Gallery Type: Artwork from Psyche Inspired

“Mission: Psyche Character Designs” shows 3 crew members for a Psyche-inspired video game. One being the Pilot, holding her helmet. She has black hair and a necklace of the Psyche logo. Another character is the Systems Engineer. A man with black hair, writing in a book. He has a satchel with the logo. The last character is the Flight Surgeon. A broad man with blonde hair, briefcase in hand.

January 7, 2026

Mission Psyche: Character Designs

Samantha Manley January 7th, 2026 Major: Illustration Genre/Medium: Digital About the work:  Just as ancient cartographers filled the uncharted edges of their seafaring maps with drawings...
A spacecraft drifts away from Earth into deep space. Earth appears small in the distance with a faint Moon beside it. The Psyche probe sits in the lower right of the canvas, heading outward into darkness. Stars scatter the background, emphasizing the quiet, lonely moment of separation.

January 5, 2026

Farewell

abhigyaan Deep January 5th, 2026 Major: Aerospace Engineering & Cyber-Physical Systems Genre/Medium: Acrylic Painting About the Work:  Farewell, little blue marble. Farewell is an acrylic...
A slow, meditative animation of drifting through dark space toward a metallic asteroid. The surface begins cold and gray, then soft light glows from within. The viewer descends into a warm molten core filled with swirling movements and shimmering textures of the bright lighting growing closer in the center of the screen. Creating a quiet feeling of wonder and emotional discovery.

December 19, 2025

Heart of the Planet

Remy Cantrelle December 19th, 2025 Major: Digital Art Genre/Medium: Video About the work: Heart of a Planet is a one-minute digital animation that was created in Adobe After Effects, inspired...
This artwork shows asteroid Psyche, built from stained glass. Shades of grey and white form its metallic surface, glowing slightly like metal catching light. Small uneven black shapes are scattered across it to represent impact craters. The piece is bordered by dark glass, suggesting deep space. Lines between glass segments show solder seams, reflecting a handcrafted, structured world.

December 17, 2025

Metal in the Dark

Lachan Morlan December 17th, 2025 Major: Physics (Astronomy) Genre/Medium: Stained Glass About the work: Metal in the Dark is inspired by NASA’s mission to Psyche, a rare M-type asteroid believed...
“The Pieces of Psyche" shows the Psyche craft in dark space, surrounded by its key instruments and stars. It has a large box-shaped core, two purple solar panels. On a larger scale, there is a dark grey magnetometer cylinder with a light grey ball, a dark hollow imager tube on a black base, and a grey barrel-shapped gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer connected to a metal box with wires.

December 15, 2025

The Pieces of Psyche

Isabella Garcia December 15th, 2025 Major:Art and Design Genre/Medium: Digital Painting, Procreate, Adobe Photoshop About the work: This work, “The Pieces of Psyche,” is a digital poster...
A vector poster with flat shapes and grain texture shows NASA’s Psyche spacecraft flying over Mars’s Valles Marineris. Tall canyon walls in reds, oranges, and yellows fill the scene with blocky shadows. Above is a starry blue sky. White text reads “Onward to Psyche” at the top and “Valles Marineris” at the bottom, with “Mars Flyby 2026,” “NASA Psyche Mission,” and the Psyche Inspired logo below.

December 12, 2025

Onward To Psyche

Addison Mayhew December 12th, 2025 Major: New Media Design Genre/Medium: Vector Drawing in Figma About the work: Inspired by the iconic WPA National Parks posters that circulated throughout the...
Girl reading a book and holding out hand to Psyche spacecraft while it flies past her. boy in background drawing on tablet.

December 10, 2025

Inspiration

Anne Wang December 10th, 2025 Major: Economics & Art Theory and Practice Genre/Medium: Digital Illustration About the work: Inspiration isn’t just something that happens by chance – it’s...
The form of the asteroid and the spacecraft of “psyche” are combined into one hybrid unit. It is drawn in ink atop a colored watercolor background based on the map of the optical albedo of the asteroid which is a measurement of the reflection of sunlight.

December 8, 2025

Reflection

Julia Stephens December 8th, 2025 Major: Studio Art and Creative Writing Genre/Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper About the work: Reflection is a piece that explores the psyche mission’s goal...
“The Object” is a landscape style acrylic painting of the Psyche asteroid in blue and orange on a black background. On top of the asteroid are embroidered beads in reds and browns. A Roman numeral “I” numbers the work in the top left corner. In the bottom right reads “The Object” in all caps in an orange, slanted font layered over “the object” in a smaller font in red.

December 3, 2025

The Object

Emerson Pappas December 3rd, 2025 Major: Chemistry and Studio Art Genre/Medium: Mixed media acrylic paint on canvas and acrylic beads About the work: “The Object” explores the focus and destination...
These photos display a set of bowls and cups with a dark brown glaze. The bowls are textured like craters with grooves running from the center outward and small divets as well as rocky-looking pieces, interrupting the lines. The cups are smooth except for two small craters opposing each other on the outside of each cup, intended to be used as dimples to help users hold the cups.

December 1, 2025

Carrier Craters

Martha Quirie December 1st, 2025 Major: Art Practices and Psychology Genre/Medium: Stoneware Clay About the Work:  This body of work is called Carrier Craters and is intended to be a functional...
From Concept to Cosmos: Phases of the Psyche Mission is a foldable booklet–poster that guides viewers through the mission’s six phases. The booklet features pages with distressed graphics of the asteroid and spacecraft. It unfolds into a poster to convey the asteroid’s material and a sense of space exploration.

November 20, 2025

From Concept to Cosmos: Phases of the Psyche Mission

Riley Perry November 20th, 2025 Major: Communication Design and Environmental Biology Genre/Medium: Graphic Design/Science Communication About the work: From Concept to Cosmos: Phases of the...
This poster comic shows the Falcon Heavy lifting off, with two panels around it depicting the preparation of Psyche. The panel in the center depicts a group of onlookers watching the launch, with the final panel being the Psyche spacecraft in space. Text accompanies the piece, reflecting on the feat of getting Psyche out there in the first place.

July 2, 2025

The Launch

Ash Soriano July 2nd, 2025 Major: Media Arts & Sciences Genre/Medium: Digital (Procreate) About the work: “The Launch” is a short poster comic as well as my fourth and final project...