Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749
katherine.trindad@nasa.gov
Isabel Lara
National Air and Space Museum, Washington
202-633-2374
larai@nasm.edu
RELEASE: 11-165
NASA ART EXHIBIT OPENS AT NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
WASHINGTON -- You don't have to be a rocket scientist or an astronaut
to work for NASA. Engineers, pilots, physicists, astrobiologists,
and, yes, artists, too, have helped further the mission of the space
agency.
In 1962, NASA administrator James E. Webb invited a group of artists
to illustrate and interpret the agency's missions and projects.
Artists, participating in the NASA art program, many of them
renowned, have been documenting the extraordinary adventure of
spaceflight ever since. Granted special access to historic moments,
they have offered their perspectives on what they have witnessed.
"NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration," on view from May 28 to Oct. 9
at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington,
features works by artists as diverse as Annie Leibovitz, Alexander
Calder, Nam June Paik, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol and William
Wegman. The exhibition includes drawings, photographs, sculpture and
other art forms and media from the collections of NASA and the
National Air and Space Museum. The more than 70 works, ranging from
the illustrative to the abstract, present a different view of NASA
than the one in history books or on news shows.
Several of the artists have captured the faces and personalities of
the men and women who have flown in space. Other members of the team,
scientists, engineers, technicians, managers and thousands of others
who made the space program possible, also are portrayed.
Bunkers, gantries, radio dishes and the towering Vehicle Assembly
Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, attracted other
program artists, some of whom were struck by the co-existence of the
space-age architecture of the Cape with the beaches, swamps, birds,
and animals that surround the facility.
The exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service (SITES) and NASA in cooperation with the
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The museum, located at
Sixth Street and Independence Avenue SW, is open daily from 10 a.m.
until 5:30 p.m. (closed Dec. 25). Admission is free.
To see images from the NASA | ART exhibit and for more information,
visit:
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal211/NASA_art.cfm
For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:
-end-
To subscribe to the list, send a message to:
hqnews-subscribe@mediaservices.nasa.gov
To remove your address from the list, send a message to:
hqnews-unsubscribe@mediaservices.nasa.gov
No comments:
Post a Comment