The Jerry Garcia Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, supports meaningful causes through the beauty of art and music.
The Foundation was established in 2015 as an expression of gratitude, by family members, Manasha and Keelin Garcia, in honor of musician, artist, and visionary, Jerry Garcia.
"Staying true to Jerry's vision, we embrace the idea that music and art bring great healing to the world."
"Staying true to Jerry's values, we embrace the idea that music and art bring great healing to the worldMission: The Jerry Garcia Foundation supports artistic, environmental and humanitarian causes.
To realize the mission, grants are provided to vetted 501c3 nonprofits. The Foundation engages artists and musicians who wish to share their gifts for the benefit of the greater good.
All board members donate their services as volunteers.
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is receptive to partnerships and welcomes inquiries from like-minded organizations.
The Foundation was established in 2015 as an expression of gratitude, by family members, Manasha and Keelin Garcia, in honor of musician, artist, and visionary, Jerry Garcia.
"Staying true to Jerry's vision, we embrace the idea that music and art bring great healing to the world."
"Staying true to Jerry's values, we embrace the idea that music and art bring great healing to the worldMission: The Jerry Garcia Foundation supports artistic, environmental and humanitarian causes.
To realize the mission, grants are provided to vetted 501c3 nonprofits. The Foundation engages artists and musicians who wish to share their gifts for the benefit of the greater good.
All board members donate their services as volunteers.
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is receptive to partnerships and welcomes inquiries from like-minded organizations.
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is an approved Nonprofit partner of the environmental 1% for the Planet Network |
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See Jerry Garcia's Fine Art Featured in Rolling Stone:
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The Jerry Garcia Foundation Honors Jerry with New Edition Releases of His Visual Art "It is an honor to be able to share my father's creative spirit with so many charitable organizations that support such worthy causes," Keelin Garcia. |
Photo: 1971, USA — Jerry Garcia, sits to discuss and play guitar for an album with musician David Crosby during the early 1970s. Image by © Henry Diltz/Corbis |
California Mission: Jerry Garcia
Watercolor: Circa 1992 |
"Ocean" Guitar w/ Jerry Garcia "Fish" Etching Inlay
Luthier: Thomas Lieber
* Photo credits: Milo Stewart Jr. Staff Photographer National Baseball Hall of Fame
Luthier: Thomas Lieber
* Photo credits: Milo Stewart Jr. Staff Photographer National Baseball Hall of Fame
Eco-friendly "Ocean" Guitar Is Unveiled in Honor of Jerry Garcia's 75th Birthday. The Jerry Garcia Foundation has collaborated with guitar maker Tom Lieber, the co-creator of Jerry Garcia's iconic "Tiger" guitar, to design a plastic-free, sustainable guitar named "Ocean."
Aug 01, 2017, 08:40 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Jerry Garcia's 75th Birthday, the Jerry Garcia Foundation has commissioned luthier and artist Tom Lieber to create an eco-friendly, plastic-free electric guitar. The new guitar named "Ocean" is made from sustainable maple and features a fingerboard inlay image of Jerry Garcia's etching titled "Fish." The instrument will be played at benefit events to support causes that were meaningful to Jerry such as coral reef preservation.
After an extensive two-year search for a guitar maker who had the expertise to create a plastic-free instrument, Jerry's daughter, Keelin and wife, Manasha were delighted to meet luthier Tom Lieber at a recent Foundation benefit.
"This guitar, Ocean, has been conceived with love and intent to serve as a symbolic vehicle for the Jerry Garcia Foundation to utilize in its continuing effort of expanding the positive world impact of Jerry Garcia's creative legacy," said Tom Lieber of Lieber Instruments, Inc.
Doug Irwin and Tom Lieber were the designers and builders of Jerry Garcia's two most famous guitars, "Tiger" and "Wolf." In June, the "Wolf" guitar sold at auction for $1.9 million and raised over $3 million for charitable causes.
The new eco-friendly guitar's journey will begin this month as the Jerry Garcia Foundation invites artists to play the instrument at benefit events in support of ocean conservation in addition to other worthy causes.
