Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Amazing Grace Guitar Book Project

Molly here ~

Our good friends John Pedersen and Judy Kaufman have moved their music shop, Amazing Grace, into its new home right down the street from its former location. When the bull dozers arrived to raze the old building there was champagne and tears to be had. Unfortunately we weren't there!! - but I know we would have cried as I get teary eyed just driving by and not seeing the old funky building.

So now that John and Judy are happily ensconced in their new abode they decided to have a summer party.  As J and J do, they sent out the word in mass and everyone that can comes to have a grand old time.

Their "old pal" (as John would say) Sidne, who lives in Nevada with her man Mike, had a brain storm of an idea for a shop warming present.  A while ago she had received from John an old guitar which had been damaged beyond repair, to do with as she wished, and she came up with a great idea!  She contacted me by email to ask if I could get ahold of as many artist friends of J and J's as possible to see if they would like to participate in the creation of a guitar book. Her idea was to use the body of the guitar as the holder/case for a series of pages created by friends of J and J.  I put the word out and we got some great art!


Here are photos of the Guitar Project:


The case for the Guitar Project

Through the guitar hole
Sidne Teske lifting the book out of the case
with Oletha Norris, Greg Snyder and Scott Barrett looking on.
(Greg Snyder also contributed a page to this book but we don't
have any images of his art piece, keep looking, hopefully I will
be able to get one and post it here!)

Judy and John sitting in their new shop
holding the case as they gaze at the book

Art work by Sidne Teske
Sidne did several beautiful front pages
Some with whimsical cartoon characters
and some beautiful images of instruments


Title Page by Sidne Teske
(Molly Rea, Jeanne Carlson and Blake Herod's name mis-spelled-
to be corrected at some future date)
William T. Wiley's page

Blake Herod's page




Close up of William T. Wiley page
Wiley's poem reads:
Amazing Grace
The humanoids amazing unto me
was once was lost in the void
but now we're self-employed
so......John and Judy
saved their bootie
and moved on up the road
Buster here- Mary Hull
with lots of love
 for your new abode
Wiley
We think the world of view

Chuck Wiley
(front)

Chuck Wiley
(back)

Larry Rippee

Scott Barrett
(The people depicted on this page are all a part of
our Thursday night music group)
(front)

Scott Barrett
(The old Amazing Grace store)
(back)

Oletha Norris

Richard Shaw
"Is this like a musician's block?  ---Duh!!"
(front)

Richard Shaw
(back)

Martha Shaw
"A Scrap of Silk - A Patch of Green"
by Marty Shoe (aka Martha Shaw)
(front)

Martha Shaw
(back)
Jeanne Carlson
(birds based on photo by Bud Hendrik)
(front)

Jeanne Carlson
(bird based on photo by Bud Hendrik)
(back)

Bill Shelley
(front)

Bill Shelley
(back)

Blake Herod
(front)

Blake Herod
(back)

Molly Rea
(front)

Molly Rea
(back)

Close up of Judy and John by Molly Rea

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