Artists on the Moon: Artist Nanette Fluhr’s Art Selected For Lunar Time Capsule

Nanette Fluhr with her oil painting, “Paint the Sky with Stars” is thrilled to have several of her works of art selected for a trip to the Moon.

Fluhr is one of the artists from across the globe whose art has been selected to be part of the Lunar Codex that will be rocketed to the Lunar South Pole as part of the NASA Viper Rover and Astrobotic Griffin Mission in 2023.

Dr. Samuel Peralta, a Canada based physicist and storyteller who is curating and funding the moon exhibits said, “The Lunar Codex started as a project to spread hope during a dark time - the years of the Covid-19 pandemic on Earth.” 

“The Codex is also a message-in-a-bottle to the future, so that travelers who find these time capsules might discover some of the richness of our world today. It speaks to the idea that, despite wars and pandemics and climate upheaval, humankind found time to dream, time to create art.”

Many of the art works in the Codex that will preserve contemporary creative arts for future generations were originally shown at galleries over 2010-2022, whose exhibition catalogues were published by Didi Menendez of Poets and Artists. Issues of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine which is published by Eric Rhodes will also be included. Below are some of Nanette's works that have been curated into these publications and are included in the Lunar Codex.

Fluhr’s oil painting, “Manu”, which was exhibited at the European Museum of Modern Art - MEAM in Barcelona will also be part of the Lunar Codex collection. American Women Artists honored her with their Distinguished Achievement Award for this portrait.

Nanette Fluhr’s self portrait, “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, is the winner of Manhattan Arts International “HerStory” and among her works selected for digitizing for the lunar capsule

Nanette Fluhr’s preliminary drawing for “Portrait of my Grandfather” has been selected to be digitized and will be going to the moon.

"Angie", Included in Mujer 33 Contemporary's International Women's Day Show 2022 will be one of the 1st catalogues to celebrate women in space

"The Beauty of Shabbat" is headed to the moon. Click to read the full article by Evelyn Frick on heyalma.

"Reisa" Selected as a Finalist in the Art Renewal Center, 2018 International Salon and included in PoetsArtists10th Anniversary Issue is among Fluhr's works going to the moon.

"Serinna" curated by Carol Hodes into PoetsArtists: Adorn Me is included in the Polaris Collection.

Serendipity will land "Lonny" (and the Mets) on the moon. Read 'MoonStruck' by Greg Prince here.

"Autumn", Featured on the cover of Desperately Seeking Madonna, Curated by April Carter Grant for PoetsArtists is also headed to the moon.

"Ascending", featured in Winter 2024 33PA catalogue of 33 Contemporary Gallery is now part of the Polaris time capsule of the LunarCodex! It features interviews with Patti Schappler, Ingrid Capozzoli Flinn, Vivien Kabar, paintings representing current group shows by Steven DaLuz, Sarah Warda, Nicole Galt Finger, Kimberly Dow, Diana Carolina López, Pippa Hale-Lynch, Nanette Fluhr, Lisa L. Cyr, and featured artists Tim Okamura, Ellen Starr Lyon, Kate Van Doren, O'Neill Scott, and J Adam McGalliard; and essays and interviews by Sergio Gomez and Didi Menendez.

As seen on News12 THE PAINTINGS FROM NANETTE FLUHR WILL BE GOING INTO SPACE IN A TIME CAPSULE TO THE MOON IN 2023. HOW COOL IS THAT?!