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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 blue, green and khaki American flag woven from the uniforms of military service members.

JEFFREY STENBOM

JEFFREY STENBOM

Jeffrey Stenbom is a post-disciplinary artist living in Bloomington, Minnesota, who blends his own experience and the connection military service members share into his artwork.

A dual screen capture of a body of water at sunset on the left and a dark ominous clouds on the right.

SKY HOPINKA

SKY HOPINKA

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) is a filmmaker and visual artist born and raised in Ferndale, Washington.

A close-up of a mixed media artwork featuring historic figure Mary Jackson on a square panel made of white encaustic and copper. Woven copper wire and beads hang below each piece.

MEGHAN ELIZABETH TRAINOR

MEGHAN ELIZABETH TRAINOR

Meghan Elizabeth Trainor is a Seattle-based artist writer, lecturer, performer and curator whose work centers on the through lines between computer science, technology, and esoterica.

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.

A digital drawing of a lunar lander hovering above a child's messy bedroom filled with space memorabilia.

DAVE GINSBERG

DAVE GINSBERG

Dave Ginsberg’s artwork, mostly digital works, combines his passions for spaceflight, astronomy, science, teaching, and the visual arts.

A distressed art print of hazy horizontal orange and blue colored bands and an airplane hiding in disguise.

ISKRA JOHNSON

ISKRA JOHNSON

Iskra Johnson is a multi-media explorer of the industrial landscape, using photography, painting, and new media printmaking to express the beauty of purpose in the design of useful things.

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.

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