Category Archives: Space Arts

Multiple media, Space Arts

Video: Visioning the Cosmos – An Artist’s Perspective

From last summer’s SETICon 2 event organized by the SETI Institute, here is a video of a panel discussion titled: Visioning the Cosmos – An Artist’s Perspective.

From the video caption the panelists:

  • Charles Lindsay — He photographs at the interface between nature and culture. It is his fascination with our relationship to the earth which connects all of his work…
  • Lynette Cook — most widely known as an out-of-this-world space artist, Cook has enthralled …
  • Rosaly Lopes — Dr. Rosaly M. C. Lopes is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory….
  • Moderator: Gabriel Alvarado-Marín — a visual designer and illustrator at the SETI Institute, …

Space Arts

Space Art: History + Galleries of Ron Miller and others

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Space artist Ron Miller writes about the history of art inspired by astronomical phenomena and space exploration : The Art of Space, Envisioning the Universe – Space.com

Space art can be divided into at least two broadly distinct sub-genres: astronomical painting and hardware art. The former is an extension of landscape painting and continues as an art form that has existed for centuries. Astronomical art has roots in the Pre-Raphaelites ,a school of art that demanded precise observation and depiction of nature, and their scrupulous attention to reproducing nature. It follows many of the same precepts as any successful landscape art. Its outstanding practitioners today include Don Davis, Michael Carroll, David Hardy and William Hartmann.

Here is a gallery of Miller’s art: Out of This World: Ron Miller’s Spectacular Space Art – LIFE.com

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And here is a gallery of a wide array of space artists: An Astounding History of Scientific Space Art from the Past 200 Years – io9 –

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Space Arts

Art of planetary science

The  Lunar and Planetary Laboratory on the University of Arizona campus recently hosted The Art of Planetary Science, an

An exhibition of art, created from and inspired by the solar system and the scientific data with which we explore it.

See the slideshow of the artworks and this video:

More about the exhibition:

Space Arts, Space Music

Houston Grand Opera commissions opera based on the Columbia space shuttle tragedy

The Houston Grand Opera received a A $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will help commission five new musical works, including a chamber opera based on the Columbia space shuttle tragedy: $750,000 grant will help Houston Grand Opera produce 5 new works – Rant & Rave

“O Columbia,” based on the space shuttle calamity, will premiere in autumn 2015. Created by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Royce Vavrek, the chamber opera will look at the tragedy from multiple perspectives, including those of the control room at Johnson Space Center; a family waiting at Cape Canaveral in Florida; the Columbia crew; and Houston-area residents who witnessed the shuttle’s end.

Former Space Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale was initially “appalled” at the idea but was won over after he visited the HGO group a couple of times and heard what they were creating:  O Columbia -Wayne Hale’s Blog

It was not merely good, it was great.

It put space exploration in a historical context. It used the point of view of a young person aspiring to be an astronaut. There was nothing neither maudlin nor titillating. At one point there were tears among the audience. It was powerful.

After the reading we were asked for comments; the astronauts spoke first, then we all had the chance; praise for the approach, minor corrections to the script, overall an emotional release.

The music is in composition, much later the sets and costumes will be constructed, rehearsals will begin. The curtain should go up in October 2015. Just like all space projects, the schedule will take some time.

I think it will be great.
You should mark your calendar and go.