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Frontier Airlines has Taylor Swift tickets + more travel tidbits

07/14/23

Ready for the weekend? Listen to a podcast series about the role of Latino history and culture in aviation and space. Take an airport art tour. And enter Frontier Airlines’ sweepstakes to win a trip to attend a Taylor Swift concert. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has launched “AeroEspacial,” a limited series of →

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Happy 25th Anniversary to PHL’s Art Program

06/13/23

Congratulations to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), and Director of Guest Experience/art program curator Leah Douglas, on the 25th anniversary of the airport’s award-winning Airport Exhibitions Program. Since 1998, local artists and arts organizations have filled PHL’s terminals with more than 500 unique exhibitions. “PHL has a unique opportunity with its global audience to promote Philadelphia’s unique treasures →

Art + Flight at Seattle’s Museum of Flight

06/09/23

(Handpainted Mural by Joe Nix) Seattle’s Museum of Flight is already well-known as the largest nonprofit air & space museum. Now the sprawling aviation museum is making a bid for being well-known for commissioning and exhibiting art. The Museum of Flight’s Art+Flight project, running through January 7, 2024, includes dozens of artworks in all mediums by →

Light Paintings at John Wayne Airport (SNA)

05/29/23

(Time Traveler, by Christopher Allwine) It’s been a while since Stuck at the Airport featured an art exhibit from the John Wayne Airport Arts Program. But we’re delighted to get them back in the cycle with this post highlighting the current exhibit featuring photography by Christopher Allwine. Allwine specializes in the technique of light painting. →

Fresh Art at PIE Airport

01/12/23

Two new murals now greet passengers at Florida’s St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport (PIE). Both murals are visible to passengers arriving and departing from Gates 7-11 and Gate 12. Leo Gomez’s mural “GO EASY” features a dreamy Tampa Bay sunset, with welcoming colors, bold text, and silhouettes that evoke travel and nature. Laura “Miss Crit” Spencer’s mural →

Spring has sprung – in art – at PHX Airport

03/24/22

The newest exhibition at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) offers an artistic look at the wide variety of plant and animal life in Arizona and the Sonoran Desert with work by 21 artists. The diverse selection of artworks, all from the Phoenix Airport Museum’s own collection, includes a realistic bronze tortoise family, an embroidered →

Something Fishy Spotted at Seattle-Tacoma Int’l Airport

11/18/21

Sometimes the coolest stuff is below you You know how during the airline safety instructions (you pay attention, right?) they say the nearest exit may be behind you? Well, sometimes at the airport the coolest art features may be below you. At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) one of the artworks is a river of 300 →

Fresh Art at San Diego Int’l Airport

09/23/21

Are you sick of staying at home? Or maybe still trying to get home after being stuck somewhere due to the pandemic? Perhaps some art will help. In a new temporary exhibition at San Diego International Airport (SAN), 16 artists explore the concept of home. From the exhibit notes: “Home is a lens through which →

Art and Magic at SJC and DAL Airports

09/21/21

Fresh art at Mineta San Jose International Airport Take a look at this cool new permanent artwork installed at California’s Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) Installed in the pre-security Arrivals Hall of Terminal B, A million Times (San José), by artists Humans since 1982, is made from 160 clock faces with white hands set →

Airports celebrate July 4th and the freedom to travel

07/03/21

Like you, airports are celebrating the freedom to travel (again) and also marking July 4th. And we’re gathering up some of the best July 4th messages airports are sharing. Kicking us off: the patriotic water feature show in Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport. Also: a cool mural you can watch being made at Leonardo da →

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