posted 10-18-2022 10:43 PM               

The Artist and the Astronaut

An unlikely love story between civil rights activist and artist Pat Musick and Apollo astronaut Jerry Carr highlights the simple connections in life that make us all human.

Pat and Jerry would grow up in the same neighborhood and go to the schools. Pat would travel thousands of miles and Jerry would travel millions of miles before they would eventually meet each other in Houston, Texas. This compelling documentary shows you the retrospective of an artist as well as an astronaut, their love story, the story of their evolution as individuals, culminating in their combined work, and all of this is intermixed with a reflective of events that shaped our country.

Although this film is in essence a love story, Pat and Jerry lived entire lives before they even met each other in 1976. Pat was a 1950s housewife with three daughters married to a football coach. Jerry was an astronaut with six children of his own. The experiences that each of them went through in the 1960s and 1970s prepared them to create art that would address the very important social issues of woman's rights, race relations, issues of the native Americans, environmental sustainability and war.

posted 10-22-2023 08:49 PM               

Following the film, there will be a panel discussion with the film's director, Bill Muench, among others.