Alabama Blues Project

Recently painted guitar to raise money for the Alabama Blues Project.  http://www.alabamablues.org.  I love this organization and everything it is about.  Johnny Shines was the real deal Delta Blues Legend.   He started in Mississippi rambling with the legendary Robert Johnson.  His adventures took him to Chicago and beyond and eventually settled here in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he spent the remainder of his days.  This guitar is a tribute to him.

   

Monster Makeover V

Glad to be a part of this great event.  The monster Makeover V is an art show featuring the art of children from Tuscaloosa area schools.  The children drew monsters and the artists made art based on those monsters.  Both the children's art and the artists pieces are being auctioned off to raise money for arts grants.   Tuscaloosa News published a book featuring all the art work from the show.   The main event is  Oct 30th,  at the Transportation Museum in Tuscaloosa.  It is geared toward children and costumes are encouraged.  Please stop in and show your support!

     Being an artist gives me the opportunity to go places that I’ve never been.  It’s a great feeling to be able to go to some part of the country I’ve never been before and not be a stranger.  Even if I’m not making sales, I can sit around at a slow show and make friends with the artists around me. It’s a great feeling to open a newspaper, or magazine and see your friends and their artwork in it.  I love looking at all the work of the artists I have met along the way on my own wall, or on the wall of some random restaurant or public space in some faraway place or close by.  It makes you feel like part of something much larger.  The best thing about being an artist and knowing other artists is that through the distribution of their art, the spirit of all these amazing people show up all over the place, and change your experience of the place you find it.  This weekend I will be in my hometown of Hoover, Alabama at the Moss Rock Festival, please come out and see us!  I'll be there with my friends Donna DiGiorgio, Jeff Wells & Pam Hamby, Gyl Turner, Chad Moore, David Nuttall and more!  November 1-2, 10 AM-5 PM.

Hey Folks, I got some great stuff cooking in the studio, feel free to contact me if you ever want to pop in and see what I got.  I'll be at the Red Barn Premier Invitational Art Show (http://theredbarnfoundation.org/?p=1804) in Leeds on May 10th, Arts Alive! in Downtown Florence Alabama May 17-18 (http://www.artsalivealabama.com/), And Art in the Gardens on June 21-22 at Aldridge Gardens in Hoover Alabama (http://aldridgegardens.com/home.html).  Hope to see you all real soon.

Come See me Thursday for Blues, Libations and, of course, Folk Art!

A Jammin' Autumn!

The Monte Sano Arts Festival in Huntsville was a great show!

Despite the collapsed tent and the pouring rain.  

Of course, I met some great people and saw some old friends, and my parents finally got to see me in my element.

Christmas is coming up soon and it's never too early to start stocking up on some one of a kind hand made gifts while supporting your local arts scene! 

Here’s my Fall line up, hope to see y'all in the next few weeks!!

           

September 28^th:  The Old 280 Fall Boogie,  Waverly AL.  An all day music festival out near Auburn

October 7^th:  Hot Strings Festival, Colonial Brookwood Village, Mountain Brook, AL.  Bluegrass Festival fundraiser for The Foundry

October 12^th:  Art and Music on the Green, Ross Bridge, Hoover, AL.  Arts and Music with lots of Beer Wine and Food tastings!!

November 2-3^rd: Moss Rock Festival, at The Preserve in Hoover, AL.  2 Day art and Music Festival

It's going to be a busy Autumn, I hope to see Y'all real soon! 

Birmingham Art Walk was great! now on to Leeds

Thanks Birmingham!  Art Walk was a huge success!  I met some great people and had a great time.  Luckily, the rain stayed away!  The event staff was so accommodating and helpful!  A special thanks to Joy, Heather, John and Chuck for all their help (and purchases)!  Next weekend Sept 15-16 is the Leeds Downtown Folk Festival which is a great down home event.  Looking forward to the Dixieland Jazz Band and all the wonderful art.  If you missed me at Art Walk, or saw something that you just had to have, come see me in Leeds!