Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website.
Whelan in 2017
Michael Whelan commemorative block in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project. Since then MoPOP has organized dozens of exhibits, 17 of which have toured across the U.S. and internationally.
View of MoPOP from Seattle Center with the monorail traveling through it
Monorail tracks going through the MoPOP building
Nighttime view of MoPOP
Guitar sculpture at MoPOP