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.
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.
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.
Artist Nina Vichayapai explores the intersection between humans, the environment, survival, and innovation.
A colorful, motivational poster series that took inspiration from the psychedelic art of the 1960s.
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.
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.
MEET THE ARTISTS
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KEVIN MCCARTHY
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Kevin McCarthy is a multimedia painter who has been based in the Seattle area since 1996. McCarthy combines artistic lessons from the past, and technology from the present to create visualizations of other worlds.
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.
AFRODITI PSARRA & CECILE LAPOIRE
AFRODITI PSARRA & CECILE LAPOIRE
Cosmic Bitcasting was a collaboration between multidisciplinary artist Afroditi Psarra and experimental physicist Cécile Lapoire to create a wearable cosmic ray detector.
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.
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.
MICHIKO TANAKA
MICHIKO TANAKA
Michiko Tanaka is a Seattle-based multimedia artist who has worked extensively abroad.
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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