Blumenfeld’s project in collaboration with NASA, Astromaterials 3D, goes live, bringing a virtual interactive 3D library of NASA’s Apollo Lunar Samples and Antarctic Meteorites Collections to researchers and the public for the first time.
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October 2020
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Exhibition at Maier Museum of Art
Time and Place: Water, Sky, Land, curated by Anne Wilkes Tucker, opens at Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA. Exhibiting alongside Mark Klett, James Balog and Terry Evans, Blumenfeld exhibits her Encyclopedia of Trajectories drawings.
November 2019
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Astromaterials 3D Project Second Preview Release
Blumenfeld’s project in collaboration with NASA, Astromaterials 3D, shares the second public preview release of a lunar sample in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 12.
October 2019
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Houston Public Art Award
Blumenfeld is awarded a public art grant from the Houston Mayoral Office of Cultural Affairs and Art League Houston to create a community-embedded sculpture from her Sky Scrolls series, collecting people’s memories and stories of their experiences of the night sky.
October 2019
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Lecture at University of Houston School of Art
University of Houston School of Art presents Blumenfeld’s talk, Consequence of Wonder, a journey into the connections between the human and lithic realms, stories of our cosmic heritage, links between wonder and wellbeing, and her work over the last 20 years.
July 2019
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NASA Feature Article
NASA Effort Digitizes Moon Rock, Making 3D Sample Available Beyond Researchers. By Noah Michelsohn. NASA feature on Blumenfeld’s Astromaterials 3D project teaser release of the first lunar sample picked up on the Moon, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11.
July 2019
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Astromaterials 3D Project First Preview Release
Blumenfeld’s project in collaboration with NASA, Astromaterials 3D, shares the first public preview release with the public of the first lunar sample picked up on the Moon in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11.
October 2018
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NASA Feature Article
Fireballs and Wonder: Artist Explores New Trajectories for Making NASA’s Astromaterials Accessible and Relatable. By Morgan McAllister. NASA feature highlighting Blumenfeld’s artist-in-residence creating her Astromaterials 3D project at Johnson Space Center.
September 2018
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Rice University Feature Article
Shooting stars blazing on campus: Golden meditation on meteors by artist Erika Blumenfeld runs through Oct. 26. By Katharine Shilcutt. Rice University features new installation of Blumenfeld’s Encyclopedia of Trajectories drawings.
September 2018
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Lecture at Moody Center for the Arts
Rice Public Art hosts Blumenfeld for a talk and panel discussion detailing her practice, her current installation at the Rice BioScience Research Collaborative, and her research in meteors and astromaterials. Followed by a conversation with her NASA colleagues.