A young visitor to Massachusetts tries to "touch the art" in Hilary Pfeifer's installation 's Warm.

Glass planets by internationally renowned artist Josh Simpson greet visitors to Boston.



Fuller Craft's installation features posters, images and artwork that encourage visitors to "come to your senses."

Fuller Craft Installation Welcomes Visitors
to Boston's Logan Airport

Boston’s Logan International Airport has some new visitors: hundreds of black and red wood lovebugs and other works of art from Fuller Craft Museum. The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) invited Fuller Craft to exhibit artwork from the Museum in an installation in the Jet Blue baggage claim area of Logan Airport’s Terminal C. Travelers to New England can see contemporary craft by two leading artists—
Massachusetts glass artist Josh Simpson and Oregon installation artist Hilary Pfeifer—and discover the art of contemporary craft at New England’s home for contemporary craft, Fuller Craft Museum.

With an estimated 3 million visitors traveling through Logan International Airport yearly, Fuller Craft’s installation provides New Englanders and tourists with the opportunity to experience contemporary craft in a unique environment. Visitors to Logan Airport get a glimpse of work from Museum exhibitions, glass planets by Josh Simpson and Hilary Pfeifer’s lovebugs made from found objects and wood. The installation was designed for Fuller Craft and Massport by Boston communications, marketing, and design firm Sametz Blackstone Associates.

Massachusetts artist Josh Simpson’s glass planets welcome visitors to New England with glimpses of other worlds. His cosmos-inspired sculptures are embedded with forms and colors that give the impression of coral reefs, spaceships and weather patterns. Simpson’s planets are a preview of the new Discovery Link gallery being designed at Fuller Craft Museum. Discovery Link will be a multi-media, material-based educational gallery, inviting visitors of all ages to explore contemporary craft through state-of-the-art interactive exhibits and hands-on exploration of craft materials and processes. Josh Simpson will be first artist featured in the gallery. His glass plants will allow visitors to make countless connections between glassblowing and science, history, astronomy and other subjects.

Hilary Pfeifer’s installation features a frenzied bunch of black and red lovebugs swarming together on a sky-blue wall. Hundreds of bugs twist and turn, swoop and loop, mimicking how people gather together in public places such as malls, parks and airports. The flight plans of the giddy little bugs are a metaphor for mating and courtship rituals. Pfeifer’s two-story high installation ‘s Warm was on exhibit at Fuller Craft Museum in spring 2006.

Fuller Craft Museum is reinventing the Museum experience through unique events, engaging exhibitions, exciting art classes and its innovative Touch Program, which invites patrons to touch certain objects throughout the Museum. The Museum encourages visitors to “come to your senses” by experiencing the tactile, familiar and accessible nature of contemporary craft. The Massport installation is a taste of this unique experience visitors can expect at Fuller Craft.