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10 Nov 2010
Mixed Media • Studio Arts

HoneyChild Plays Painted Piano on State St.

Isaac Hernandez. Untitled. Acrylic paint on piano. Exhibited outside the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. November 7, 2010. ©2010 Isaac Hernandez/IsaacArt.com

I played for four days, painting a piano for Pianos on State St., an event organized by the Arts Ed at the Granada, New Noise Santa Barbara, Notes for Notes, Santa Barbara Bowl Education Outreach and the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, to promote a musical instrument drive on December 31, 2010.

I’m very happy that HoneyChild came by and played it, and someone was kind enough to capture it on video and post it on YouTube. Here’s HoneyChild’s MySpace page. You can download HoneyChild’s album for free on HoneyChild’s website.

The whole thing was a lot of fun. The piano was in front of the Santa Barbara Art Museum and on the front of The Arcada over the weekend. Thank you to all that contributed to these project, Artists: Andy García, Violet Bast, Hazel Carlson, Phillip Gilley, myself Isaac Hernández, Laura Inks, Chantal Peterson, Matt Rodríguez, Andrea Sánchez and Cary Wexlar.

And thank you to those who sponsored the pianos: Cox Communications, Seymour Duncan, Montecito Bank & Trust, Santa Barbara Bowl Education Outreach and New Noise Santa Barbara. Thank you everyone else that made this great project possible.

The piano above is being donated by Pianos on State St. to Open Alternative School (OAS) in Santa Barbara. Other pianos, like the one by Matt Rodriguez below, are still looking for homes. You can buy one of them or you can recommend a school to have it donated to.

Matt Rodriguez' Piano on State.

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03 Nov 2010
Mixed Media • Studio Arts

Piano Paint Play

The piano in progress.

Thanks to Facebook (I admit that FB is good for something), I found out that the Granada Theater was looking for artists to paint pianos. It was late at night on Sunday when I learned this. I called Laura Inks at the Granada first thing Monday morning, and the next thing I knew, I was painting a piano. The painted pianos initiative will promote the Granada’s musical instrument drive, in which they collect used musical instruments and then donate them to schools and kids in need (of an musical instrument). Last year they collected hundreds.

I’m so happy to be part of this project. This is one more reason why I love Santa Barbara. The decision to paint a piano was sudden. I always like a challenge. Besides, I didn’t want to go to my grave thinking that I had missed this chance of being musical. I definitely didn’t want my tombstone to read, “Here lies Isaac, he never painted a piano.” That’s why I’m donating my body for science, or for fish food -I haven’t made up my mind yet. One thing is certain, I hope that my useful organs will get taken advantage of by someone else in need, like these pianos.

If you want to paint a piano tomorrow, let me know. The pianos will be exhibited during the weekend, with an opening happening on Santa Barbara First Thursday November 2010. The pianos go to schools afterwards. I believe this one will go to Open Alternative School.

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