Visualizing Mahler

In 2003, MahlerFest XVI includes a new project in its schedule: Outreach to Art and Music programs in Colorado schools with a DVD titled Visualizing Mahler.
Visualizing Mahler is a cooperative Boulder County wide project to enlist visual artists, including painters, sculptors, photographers, ceramicists, fiber artists, etc., to create a work of art inspired by the music of Gustav Mahler.
Mahler's music is so expressive of the unanswerable questions of life that it stimulates visual images and emotions in listeners. The project asked individual artists to express their own imagery provoked by Mahler's music. Mahler himself wrote "What is most important is not in the notes." Since Mahler was closely connected to the artists of the Secessionist period of cultural enrichment at the turn of the 19th century, and since we interpret his music as having a broad relationship to the other arts and life itself, it seems fitting that this project asks artists to illuminate what his music means to creative people of today.
The Colorado MahIerFest provided recordings of Mahler's 6th Symphony and the Rückertlieder for artists who wanted to participate in the project. The resulting artworks are exhibited at galleries throughout Boulder County, accompanied by Mahler's music, during the period of Friday, January 3 through Sunday, January 12, 2003. The MahlerFest Orchestra in rehearsal and in concert, the participating artists in their studios, and the gallery exhibits will be videotaped and presented on a DVD to be distributed free of charge to middle and high schools in the greater Denver Metro area of Colorado.
The object of the DVD is to provide schools with a professionally developed audio/visual project and suggested lesson plans that art and music departments can use to explore cooperative projects of their own within their schools and in their communities.
MahIerFest views the Visualizing Mahler project as way to educate young people about Mahler's music, bolster under-appreciated art and music programs in local schools, expand future audiences to younger people, draw visitors to local galleries, invite the community of artists to experiment with new inspiration and to jointly produce, with MahlerFest, this DVD for the benefit of the schools.
Media used by Visualizing Mahler artists include acrylic, oil, gouache, and watercolor painting; pastels, photography, sculpture, collage, glass, jewelry, and multimedia.

Artists and Galleries

"Alma" Mahler herself (as played by Sheila Mahler) will be circulating at the gallery openings. View sample images.
Art and Soul, 1615 Pearl, Boulder, 303-544 5803: Susanna Richter, Daniel Kosharek, Jerry Baron, Gretchen Ewert, Mark Soppeland.
Muse Gallery, 521 Main, Longmont, 303-698 7869: Dwayne Wolff, Valerie Albicker, Dot Pecina, Becky Everitt, Diane Wood, Paula Peacock, Alicia Jensen, Joe Kuzyk, Tammy Bality, Katie Metz, Clarice Neighbors, Elizabeth Nissley, Gerri Bradford, Bonnie Treece, Sara Brown, Ann Beaman, Gretel Wolniewicz, Darlene Dawson, Kay Knifer, Janice Sugg, Char Porter, Martha South, Ben 3Eagles. Opening 6:00 - 8:00 PM Friday, Jan 3.
Temporary Contemporary Gallery, 1750 30th Street, Suite 35, Boulder, 303-442 7163: Donna Boyd, Karen Poulson.
Mary Williams Fine Arts, 2116 Pearl, Boulder, 303-938 1588: Annette Parrish, Claire Evans, Carolyn Bradley, Linda Armatrout. Opening 5:00 - 7:30 PM Friday, Jan 3.
Art Affaire, 820 Main Street, Suite 102, Louisville, 303-665 2074: Teresa Dun well, Amy Broadhead, Jennifer Cash, Cynthia Romanski, "Annie O'Brien" (Lynn), William Kloser. Opening 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Saturday, Jan 4.
Robert Feder Fine Art, Boulder Public Library exhibit space, Canyon Blvd. at 9th Street, 303-441 3100: Stefan Kleinschuster.
Loft Art Studios, 3980 Broadway, Boulder, 303-402 0330: Mary Barron, Molly Davis, Mardie Dalzell Driftmier, Sally Kuslie, Nancy Volpe, Virginia Wood, Angela Daiglel, Dodi Klutznick, Pat Kothe, Darlene Kuhne, Stephine Kuhne, Susan Albers, Dee Timms, Cathy Phelan, Sybila Mathews, Lucy Burleson, Barb Christopherson, Elizabeth Jenny, Meesh Miller, Jan Tamm, Barb Demarlie. Opening 6:00 - 8:00 PM Friday, Jan 3.

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