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​John Muir Project

Come to the Woods Gallery Show - Exhibit Slideshow

6/10/2018

 

Video Interview with Lorie Lee Andrews - Part 4

6/7/2018

 
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​This is the final installment of video interviews with printmaker and painter Lorie Lee Andrews. Rick shares from the book by Donald Worster entitled: "A Passion for Nature - The Life of John Muir." Are John Muir's deep love and passion for nature still possible in our own time? Can contact with natural created beauty inspire people to a higher ethic?

I'm grateful for the graciousness of Lorie Lee in allowing me to collaborate with her for this interview. Choral music benefits greatly from other artistic mediums. And the Indy Choral Artisans always appreciate the opportunity to work with other artists who not only contribute to our city's aesthetic, but also its humanity. Thank you LorieLee!

You can check out more of Lorie Lee's work by clicking the link below:

Lorie Lee Andrews Fine Arts

Video Interview with Lorie Lee Andrews - Part 3

6/6/2018

 
 
​In today's conversation with printmaker and painter, Lorie Lee Andrews, she discusses three of the pieces she prepared for the "Come to the Woods" Gallery Show. She shares how certain images from the John Muir story captured her imagination and how architecture plays an important aspect in these pieces.  
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Video Interview w/ Lorie Lee Andrews - Part 2

6/5/2018

 
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 In Part 2 of my video interview with printmaker and painter Lorie Lee Andrews, we discuss her familiarity with John Muir, the initial steps involved before putting brush to canvas, what images captured her imagination and the role the choral piece, "Come to the Woods" by Jake Runestad played in her creative process. It was a fascinating discussion!

Video Interview Series with Lorie Lee Andrews -      Part 1

6/4/2018

 
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I was grateful to have the opportunity to sit down with one of the visual artists from the Harrison Center, Lorie Lee Andrews to discuss the fusion between art and music.
​We started out talking about her background and her connection with the Harrison Center. 
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Telling the Muir Story Through Music

5/26/2018

 
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From the composer, Jake Runestad...

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More About Jake Runestad

​"Come to the Woods" explores Muir's inspirations and the transporting peace found in the natural world. Using a collage of fragments from Muir's writings, the work ventures from the boisterous joy of a "glorious day," to the quiet whispering of wind, to the rejuvenating power of a storm, to the calming "amber light" when the clouds begin to clear. I hope it captures the self-discovery and sustenance one encounters while exploring the outdoors and its vital importance in our lives. As Muir writes, "I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."

Muir's Self-Abandoned Rescue in Alaska

5/24/2018

 
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"Once in Alaska, John Muir, and a traveling companion, Samuel Hall Young sailed up the Stikine River, where more than a hundred glaciers could be seen, remnants of the great ice sheet that had recently carved a deep Yosemite-like canyon. Chunks of ice floated around their boat as they continued on to the old Hudson's Bay trading post of Glenora. Here both men set off to climb a nearby mountain and gain a grand view of the coastal range. Near sunset Young, struggling to keep up with his nimble companion slipped on loose rock and slid over the edge. He saved himself from a fatal plunge by clutching at an outcropping, but the effort dislocated both shoulders, leaving him hanging in severe pain over a glacier a thousand feet below. Muir, whistling old Scots songs to cheer him up, managed to get below on a narrow ledge and then swing his companion to safety. Carrying the injured man down to the level surface of the ice, Muir worked until midnight to reset his shoulders and bind his arms tight to his body with a torn-up shirt. "All that night," Young later wrote, "this man of steel and lightning worked, never resting a minute, doing the work of three men...My eyes brim with tears even now when I think of his utter self-abandon as he ministered to my infirmities."

[From A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Daniel Worster] 

"Most people are on the world, not in it."

5/23/2018

 
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Glaciers move in tides...

5/22/2018

 
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Video Promo for "Come to the Woods"

5/20/2018

 
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  • Chorus Information
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    • Director >
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    • The Artisan's Journey >
      • Artisan Panel Discussion Video
    • Lake Isle Project
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