Anonymous
Source: Community Arts Workshop
There’s still time for individuals and teams to submit proposals for Pianos on State. The public art project represents a collaboration between the City, the Community Arts Workshop, Santa Barbara Education Foundation, Downtown Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Bowl, and the County Office of Arts and Culture. This interactive musical experience takes place during Arts & Humanities Month in October.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
PIANOS ON STATE is an interactive musical experience that takes place during Arts & Humanities Month in October. After an unusual and remarkable year in 2020 with COVID, we are delighted for our 12th year in downtown Santa Barbara with the Pianos back on State Street!
Each piano becomes its own interactive piece of art as painted by local Santa Barbara artists. The pianos will be displayed on designated pads along State Street for the public to play. Every year piano-painting at the Community Arts Workshop is a weekend of artists of all styles and stripes rubbing shoulders, trading tips and information, and making art together.
As a public art program, this is an opportunity for emerging and professional artists alike to showcase their work through a unique project. Individual artists and collaborative teams are both eligible, though teams must use one application.
Piano-painting at the CAW will follow current COVID guidelines. The CAW has abundant airflow, and we will be able to enforce mask requirements and allow for space between the pianos as needed for current COVID conditions.
How It Works
Each artist or artist team painting a piano will be given a $350 stipend to purchase materials of their choice for a designated piano. All pianos will be provided and transported by the Pianos on State team. Space to paint the pianos will also be provided at CAW. Participating artists will be recognized on the Pianos on State Street website, piano banners, and all other marketing and publicity materials.
Sounds great – let’s find a virtuoso who wants to let vagrants take a dump right next to, or on?, his instrument. Hey City of SB – “cmon man!”0