AstroArtist of the Month - Nicole Stott (1 of 4)
I want to start this first blog by saying how incredibly honored I am that AWB invited me to participate as the AstroArtist of the Month. This is really a very humbling thing for me. My entire professional career over the past 30 years has focused on the "Astro" piece of AstroArtist - first as a NASA engineer supporting the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs at both the Kennedy and Johnson Space Centers, and later as a NASA astronaut who was blessed to fly twice in space. The "Artist" has always been there in the background, but last year...
AstroArtist of the Month - Lucy West (4 of 4)
Interview with the Space Artist “Tapestry of Time” Q1: I see you work in acrylics as your most common medium. Many artists today have gone the “digital” route. What is it that you find so interesting about using physical paints on canvas? I appreciate the organics and alchemy of mixing paints, and the interplay between me, the brushes, paints and canvas. I don't experience the same immersion through digital medium. Painting is all very tactile and engaging, and at times its visceral or emotional. Also, its physical. Because I work large scale I rely on my entire body to participate...
AstroArtist of the Month - Lucy West (3 of 4)
The Cosmos on a Palette "Star Path" Space art is a genre I absolutely adore. It reels with visions of possibilities for our specie's future endeavors. It's a thrilling subject to probe and inspires the imagination. Like space exploration, space art is laden with vast opportunities of discovery. It's one of those vehicles that approaches the big questions, scientific and philosophical questions. It's the opportunity to peer back in time, to the beginning of time, to look toward the future, to investigate our origins, to understand our place in the universe, to better understand the very elements that make up...
AstroArtist of the Month - Lucy West (2 of 4)
Art Plus Science Equals Fun "Lucy at the easel painting Jupiter" Growing up there was never any doubt in my mind that I would become a professional artist. But what has surprised me is how the arts led to my love of science. Over the last decade I've realized I get very excited about science, engineering and how nature works, and how that has influences what I paint. It was my artistic nature that first took notice of the beauty in geology, astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science. The more I studied these veins the more I began to see the...
AstroArtist of the Month - Lucy West (1 of 4)
“Celestial Northwest” Part 1: How To Create a Space Artist I came into this world in 1964 during one of the most extraordinary times in history. NASA was in full swing of sending men and the first Gemini and Apollo crafts into orbit around our planet. I was plunked down on the good Earth just as some of us were learning how to leave it. Space exploration has been the foundation of my very existence, especially when considering that my father worked for McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, MO building parts for Mercury and Gemini spacecrafts. Four years later, I...
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ASTROCraft
Astronomers Without Borders' AstroCrafts web blog presented by Kathleen Horner will share a unique variety of creative, educational and fun astronomy-related crafts inspired by the cosmos in which we live. The AstroCrafts page projects will be presented periodically throughout the year for the whole family that involves hands on arts and crafts that will teach us about the wonders of our universe. The projects are especially a great resource for schools and other organizations, too. The AstroCrafts projects is another way we can discover our own inner artist and find personal expression of what we see and feel in the cosmic life that is all around us.
