SpaceRef - Arts and Humanities - Fiction

SpaceRef - Arts and Humanities - Fiction - Art

ars astronautica - A World Wide Web project dedicated to developing a cultural dimension to humanity's space endeavors by exploring, reporting and nurturing the arts in and about space.

Artfuture - This is the home of art and design of the future! On this site you will find visions of the future, art created with emerging technologies, scientific art and items of futuristic design.

Frank Kelly Freas Official Website - This is the official Website of Frank Kelly, a ten-time Hugo Award-winning illustrator of book and magazine cover and interior art for science fiction, fantasy, NASA space program, record albums, advertising, and MAD Magazine. This site offers a gallery of his works and a catalog of reproductions for sale.

Glass Onion Graphics: The Art of Michael Whelan - Over the past twenty years, Michael Whelan has firmly established himself as one of the most distinguished artists in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror illustration. In that time, Michael has illustrated the works of many legendary authors: Asimov, Bradbury, Burroughs, King, and McCaffrey just to name a few. This website provides an overview of his works and allows visitors to purchase reproductions.

Leonardo Online - The Leonardo Space Art Working Group at MIT aims to make visible the work of artists, writers, composers and others interested in the exploration of outer space. They also aim to help establish contact between artists, scientists and engineers interested in working together on space art projects.

NASA Space Art Page - This website features space art spanning all of NASA's human space programs - as well as predictions of things to come. Artists featured include Pat Rawlings, Robert McCall, and Robert Rauschenberg. [NASA Johnson Space Center]

Novagraphics - This large site features the works of many space artists, much of which can be bought in various formats (prints, post cards, etc.)

Orbital Space Settlements - A collection of resources on space colonies provided by Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility at NASA Ames Research Center .

Planetary Society Art Gallery - This virtual museum presents a collection of out-of-this-world, original artwork. The gallery features exhibits by internationally renowned artists such as Jon Lomberg, Don Dixon, and Mike Carroll.

Slawek's ultimate guide to science-fiction/fantasy/space and surreal art on the Net - This is an encyclopedic collection of links to works by over 700 space artists.

Solar Voyager - Space Art on the Web - An online gallery of Space Art from some of the most talented artists in the field today.

Space Art Collections - Second Nature publishes over 130 different Screen Saver and Wallpaper Collections from leading artists and photographers. This site contains a large number of images of works by more than a dozen renowned space artists such as Michael Carroll, Robert McCall, Don Dixon, and Kim Poor.

Space Colony Art from the 1970s - A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to jpegs and are available as thumbnails, quarter page, full screen and publication quality images.

The Cosmic Dancer Sculpture on Mir - This sculpture was launched to the Mir Space Station on May 22, 1993. This was the first three-dimensional art object specifically designed for a human habitat beyond Earth to be officially realized in that environment. It is still on the Mir space station.

The Space Art of Brian Smallwood - This site features a gallery of stunning images of the solar system - and the universe - from a variety of vantage points.