{"id":2275851,"date":"2026-02-10T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2275851"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:56:02","slug":"a-familys-ode-to-the-mysterious-adventure-of-life-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-familys-ode-to-the-mysterious-adventure-of-life-arts-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"A family\u2019s ode to the mysterious adventure of life | Arts & Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The creative works of Bob, Robert Jr., Travis and Rawn Fulton, pictured, make up the show \u201cAn Artistic Journey With the Fulton Brothers,\u201d which is scheduled for Friday from 7:30-9 p.m. at the Wheeler Opera House. The event is free and open to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Over the last 50 years, Travis Fulton has left an indelible legacy in the DNA of the art world of Aspen.<\/p>\n

He helped found Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village in 1969. In 1980, he and the late Nick DeWolf designed and built the first computerized dancing fountain, which remains an iconic downtown Aspen attraction to this day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Friday, Fulton will present a retrospective of his life\u2019s work in the arts at the Wheeler Opera House, alongside the work of artists whose DNA he literally shares, his brothers Bob Fulton and Rawn Fulton, and their father Robert Fulton Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The free show, which is called \u201cAn Artistic Journey With the Fulton Brothers\u201d will run from 7:30-9 p.m. The presentation will feature film footage, still photography and commentary tracing nearly 100 years of creative work by the Fulton family.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Artistic Journey\u201d accompanies the opening of Travis and Rawn Fulton\u2019s sculpture and photography exhibition at Aspen Collective gallery, where there will be a reception after the Wheeler event. Rawn will present images from his recent photographic collage series, \u201cMandalas: Bach and Buddhism \u2014 Visual Fugues and Dream Palaces.\u201d The work draws on the symmetry of traditional mandalas and the structural logic of Bach\u2019s fugues, combining a single photograph with mirrored iterations of itself to explore balance, rhythm and meditative space.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fulton family is famous for their creativity and ability to push the limits of what\u2019s possible Whether it\u2019s the Flying Car, the dancing fountain in Aspen, incredible films from around the world or colorful Mandalas, their collective work never ceases to amaze,\u201d said DJ Watkins, curator and owner of Aspen Collective.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Travis Fulton describes his work as an effort to translate real life experience into physical form.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to share how the hourglass of experience and thought have transformed wood, water, stone, and light into stories,\u201d he told the Aspen Daily News. During the program, Fulton and longtime collaborator Peter Hutter will present examples of their large-scale collaborative landscape projects from across the country.<\/p>\n

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In 1932, Robert Fulton Jr. traveled the world for a year and a half on a motorcycle with a .32-caliber revolver hidden beneath the crankcase and a straw sun helmet on a rack between his handlebars. He logged 25,000 miles and shot 40,000 feet of 35mm nitrate film. Some of that footage will be shown on Friday from 7:30-9 p.m. at the Wheeler Opera House during the free show, \u201cAn Artistic Journey With the Fulton Brothers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rawn Fulton spent most of his career as a filmmaker, covering an extensive range of topics from world population and the environment, to drug addiction, to the computer revolution, to several films about artists and the teachings of the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s and 2000s, Rawn worked with John and Kate McBride of Aspen\u2019s Sopris Foundation on the \u201cWorld Population Film\/Video Festival,\u201d which challenged high school and college students to create their own films on the four cardinal challenges of our time: population, consumption, environment, and sustainability.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bob Fulton, who lived in Aspen from the 1960s through the late 1980s, was widely regarded as one of the world\u2019s most inventive aerial cinematographers. Known for flying and filming solo with wing-mounted cameras, Fulton\u2019s work blended philosophical reflection with stunning imagery of natural landscapes, samples of which will be shown at Friday\u2019s show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His films have appeared in major commercial and broadcast projects, including work for the BBC. He earned an Emmy Award in 1997 for \u201cDenali: Alaska\u2019s Great Wilderness.\u201d He died in a private plane crash in 2002. His legacy continues through the Robert E. Fulton III Fellowship in Nonfiction Filmmaking at Harvard University.<\/p>\n

The brothers\u2019 father, Robert E. Fulton Jr., was an inventor whose more than 70 patents included the Airphibian, the first flying car certified by U.S. aviation authorities, and the Skyhook aerial rescue system, later used by the military and popularized in films such as \u201cThunderball\u201d and \u201cThe Green Berets.\u201d His work as a filmmaker, photographer and writer will be represented alongside that of his sons, proving that the A in the Fulton DNA stands for \u201cart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Together, the material that will be presented at the Wheeler reflects a shared family vision rooted in curiosity, experimentation, innovation and a lifelong engagement with nature, philosophy and art, underlined by a zestful love for life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs brothers, we have individually and collectively shared in an evolving artistic process our entire lives,\u201d Travis Fulton said. Rawn Fulton punctuated the thought, saying, \u201cEvery film, every photograph, every sculpture, and every thought reflects this commitment to the exploration of what the world provides \u2014 how it has touched us, and how our work might continue to be of service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Fulton Jr. captured the family’s adventurous spirit when he wrote in his 1986 book, \u201cThe Winds Of Life”: \u201cTo the mysterious adventure of life and all who share it, may your hearts stay young.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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