In his lifetime, Jerry was an active advocate for coral reef preservation. Coral reefs are vital to the ecosystem and known as the "rainforests of the sea."
Aug 01, 2017, 08:40 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Jerry Garcia's 75th Birthday, the Jerry Garcia Foundation has commissioned luthier and artist Tom Lieber to create an eco-friendly, plastic-free electric guitar. The new guitar named "Ocean" is made from sustainable maple and features a fingerboard inlay image of Jerry Garcia's etching titled "Fish." The instrument will be played at benefit events to support causes that were meaningful to Jerry such as coral reef preservation.
After an extensive two-year search for a guitar maker who had the expertise to create a plastic-free instrument, Jerry's daughter, Keelin and wife, Manasha were delighted to meet luthier Tom Lieber at a recent Foundation benefit.
"This guitar, Ocean, has been conceived with love and intent to serve as a symbolic vehicle for the Jerry Garcia Foundation to utilize in its continuing effort of expanding the positive world impact of Jerry Garcia's creative legacy," said Tom Lieber of Lieber Instruments, Inc.
Doug Irwin and Tom Lieber were the designers and builders of Jerry Garcia's two most famous guitars, "Tiger" and "Wolf." In June, the "Wolf" guitar sold at auction for $1.9 million and raised over $3 million for charitable causes.
The new eco-friendly guitar's journey will begin this month as the Jerry Garcia Foundation invites artists to play the instrument at benefit events in support of ocean conservation in addition to other worthy causes.
In his lifetime, Jerry was an active advocate for coral reef preservation. Coral reefs are vital to the ecosystem and known as the "rainforests of the sea."
Summer 2017
#RippleEffect Gardens
A Collective Art Project
Please join us in preserving the butterflies and bees at Participation Row on the Dead & Company Tour this summer!
We Invite You to Plant a pollinator garden and share a nature-themed photo on our FaceBook Page.
Your photos will be added to a multi-media Butterfly Collage and presented at a charity event.
Please tag photos: #RippleEffect #SaveOurMonarchs #SavetheBees
The Grateful Dead Helps to Save Bees and Butterflies Through Jerry Garcia’s Legacy by McKinley Corbley - Jun 14, 2017
Jerry Garcia passed away 22 years ago, but the legacy of the lead singer of the Grateful Dead lives on in a new effort to boost wild honeybee and monarch butterfly populations.
Embarking on a summer tour across America, Dead & Company, the group headed by former Garcia bandmates Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann (with special guests Oteil Burbridge, John Mayer and keyboardist, JeffChimenti), will give fans at each venue a way in which they can help repopulate the winged creatures.
The band will be hosting a charity outreach program in the form of Participation Row: a series of tents dedicated to presenting meaningful causes and organizations. One of the tents will feature the most recent work of the Jerry Garcia Foundation
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To encourage butterfly and bee conservation among Deadheads, the Foundation will be passing out free milkweed seeds and garden pollinator packs to the first 300 concert-goers to visit their tent at the venues, courtesy of the Save Our Monarchs Foundation.
Anyone who actually ends up planting the seeds can participate in an interactive art project by submitting photos of the blossoming garden to the foundation’s Facebook page with the tags #SaveTheMonarchs, #SaveTheBees, or #RippleEffect.
“Save Our Monarchs has generously donated thousands of Non-GMO milkweed seed packets and pollinator garden seeds,” said Keelin Garcia, Jerry’s youngest daughter and co-founder of the Jerry Garcia Foundation. “We are sharing these seeds in hopes that gardens will be planted to nourish butterfly and bee populations across the US.
The initiative comes at an appropriate time, too. Garcia’s birthday is coming up on August 1st, and the program supports a cause that would have been very dear to him. Additionally, National Pollinator Week is running from June 19th-25th.
The Jerry Garcia foundation has already donated several of the singer’s colorful art pieces to benefit Save Our Monarchs and the urban beekeeping organization Honey Love.
“Jerry was an environmentalist who advocated for the preservation of the rainforests and the coral reefs,” said Manasha Garcia, Jerry’s wife and co-founder of the foundation. “It is a blessing to continue this work in his honor.”
