Ohana 2026: Pearl Jam Concert Art, on a Skate Deck

The Illustrated Side

One side is a beach scene. A horned, winged dragon that looks sculpted from sand plays a guitar, its body coiled around a sandcastle whose staircase climbs to an arched gate. A small bird perched on its head sings out a trail of musical notes, and behind them a dolphin leaps from waves rolling in under a blue sky with clouds. Pails, shovels, starfish, and shells lie scattered in the sand. The drawing keeps to a narrow palette of sand, sky blue, and white, with dark, finely hatched linework that looks like pen and ink. At the foot, PEARL JAM stands in large blue block letters, with Doheny State Beach in small lettering above it and, above that, a still smaller line that cannot be read in this photograph.

The Blue-Stained Side

The other side is blue-stained wood, bare except for a small printed panel: OHANA FESTIVAL over a framed scene of a dolphin leaping in front of a cloud above rolling waves, with PEARL JAM beneath. The panel's leaping dolphin repeats the one on the illustrated side, so the two faces share a motif.

At this photograph's size, neither side shows a readable date, signature, maker's mark, or edition number. The 2026 date attached to the board comes only from a resale seller's listing title, not from the band, the festival, or anything printed on the board; see Buying One.

Missoula, August 22, 2024

In August 2026, the band's online store auctioned an event skate deck for Pearl Jam's show at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula on August 22, 2024, with proceeds to the Vitalogy Foundation. The auction ran from August 14 to August 21, 2026, nearly two years after the show, and has closed, though the store's page for it was still up on September 30, marked sold out. The store describes it as an 8.5-inch deck. The store names it as it names the show's poster, by year, city, and date, and an event poster for the same Missoula night sits in the same catalog. In the store's photographs, one side shows a bear in yellow and orange with heavy black outlines, its teeth bared and flames at its feet, under wavy PEARL JAM lettering, with the date, the city, and the stadium lettered below; the other side is blue-stained wood with a small orange stamp giving the band, the date, and Missoula. The listing names no artist, so neither do we.

Boston, September 15 and 17, 2024

For Pearl Jam's two nights at Fenway Park in Boston, on September 15 and 17, 2024, the artist Ian Williams offered a deck through the shop Conflux Co. The shop described it as a skate deck printed top and bottom on maple, measuring 32.25 inches long by 8.25 inches wide, signed and numbered by the artist, in a limited edition of 5, and printed in the USA. The page also limited it to one per household and shipped only within the continental United States. That page is no longer live; its description survives in the Internet Archive's copy from November 6, 2024, which shows the deck as sold out. In the shop's product rendering, BOSTON fills one side in huge letters packed with yellow-and-black collage imagery, with PEARL JAM in yellow; the other side is yellow-stained wood lettered with the band's name, Fenway and Boston, and both dates.

Middle of Nowhere, 2025

Montana Pool Service has also treated the blank deck as a canvas. In June 2025, Pearl Jam's site announced Middle of Nowhere, a benefit for which Montana Pool Service sent out 100 skateboard decks to be made into one-of-a-kind works, auctioned through the Ten Club Shop to build a skatepark on Salish Kootenai land. The decks went to artists and friends as far away as Japan, Argentina, Thailand, England, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, as well as across the United States. The post said the finished boards were on display at the Adler/Smith Gallery in Los Angeles through July 14, 2025, with the auction open until July 12. Those were single original boards, not concert decks, and they belong in their own category.

Earlier Ohana Nights

One more set of dates matters for Ohana in particular: the band's earlier nights at the festival, each with a poster credited in its records. The tour history credits Raymond Pettibon for September 26, 2021; Meggs for October 1, 2021, and Ames Bros for October 2, 2021 (the two nights of the festival's Encore Weekend); and Terry Urban for September 27, 2024, and Richey Beckett for September 29, 2024. Those are poster credits, not deck credits. Anything dated to one of those nights belongs to its own year, not to 2026.

The Listing

On September 30, 2026, an active eBay listing (item 267796523981) offered a blue skate deck lettered with Pearl Jam and Ohana Festival. The seller's title calls it an "OFFICIAL Pearl Jam Ohana Fest 9/27/2026 Concert Event Skateboard Deck," which would place it at the Sunday show; the official status and the date are the seller's words, and this article has not confirmed them. The listing's own photograph, as viewed that day, shows both sides of the deck for sale. In a small thumbnail of it captured later that day, the deck has the same two-sided layout and colors as the board pictured at the top of this page, though at that size its lettering and figures cannot be made out. It was not the only one: a check of eBay's current listings later that day found at least eight offering a deck of the same blue design.

Who drew the board, who made it, how many were made, how large it is, and how it was sold are not established: not by the photograph, not by the listing as viewed, and not by the band's or the festival's pages. The 2026 date, too, rests on the seller's title.

Before You Buy

Start with the date. For 2026, the band's records list two Pearl Jam nights, September 25 and September 27, and the Friday poster carries the Eddie Vedder & Friends name, so check which date and which name a board actually carries. The eBay listing above dates its deck to September 27 in its title; no date is readable on the board in this page's photograph, so ask for a close, sharp photograph of any small print. On this design, that means the fine line above Doheny State Beach at the foot of the illustrated side, the one line of print that this page's photograph cannot resolve.

Then the edition. A limited run is the artist's or the maker's statement to make, and the Boston deck shows what a clear one looks like: its page gave the edition size and said each board was signed and numbered. If a seller gives an edition size or a number, ask where it comes from, and look for it on the board itself. The same goes for a word like official, which that listing's title uses: ask what it rests on.

Ask for photographs of both sides. Where several listings show the same design, compare their photographs side by side. For this design, check the framed OHANA FESTIVAL panel with PEARL JAM beneath it on the blue-stained side, and the lettering at the foot of the illustrated side. On the concert decks in this article, one side carries the full graphic and the other little more than the band's name and where it played, so a listing that shows only one side leaves half the object unseen. Ask about the edges, the ends, and the surface; whether the deck has ever been ridden or had hardware fitted; and what comes with it, from packaging to any paperwork.

An asking price is what a seller hopes for, not what a board has sold for. That listing also accepted offers when we viewed it. Before comparing one board with another, add shipping, tax, and any return costs, and read the return terms before you pay. A deck travels as a long, flat parcel, so ask how it will be packed. And keep one more distinction straight: the May 12 announcement's line about proceeds covers sales in The Cove Gallery, and says nothing about boards resold afterward.

“OFFICIAL Pearl Jam Ohana Fest 9/27/2026 Concert Event Skateboard Deck” (opens in a new tab) (as listed by the seller on eBay)