Guit-Art“ project. Now, I, as CanJoe*John, being a well respected artist who often collaborates, too, with other artists, on this particular project decided to collaborate with a 10 year old friend who is quite an accomplished artist, also. This young friend, Grason Smith, has been well known by me (CanJoe*John) since Grason was born. Grason is an artist prodigy, already having sold some of his drawings to local buyers, and he has also been mentored by me (CanJoe*John) since his birth, so the decision to showcase Grason’s talents was harnessed by getting him to hand paint the guitar. Grason chose acrylic paint as his medium to render the New York City scape, the buildings and the Statue of Liberty, and I (CanJoe*John) then added the surreal sky, touched up a little on the Ellis Island and painted the background and ocean to finish the work. Below are photos of the collaborated efforts of CanJoe*John and Grason Smith:
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- Grason Smith, gettingstarted on the “Guit-art” project
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- Grason drawing the basic designs
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- Grason’s Art
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- Darkened view of “Da Big ‘A'”, Guit-art project
The “Guit-art” project will sell to the public all 40 artistically altered guitars on auction at the National Storytelling Center building in downtown Jonesborough, TN on April 5, 2013, from 5PM till 10 PM. Tickets for the event are $25 at the door. For more information contact the CanJoe Company at 423-323-0174.
For all inquiries, prices quoted on all instruments, or any CanJoe Company related business, please call 423-323-0174.