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The Jerry Garcia Foundation has partnered with Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco to present the "Garden of Song" exhibit, a new collection of Jerry Garcia fine art. Family members, Manasha and Keelin Garcia will unveil a collection of the virtuoso's visual art presented at the Hard Rock Cafe Relaunch Celebration in San Francisco on May 13, 2017.
The "Garden of Song" exhibit includes a five piece butterfly study by Jerry Garcia.
Hosted by Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco, the highly anticipated reveal of its renovated facility will culminate with art, music and community during a "Summer of Love" inspired celebration between 10:30 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. at Pier 39.
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is pleased to introduce singer/songwriter Greg Winser to the musical mix at the Pier 39 Stage. Greg Winser, a California native, will perform original songs in a free performance with an eclectic lineup featuring Bassist, Tony Saunders (Jerry Garcia/Merle Saunders) Guitarist, Bill Hampton and Drummer, Hanne Tylvad Anderson. The Band's 10:30 A.M. set initiates the "Summer of Love" fun at the art/music event.
Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco has invited Greg Winser and surprise guests to participate in a charitable "guitar smash." All selected guitars are non-usable (any parts that can be recycled will be reused). The remaining guitar materials will be transformed into butterfly themed sculptures created by Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia, then donated to support pollinator conservation programs.
"It is an honor to support the Hard Rock Heals Foundation and pollinator conservation programs with the transformative beauty of art and music." - Manasha Garcia
The Jerry Garcia Foundation will donate a collection of Jerry Garcia's fine art to three nonprofit organizations. A one-of-a kind Mandolin Player on canvas and a Golden Meadows giclée will be donated to the Hard Rock Heals Foundation. Jerry's Butterfly Study I and Butterfly Study II will be donated to the SaveOurMonarchs Foundation.
Manasha Garcia's Butterfly Garden piece will also be donated to the SaveOurMonarchs Foundation. An etching created by Jerry Garcia titled Honey Bees will be donated to HoneyLove.org – Urban Beekeepers.
Hard Rock Café San Francisco Relaunch / Jerry Garcia Foundation "Garden of Song" Exhibit
Saturday, May 13, 2017
10:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco
39 Pier 39 – Embarcadero and Beach St.
San Francisco, CA
415-956-2013
For additional information please visit:
Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco Events
Hard Rock Heals Foundation Music is energy; it stirs emotion, inspires, connects and restores. The Hard Rock Heals Foundation™ exists to improve lives through the power of music. Since its inception in 1971, Hard Rock International has brought people together through the power of music. It has developed partnerships with artists ranging from emerging to iconic in support of charitable efforts around the world. The Hard Rock Heals Foundation provides grants and assistance to individuals whose goal is to heal through the power of music. Partnerships with like-minded, music-centric organizations allow Hard Rock Heals Foundation the opportunity to improve lives and promote wellness.
#peacethroughmusic #Love.Amplified
#CharitableGuitarSmash
All selected guitars are non-usable (any parts that can be recycled will be reused). The remaining guitar materials will be transformed into butterfly themed sculptures created by Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia, then donated to support pollinator conservation programs.
Video of Charitable Guitar Smash Here:
The "Garden of Song" exhibit includes a five piece butterfly study by Jerry Garcia.
Hosted by Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco, the highly anticipated reveal of its renovated facility will culminate with art, music and community during a "Summer of Love" inspired celebration between 10:30 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. at Pier 39.
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is pleased to introduce singer/songwriter Greg Winser to the musical mix at the Pier 39 Stage. Greg Winser, a California native, will perform original songs in a free performance with an eclectic lineup featuring Bassist, Tony Saunders (Jerry Garcia/Merle Saunders) Guitarist, Bill Hampton and Drummer, Hanne Tylvad Anderson. The Band's 10:30 A.M. set initiates the "Summer of Love" fun at the art/music event.
Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco has invited Greg Winser and surprise guests to participate in a charitable "guitar smash." All selected guitars are non-usable (any parts that can be recycled will be reused). The remaining guitar materials will be transformed into butterfly themed sculptures created by Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia, then donated to support pollinator conservation programs.
