Some space arts related items I’ve recently come across:<\/p>\n
** Winners announced for the OK Go Sandbox<\/a>‘s Art In Space Contest<\/a><\/strong>. As described in the March posting<\/a> about the contest, the band OK Go<\/a>, which had made a music video in microgravity<\/a>, <\/em>wanted to encourage young people between ages 11-18 to do their own art projects in space and they came up with the idea of a contest:<\/p>\n The Art in Space contest invited students to dream up their own cool experiments to send into suborbital space onboard the [Blue Origin] New Shepard spacecraft.<\/a><\/p>\n The two winning teams will work with engineers, artists and educators from the Playful Learning Lab, in consultation with Blue Origin and OK Go, on flight ready versions of their ideas.<\/p>\n The responses of the winners when informed of their selection were captured in this video:<\/p>\n