First Annual PACT Symposium

SAM GRISMAN PROJECT

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR UNCLE JAY

APRIL 7, 2024

2PM-8PM

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

Join us on Sunday April 7th at The Chambers Project for a very special concert to support our friend and fellow Nevada County resident, Uncle Jay.

SOME WORDS FROM SAM GRISMAN,

I am honored to be bringing some of my closest friends and most favorite musicians to the incredible psychedelic art gallery “The Chambers Project” in Grass Valley, CA on Sunday, April 7th for a day of art and music to benefit my dear Uncle Jay, an absolute pillar of that community.

Uncle Jay and Aunt Mary were there the day I was born and they are some of the kindest people and greatest champions of Dawg music on planet earth. They have known my dad since they came backstage at the Great American Music Hall in 1976 with a killer joint, and they’ve been dear friends ever since. Jay is a masterful cannabis cultivator, an incredibly brilliant renaissance man, and a great mandolin picker!

Many a David Grisman Quintet show and recording session has been fueled by Jay’s incredible herb, and Jay and Mary have made friends with legions of folks around the country through their passion for music and their supremely high caliber artisanship. Lots of amazing musicians have enjoyed Jay’s weed over the years including the likes of Jerry Garcia, John Hartford, Willie Nelson, Tim O’Brien, Jerry Douglas, and Sam Bush. I even once handed I joint I rolled of Jay’s weed directly to Merle Haggard, and I know he loved it!

Unfortunately, Uncle Jay has a battle with cancer ahead of him, and to spread awareness and raise some funds for his medical expenses we’ll be having a day of music and art in his honor. I’ll have the great @chrishollywoodenglish , @domles , @roywilliamsmusic , and myself as the house band, and we’ll be joined by a bunch of Jay’s musical supporters, including DGQ Alumnus Joe Craven, and his Daughter Hattie, fellow Dawg alum Matt Eakle, the legendary “Banana” of the Youngbloods, and more friends to come! There will also be a silent auction, some merchandise, and some special surprises, and all of the proceeds will go directly to benefit Jay and Mary as they kick cancers ass and launch the greatest YouTube channel on the planet!

Tickets are on sale now, thanks for your support.

Chris Dyer | Shamanic Journey Book Release & Signing

SAM GRISMAN PROJECT

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR UNCLE JAY

APRIL 7, 2024

2PM-8PM

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

Join us on Sunday April 7th at The Chambers Project for a very special concert to support our friend and fellow Nevada County resident, Uncle Jay.

SOME WORDS FROM SAM GRISMAN,

I am honored to be bringing some of my closest friends and most favorite musicians to the incredible psychedelic art gallery “The Chambers Project” in Grass Valley, CA on Sunday, April 7th for a day of art and music to benefit my dear Uncle Jay, an absolute pillar of that community.

Uncle Jay and Aunt Mary were there the day I was born and they are some of the kindest people and greatest champions of Dawg music on planet earth. They have known my dad since they came backstage at the Great American Music Hall in 1976 with a killer joint, and they’ve been dear friends ever since. Jay is a masterful cannabis cultivator, an incredibly brilliant renaissance man, and a great mandolin picker!

Many a David Grisman Quintet show and recording session has been fueled by Jay’s incredible herb, and Jay and Mary have made friends with legions of folks around the country through their passion for music and their supremely high caliber artisanship. Lots of amazing musicians have enjoyed Jay’s weed over the years including the likes of Jerry Garcia, John Hartford, Willie Nelson, Tim O’Brien, Jerry Douglas, and Sam Bush. I even once handed I joint I rolled of Jay’s weed directly to Merle Haggard, and I know he loved it!

Unfortunately, Uncle Jay has a battle with cancer ahead of him, and to spread awareness and raise some funds for his medical expenses we’ll be having a day of music and art in his honor. I’ll have the great @chrishollywoodenglish , @domles , @roywilliamsmusic , and myself as the house band, and we’ll be joined by a bunch of Jay’s musical supporters, including DGQ Alumnus Joe Craven, and his Daughter Hattie, fellow Dawg alum Matt Eakle, the legendary “Banana” of the Youngbloods, and more friends to come! There will also be a silent auction, some merchandise, and some special surprises, and all of the proceeds will go directly to benefit Jay and Mary as they kick cancers ass and launch the greatest YouTube channel on the planet!

