Gallery Type: Artwork from Psyche Inspired

Purple graphic T-shirt featuring a distressed, vintage sci-fi poster style design for the NASA Psyche mission. Bright colors form a collage of spacecraft parts, a rocket launch, and the asteroid 16 Psyche, with large 16 Psyche lettering. The artwork shows worn textures and hand-painted details, echoing 1950s–60s space posters conveying excitement, risk, and wonder about exploring the unknown.

May 18, 2026

16 Psyche Shirt

Riley Perry May 18th, 2026 Major: Communication Design & Environmental Biology Genre/Medium: Graphic Design About the Work: 16 Psyche Shirt is a graphic t-shirt design inspired by vintage...
A stained glass artwork shows Earth on one side in bright blues and greens and the asteroid Psyche on the other in dark tones. Between them, two human hands reach toward each other but do not touch, inspired by Michelangelo. Light passes through the glass, highlighting a divide between the known and the unknown.

May 13, 2026

The Pursuit of Psyche

LACHAN MORLAN  May 13th, 2026 Major: Astronomy (Physics) Genre/Medium: Stained Glass About the Work:  The Pursuit of Psyche is a stained glass piece that honors the scientists and engineers...
A colored pencil drawing shows a red vintage car driving along a curved road towards a distant modern city at night. On the left, traditional Chinese-inspired pagoda buildings sit among greenery. A streetlamp stands in the lower right corner. In the upper sky, a large glowing orange-red Mars is in the center, while the Psyche spacecraft flies around it.

May 7, 2026

Approaching Firestar

Brianna Blanchard May 7th, 2026 Major: Environmental Public Health Genre/Medium: Colored pencil on paper About the Work: Approaching Firestar is a colored pencil drawing on an 11 x 17 piece of...
This is a small sculptural piece. A round balloon shaped head sits suspended on three legs that come to points. On one side is a gaping mouth with baleen teeth and on the other are thin crevices leading to a central ridge that act as the nasal passages. It has two dark blue eyes, one on top of the head and one right on the bottom. It is glazed with a combo of chartreuse and dark burgundy colors.

May 5, 2026

Crater Crawler

MARTHA QUIRIE May 5th, 2026 Major: Art Practices & Psychology Genre/Medium: Stoneware clay, cone 6 glaze, mason stain About the Work: Crater Crawler is a fictitious representation of a creature...
A loose, sketchy, geometric drawing shows specialists working around the Psyche spacecraft mounted to the launch vehicle, working with their hands or on computers, shadowy outline of the spacecraft with solar panels deployed in the background. The work is rough and unfinished, and the asteroid unformed, to show that the mission is still in progress and Psyche's true appearance is still unknown.

April 27, 2026

Seeking

CAITLIN RICHARD April 27th, 2026 Major: BS Biological Sciences (Conservation Biology & Ecology), BS Anthropology Genre/Medium: Sennelier Soft Pastels on BFK Rives Paper, Cream, 22″...
A grayscale pen stippling drawing shows a surreal landscape. In the upper right corner is an eye, peering at the Psyche spacecraft suspended beneath a large hand guiding it with delicate strings. A metallic humanoid figure looks at a flight path with a spyglass in front of its view. A desk is shown covered in books, cartographic instruments, and a mirror with a reflection of the Psyche asteroid.

April 23, 2026

Cartographer of the Cosmos

Brianna Blanchard April 23rd, 2026 Major: Environmental Public Health Genre/Medium: Black and white ink pens on paper About the Work: Cartographer of the Cosmos explores the act of mapping the...
A circular, low-relief sculpture sits on a black cardboard base. Crumpled silver and copper foils form torn ridges and sharp edges. Steel wool and chicken wire create tangled cavities. Gravel and sand are embedded throughout. Charcoal darkens recessed areas, and mirror fragments catch light within fractured metallic layers.

April 20, 2026

Specimen (16 Psyche)

Addison Mayhew April 20th, 2026 Major: New Media Design Genre/Medium: Abstract Sculpture (cardboard, aluminum foil, steel wool, chicken wire, copper leaf, silver leaf, black acrylic paint, rocks,...
The sculpture is based on the outline of the spacecraft; each surface of the "satellite" becomes a canvas. Each piece has engraved images of the struggles endured by Psyche: the abandoning in the mountains, the secret life inside Cupid's palace, and finally the elevation. Such a stylistic touch is used intentionally, referring to the classical artistry of the Renaissance woodcut.

April 17, 2026

The Organs of a Goddess

Minh Nguyen April 17th, 2026 Major: Biomedical Engineering Genre/Medium: 3D-Sculpting and Acrylic paint About the Work: The work “Organs of a Goddess” features two sculptures representing...
“Mission Psyche: Spacecraft Journal Entry” depicts the Psyche spacecraft alongside a breakdown of its instruments as though it were a page out of a cartographer’s journal. In the top left corner, it has the name of the spacecraft as well as its launch/arrival date. Above the middle of the page is a drawing of Psyche. Below that, as well as in the top right corner, are Psyche’s various instruments.

April 15, 2026

Mission Psyche: Spacecraft Journal Entry

SAMANTHA MANLEY April 15th, 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 vase with brownish black glaze on the outside. At the shoulder of the vase there is a horizontal stripe running around the piece that is unglazed and on this stripe, opposing eachother, sit two mini replicas of halves of the asteroid 16 Psyche. The inside is glazed with a dark blue glaze.

April 13, 2026

Rhythmic Rotation

Martha Quirie April 13th, 2026 Major: Art Practices & Psychology Genre/Medium: Cone 10 porcelaneous stoneware and overglaze About the Work: This piece, “Rhythmic Rotation” was...
This piece depicts five butterflies, carrying different parts of the Psyche spacecraft. They are all moving in different directions and are holding the instruments on their back, in between their wings. In the background, there are dotted lines moving between the figures. Everything is outlined in black, and the shading is done in black cross-hatching.

April 8, 2026

The Soul of the Mission

ISABELLA GARCIA April 8th, 2026 Major: Art & Design Genre/Medium: Digital Illustration About the Work: This piece, “The Soul of the Mission,” is a digital illustration that describes...
Amid the sea of iridescent glaze, you can find a small replica of the spacecraft and its solar panels. The Copper Cobalt Raku glaze moves organically across the vessel, producing radiant tones of copper red and orange alongside greens and blues.

April 6, 2026

Space Exploration

JACQUELYN SUBLETT April 6th, 2026 Major: Ceramics & Physics Genre/Medium: High-Fire Stoneware, Copper Cobalt Raku Glaze About the Work: “Space Exploration” depicts the Psyche spacecraft...