Gallery Type: Artwork from Psyche Inspired

The piece depicts four loosely styled spherical asteroids that float in space among stars. Each has two central craters. The first is brown with light grey spots; the second is grey with various shades and highlights. The third features brown, tan, and orange tones; the fourth is a mix of tan, grey, and brown.

March 2, 2026

Possibilities

Isabella Garcia March 2nd, 2026 Major: Art & Design Genre/Medium: Digital Painting About the work: This project, “Possibilities,” is a digital painting made to depict different ideas...
A vibrant oil painting depicts an ocean and a shoreline at sunrise, with warm oranges and deep blues filling the sky. An ornate vintage gold mirror floats above the calm water, with the inside resembling a portal into space showing the Psyche asteroid. To the right of the base of the mirror, a compass lies on the beach, hinting at the direction towards a hidden sun.

February 25, 2026

Reflections of the Beginning

BRIANNA BLANCHARD February 25th, 2026 Major: Environmental Public Health Genre/Medium: Oil painting on canvas About the Work: Reflections of the Beginning is an oil painting on a 20” by 16”...
A silver ring against a neutral, light background. The ring features an irregular, cratered form resembling an asteroid mounted at the top of the band. The form and band are fully polished but intentionally irregular rather than delicate. The surface is textured with small pits, scrapes, two larger depressions, and smooth highlights, evoking the appearance of a metallic planetary body.

February 23, 2026

Asteroid Ring (16 Psyche)

Caitlin RiChard February 23rd, 2026 Major: Biological Sciences & Art Genre/Medium: Wearable sculpture; .999 fine silver metal clay, torch-fired. About the work: Asteroid Ring (16 Psyche)...
Projected across a panoramic wall, visitors see an interactive environment recreating Psyche’s landscape and an orbiting spacecraft. The exhibit combines many theories of what Psyche looks like. The asteroid is shown to have a gravel-like regolith covering solid rocky ground. Craters from past collisions form deep valleys, revealing patches of raw metal buried just beneath the rocky surface.

February 20, 2026

Standing On Psyche – Interactive

Tommy Desjardins February 20th, 2026 Major: 3D Digital Design Genre/Medium: Unreal Engine, Projections/Physical room About the Work:  Standing on Psyche invites visitors to step onto the surface...
A digital illustration shows the Psyche spacecraft drifting through deep space near Mars. Mars fills much of the scene, glowing with warm reds and oranges. Its light reflects softly across Psyche’s blue solar panels. The spacecraft appears calm and suspended, emphasizing stillness, distance, and quiet anticipation against a star-filled background.

February 18, 2026

The Long Coast

Remy Cantrelle February 18th, 2026 Major: Digital Art Genre/Medium: Digital Illustration About the work: The Long Coast is a digital illustration focused on a quiet yet meaningful phase of the...
Attached to a white translucent ribbon are three clear acrylic discs with the Psyche Inspired logo laser cut in a radial pattern on them. Two of the discs are the same size with one of them being larger and in between the two. They lead upwards with an array of decorative beads and wire to a paper form representing Psyche made up of clear vellum and printed raw images captured by the spacecraft.

February 16, 2026

Essence

Julia Stephens February 16th, 2026 Major: Studio Art & Creative Writing Genre/Medium: acrylic sheets, ribbon, wire, vellum, beads, paper About the work: Although we have taken data and distant...
“Mission Psyche: Cartographer’s Map” shows the solar system through an old cartographic map. The sun is in the center, accompanied by a banner with the word “Sol.” Around the sun are the planets’ orbits. Each planet has a banner with its name. Near Earth, we see the Psyche spacecraft following a dotted line that leads around Mars and to the Asteroid Belt, the location of the Psyche Asteroid.

February 11, 2026

Mission Psyche: Cartographer’s Map

Samantha Manley February 11th, 2026 Major: Illustration Genre/Medium: Digital About the Work:  Just as ancient cartographers filled the uncharted edges of their seafaring maps with drawings...
This is a hanging mobile. In the center hangs a grey large-potato sized replica of 16 Psyche with craters and a pockmarked surface. Spiraling out from there are strips of fabric which start in cooler grey tones and become more orange and rust colored the further they get.

February 9, 2026

Unraveled

Martha Quirie February 9th, 2026 Major: Art Practices & Psychology Genre/Medium: Sculpey, various fabrics, metal wire, fishing line About the work: The Spaces Between is a stained glass interpretation...
A digital illustration in a blueprint style shows the Psyche spacecraft orbiting the Psyche asteroid, drawn as a large, irregular shape. Thin white vector lines appear on a dark blue background, forming circular orbital paths, measurement marks, labels, and technical diagrams. Earth appears nearby as a small labeled sphere.

February 6, 2026

A Design for Discovery

Addison Mayhew February 6th, 2026 Major: New Media Design Genre/Medium: Vector Illustration in Adobe Illustrator About the work: “A Design for Discovery” is a digital vector illustration...
A stained glass artwork depicts asteroid 16 Psyche within the main asteroid belt. The solder lines represent heliocentric distance measured in astronomical units. Horizontal solder lines near the dark asteroid encode its rotational direction and extreme 98-degree axial tilt, showing Psyche rotating nearly on its side.

February 4, 2026

The Spaces Between

Lachan Morlan February 4th, 2026 Major: Physics (Astronomy) Genre/Medium: Stained Glass About the work: The Spaces Between is a stained glass interpretation of the asteroid 16 Psyche, located...
“The Vessel” depicts the satellite Psyche on its journey and the SpaceX Falcon Heavy that got it there. A smooth, black screen-printed outline of the rocket and satellite are colored in with wax pencils and alcohol markers in various saturated colors. Each of the seven prints is on lightly textured white paper.

February 2, 2026

The Vessel

Emerson Pappas February 2nd, 2026 Major: Chemistry & Studio Art Genre/Medium: Mixed media screen print with wax colored pencils, alcohol markers, and acrylic paint on paper About the work:...
Personified Mars and Psyche holding hands while flying past the Psyche asteroid.

January 28, 2026

Right By You

Anne Wang January 28th, 2026 Major: Economics and Art theory & Practice Genre/Medium: Digital Illustration About the work: A major event such as the Mars flyby deserves to be recognized and...