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Obligatory Airport Paintings
Limited Edition Prints of Joe Rohde Airport Paintings :
A Fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative
Sale Extended, Now Open November 1 - November 30 2024
Imagineer Joe Rohde has created this fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, all proceeds from the sales will go to the building and sustaining of the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative.
A note from Joe:
For much of my career I’ve used art to foster awareness and inspire action. My paintings have mostly been used to raise money for wildlife conservation. But in this case, the cause is closer to home, the Community Arts Workshop here in Santa Barbara.
On any given day you’ll find a group art show on the walls, kids dangling from the ceiling in an aerial dance class, and the once-garages-now-workshops buzzing with artists creating handmade giant floats for one of Santa Barbara’s signature events, the Solstice Parade. It is more than a place. It’s a kind of perpetual event.
CAW's focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration, space for innovation, and community engagement is vital. I know this firsthand as I’ve been welcomed here as a relative newcomer and been able to benefit from CAW both as an artist and as a citizen. Though facilities are not quite finished, CAW exists today because people who had a vision invested their time, their energy, and their creativity. But there’s more to be done and that’s why, as a grateful new member of this community, I wanted to contribute these prints to help fundraising efforts.
- Joe Rohde
Obligatory Airport Paintings
Through most of my career at Walt Disney Imagineering, I traveled back-and-forth between Los Angeles and Orlando, Florida. One of these airports leads to Walt Disney World, the other to Disneyland, depending on where you’re coming from.
My Instagram posts featured a series of travel images called, Obligatory Airport Photographs. I was as scrupulous as I could be to take a photograph each time I passed through an airport. This compelled me to look for something worth seeing.
There are hundreds of Instagram images. But among them are some which rise to a category somewhat like art. And these I have transformed into paintings. They are not just pictures of airports, but visual essays about the mood and atmosphere of these non-places that we come and go from before we end up at our final destinations. So often, we are in a hurry, so we don’t bother to look. But if you do look, there is often something beautiful to see at a place as mundane as an airport.
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Print information:
Prints are 16"x20" including white border. Image itself is 13"L x 13"H.
Paper: Enhanced Matte
Signature Worthy Professional
100% Cotton Fiber Base
330 GSM 17mil
Printer: Chris Owen, PORCHLIGHT STUDIOS
Santa Barbara, CA October 2024
EPSON Printer
Edition of 5 only! signed and numbered by Joe Rohde on Hot Press Natural paper.
Edition of 25, signed posters by Joe Rohde (not numbered).
$150/each, for limited edition signed and numbered print.
$125/each, for signed only prints.
Includes shipping inside continental U.S.
LAX Window
Print information:
Prints are 16"x20" including white border. Image itself is 13"L x 13"H.
Paper: EPSON Hot Press Natural
Signature Worthy Professional
100% Cotton Fiber Base
330 GSM 17mil
Printer: Chris Owen, PORCHLIGHT STUDIOS
Santa Barbara, CA October 2024
EPSON Printer
Edition of 25, signed and numbered by Joe Rohde
$175/print, includes shipping inside continental U.S.
MCO Parking Structure at Sunset
Print information:
Prints are 16"x20" including white border. Image itself is 13"L x 13"H.
Paper: EPSON Hot Press Natural
Signature Worthy Professional
100% Cotton Fiber Base
330 GSM 17mil
Printer: Chris Owen, PORCHLIGHT STUDIOS
Santa Barbara, CA October 2024
EPSON Printer
Edition of 25, signed and numbered by Joe Rohde
$175/print, includes shipping inside continental U.S.
Wildflowers and Runway
Print information:
Prints are 16"x20" including white border. Image itself is 13"L x 13"H.
Paper: EPSON Hot Press Natural
Signature Worthy Professional
100% Cotton Fiber Base
330 GSM 17mil
Printer: Chris Owen, PORCHLIGHT STUDIOS
Santa Barbara, CA October 2024
EPSON Printer
Edition of 25, signed and numbered by Joe Rohde
$175/print, includes shipping inside continental U.S.
MCO Runway and Clouds
Print information:
Prints are 16"x20" including white border. Image itself is 13"L x 13"H.
Paper: EPSON Hot Press Natural
Signature Worthy Professional
100% Cotton Fiber Base
330 GSM 17mil
Printer: Chris Owen, PORCHLIGHT STUDIOS
Santa Barbara, CA October 2024
EPSON Printer
Edition of 25, signed and numbered by Joe Rohde
$175/print, includes shipping inside continental U.S.
JOE ROHDE recently retired from a 40 year career with Walt Disney Imagineering. During that time he was a pivotal figure in the development of a series of projects that dealt with natural history, culture, and the environment. His work includes Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Aulani: A Disney Resort and Spa in Hawaii, Villages Nature, an eco-resort adjacent to Disneyland Paris as well as many other projects. He was instrumental in the creation of the Disney Conservation Fund, which has raised over $100 million for missions worldwide. He currently consults for select projects through his company, Joe Rohde Creative, LLC. Virgin Galactic has engaged him as Chief Experience Architect in the development of their space tourism business. Joe regularly lectures on design, art history, and conservation and has spoken at TED, NASA, SIGGRAPH, the Getty Center, and many other venues.
Joe is a member of the Explorer’s Club and has traveled extensively in some of the most remote regions of the world, often creating art along the way. His paintings, created under challenging field conditions, are a record of settings, cultures, and events few may ever see. Joe regularly uses his artwork for various causes as a fundraising and awareness raising tool. He has recently joined the CAW community and offers these prints from his Himalayan expeditions in support of their goals.
Special thanks to
For their generous support in creating prints for this project.
