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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.

Interior of the T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial bridge at The Museum of Flight

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.

A digital art print of the outer atmosphere of Earth filled with labeled space junk.

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 […]

A sculpture of the Artemis SLS Rocket made of matchsticks, wood stirrers and toothpicks.

JHUN CARPIO

JHUN CARPIO

Jhun Carpio is a scale model artist who has been creating models since he moved from the Philippines to Seattle in 1983.

A section of a rocket sculpture made of painted wood.

W. SCOTT TRIMBLE

W. SCOTT TRIMBLE

W. Scott Trimble is a sculptural artist in the Seattle area who focuses on site-specific and interactive sculptural forms. Trimble’s work is inspired by the natural world and our created […]

A person standing on a bridge wearing a shear grey garment. The garment resembles a raincoat adorned with copper elements and LEDs.

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.

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.

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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