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Erika Blumenfeld

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.

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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.

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December 2018

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Panel Discussion at Lunar & Planetary Institute

Blumenfeld moderates a panel discussion at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s legendary Earthrise photograph. Joined by filmmaker Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee as well as William Stefanov, Lead Earth Science & Remote Sensing for the ISS at JSC, and Andrea Meado, Geoscientist at JSC, together they discuss the remarkable image of Earth rising over the Moon captured by the crew of Apollo 8 in December 1968.

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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.

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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.

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September 2018

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Lecture at Moody Center for the Arts

Rice Public Art hosts Blumenfeld for her talk, Consequence of Wonder, 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.

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April 2018

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Exhibition Opens at Rice University

Blumenfeld’s first public installation of Encyclopedia of Trajectories, comprised of 132 drawings of meteor events recorded by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network, opens at the BioScience Research Collaborative as part of the Rice Public Art program.

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