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 Our Musicfest Festival Program is a “book” so professionally written, art directed and produced that it truly becomes a “coffee table treasure” in hundreds of homes during our Festivals, and beyond. The Program is given to each arriving audience member. Inside they learn of that afternoon’s or night’s performance through very skillfully researched and written “concert notes”. Additionally there are articles of interest on all manner of Musicfest community outreach projects.
We want to extend to our Festival audience members a most prestigious experience. And so we produce the Musicfest Festival program, made possible by the generous support of our enlightened advertisers who understand how beneficial partnering with Musicfest can be.
To learn more about becoming an advertiser in The Musicfest Festival Program, please call 480.488.0806.
About The Artist…
 While searching for some appropriate artwork for the Musicfest 1995 Festival Program cover, Musicfest Committee member Larry Becker came across a delightful children’s book Coyote Places the Stars. Among the illustrations was a howling coyote silhouetted against a crescent moon, high above the canyon floor. Larry felt an immediate response and soon thereafter was able to locate the artist, Harriet Peck Taylor in Colorado. Luckily for Musicfest, Ms. Peck Taylor approved our use of her illustration. Since then, she as created original artwork for our program covers which have delighted Musicfest audiences.
Ms. Peck Taylor graduated from the University of Colorado with degrees in fine arts and education, and began working in her chosen medium, batik. She was drawn to this traditional Indonesian technique because “the hand-dyed fabric has the variance of one color merging into and over another color, thus creating new and exciting dimensions.” In addition, the artist modified the art form, altering the wax-resisting method of coloring fabric by using watercolor brushes to apply her dyes directly to the cloth.
The world created by Ms. Peck Taylor draws on “real” nature, but it is infused with a wonderful sense of the whimsical, thanks, in part, to her parents. “My earliest influences were my parents. My mom was an artist who painted portraits and fanciful wall murals. I’ve always loved drawing and painting, and my imagination allowed me to create a happy and ideal world. From my dad, I got my love of nature. He took us camping every summer where we hiked, fished, and observed wildlife.”
A resident of Boulder, Ms. Peck Taylor is an award-winning author whose recent works include Secrets of the Stone, Two Days in May, and Ulaq and the Northern Lights. Her art can be found in public and private collections. Foothills residents, however, need not travel far to see some exceptional examples of her work; the original batiks for our Festival Program covers can be found in the Musicfest office. For more information, we encourage you to visit her engaging website at www.harrietpecktaylor.com.
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