Joan Baez: A New Stage

December 28, 2020

20/12/28 Joan Baez/Stacey Abrams

Joan Baez: A New Stage

When 79 year-old Joan Baez announced her farewell tour  ending her public singing career I assumed she was sailing over the horizon and anchoring at some distant island of quiet retirement. Wrong.
https://ptatlarge.typepad.com/ptatlarge/2018/09/joan-baez-fare-thee-well.html

Today my friend Myke Farricker dropped in to deliver a Christmas present.

From the size and shape I could tell it must be a photo, perhaps one of the historic fundraising bike rides we have done for the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)s) cause . Wrong again.

The bold and beautiful limited-edition portrait of Stacey Abrams stunned me.

“Check the name of the artist,” Myke says. Another shock.

Joan Baez.

It’s not a far leap to know that Baez as always had a social activist streak.

Now instead of using her one-of-a-kind immediately recognizable voice she is using color and canvas to make her point.

I don’t know whether artistic ability comes from the left brain or the right brain or the heart. All I know is that her drive to put her shoulder and talent to the wheel of social justice is unrelenting. Never happy with the status quo of politics in general, the past four years have been a car-crash affront to her political sensibilities.

She is pushing back.

To her, music has always had a point.In her politically framed songs, she knows that her sentiments can be a driver to raise consciousness...and money.

Painting has become her new voice, she is a force to be reckoned with. This may be the most important stage in her life.

Case in point: 100% of proceeds pledged to Abram's "Fair Fight" PAC

 

 

• DETAILS
• Handmade

 

• Height: 15.5 inches
• Width: 11 inches

Description

 

Limited edition (250) archival pigment prints of the Stacey Abrams portrait painted by Joan Baez titled "Georgia on my Mind." Printed on Moab Entrada natural paper, these prints measure 11" x 15.5" including a one inch deckled border. Each print has been personally hand-signed and numbered by Joan Baez and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Prints are $200 each. Shipped in durable triangular tubes.

 

Another portrait ...sent to me by Susaan Straus...a friend  just tried to  purchase...SOLD OUT!

This photo from  Joan Baez website

Photos by Paul A. Tamburello, Jr.

 

Comments

[Susaan Straus]

Very cool. i just sent you a portrait she did of Kamala Harris

[Susaan Straus]

Double clicking on this should enlarge it...

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Joan Baez portrait of VP Elect Kamala Harris titled "BADASS"

[Bambi Good]

This article was written by and sent to me by Paul Tamburello who was an esteemed Brookline teacher during the years

[Paul A. Tamburello, Jr. aka pt at large]

Thank you for the kudos, we are so in need of good surprises to go along with good trouble these days.
Paul

[Susan Bennett]

You are a lucky and loved man! That is a beautiful and meaningful print. Good for Joan and your friend. Thanks for the info on her current endeavors

[Mark Engleberg]

Hi Paulie,
Great story. Hope you are well.
So these can be ordered? Including the Kamala one?

[Paul A. Tamburello, Jr. aka pt at large]

Mark,
Check here for the Kamala "BADASS" and other prints for sale.And the latest news about her projects. She dedicates proceeds from her art to local, state, and national causes.
http://www.joanbaez.com/news/

[Paul A. Tamburello, Jr. aka pt at large]

FLASH from same website
In celebration of her 80th birthday, a reception will be streamed at 5:30 p.m. (PST) January 9 with an interview, a virtual tour of the show and other festivities and “mischief” to mark this milestone occasion. Tickets are $15 in advance at Seated.com

[Nona Bock]

Great share PT. I had no idea.

[Paul A. Tamburello, Jr. aka pt at large]

Nor did I until Myke presented me with this gift! She has been on a mission since the first day she stepped on a stage.

[KBJones]

Paul,
I love this - the gift, that painting, the activism.

[D.G.Connor]

Thanks for this update Paulito.
Why is it the elderly take up painting? Bush, Baez, Connor...

[Paul A. Tamburello, Jr. aka pt at large]

You are in august company,sir.…
In his late sixties Matisse invented the style of cut outs to become his art.

Famous Pablo Picasso Quotes. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.” It takes a long time to become young.”

Claude Monet produced some his most famous work in his 70s and beyond.

Just sayin’