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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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

Artist Harriot Salmon weaves wood veneer onto an aircraft part.

HARRIET SALMON

HARRIET SALMON

Harriet Salmon is a practicing artist and arts professional based in the Seattle area, whose work often focuses on traditional craft techniques and how they are a form of technology.

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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