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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.

Artist Angelina Villalobos looking to the side as her mural is being installed in the background.

ANGELINA VILLALOBOS

ANGELINA VILLALOBOS

Angelina Villalobos, also known by her pseudonym 179, is a Seattle-based artist whose unique style merges elements of her upbringing as an Americanized Mexican Catholic with graffiti, anime, folklore, and fairytales.

An acrylic painting of a spaceship labeled "Warship Super Eagle 151" in hand painted text surrounded by stars and planets.

AARON CUNNINGHAM

AARON CUNNINGHAM

Aaron Cunningham is an acrylic painter who currently works through North Pole Studio in Portland, Oregon.

A textured painting of round yellow and blue celestial-like bodies on a dark swirling background.

STEPHEN YATES

STEPHEN YATES

Stephen Yates is a painter who has lived and worked in the Port Townsend, Washington area for over 40 years.

GREGORY BLACKSTOCK

GREGORY BLACKSTOCK

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

An art print depicting a blue balloon animal-like object hovering in a light orange sky above a desert crater.

BARBARA NOAH

BARBARA NOAH

Barbara Noah is a hybrid works artist whose work incorporates natural, scientific, and cultural content.

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.

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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