For emerging artists, finding gallery space to exhibit your art can be tough, especially if your art caters to niche interests (like, say, Sonic erotica). But luckily for all you starving artists out there, NASA recently became an art patron by offering hanging space at one of the most exclusive art galleries in the galaxy: Asteroid 101955, akaBennu.
On Friday the space agency put out a call for art submissions that will be carried to Bennu aboard the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft when it launches sometime this September or October. NASA is open to pretty much any type of creative expression for inclusion on the OSIRIS-Rex chip, although it encourages submissions “expressing, through art, how the mission’s spirit of exploration is reflected in their own lives.”

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