PHOENIX – Imagine it’s 1927, the “roaring 20′s”, and you’re a young engineer
working in San Diego. A pilot about your age comes to you and asks if you
can design an airplane which can cross the Atlantic. And, oh, by the way,
you will have 60 days to complete the plane. What would be your reaction?
Donald A. Hall was the engineer and Charles A. Lindbergh, the pilot. And
the rest, as they say, is history. Nova Hall, Donald Hall’s grandson, is
the curator of FLYING OVER TIME: THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS EXHIBIT, an
interactive, multi-disciplinary art/history exhibit scheduled for a two-day
showing at ASU’s West campus, October 21-22, in the La Sala ballroom in the
University Center Building, (4701 W. Thunderbird, Phoenix). For additional
exhibition information, please contact Tiffany Kell at 602.316.9075 or
tiffany.kell@asu.edu
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additional media information, please contact, Carole V. Bartholomeaux,
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“Flying Over Time,” according to Nova Hall, “is like nothing one has ever
seen; it is part museum exhibition, performance space, corporate events
venue and educational workshop.”
Hall says the exhibit is designed to teach art, history and sciences through
the inspirational story of the Spirit of St. Louis, which made the
first-ever non-stop flight from New York to Paris and earned Lindbergh the
Orteig Prize, a $25,000 award offered by New York hotelier Raymond Orteig to
the first allied aviators to make such a trans-Atlantic crossing.
The exhibit is made possible through the generous support of ASU West, the
New College Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Sciences as a primary
example of the university’s commitment to creativity, entrepreneurship and
enhanced connections to the community. In addition, the Charles A. and Ann
Morrow Lindbergh Foundation have made a generous endorsement of the 501c3
project.
“The previous show was successful because of the art and how I blended
history, photographs and actual 1927 newspapers into my painting,” said
Hall, who earned his B.A. in integrative studies from ASU’s New College of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences http://newcollege.asu.edu/ in 2010.
“In contrast, this show is expanded and displays much more of the content
that exists, which is the inspiration for the art and the show and the
performance.”
The October exhibit will mark the liftoff of what Hall hopes will be an
international travelling exhibition. As ground breaking and
interdisciplinary as the planned exhibit is, the story of the younger Hall’s
introduction to the aeronautical engineering genius of his grandfather is
equally fascinating. That the first Trans-Atlantic flight was made in an
airplane that was designed and built in just 60 days is amazing even today.
“It was in 1999 and we were living in Sedona,” said Hall, who also published
“Spirit and Creator: The Mysterious Man Behind Lindbergh’s Flight to Paris”
in 2002 as a testament to the senior Hall’s accomplishment. “We were moving
and I was in the garage going through boxes, making decisions on what to
keep, what to toss. Behind a couple of boxes I found an old steamer trunk.”
The trunk, carrying the initials DAH, belonged to Hall’s grandfather. Inside
was what the artist calls “a treasure trove of history.” Blueprints of
Hall’s collaboration with Lindbergh, thought to be long gone, along with
photos and correspondence between the two were found inside the trunk. It
put him on a fast track into researching his grandfather’s historic work.
“What was inside the trunk became the basis for ‘Spirit and Creator,’” said
Hall. “There are pieces from the discovery that are now in museums in France
and in other places. Some were auctioned locally to get the book off the
ground. The discovery became the book, the book became the art.”
Hall describes his artistic styling as a fusion between surrealism and pop
art colors. Almost all of his art features an element of collage, including
one in which he has embedded an original headline recounting Lindbergh’s
Paris landing from the front page of the May 21, 1927, New York Herald.
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