Tickets are on sale now, thanks for your support.

Erik Davis & Mark McCloud | Blotter Book Conference

SAM GRISMAN PROJECT

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR UNCLE JAY

APRIL 7, 2024

2PM-8PM

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

Join us on Sunday April 7th at The Chambers Project for a very special concert to support our friend and fellow Nevada County resident, Uncle Jay.

SOME WORDS FROM SAM GRISMAN,

I am honored to be bringing some of my closest friends and most favorite musicians to the incredible psychedelic art gallery “The Chambers Project” in Grass Valley, CA on Sunday, April 7th for a day of art and music to benefit my dear Uncle Jay, an absolute pillar of that community.

Uncle Jay and Aunt Mary were there the day I was born and they are some of the kindest people and greatest champions of Dawg music on planet earth. They have known my dad since they came backstage at the Great American Music Hall in 1976 with a killer joint, and they’ve been dear friends ever since. Jay is a masterful cannabis cultivator, an incredibly brilliant renaissance man, and a great mandolin picker!

Many a David Grisman Quintet show and recording session has been fueled by Jay’s incredible herb, and Jay and Mary have made friends with legions of folks around the country through their passion for music and their supremely high caliber artisanship. Lots of amazing musicians have enjoyed Jay’s weed over the years including the likes of Jerry Garcia, John Hartford, Willie Nelson, Tim O’Brien, Jerry Douglas, and Sam Bush. I even once handed I joint I rolled of Jay’s weed directly to Merle Haggard, and I know he loved it!

Unfortunately, Uncle Jay has a battle with cancer ahead of him, and to spread awareness and raise some funds for his medical expenses we’ll be having a day of music and art in his honor. I’ll have the great @chrishollywoodenglish , @domles , @roywilliamsmusic , and myself as the house band, and we’ll be joined by a bunch of Jay’s musical supporters, including DGQ Alumnus Joe Craven, and his Daughter Hattie, fellow Dawg alum Matt Eakle, the legendary “Banana” of the Youngbloods, and more friends to come! There will also be a silent auction, some merchandise, and some special surprises, and all of the proceeds will go directly to benefit Jay and Mary as they kick cancers ass and launch the greatest YouTube channel on the planet!

Tickets are on sale now, thanks for your support.

Sam Grisman Project | BENEFIT CONCERT

SAM GRISMAN PROJECT 

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR UNCLE JAY

APRIL 7, 2024

2PM-8PM

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

Join us on Sunday April 7th at The Chambers Project for a very special concert to support our friend and fellow Nevada County resident, Uncle Jay.

SOME WORDS FROM SAM GRISMAN,

I am honored to be bringing some of my closest friends and most favorite musicians to the incredible psychedelic art gallery “The Chambers Project” in Grass Valley, CA on Sunday, April 7th for a day of art and music to benefit my dear Uncle Jay, an absolute pillar of that community.

Uncle Jay and Aunt Mary were there the day I was born and they are some of the kindest people and greatest champions of Dawg music on planet earth. They have known my dad since they came backstage at the Great American Music Hall in 1976 with a killer joint, and they’ve been dear friends ever since. Jay is a masterful cannabis cultivator, an incredibly brilliant renaissance man, and a great mandolin picker!

Many a David Grisman Quintet show and recording session has been fueled by Jay’s incredible herb, and Jay and Mary have made friends with legions of folks around the country through their passion for music and their supremely high caliber artisanship. Lots of amazing musicians have enjoyed Jay’s weed over the years including the likes of Jerry Garcia, John Hartford, Willie Nelson, Tim O’Brien, Jerry Douglas, and Sam Bush. I even once handed I joint I rolled of Jay’s weed directly to Merle Haggard, and I know he loved it!

Unfortunately, Uncle Jay has a battle with cancer ahead of him, and to spread awareness and raise some funds for his medical expenses we’ll be having a day of music and art in his honor. I’ll have the great @chrishollywoodenglish , @domles , @roywilliamsmusic , and myself as the house band, and we’ll be joined by a bunch of Jay’s musical supporters, including DGQ Alumnus Joe Craven, and his Daughter Hattie, fellow Dawg alum Matt Eakle, the legendary “Banana” of the Youngbloods, and more friends to come! There will also be a silent auction, some merchandise, and some special surprises, and all of the proceeds will go directly to benefit Jay and Mary as they kick cancers ass and launch the greatest YouTube channel on the planet!

