JWA Guitars

Est. 2003
In 2015, after 12 years of custom commission work, I stopped taking orders. Vested with my B.F.A in Studio Art, I returned to the creative joy of my youth and began once again; creating Art for Art sake. Functional Fine Art. Art that Works. Over the following two years, I built a Functional Art inventory of 11 handmade, organic, one of a kind string instruments. 8 Guitars 2 Mandolins and a Ukulele.

As an artist, sculptor, guitar maker and woodworker, I am so very grateful to have had my 2017, Pablo Picasso inspired artwork affirmed by The Guild of American Luthiers Journal. The Spring issue of American Lutherie #133 will feature my Cubist Strings of Joy Series No.1 Look for it in March 2018.

Wood Sculpture You Play. Inspiring The Music of The Player and The Imagination of The Collector. These are, Built For Joy.