Invented Futures: Chesley Bonestell and Beyond
July 6 – October 2, 2021
As long as we’ve looked upward to the heavens, to those glimmering lights in the night sky, we’ve wanted to know more about them – wondered, intrigued, what are they about?
Chesley Bonestell, “the Father of Modern Space Art,” was instrumental in turning inquisitiveness into action, firing humankind’s desires to explore beyond our earthbound viewpoint with his dramatic visual presentations. From the 1940s through the 1980s, he helped generations of curious skywatchers envision what it would be like to be . . . out there, where no one had gone before.
Bonestell (“BONN-uh-stell”) became a pivotal force in inventing a future that propelled men and women to reach moons, planets, and stars. His work inspired astronomers, researchers, physicists, chemists, biologists, rocket scientists, engineers, test pilots and people from a myriad of other disciplines to envision and achieve that which, over recent decades, has become our planetary reality of space exploration.