Arthur in Space
Welcome to ars astronautica – my personal space program.
This website documents my past and present astronautical art projects.
My involvement with space activities began over seventy-years ago when I had the fortunate experience to personally witness the beginnings of the U.S. space program while living in the immediate vicinity of Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center (1959 -1970). There I held summer jobs at the space center in 1967 & 1968 during the Apollo program.
As an AstroArtist, I am an early and active practitioner in the field of the astronautical arts by having initiated and realized a number of art-in-space projects beginning in 1985 with the Orbiting Unification Ring Satellite (O.U.R.S.) project and the Cosmic Dancer (1993) and Ars Ad Astra (1995) art interventions that were sent to the Mir space station. Information about these and other art interventions can be found throughout this website.
My work has been exhibited in a number of international space and art exhibitions including Space Commerce, Montreux (1986, 1988, 1990) Art Basel in (1987, 1988, 1989), the International Astronautical Congress (1995, 1997, 1998) All Design – Leben im schwerelosen Raum, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich (2002), Abenteuer Raumfahrt. Aufbruch ins Weltall, Landes Baden-Württemberg im Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim (2006) Falling Without Fear, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico (2012-13), Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, California Museum of Photography, UCR-University of California Riverside (2013), The Universe and Art, ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2017), Personal Structures – Open Borders exhibition curated by the Global Art Affairs Foundation in the context of the 2017 Venice Art Biennale. Cosmic Dancer was included in Fly me to the Moon exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich (2019). Cosmic Dancer at Moon Bound – Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopolis, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (2026). My work ‘Greater Earth’ was selected for the Moon Bound Book to be launched to the Moon in 2026.
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Cosmic Stones
Will humanity’s future be a “Space Age” or a “Stone Age”? The human species has reached a pivotal point in its evolutionary history, and it appears that the moment has arrived for it to make [...]
Transforming the Fossil Fuel Age into the Space Energy Age
The Space Energy Option Humanity is at a crossroads: we must decide if we prefer to live and prosper in an energy-rich world or attempt to survive in an energy poor-one. Finding a viable solution [...]
Moon Bound Book
Moon Gallery Foundation’s Moon Bound book is a one-cubic-centimetre, hand-bound artists’ book planned for delivery near the Moon’s south pole in late 2026. It contains 49 visual-art, poetry, and prose contributions in seven [...]
Space Option Star
Humanity is facing an imminent Energy Dilemma in that the limited proven reserves of fossil fuels could reach exhaustion levels at mid-century and none of the current alternative terrestrial energy options – nuclear – wind [...]
Enabling Peace off, with, and on Earth
The biggest obstacles to space development and to civilisation in general, are the wars over energy and other resources we are currently witnessing. The current period of shared prosperity, built upon and supported by a [...]
The Space Option
The Space Option is about humanity making the right choice at the right time. Space visionaries and pioneers long ago quietly and consequently developed both the scientific rationale and the technological concepts to open the [...]
Greater Earth
A New And Transformational Perception of Our Planet Since the beginning of human history the perception of its home planet Earth has always influenced the way humanity has formulated its beliefs and conducted its [...]
Space Option Star in ELEO
Developing solar power satellites (SPS) as a major energy source for Earth will involve multiple orbital demonstrators. Satellites in low Earth orbits (LEO) will have far lower costs than demonstrators in geostationary [...]
EarthSeeds
EarthSeeds – Humanity’s Ultimate Purpose in the Evolution of Life The EarthSeeds art intervention by Arthur Woods is an open source, open space, open community astronautical art intervention. The EarthSeeds art intervention is designed to send the “Seeds [...]
