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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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.
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 […]
CLYDE PETERSEN
CLYDE PETERSEN
Clyde Petersen is a transgender Northwest artist who works in film, animation, music, installation, and fabulous spectacle.
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.
CHRIS MAYNARD
CHRIS MAYNARD
Chris Maynard is a naturalist and artist whose signature method is sculpting complex scenes using naturally-sourced bird feathers.
STEPHEN YATES
STEPHEN YATES
Stephen Yates is a painter who has lived and worked in the Port Townsend, Washington area for over 40 years.
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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