"It is an honor to support the Hard Rock Heals Foundation and pollinator conservation programs with the transformative beauty of art and music." - Manasha Garcia
The Jerry Garcia Foundation will donate a collection of Jerry Garcia's fine art to three nonprofit organizations. A one-of-a kind Mandolin Player on canvas and a Golden Meadows giclée will be donated to the Hard Rock Heals Foundation. Jerry's Butterfly Study I and Butterfly Study II will be donated to the SaveOurMonarchs Foundation.
Manasha Garcia's Butterfly Garden piece will also be donated to the SaveOurMonarchs Foundation. An etching created by Jerry Garcia titled Honey Bees will be donated to HoneyLove.org – Urban Beekeepers.
Hard Rock Café San Francisco Relaunch / Jerry Garcia Foundation "Garden of Song" Exhibit
Saturday, May 13, 2017
10:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco
39 Pier 39 – Embarcadero and Beach St.
San Francisco, CA
415-956-2013
For additional information please visit:
Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco Events
Hard Rock Heals Foundation Music is energy; it stirs emotion, inspires, connects and restores. The Hard Rock Heals Foundation™ exists to improve lives through the power of music. Since its inception in 1971, Hard Rock International has brought people together through the power of music. It has developed partnerships with artists ranging from emerging to iconic in support of charitable efforts around the world. The Hard Rock Heals Foundation provides grants and assistance to individuals whose goal is to heal through the power of music. Partnerships with like-minded, music-centric organizations allow Hard Rock Heals Foundation the opportunity to improve lives and promote wellness.
#peacethroughmusic #Love.Amplified
#CharitableGuitarSmash
All selected guitars are non-usable (any parts that can be recycled will be reused). The remaining guitar materials will be transformed into butterfly themed sculptures created by Jerry Garcia's daughter, Keelin Garcia, then donated to support pollinator conservation programs.
Video of Charitable Guitar Smash Here:
Projects We Support
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is honored to support the WhyHunger organization's "Imagine There's No Hunger" program.
Inspired by Yoko Ono Lennon, John Lennon and his song, "Imagine," the "Imagine There's No Hunger" campaign endeavors to turn the dream of a world without hunger into a reality. Jerry Garcia Foundation, Hard Rock team up for Lennon inspired WhyHunger benefit: http://www.axs.com/jerry-garcia-foundation-hard-rock-team-up-for-lennon-inspired-whyhunge-71461 Imagine©1971 Lennon Music Written by John Lennon © Yoko Ono Lennon |
"WhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment." http://whyhunger.org/what-we-do
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Playing For Change Foundation
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is honored to partner with the Playing For Change Foundation to support the mission of bringing music programs to children around the world. #PeaceThroughMusic
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is honored to partner with the Playing For Change Foundation to support the mission of bringing music programs to children around the world. #PeaceThroughMusic
"Let there be songs to fill the air"
Please enjoy this video of talented musicians from around the globe performing on a beautiful version of the 'Ripple' produced by Playing For Change and presented by JamBase.
The video is included in JamBase's Grateful Dead tribute series, "Songs of Their Own," in honor of the band's 50 year Anniversary. Jerry's Fender Stratocaster guitar makes an appearance on the recording and is played by Playing For Change musician, Vasti Jackson. Keelin Garcia sings on the recording in honor of her father and his music.
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is honored to partner with the Playing For Change Foundation to support the mission of bringing music programs to children around the world.
#PeaceThroughMusic
Please enjoy this video of talented musicians from around the globe performing on a beautiful version of the 'Ripple' produced by Playing For Change and presented by JamBase.
The video is included in JamBase's Grateful Dead tribute series, "Songs of Their Own," in honor of the band's 50 year Anniversary. Jerry's Fender Stratocaster guitar makes an appearance on the recording and is played by Playing For Change musician, Vasti Jackson. Keelin Garcia sings on the recording in honor of her father and his music.
The Jerry Garcia Foundation is honored to partner with the Playing For Change Foundation to support the mission of bringing music programs to children around the world.
#PeaceThroughMusic
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