Tickets are on sale now, thanks for your support.

Leighton Kelly | EVERY OTHER THING

Leighton Kelly

“EVERY OTHER THING”

September 09, 2023

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

The Chambers Project Announces The Opening of Leighton Kelly’s “EVERY OTHER THING” Solo Show

GRASS VALLEY, CA

Heraclitus once said, “If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.”  And so indeed, it would have been difficult to find Leighton Kelly ensconced in his haystack of defiant obscurity. Denying the saccharine pleasures of social media, fickle infamy while shunning the acrid limelight, Ol’ Lay foolishly thought he had successfully eschewed public notice. Nevertheless! The celestial bodies above decreed that the trajectories of Grass Valley’s own Chambers Project and Leighton would mysteriously collude this September 9th in the year of 2023. Join us in a revelatory art exhibit truly fit for these glorious end times we find ourselves soaking in right now. 

As we sit here perched upon the edge of the Abyss, eyes locked in its reflective gaze we may ponder what sort of tribute we might feed it’s ever questing hunger.  And so, Leighton has decided to release his entire collection of works he had selfishly cloistered away in his hermetic studio of stubborn invisibility (located in scenic Hell-realm adjacent west Oakland California). Sparing no artistic medium from his meddling hands, your Ol’ Pal Lay will offer for your consideration every thing he’s ever done. Signs and sculpture, paint and pen, toon and reel will be revealed to the emissaries of the void; the people of the world.  

It will now be up to you and your own mysterious trajectory to come and bear witness to this gratuitous display of artistic pandemonium in Leighton’s show “EVERY OTHER THING”.  hosted graciously by the clever denizens of The Chambers Project Gallery.  If indeed the Fates decree, you may once again exercise that ineffable discernment certain favored humanoids possess to determine for yourself, in real time, the baffling alchemy of trash and treasure. 

Dear reader, if you have made it this far through this trial of excessive loquaciousness than I am fairly certain you have the moral fortitude to gird your loins and face the facts: You have been called to make the journey towards your destiny; to stand erect, mind agape and under the thrall of the most visually cacophonous art show you can find here at the very end of the world. 

3D Virtual Tour

Exhibition Opening

Install Shots

Leighton Kelly

Merchandise

Leighton Kelly

Leighton Kelly

ARTIST BIO

Justin Lovato | MONAD

Justin Lovato

“MONAD”

May 20, 2023

627 E Main St,
Grass Valley, CA 95945

The Chambers Project Announces The Opening of Justin Lovato’s “MONAD” Solo Show

GRASS VALLEY, CA

The Chambers Project is bringing the community together once again for a special exhibition featuring the work of Grass Valley-based artist Justin Lovato opening May 20.

“Monad” is a new body of paintings and drawings that are representative of the kaleidoscopic patterns and landscapes that he is known for.

Justin’s work contains a radiating luminosity with multidimensional patterns that land the viewer on the other side of what we know as perceived reality. It speaks to a more mystical and insightful realm where everyday life and objects are unveiled in a divine way. His use of pattern and color are vehicles for transporting the viewer across vortexes that pierce the very fabric of life – all through a delicate motif of perfectly still, yet rapidly moving cumulus clouds spiraling out on a lattice of geometric shapes.

The exhibition title pays homage to The Monad – a late renaissance era alchemical symbol that represents the ineffable source that emanates the cosmos. Influenced by Alchemy and Mysticism, and visionary thinkers like William Blake, Lovato’s work is also philosophical in nature, trying to convey a message that is deeply personal yet universal.

He has been featured in various galleries across the US, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in CA. Justin has been featured in publications Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz and GrafittiArt magazine.

Gallery owner Brian Chambers sees “Monad” as a homecoming and anniversary of sorts.

“Justin has had an undeniable impact on the local arts community since painting the “Grass Valley” mural in 2017. Although this is our fifth show together in the last decade, it is his first in our new space. Monad is a major step forward in his development as an artist and we are very excited to unveil this new body of work.”

Exhibition Opening

Individual Works

Install Shots

Studio Shots

Justin Lovato

Merchandise

Justin Lovato

Justin Lovato

ARTIST BIO