Music for Your Eyes - Painted Violins

The 2010-11 “Music for Your Eyes” project of the Jacksonville Symphony Guild featured ten works by local artists, using the violin as their canvas.

 Pictured below are the 2010-11 violins, listed by artist and winning owner. Winners were drawn on May 20, 2011.

These beautiful works of art were on display in our lobby throughout the concert season, thanks to the many Guild volunteers who were there nearly every week selling changes to win. The violins were also on display at local galleries and at the Designer Showhouse.

 

Thank you to all the concertgoers and visitors who purchase drawing tickets for these one-of-a-kind works of art. More than $14,000 was raised to fund the Guild’s Harmony Grants, awarded to Northeast Florida teachers who use music in class projects. Harmony Grants have been awarded for projects and activities such as classroom instruments, violin cases and field trip buses to attend the First Coast Nutcracker. The violins were decorated by area artists who donated their creative energy to this project. We thank them for their unique creativity and inspiration to support classroom music projects in our schools. 

View the photo gallery: 2010-11 Music for Your Eyes Fundraiser

Music for Your Eyes – 2010-11 Artists and Winners

Violin Artist Winner
1. "Puttin' on the Glitz Susan Shulman Mary Goodman
2. "Canals of Venice" Ellen Diamond Robin Love
3. "Orange Blossom Special" Susan Ober Marc Jackson
4. "Everyone has a Life Song Worth Telling" Tayloe White Jennifer Honeycutt
5. "Musical Soul of the Violin" Hillary Hogue Patsy Butterbrodt
6. "Vienna - City of Music" Gretchen Ebersol Danny Yarbrough
7. "The Power of Tradition" Toni Charneco Mary Ellen Young
8. "Birds of Florida" Goerge Guzzardo Sara Gooden
9. "Bouquet" Carole King Mehrtens Eleanor Maxwell
10. "Jaguar" John Bunker Bill Schmidt

Contact Sherri Calvert Webb in the JSO Guild office (358-1479 or scalvert@jaxsymphony.org) for information and future plans for “Music for Your Eyes.”