Contemporary Artists use WWII Aircraft as Canvas at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson -Tucson AZ - The Pima Air & Space Museum is exhibiting Round Trip: Art From the Bone Yard Project in Tucson. Conceived in Spring 2010 by Eric Firestone, and organized with curator Carlo McCormick, The Bone Yard Project resurrects disused airplanes from America's military history through the creative intervention of contemporary artists, taking entire airplanes and their elements out of aeronautic resting spots in the desert, known as "bone yards," and putting them into the hands of artists.
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The first part of the Bone Yard Project, Nose Job, made its debut in the summer of 2011 with an exhibition of nose cones taken from military airplanes and given to artists to use as eccentric-shaped "canvases" at Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton, Long Island.
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The second installment in this series: Round Trip: Selections from The Bone Yard Project includes selections from the previous Nose Job exhibition along with more than a dozen cones interpreted by artists new to this project. It features five monumental works created on military planes by a dynamic selection of popular graffiti and street artists from around the world.
Pima Air & Space Exhibition Image
For Firestone and McCormick, the Pima show has a special relevance, for not only is it one of the largest aerospace museums in America, but it was in the desert surrounding Pima where they both first discovered the "bone yards" housing these once mighty metal giants of the United States Air Force.
The Pima Air & Space Museum is the largest non-government funded aviation museum in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. It maintains a collection of more than 300 aircraft and spacecraft from around the globe and more than 125,000 artifacts. The museum is located at 6000 E. Valencia Rd., Tucson, and is open 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM daily. Round Trip is open to the public through the end of May 2012. Further details may be found at Pima Air & Space Museum and the Eric Firestone Gallery.