Moonscapes is a large-scale community program that engages Rhode Island youth in combining art with planetary sciences. Moonscapes was funded by grants from the NASA RI Space Grant, LunaSCOPE (a NASA-funded consortium for lunar research), and the Brown Arts Institute. Through an artist residency at the Community Libraries of Providence, Logan Tullai hosted three community cyanotype printing events at Knight Memorial Library, where attendees used the sun’s ultraviolet rays to print 7-foot-tall pictures of the Moon on silk from archival film photos. Using panoramic film photos of the Moon from the Apollo 15 mission, this community project created a 7-foot-by-20-foot mural of hanging silk scrolls. In addition to this collective piece, participants also took home their own piece of the Moon -- an original round print from the Apollo film.

Logan invited professors from Brown University’s Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences to share some of the science behind the lunar images used with attendees. Additionally, Logan collaborated with a planetary sciences graduate student to create a pamphlet distributed to community members that highlighted career pathways and research in the field. Logan also collaborated with staff at Knight Memorial Library to display books at events about the Moon, the Sun, and space. As a result of these efforts, Knight Memorial Library reported several new Community Library card signups after each community event. Across the three events, around 125 community members of all ages and backgrounds participated.