Jerry in Hawaii 1988
Jerry Garcia Photo by Elliot Newhouse
The environmental element of the art release will use the carbon offset tools made available by Aerial, an ecologically driven platform focused on alleviating humanity s carbon footprint. This particular release will support Aerial s forest conservation work, verified by the American Carbon Registry and Climate Action Reserve. We re excited to help creators, including Jerry Garcia Music Arts, understand and mitigate the carbon footprint by supporting meaningful projects, said Aerial cofounder and entrepreneur Andreas Homer.
Jerry Garcia, best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the Grateful Dead, considered himself an artist who played music. The visionary Garcia began creating art as a young child and later studied formally at the San Francisco Art Institute. The many mediums Garcia chose to create with oils, watercolor, ink and digital were as versatile as his talents. Garcia s fine art has traveled thr
Aidin Vaziri May 5, 2021Updated: May 6, 2021, 1:40 pm
Jerry Garcia readies his art for an exhibition in San Rafael in 1992. Photo: Vince Maggiora / The Chronicle 1992
A rare piece of art created by late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia became available as a non-fungible token, or NFT, on Wednesday, May 5, to coincide with the 56th anniversary of the first time the band played together, as the Warlocks, at Magoo’s Pizza Parlor in Menlo Park in 1965.
The one-of-a-kind digital piece titled “Gift” was created by Garcia in 1990 and is being released by the Jerry Garcia Foundation, which is run by his fourth wife, Manasha Garcia (nee Matheson), and youngest daughter, Keelin. It is available for auction on the peer-to-peer SuperRare website, with carbon offsetting by a company called Aerial.