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Heading to or through Ronald Reagan Washington National or Washington Dulles Airports? There are two new art exhibits to check out.

Photo by Jeffrey Mistein

About 20 large-scale images of aircraft taken just as they’re landing are featured in “AirCraft: The Jet as Art” by American photographer Jeffrey Milstein at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Look for them through December 8 in the airport’s Gallery Walk art corridor, which is near the underground walkway connecting Terminal A with the parking garages. Historic aviation pieces from the College Park Aviation Museum are on display here as well.

Over at Washington Dulles International Airport, the images in “Mars As Art” feature more than 45 NASA and European Space Agency images taken by spacecraft from orbit and on the surface of Mars. Look for these images in the Gateway Gallery in the connecting walkway between the AeroTrain C-Gates and the C Concourse until November 30.

Valles Marineris, known as the Grand Canyon of Mars, which is long enough to stretch from New York City to Los Angeles.

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David Kleeman, Jump-Flyer, found objects, 2012

A fresh batch of art has been installed at Indianapolis International Airport (IND) and among the work that will be on display through August 4 are some of the odd and endearing creatures created by Indianapolis-based David Kleeman, a painter and sculptor who combines found objects with clay and wood elements.

David Kleeman, Naked, wood, stone, copper and found objects, 1996

You can find more of Kleeman’s work here.

The new batch of art also includes work by Walter Lobyn Hamilton,, who makes art out of vinyl records, and a selection from Brigid Manning-Hamilton’s 2011 Elements in the Landscape series, for which she photographed natural objects and man-made structures in the Indiana landscape, altered the images with Photoshop, printed them on silk using freezer paper and a digital printer and stitched through layers of the printed silk with rayon, silk, and cotton threads.

Brigid Manning-Hamilton, Oasis on U.S. 41, silk with silk and cotton thread, 2011

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By Harold Newton – one of Florida’s Highwaymen

The newest exhibition at Miami International Airport features 28 oil landscapes made by a group of 26 African-American artists known today as the Highwaymen.

According to the exhibition notes:

“The 26 self-taught Highwaymen painted their way out of citrus groves and packinghouse jobs in the Ft. Pierce area from the late 1950’s to 1980 by creating idyllic images of Florida’s tropical landscapes and peddling their work door-to-door throughout Florida’s east coast. The group painted thousands of portraits that were dismissed as “motel art” at the time. Today, the paintings are celebrated as the work of American folk artists that once sold for $25 each but now go for thousands to owners such as Michelle Obama, Shaquille O’Neal and Jeb Bush.”

By James Gibson

The Highwaymen exhibition will be up through June at MIA’s Central Terminal Gallery.

By Sam Newton

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Electroland, a California-based team of artists who create objects, interactive experiences and large-scale public art has landed a welcome work at Denver International Airport.

Relax is a 1,300-square-foot display made up of five illuminated panels at the east end of the A gates in the lower level.

There are five different images and features: the lighted “Relax” wall (above), a giant picture of a tropical beach scene with moving water, a corridor with floor-to-ceiling mirrors on both sides and clouds with changing colors and the words “arrival” and “departure.”

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Kerry Char, Wolf Model Electric Ukulele made of Birdseye Maple, Port Orford Cedar

Oregon’s Portland International Airport has a nice exhibit featuring the work of eight Oregon luthiers who make everything from guitars and ukuleles to mandolins and lutes – from scratch.

The one-of-a-kind instruments are on exhibit in Concourse A and use ‘ingredients’ that include 700-year-old reclaimed wood, stunning inlays and rosettes, tropical woods and scalloped fretboards.

Josh Humphrey’s Irish Bouzouki, with redwood soundboard, mahogany back and sides, East Indian rosewood fret-board & trim

In addition, the airport is displaying (just till mid-April) four decommissioned violins that have been ‘re-interpreted’ by local artists for the Painted Violin Project – a national fundraising program that raises money for youth orchestras.

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