Vibrantly colorful musical works of art popped up all over State Street, Downtown Santa Barbara and beyond (including Stearns Wharf and the Santa Barbara Airport) this morning. Pianos on State is back and celebrating its 15th year of community collaboration, spontaneous music, and original art.
Selected regional artists were hard at work painting these piano masterpieces the weekend of September 28 at the Community Arts Workshop, and we celebrated their efforts last night with a lovely kickoff party where we were introduced to all of the artists and serenaded by musicians from Notes4Notes and Sharlae Jenkins’s music students.
The 2024 Pianos on State Artists include: Alaina Murphy, Alejandra Campos – AYC Artistry, Anne Burdette, Charmaine Winston of Charmed Life Designs, Daniel Sharp, Domonic Dean Breaux, Irene Ramirez – orangeladybird, John Khus, Katelyn Killoran, Monika Petroczy, Omepache, Rebecca Elias, and Scott Ryker artist at Santa Barbara Art Works.
In honor of the program’s 15th anniversary, five teachers from Music Teachers’s Association of California Santa Barbara Chapter — Sharlae Jenkins, Leana Movillion, Kacey Link, Kathryn Imani, and Susan Lansing Weller — will be hosting student performances at the pianos throughout the Pianos on State program. See pianosonstate.com/15thanniversary for the performance schedule…