Richelle
Ellis

Bringing together the most exciting art and technology practitioners based in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, the 2-day forum targets both the southern California art community and the tech interests of Silicon Beach. The forum’s ultimate goal is ambitious: intended to become an annual event that moves along with advancing technologies, Brave New Work seeks to become an international festival that places SB at the center of avant garde art. 

A guided journey through the Inploration LP—where boundary-pushing music becomes a vessel for cosmic reflection and future visioning.

Art in Space: Creativity Without Limits, Ellis explores how creative practice reorients space exploration around fundamental questions of life on our home planet. Her work invites us to imagine planetary futures unbound by present constraints—and to see creativity as a vital tool for navigating the unknown.

Artists, educators, and entrepreneurs alike are finding new pathways to send their ideas and creations into orbit—by partnering with NASA missions, commercial space companies, and private payload providers. The conversation featured insights from Molly K. Mulligan, PhD (Director of Business Development at Redwire Space), Scott Rodriguez (VP of Government Programs at Voyager Space and Program Manager for NASA HUNCH), space artist Richelle Ellis (who’s sending artwork to an asteroid), and Steve Broback (cofounder of Dent the Future).

Our team is happy to announce that expeditionary artist, curator, and analog astronaut, Richelle Ellis, will be attending to speak about art’s role in space to shift perspectives on Earth. Hear about her artwork for international orbit, satellites, rockets, and more at Yuri’s Night Los Angeles on April 5th!

Experience MIT’s lunar mission from within a structure whose design echoes the Moon’s basalt-rich terrain. Through artistic projections, live mission operations, and interactive elements, the installation creates moments of wonder and understanding that transcend traditional boundaries between art and science. It offers visitors direct engagement with lunar exploration while inspiring deeper reflection on our place in the cosmos.

The research project and exhibition “Infinity – Emptiness – Liveliness” is dedicated to the ideas of the infinity of unexplored spaces in physics, art, and mathematics with a view to their historical character, their power in the context of current crises and speculative designs for the future.