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Where Art + Flight Connect

CONNECTING ART WITH AEROSPACE HISTORY

Art+Flight offered sculpture, painting, photography, installation, and new media, to realize our feelings, enhance our perceptions, and remind us of the awe and joy of flight through the materiality of art.

Exhibit closed January 7, 2024.

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Nina Vichayapai
Gallo Kelsey

EXPLORE THE ARTWORK

Preview dozens of artworks in all mediums by over 30 artists, including an Artist-in-Residence, three newly commissioned murals, a juried group show and an installation drawn from the Museum’s art collection.

A fantastical atmosphere where aircraft and elements are infused with colorful schematics and shifting scenery.

A person stands atop a ladder panting a large butterfly on a wall

Vasquez’s inspiration for choosing these icons comes from flight and more importantly, the feeling of freedom. The feeling that comes with flight and the environmental connection to it.

Hanging sculpture made of fabric and seed paper in the shape of a raining cloud.

Artist Nina Vichayapai explores the intersection between humans, the environment, survival, and innovation.

A dark purple poster with stylistic lettering reading "SST Think Light"

A colorful, motivational poster series that took inspiration from the psychedelic art of the 1960s.

Interior of the T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial bridge at The Museum of Flight

A collection of sounds representing milestone events in the history of aviation, space exploration, and popular aviation-themed music broadcasted by speakers strategically placed along the length of the T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial bridge.

A digital art print of the outer atmosphere of Earth filled with labeled space junk.

Ever since we’ve be going into space, we’ve been leaving debris behind. Aura is a figurative map depicting the scale of human-made space junk that orbits Earth.

An artwork made of 2 large horizontal feathers with bird silhouettes cut from them arranged above and below.

CHRIS MAYNARD

CHRIS MAYNARD

Chris Maynard is a naturalist and artist whose signature method is sculpting complex scenes using naturally-sourced bird feathers.

Screenprint on cardboard depicting a space shuttle made from Amazon boxes.

KELSEY GALLO

KELSEY GALLO

Kelsey Gallo is a Seattle-based illustrator and graphic designer, with a focus on print design.

A painting of the USS Enterprise spaceship in a starfield with pinks, yellows, white and black.

CLYDE PETERSEN

CLYDE PETERSEN

Clyde Petersen is a transgender Northwest artist who works in film, animation, music, installation, and fabulous spectacle.

An oil painting depicting an empty landscape of intersecting stripes under a hazy green sky.

KEVIN MCCARTHY

KEVIN MCCARTHY

Kevin McCarthy is a multimedia painter who has been based in the Seattle area since 1996. McCarthy combines artistic lessons from the past, and technology from the present to create visualizations of other worlds.

Artist Esmeralda Vasquez paints bright green on the wall atop a scissor lift.

Esmeralda Vasquez

Esmeralda Vasquez

Esmeralda Vasquez is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, teaching artist, and muralist currently based out of the Seattle area.

An artwork made of tufted orange, white and blue yarn in the shape of a plane hanging on a wall.

GINGER REINAUER

GINGER REINAUER

Seattle-based Ginger Reinauer explored many forms of art including glass blowing, textile art, and making her own clothes. “As an appreciator of color, patterns, and unusual mediums,” says Reinauer, “I try to make my art in a way that makes people think about it or at least walk away thinking ‘I didn’t know those patterns could match, or a plane could be soft and fluffy,’ so that’s always a fun aspect to my work.”

Artist Harriet Salmon hanging one of her woven sculptures on a wall.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:

HARRIET SALMON

Harriet Salmon is a practicing artist and arts professional based in the Seattle area. Salmon’s work addressed how we’ve historically reshaped nature and how it’s been viewed, manipulated, and consumed culturally.

FREEDOM'S THREADS

JEFFREY STENBOM

Surrounded by the stories, aircraft, and artifacts from World War II, artist Jeffrey Stenbom pays tribute to those who have served in the U.S. military with his piece, Freedom’s Threads.

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