Exhibition Date Set
As many of you know, Bomber Boys: WWII Flight Jacket Art was completed last December, and is now selling in seven US museums, and two bookstores in England. In addition, it has garnered book design awards in two prestigious international competitions.
We are pleased to announce that the first full-scale exhibition of the work will open at 10am on Saturday, November 18th, 2023 at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It will offer an excellent overview of the project and features stories of seven individuals specifically selected from the book.
We'd like to invite you to the opening reception, and to participate in remembering these great Americans. Each person's experience during the war was extremely personal and we want to remember their service and sacrifice by honoring them, and by proxy, all who served during the war.
A live demonstration of how the jackets were photographed is at 1:30pm, followed by a lecture at 2pm. We hope you can join us on this special day. Until then, be well.
The jacket depicted belonged to Dawn Seymour, WASP Class 43-W-5. As I found out during the project, WASP jackets are very rare, as when they were disbanded, they were allowed to keep one item of clothing. Most turned in their A-2 jackets, so it was a surprise when I asked Dawn if she had hers, to which she replied "Yes!" The fifinella patch was original, and was in a wax envelope in the pocket, which I laid onto the jacket for the photograph. An accomplished pilot with over 700 flight hours in the B-17 bomber, she passed away in 2017, just days after turning 100 years old.
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