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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.

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.

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

PAUL RUCKER

PAUL RUCKER

Paul Rucker is a visual artist, composer, and musician who often combines various types of media, integrating live performance, sound, original compositions, and visual art.

An art quilt depicting the view from an airplane window over a wing looking down at water.

JANET DARCHER

JANET DARCHER

Janet Darcher is a fiber artist based in southwest Washington State, along the Naselle River.

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.

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

RYAN! FEDDERSEN

RYAN! FEDDERSEN

RYAN! is a Tacoma-based visual artist who specializes in creating site-specific installations and public artworks which invite people to consider their relationships to the environment, technology, society, and culture. Her […]

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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