Jamie L. Molaro

The Art of Planetary Science

This is a long overdue post, considering The Art of Planetary Science (TAPS) is what started me down this whole sciart path. I started this art show in graduate school at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, along with my co-founder James Keane (James is also a scientist and artist, and all around…
Visiting the DSN

I am a contractor at the Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA center in Pasadena, CA. JPL is one of the facilities that builds and operates spacecrafts for NASA.You might think that my favorite thing here is the robots (which are pretty awesome), but really my favorite thing on lab is this piece of art: This…
Why do I art?

I did a really fun interview recently with Jason Davis over at ROCKETGUT!, a blog about space and culture. He asked me about my motivation as an artist, and I was surprised that I had to think about it for a while. I haven’t been making serious “art” for all that long, and I guess…
A work in progess…

Hi all! Welcome to my fledgling site full of space, art, and other nerdy stuff. My name is Jamie Molaro, and I am a planetary scientist, artist, and musician. People ask me about my art a lot, and I finally wanted to put together a site I could post about it. This is very much…