Art and Music through a Creative Lens
Join us for an unforgettable afternoon exploring visual and musical arts. CAFE Flutes will provide live music that relates to four works of fine art on display in Tempe Artists Guild’s The Art of Us Exhibition. CAFE will perform musical interpretations of selected artworks, while Dr. Julie Codell, an art historian from Arizona State University, will lead a discussion examining the connections between visual and musical storytelling, encouraging audience engagement and reflection.
Dr. Julie Codell
I look forward to discussing the relationship between visual art and sound, and how images and music are perceived differently. There is a rich historic and cultural context for us to explore.”
I have a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature/Comparative Arts; an MA in Art History, an MA in English and a BA in English. I have authored, edited and co-edited a total of 19 books and special topic journal issues, and authored 54 book chapters, 51 articles in refereed professional journals, 13 encyclopedia entries, and many book reviews and book review essays.
I will offer several humanities contexts for this program. I will consider the history of art in analyzing the formal properties and images in the works of art chosen for our discussion, indicating historical sources, symbolic and philosophical meanings of images, associations with the history of color and spatial relations in the compositions, interpretive analyses of the works, and any relevant information on the images such as relevant historic and symbolic iconographic meanings.
What music will be paired with these featured artworks?
Sand in My Toes by Russ Anderson
Sitting in a Field of Sunflowers by Gail McFarland
Librarian in Bohemia by David Henderson
Volkswagen by Bruce Bouldin
This event is a collaboration between Central Arizona Flute Ensemble and Tempe Artists Guild. It is funded by grants from the City of Tempe – Community Arts, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and is supported by the Hackett House.
