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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 white man wearing a baseball cap and black shirt paints a mural on a wall.

JOE NIX

JOE NIX

Joe Nix is a Northwest-born artist who often paints assemblages of engine parts, representative of all the delicate and resilient components that make them run.

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.

An oil painting of a satellite dish against a blue sky.

MARINA MONTES

MARINA MONTES

Marina Montes is an emerging multimedia artist based in Bellevue, Washington and dreams of Mars.

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.

GREGORY BLACKSTOCK

GREGORY BLACKSTOCK

Gregory Blackstock (1943-2023) was a Seattle-based artist who specialized in hand-drawn art cataloguing the world around him.

A monoprint of an aerial landscape made up of organic overlapping shapes in yellows, blues and browns.

ROSEMARY DEPLER COHEN

ROSEMARY DEPLER COHEN

Rosemary Depler Cohen is a multimedia artist working exclusively in monotype printmaking since 2018.

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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