The City of Everett retained Mahler Fine Arts in 2001 to expand the City of Everett Art Collection to include fine art prints. Mahler Fine Arts assembled a portfolio of over 30 original, fine art prints. The prints ranged in price from approximately $200 to $900 and included original lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, serigraphs, and mixed media prints. Established and emerging artists from the Pacific Northwest were included in the portfolio. For this project, the budget, including framing, was $15,000. The Everett Cultural Commission selected 16 prints for purchase as the foundation of their Fine Art Print collection.

Mahler Fine Arts gave leadership to the selection of art for Port of Seattle headquartered at Pier 69. The funding sources for this project were a combination of public and private money. The art program budget was $300,000.

Mahler Fine Arts developed an Art Plan, worked with the architect and project director to identify potential sites for integrated art and site-specific artworks, designed and administered a call for artists, administered the artist selection and the commissioning process.

Approximately 3500 artists in the Pacific Northwest received a project prospectus and invitation to submit background materials and a letter of interest in working on the project. Seventy-five interested applicants attended an open review of the site and over 100 artists applied.

Mahler Fine Arts staffed the Art Selection Panel comprised of art professionals and Port representatives. The Panel selected a short list of 14 artists whose slides were presented to a Port management committee including the Director of the Port and selected commissioners. The Art Selection Panel then interviewed these artists. Based on these interviews, supporting materials, and the artist’s preliminary concept for the project, seven artists were commissioned. Mahler Fine Arts assisted in contract negotiation with each artist and managed the art production to completion of the project. Pier 69 is open to the public.

Mahler Fine Art's leadership in the Bell Street Pier Art Program was similar to the Pier 69 Project. The public nature of this project required a Selection Panel that was more community based. Included were an art museum curator, an artist, and a neighborhood resident as well as the project architect and project director. The call for artists was national and the Art Plan was designed to focus the art budget on two major art works. R.M. Fischer from New York was commissioned to create the 130- foot high light sculpture at the entrance to the marina, and Ann Gardner, an artist from Seattle, was chosen to do a 43-foot abstract glass mosaic mural on the wall facing the public plaza. Mahler Fine Arts drafted the artist’s contracts and worked with the Port attorney in negotiating with each artist. The more complex nature and scale of these works presented greater challenges than the Pier 69 commissions, the production and installation of which Mahler Fine Arts managed to completion. The funding sources for this project were also a combination of public and private. The art program budget was $450,000 with additional costs of installation being incorporated into the construction budget.