Space Beach Industry Reception with Artist Richelle Ellis
Cocktails, connection, and a featured artist talk with Richelle Ellis—expeditionary artist, curator, and analog astronaut—inside the Future Fest Pop-Up at 236 Pine Ave, Downtown Long Beach.
Built for the space industry: meet founders, operators, investors, engineers, counsel, and partners, explore space-inspired works on view, and hear Richelle on creativity, exploration, and the human story of Space 3.0.
Richelle Ellis is an expeditionary artist and analog astronaut exploring life across interconnected systems—from organisms and social structures to ecosystems and planetary networks—revealing the complexity and interdependence that bind them. She creates artworks designed for extreme and off-world environments, including works placed in international orbit, etched onto satellites, suspended by stratospheric balloons, and launched aboard rockets.
Ellis serves as Head of Creative Research for analog space missions with Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), the Sensoria Program, Astroland Planetary Agency, and the Lunares Research Station, where she examines creativity beyond Earth-bound conditions. Her artistic and research expeditions span from glaciers near the Arctic Circle to a Space2Sea voyage in Antarctica, from parabolic Zero-G flights to immersive work within Biosphere 2 and NASA-affiliated analog Mars missions.
She has received accolades and residencies from institutions including Planet, Google Quantum AI, Karman Project, Relativity, and SETI Institute. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Venice Biennale's newly founded Universe Pavillion, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, with recent artworks placed on the surface of the Moon. Her next creative project is slated for early 2026, becoming the first artwork ever adhered to an asteroid.
She is also the co-founder of Inploration, a nonprofit art and space initiative dedicated to deepening public appreciation for our planet by fostering new perspectives through art, science, and exploration.
Capacity is limited. RSVP required.