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No band is more woven into blotter art than the Grateful Dead. From the Acid Tests and dancing bears to a Jerry Garcia print in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's permanent collection — this is the visual history of Dead blotter art, and how to collect it today.

Blotter art was never supposed to survive — yet today it hangs in the Institute of Illegal Images and sits in the permanent collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Here's how perforated paper went from the underground to the institution, and how BlotterArt.io's work — including the Jerry Garcia large format print created with Joshua Marc Levy and Baron Wolman — became part of that history.

Want to make your own blotter art? Start with blank perforated sheets and print, screen print, block print, or draw your way to a one-of-a-kind piece. Here's how.

Not all blotter art holds its value. Learn why signed and numbered limited editions with border signatures are the gold standard for collectors — and how to spot the mass-produced, AI-generated sheets flooding the market that serious collectors won't touch.

Here's how ordering works at BlotterArt.io: every order ships within 24 hours, most items ship at one flat rate so you can buy as many prints as you want for the same price, and there are always free bonus prints in the box — more of them the bigger your order.