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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.

A section of a rocket sculpture made of painted wood.

W. SCOTT TRIMBLE

W. SCOTT TRIMBLE

W. Scott Trimble is a sculptural artist in the Seattle area who focuses on site-specific and interactive sculptural forms. Trimble’s work is inspired by the natural world and our created […]

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.

A mixed-media artwork depicting a dark figure from the shoulders up surrounded by swirling colors.

ANNE ACKER-MATHIEU

ANNE ACKER-MATHIEU

Anne Acker-Mathieu is a mixed-media artist who has spent most of her career and life in the Seattle area, and draws inspiration from her own personal experiences.

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.

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.”

Two mixed media glass sculptures of spaceships in an art gallery.

RIK ALLEN

RIK ALLEN

Rik Allen is a glass sculptor who has based his studio practice in the Pacific Northwest since the 1990s. Allen’s work is recognizable for his whimsical depictions of machinery and the artist’s distinctive metallic treatment of surface textures.

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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